The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-04-28
NeWSy Items Gathered from All
Parts Of the World.
PREPARED FOR The BUSY READER
Less important but Not Less Inter-
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.

Persia has sent troops TO IaDrlz aC
the request of the United States.
Castro continues to rave at the pow
ers for doing the bidding of the United
States.
CONTINUED use of dynamite is en-
larging the opening in the ice jam at
Niagara.
Porctland is to be headquarters for
Northwestern construction on the Har-
riman lines.
A young man in Illinois who is heir
to $125, 900 has re-enlisted for four
years. service in the army.
An electric line is being projected
from Portland to Butte, to go through
Central Oregon and Baker City.
H. w. Scott has declined the presi-
dents offer as ambassador to Mexico.
Business will not allow it, he says.
Sultan Abdul Hamid, the central fig
ure in the Turkish trouble, was born
in 1912 and became sultan in 1876.
A big irrigation project has been
launched in Colorado which will reclaim
1OO,,OO acres of land and cost So, $780,
900.
Ex-senator Stewart, of Nevada, is
dead.
P. F. Collier, publisher of Golfers
Weekly, dropped dead from apoplexy.
1t is estimated that Patten has made
q million and half in his recent wheat
deals.
Modjeska's estate had dwindled until
but $5, 900 remained at the time of her
death.
The United States has called upon
Great Britain and Russia to protect
missionaries in Turkey.
Ex-Governor Taylor and several
others accused of the Goebel murder in
Kentucky have been pardoned.
A violent earthquake at Lisbon
caused panic. Many fires broke out
but no persons lost their lives.
A bill has been introduced in the
Illinois legislature to limit the size of
women's hats to one cubic foot and
bars snakes, birds and other stuffed
animals.
One Of the Ladd farms in Portland
has been sold and will be thrown open
for homes. There are 462 acres in the
tract and it brought So, 900, 900.
According to the secretary of the
Kansas state board of agriculture,
there is decrease of 400, 900 acres of
twheat in that state, compared with
last year.
American women in Asiatic Turkey
are in danger.
Rates are being cut on many of the
transatlantic liners.
Prairie fires in Texas have burned
over 800, 900 acres and the loss exceeds
$4,000.
Berlin has inaugurated system Of
opening bank account of one mark
for each child when born.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association has asked the senate
to reduce the duty on paper.
Big hats and lofty pompadours have
been censured at the University OF
Chicago for scientific reasons.
In a magazine article written before
his inauguration and just published,
President Taft defends the lock type
canal.
1t is believed that Secretary Ballin
ger will grant rights of way for botf
roads to build up the Deschutes, but
they will have to begin work immedi
ately.
The pope is opposed to woman suf'
frage.
Roosevelt has arrived at Mombasa,
Africa.
The Canadian Northern railroad will
spend an average Of 81, 900, 900 month
for the rest of this year in construc'
tion work. Much of the work will bs
west Of the Rocky mountains.
European powers favor intervention
In Persia.
A tornado in Texas killed two people
and did much damage to property.
Much trouble is being had to secure
jury to try Captain Peter c. Hains.
An epidemic Of disease may result
from the blocking of Niagara rivel
by ice.
Carnegie predicts British German
war and urges Taft to act as peace
maker.
Mrs. Boyle, the woman In the Whit
Ia kidnapping case, has been identified
as Helen McDermott, Of Chicago.
An army officer forced William d
Haywood, president of the Western
Federation of Miners, to apologize fol-
an insult to the flag.
Massacres were stopped In Asis
Minor after 400 were killed.