Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-05-06
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DO|NGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-Natonal, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Roosevelt has killed three lions ano
Kermit one.
The Japanese squadron was given a
great reception at San Francisco.
Congress has now seven Smiths,
three in the senate and four in the
house.
An immense stream of colonists is
coming to the coast from all parts of
the East.
Anarhists attacked policec at Buenos
Ayres and 100 men were killed and
wounded in the riot.
A lake steamer is missing and the
crew and AZ persons are believed to
have been drowned.
A railroad which is being built in
Honduras will be equipped entirely
with wireless telegraphy.
A woman delayed the American liner
st. Louis eight minutes at New York
while she hunted for a S1.5O baby car
riage.
A japanese at Los Angeles has sued
apaper for $4,000 damages because
among other things it called him a
"dare-devil.
War is being waged for control of
Zion City by the old city officers and
those just elected. This is the city
founded by Dowie.
Serious floods fare feared along the
Ohio river following the storm.
Over 5000 men employed on Great
Lake steamers have gone on strike.
Snow and frost in the Middle West
have destroyed fruit and other crops.
Four inches of snow covers Wiscon-
sin and fierce gale is causing much
inconvenience.
1t is said copper trust is planned
in New York to control the entire out
put of the country.
Much money and food is being sent
to the massacre zone of Asiatic Tur-
key, but more is needed.
Searching parties are digging in the
grounds of the palace of the former
sultan in a search for his wealth.
Abdul Hamid will probably be trans
ferred to Monastir, as it is not be-
lieved his life is safe at Salonica.
Canada will control the cutting of
timber on the Pacific coast to 12,00O,-
600 feet per year for the next 60 years.
The Oregon railroad commission has
ordered reductions in express charges
along the entire line of the o. R. & N.
The reduction is approximately 25 per
cent.
Rapid progress is being made in the
Calhoun trial.
Turkish troops have relieved Hadjin |
and stopped the massacres.
The British budget proposes radical
new taxes to wipe out the deficit.
The paying teller of an Oakland
bank has been arrested for embezzling.
Ex-Chief of Police Fink, of Rowell,
N. M, has been indicted for smuggling
in Chinese.
Captain Robinson, of the wrecked |
steamer Indiana, has taken his own
life, being unable to bear the disgrace.
Srtrong evidence of discrimination
by Hartman lines against Salt Lake
has been brought out in the merger
suit.
A tornado in Indiana tore away 600
- of L.
tentiary. No one was hurt and militia
has been ordered out to guard the con-
victs.
An heiress has been born to the Hol-
ing, as Queen Wilhelmina was the last
of the reigning house and had she died
without heirs the crown would have
probably passed to a German prince
and become part of the German en-
pire.
Ex-Vice President Fairbanks has
purchased house in Pasadena and will
make that city his home after a tour ,
of the world.
The British budget for the coming
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100000.
Anthracite miners and operators will !
reach a satisfactory agreement, it is $
believed.
The rolling mills of the Union Pacific
railroad at Laramie, Wyo., have re-
,umed operations after being idle for a s
year.
Heinrich Conreid, the operate man. /
.ger, is dead. q
A Kenton, Ohio, girl has just awak- n
med after sleep of 100 hours appar- v
'ntly none the worse for her long nap. r
Plans have been prepared for hotel
It New York which will be 81 stories
Ugh. The roof will be 376 feet above
he ground. i.
Continued earthquakes at Kameron, "
serman West Africa, have forced the s.
olonial government officials to move Fl
heir offices. 81