The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-27
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Condensed Dispatches from All Parts
Of the Two Hemlspheres.
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in q Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.

Roosevelt has killed big elephant
and Kermit hippo.
A company has been organized in
San Diego, Cal, to build aeroplanes for
sale.
An Arizona man has built an airship
in which he flew eight miles and landed
safely.
A famous painting by Murillo has
been found in San Francisco, after be.
ing "lost" for so years.
Six aor0planes took part in the avia.
tion carnival, the Wright machines
making the best showing.
A charge Of wholesale peonage is
made against former State Senator
Smith, of Georgia, by about so negroes.
The entire crew of &c on a Spanish
steamer were drowned when the ship
went down in a storm Off the English
coast.
The Duke dAbruzzi is returning
from his IIimalayan trip and hopes to
meet Miss Eik'ms before she leaves
Europe.
Eight persons were killed and ten
fatally hurt in riots at SchOenville and
MeKees Rocks, Penn. Troops have
been ordered to "shoot to KILL
The Roosevelt hunting party, after
making long march through a water.
less country, reached a water hole only
to find il dry. They were forced to
camp without water and on very short
Tations.
A wireless message from the steamer
states that Hartman 3 condition is not
at all re.assuring. As soon as the Kaiser
passes quarantine, n ferrybOat will meet
the vessel and take Hartman off. lie
will be rushed to Jersey City and taken
in his private ear TO his home at Arden.
Thaw's mother claims he Is badly
treated at the asylum.
Extensive grating has been uncov.
cred at Montreal, Canada.
Telegraph companies have suspended
new rules in regard to codes.
Hartman surveyors are at work on
line from Eureka to Portland.
Taft confers with cabinet on inter.
state commerce and antitrust laws.
The city Of Monterey, Mexico, head.
quarters for the Reyes party, has been
swept by fire.
Wisconsin politicians will try 10 in.
volve President Taft in politics when
he visits in that state.
Two more spectators and n mechani. |
elan were killed in the indianapolis auto |
races, making seven in all.
Trans. Mississippi congress asks open.
ing of mineral and farm lands in re.
serves and indorscs Pinchot.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has sent
more troops TO check the Reyes move
mcnt and may be obliged to call off his
meeting with President Taft.
Wellman = dirigible started for the
North Pole, but series of accidents
ended finally in the explosion of the
balloon and abandonment of the at.
tempt.
One Of the Moroccan rebel leaders
has been captured.
Spanish warships are bombarding
the position held by the Moors.
The Greek flag in Crete has been
brought down by shot from foreign
warship.
The row between Pinchot and Bal
linger Is likely to cause Pinchot's res
ignation.
A British battleship went ashore off
the coast Of England. II is hoped to
save the vessel.
Heney has been nominated by the
Democrats of San Francisco for prose-
cutting attorney.
Thirty-nine Of Japan's leading busi-
ness men have started for America for
a tour of the United States.
Thaw has been returned TO the in I
sane asylum without special privileges.
His mother will continue the fight.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
includes Bibles among the
books furnished the library compart. c
ments of their trains.
Prohibitionists from all quarters of
the country will celebrate in Chicago, I
September %, the 10th anniversary Of Z
The founding of their party. a
The standard Of the C. A. r., car !
ried in parades at national encamp- I
nents for 20 years, has been missing q
'ince the parade at Salt Lake. il
Hartman has started home appar-
'ntly in good health and spirits.
A slight earthquake hss been felt
through Central Illinois and Iowa. b
The trial of the japanese strikers on b
hawaiian sugar plantations is nearing "
IN end. N
Reports from Paris say Spain is 1,
'nxious to negotiate with the Moors. =
Americans in Mexico are forming a q
military company for the protection Of v
american residents.
The contract has been signed at Pc
ia admitting Americans to share Of
he Chinese railway loan. a
The proposed visit Of Taft to Seattle g g
as rent the Sound city. The question =, -
J whether the president shall play n