Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-23

British authorities say sea fatalities
are decreasing.
An Ohio schoolboy has had his skull
broken through hazing.
Los Angeles girls are to buy an air.
ship and enter contests.
The Omaha street car system is com.
pletely tied up by strike.
New Zealand is to build one Dread.
naught and one cruiser for England.
An immense graft in county affairs
has been unearthed at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The bank clerks wanted in Victoria,
B. c., for passing bad checks, have been
caught in New York
The Wright brothers promise more
flights, in which they will make new
records with their machine.
The German government is likely to
reject Count Zeppelin's airship, because
it is so bulky as to be faulty.
Ex-Supervisor Gallagher, of San
Francisco, is to retire on his stolen
wealth. He is now safe from prosecu-
ton on account of the statute of limi-
tation.
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, has
suffered a relapse and lies at deaths
door.
The national convention of bankers
has declared against postal savings
banks.
The high court of st. Petersburg is
passing out wholesale sentences on the
mere word of spies.
Y. Uchida, now Japanese ambassa-
dor to Austria, will be transferred to
the United States.
Western Canada. trades unions are
making fight against using Oriental
labor on the railroads.
In speech at Winona, Minn., Pres
ident Taft declared the present tariff
law the best the country ever had.
The steamer Nicholas, en- route from
Havana to Cienfuegos. went ashore on
the Isle of Pines and 29 lives were lost.
The Great Northern and St. Paul
promise 56-hour schedule from Chi
cago to Seattle in the fight for mail
contracts.
DR.. Cook says he has records which
will PROVE he was at the Pole and will
convince the skeptics as soon as he
reaches the United States.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion will investigate the reasons for
the Santa Fe withdrawing it's offer to
put on fast mail train to the Pacific
coast.
A temperance wave is sweeping over
Germany.
London's new non-tip hotel is max
ing great hit.
The forest fires in Southern Califor-
mia continue to grow.
Governor Johnson's physicians an
nounce that he will recover.
Mexicans attacked and stoned the
Austrian consulate at Montereyx.
The damage to the Portland Flour
ing mills plant is placed at $500, 200.
Peary says he will be glad to refer
the Pole controversy to an arbitration
court.
A new pretender to the Persian
throne has appeared and troops have
been sent to suppress him.
The Russian cabinet has decided that
the czar is supreme in all matters re-
lating to the army and navy.
Walter E. Clark, the new governor
of Alaska, says there must be peace
between the rival political parties.
Two Los Angeles men, both over 80,
fought over woman who is 75. One
of the combatants is in the hospital.
Robbers attempted to hold up Rio
Grande train in Colorado, but did not
succeed in getting into the express car.
The widow of Claus Spreckles has
been awarded $4,000, 900 of her hus-
bands estate.
1t now seems as though the Chicago
streetcar men will win their fight with
Iut COLIpdHy.
William R. Wallace has been chosen
for the Democratic candidate for may
or of Salt Lake.
James ]. Hill says too many people
are going to the cities instead of stay ,
ing on the farm.
Thousands of acres of pasture and
wood land has been burned over in So {
mona county, CAL, by forest fires. {
Peary reiterates that he is the only
white man who ever saw the Pole and
promises to disprove Cooks claim.
David E. Thompson, United States
ambassador to Mexico, has secured
control of the Pan-American railroad,
a line 244 miles long.
The port of Mulege, on the east
coast of Lower California, was over !
whelmed by tidal wave September 4.
property was destroyed.
Dewey says the United States needs q
3 larger navy.
II is said the Hartman estate will '
not be divided. 7