Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-08

SOnoDTeUSNStVc WdI1TicT tOI 0oSl
Readers-National Political, His.
torical and Commercial.
Naples has made great preparations
to welcome Roosevelt.
Portland's new city directoy places
the population at 255, 200.
There is Civil war veteran living
in Missouri who is ITO years old.
Fire at Dallas, Tex, destroyed
property worth s25O,O nearly al
residences.
A big Chicago grain brokerage com
pany has failed because of the advanc.
ing wheat market.
Canadian miners on strike believe
the fuel shortage will force the mine
owners to give in.
Students of Ruskin college, Oxford,
England, have struck against the re-
moval of the principal.
Admiral Cervera, one of the Spanish
naval commanders during the war
with the United States, is dead.
There is a report that Fairbanks has
been offered the ambassadorship to
Great Britain, but he refuses to discuss
the proposition.
Philip Caine, cousin of the novel;
ist, is dead. He had existed for years
by selling shoe laces, ignorant of the
fact that he was heir to $50, 900.
Roosevelt and party have arrived
at Gibraltar.
A contest is imminent on the estate
of Lucky" Baldwin.
Roosevelt denies that an attempt was
made on his life while crossing the
ocean.
The leader of Chicago Black Hand
society has been trapped and informed
on his confederates.
A New York broker has been arrest
ed for swindling investors out of $780,
600 in mining stocks.
The French government may make
formal protest against some of the pro-
visions of the tariff bill.
1t is said Hartman will make chang
es in the Union Pacific line and invade
the Burlington's territory.
President Eliot, of Harvard univers-
ity, has declined the appointment of
ambassador to Gceat Britain.
Every coal mine in Western Canada,
except the Crows Nest collieries, are
tied up by strike of the miners.
One hundred and fifty thousand Chi
protesting against higher duties on
gloves.
King Victor will meet Roosevelt on
an Italian warship.
Thousands of men are going to the
newly discovered gold fields near Phoe-
nix, Ariz.
Professional gamblers are giving
officers of the transatlantic liners
great trouble.
A Baltimore clerk, only 26 years of
age, has been arrested for embezzling
$500, 900 from the city.
Hartman says the government
should set the states an example by
repeating repressive railroad laws.
Most of the oil wells in Oklahoma
will shut down for four months on ac-
count of overproduction and adverse
state laws.
General Kuroki, commander of the
first japanese army in the field against
Russia, has retired, owing to the ex
piration of his military term.
Statistics show that convictions for
drunkenness have increased 164 per
cent throughout the Dominion of Can
ada during the past 10 years.
Paris students. who had been sent to
prison for misdemeanor, took revenge
on the convicting officer by sending
400 wagon loads of merchandise to his
home.
Only two men are needed to complete
the Calhoun jury.
Indians in revolt in Mexico are
spreading terror.
French manufacturers are alarmed at
the Payne tariff bill. .
A great mass meeting in London !
called for big navy. s
Russia is retiring the older generals
TO promote young men.
It is reported that Castro will 60 to
Colon instead Of Venezuela.
The Panhandle district of Texas has ..
lust had the worst storm of the winter. =
Ex-Secretary of State Owen, of In v
LLAMA, has been arrested for gigantic s
frauds. 8
The government is worried about the Y
that will be accorded the Jap 7
at San Francisco. e
A Union Pacific passenger train hit
slide near Ogden and two trainmen
ost their lives and five cars were burn
ID. Not passenger was injured.
Fear that the stroke of "piano play t
RS cramp'' may disable him for life, C
has cancelled all engage r