Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-22
DOINGS OF THE week
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

parliament.
The leading hotels of San Francisco
will allow women to smoke in any part
of the building, the same as men.
A boy at Salem, Ore, died of loekjaw
but not the slightest evidence of infec
tion could be found upon his body.
Magnetic brakes, operated by wire
less, have been made entirely success
full on the Canadian Pacific railway.
An aviator at Memphis, Tenn,
reached an altitude of 1854 feet, his
aeroplane being coated with ice when
he alghted
Queen Liliuokalani of Honolulu now
asks the territorial legislature for
lump sum of 100000 in full settlement
of all claims against the United States
A man from Okanogan, Wash, is in
Pennsylvania to gather up 1000 cats,
to be shipped West to rid the farms and
gardens of Okanogan county of rats
and gophers
Prisoners in the Lima, Ohio, Jail as
saulted their guards and four escaped. |
The 15-year-old son of the sheriff |
bluffed the other six with an empty
rifle and held them at bay until help
came
General Hodges commanding the De
partment of the Great Lakes, says it
would undoubtedly be easy for a for
eign power to invade the Pacific Coast,
but he is certain Japan does not want
war with any one at present.
A Spokane boy aged II died from
the effects of raw alcohol given him by
a trainman.
Roosevelt advised the students of
Harvard to go into politices "for their
own good.
A Kansas man applied for divorce
because his wife smoked cigarettes,
but it was refused.
The Supreme court of the United 1
States has decided that conspiracy
under the Sherman antitrust law may
be continuing offense. F."
An Atlantic Coast liner with 300 :
passengers and hold full Of cotton n
took fire and was destroyed. The pas
sengers and crew were saved. .
Representatives of the Mexican reb-
els have presented proofs at Washing G
ton that their wounded and prisoners
were butchered by the government
troops. g,
A mechanic attached to the govern m
ment forces at Fort Stevens, Ore, has a.
a safety appliance to prevent e.
large guns from being fired prema- :,
tnrely. N
Canadians desire permanent peace b'
treaty with the United States. With az
in the last two years, nine disputes be- :,
tween Canada and the United States AZ ~
nave been disposed of by negotiations 81
and agreements. n
Floods in Northern Italy are becom-
ng serious and many villages are iso- 50 50
ated. pc Pc
Aldrich and Lodge intimate that fe
hey are willing to revise the tariff MI
,iecemeal. M
fe
Representative Tawney, of Mime Or
ota, may succeed Ballinger as secre- Th
ary of the interior. Fa
Roosevelt announces he is in favor -
f radical program of reform, to be lea m
nacted by conservatives. be
Mexican rebels were routed in a loi
tubborn fight in which they lost 70 Oh
nen, while the government loss was -,
4, including two officers. III III
DR.. George Edgar Vincent, of the ma
of Chicago, has been elect or one
d president of the University of Min 'i'
esota, at salary of $40, 600 year.
The Aero club of New York has
hallenged the Royal Aero club of Eng
and to an all-round contest for the POI
eroplane championship of the world. wit
Six men were drowned by the capsiz- inf
lg of launch on the Snohomish riv- Va
:, Washington. The boat was being tun
,cked by three drunken loggers on top the
the cabin. sho
By an imperial order the ban against s;s Ts,
ews in Moscow, Russia, has been re- beI
owed. noi
The deficit in the Postal department csc
as dwindled sl1, ,OOO,O during the
lst year.
A Missouri man has established his
aim to 500 estate by a peculi- hell
-ity in his voice. the
1t is announced that the Klamath VIC
lt-of Of the Southern Pacific will be sta
lished by June, 1911. the
loc;
Four members Of one family near Al
lverton, Or, died Of black smallpox, II
ID three others are seriously Ill. no
cor
MoOrehead, Mimi, reports a temper
ure Of 16 below zero, and a cold wave
ips the Mississippi valley and the C
lst. to
Many settlers in Western states va.
We been granted leave Of absence Ign
pm their homestesds, owing to fail two
e Of crops.
The Federal court at Greensboro, n. the
has decided that the white slave" the
Y is unconstitutional, as it interferes cor,
th state rights. val