Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
Current Events OF interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
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bill.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
is accused of extensive timber land
frauds in Idaho.
Senator Gore, the blind senator from
Oklahoma, says there is much corrup-
tion in his state.
Secretary of War Dickinson refuses
to remove the colored troops from Fort
Lawton, near Seattle, Wash.
The Postal Telegraph company and
the Western Union and Bell companies
are in big lawsuit over rights in New
Mexico.
1t is said Roosevelt will urge Hughes
to resign the Supreme court bench, to
which he was recently appointed, and
run again for governor of New, ork.
A 7-year old boy at Louisville KY,
found a railroad torpedo, and calling
his mother to see the fun, hit it with
hammer. He was instantly killed by
the explosion.
Three robbers, after committing
robbery and double murder at Lynn.
Mass, were pursued by citizens in
autos, one being killed, one captured,
badly wounded, and the third forced to
commit suicide.
A Mississippi river excursion boat,
with |, 800 persons on board, caught
fire and was entirely destroyed. So
far as known only three persons lost
their lives, though witnesses say many
leaped into the water and were not
rescued.
The census bureau announces that it
will soon begin giving out returns of
the 1910 census.
The beef trust indictments in Chi
.cago have been quashed, and a new
grand jury is ordered.
One days heat record in Chicago in
cludes six dead, nineteen Frustrated
and four bitten by rabid dogs.
While running at high speed a Chi
cago & Alton train was derailed and
turned turtle, badly injuring II.
1t is found that after all allotments
in the Yakima reservation are made
there will be no land left for settlers.
Louis Alexander Robertson, noted
poet, is dead. He did his best writ
ing while suffering severely from To-
comotor ataxia.
Nicaraguan rebels have 1900 troops
ready to attack the town Of Bluefields,
and all non-combatants have been CIV
en- IL hours notice to leave the city.
A Navajo Indian in Dakota shot and
killed a ranchman who accused him of
cattle stealing, then rode 20 miles to
the agency to surrender to the officers.
Frederick Koher, the "golden rule"
chief of police of Cleveland, Ohio, has
been entirely cleared of all charges of
against him and will be
train transporting Mexican troops
to the scene of the revolt along the
Northern border dashed down a steep
grade and left the track on a curve,
killing about 20.
Bremerton, the navy yard town of
Puget sound, has voted "wet" by $40
to 239.
The dry goods trust of New York
City has obtained another of the large |
-a4o;l sforoo fhara
Robert A. Taft, son of the president,
is among those taking the highest hon
ors at Yale this year.
To commemorate its Tooth annivers-
ary in 1910, Yale will raise $2,000,-
900 endowment for its medical depart
ment.
The senate. will investigate the
charges of bribery in connection with
the election of Senator Lorimer, of
Illinois.
A party of students from English
colleges will tour the United States
and Canada to get actual experience in
farm work.
President Taft has been invited to
attend the Dry Farming congress- in
Spokane next October, and then visit
the Pacific Coast.
Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, on trial
for bribery, abandoned his own defense
on finding that his own witnesses
would do him more harm than good.
The National Conference of Govern
ors, which was inaugurated as a regu-
lar annual event in the Roosevelt ad-
will be held this year at
Frankfort and Louisville, KY, No
vember 29.
New York City fremen are being
trained in the work of giving first aid
to persons injured in accidents.
Reports from Wyoming say the en-
tire state is badly in need Of rain.
Stock is suffering, grass burning up
and fish dying by the thousands in the
failing streams.
Samuel H. Elmore, a wealthy sal
mon packer and land owner of Astor-
ia, Ore, was instantly killed in Los
Angeles when his auto collided with a
streetcar.