Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-22


Readers-National Political, His
torical and Commercial.
Teamsters of New York are on
strike.
Italy has sent a cruiser to Turkey
to protect her interests.
A Philadelphia man left 50, 500, 900
to establish home for fatherless girls.
Dynamite has been used to break the
ice jam in the Niagara river near the
falls.
The Santa Fe road has a device
which it is believed will prevent many
train wrecks.
Taft wants to visit the Pacific coast
and Alaska and will ask congress to
provide the funds.
G. M. Mccain, of PHILADELPHIA, has
been arrested in Turkey as spy be-
cause he was taking photographs.
A New York man has been arrested
for attempting to bribe naval officer
to get recommendation for patent.
Judge Hunt, of Montana, is coming
to Portland to dispose of the remaining
land fraud cases. He is expected
about May /.
Philadelphia has not yet decided de-
finitely to let the Liberty bell come to
the coast, but it is probable there will
be no opposition.
Castro has been ordered arrested by
Venezuelan courts for murder.
A pioneer miner of Sheridan, Mont,
has been killed for his savings.
Famine in Macedonia and Servia are
adding to the revolutionary troubles.
Taft is having much trouble in find
ing suitable persons for foreign posts.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, is
preparing to move against Honduras.
The Cudahy Packing company has
been indicted for wholesale. oleomar-
garine frauds.
The University of Nevada has just
received two gifts, one of $3.50, 600 and
one of $4,000
The Waters-Pierce Oil company. re-
Gently ousted from Texas, will pay the
state $4,000, 900 fines and costs.
Mrs. Castro hints at revolution in
Venezuela and advises present officials
to "make hay while the sun shines"
It is reported on good authority that
H. w. Scott, of Portland, will be
offered the ambassadorship to Mexico.
A raid was made on Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul diner while it was
passing through Iowa and quantity OF
liquor seized.
A Chicago man has married his step
mother.
A dispatch from Naples says Mount
Etna is in eruption.
German East Africa has had 60
deaths from the plague.
Flour has advanced in price in all
sections of the United States.
Two dynamite bombs were found un-
der Santa Fe bridge near Stockton,
Cal.
Several members of the japanese
diet have been arrested for having
taken bribes.
Wilbur Wright, whose successful
aeroplane flights pleased France, is
now giving exhibitions in Italy.
The first act of the new chief of po-
lice of Los Angeles was to throw the
"king of Chinatown" bodily out Of the
station.
Poland is preparing to honor Mod
ieska's memory when her body is taken
there for burial. A statue may be
erected.
The Brazilian government has con-
cluded arbitration treaties during the
past week with the United States,
France, Portugal, Spain and Mexico.
The Massachusetts assembly has
turned down direct election bill.
A large part of Elyria, Ohio, has
been destroyed by fire.
Nine. Nordica, the singer, will marry
a New York banker.
Roosevelt declined public reception
at Mombasa. Good hunting is in pros
pect.
A new cabinet has been installed in
Turkey and the Young Turkey party
defeated.
japan attributes rumors of British
discomfort with the alliance to Ger
man policy.
News venders at Los Angeles have
been fined for selling papers having
racing charts.
Night riders have made their appear
ance in Indiana and are attempting to
fix house rent rates.
American soldiers will conduct tests
of dirigible balloons during the annual
maneuvers at Fort Des Moines.
A religious riot in Mexico ended in
Is deaths.
Germany is to establish an aero
r,autic school.