Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-29

Western railroads are growing tired
of Harriman's dictation.
Los Angeles is preparing welcome
for the japanese training fleet.
Persia has sent troops to Tabriz at
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 S125, 600 has re-enlsted 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-
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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
10O,, 900 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.
It Is estimated that Patten has made
q million and half in his recent wheat
deals.
Modjeska's estate had dwindled until
but $4,000 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 81, 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 magazine article written before
his Inauguration and just published,
President Taft defends the lock type
canal.
1t is believed that Secretary Balm
ger will grant rights of way for both
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 a month
for the rest of this year in construc-
tion work. Much of the work will be
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
q jury to try Captain Peter c. Hams.
An epidemic of disease may result |
from the blocking of Niagara river
by ice.
Carnegie predicts British-German
war and urges Taft to act as peace
maker.
Mrs. Boyle, the woman in the Whit
la 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 for
an insult to the flag.
Massacres were stopped in Asia
Minor after 400 were killed.