Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.

Three miners were buried by cave
in in Goldfield, New, mine.
The physicians attending Judge Will
lams are hopeful of his recovery.
A big fight is on in Missouri between
the breweries and prohibitionists.
A French army dirigible balloon ex-
ploded in the air and four aviators
were killed.
The Omaha streetccacr company will
make concessions to its men and set
tlement is likely.
Disease is breaking out in the dis
trict denueded by the hurricane along
the Louisiana coast and more deaths
are expected.
Reports from Morocco say the tribes
men have inflicted terrible defeat
upon the Spanish, driving them back
and killing 1000.
An American company will be
awarded the contract over a British
concern for furnishing the machinery
for constructing a small arms factory
in Australia.
Hunger among the Moors has led to
overtures for peace.
A Colorado man 7S years old is to
remarry the wife he divorced so years
ago.
Moro pirates are thought to have
captured an American cutter and muir
dered the crew.
Police of Omaha are busy in their
efforts to prevent riots in connection
with the streetcar strike.
Several English suffragettes in Jail
in London have refused to eat and had
to be fed with stomach pump.
Eastern railroads established cheap
excursion rates from the Middle West
to the Atlantic this summer with good
results.
Clarence H. Mackay says the report
that the Postal Telegraph company is
about OF absorb the Western Union is
unfounded.
The Wright brothers are to start a
fight against several flying machines
which they consider infringements on
their patents.
The late Governor Johnsono, of Min
nesota left no will, but it was his wish
that his wife should have all his prop
erty, worth about $50
General Solicitor Loomis, of the
Union Pacific, with headquarters at
Omaha, is to go to New York to be-
come head of the legal department of
the Hartman lines.
French inventors have several new
aeroplanes.
The death loss in the Gulf storm is
now placed at 100.
Peary says his Indictment of Cook
will contain 80 counts.
Religious riots at Castro, Spain, re-
suited in the death of a priest.
An Iowa grand jury has indicted 85
men for gigantic bunco game.
The steel trust has secured foot
hold among rich districts of China.
High winds have famed California
forest fires until they are again assum-
ing dangerous proportions.
A young Chinese at San Francisco
has invented an aeroplane which has
made several successful flights.
Thousands of pounds of supplies are
being sent from Monterey, Mexico, to
the flood sufferers. Pack mules are
used.
The recent food fatalities in North
ern Mexico have reached the appalling
total of 5000. The property loss will
reach into the millions.
A conductor on the Southern Pacific
tried to lock car door near Reno, but
could not insert the key. Examina-
tion revealed diamond worth $275.
is thought to have been hidden there
by some thief who intended to secure
it later.
Peary has arrived at Sydney, N. s.,
on his way home.
Damage to crops by the Southern
storm will reach 81, 900, 900.
Government troops of Paraguay have
been repulsed by revolutionists.
DR.. Cook has reached New York and
received a tremendous ovation on land
ing.
Maxine Elliott, the actress, says
King Edward is "charmingIy. delight
full"
Claus Spreckels' sons have engaged
in legal war over the division of the
estate.
The trial of Patrick Calhoun has
been continued until September q.
Ex-Governor Pardee, of California,
has started another attack on Secretary
Ballinger.
The Postoffice department has order
ed a l2-cent stamp. 1t will bear a
likeness of Henry Clay.
A new tribe of Eskimos have been
found on Prince Albert Land. They
are very tall and resembple the North
American Indian.