Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-09
Current Events Of interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Socialism with considerable apprehen-
sion. -
King George has called a conference
of party leaders to settle the house. of
lords dispute.
An equestrian statue of General Gus
ter has been unveiled at Monroe, Mich
igan, Custer's home.
James M. Lynch has been reelected
president of the International Typo
graphical union by $4,000 majority.
All union teamsters and $50 union
machinists of Portland, Or, are on
strike for higher pay and shorter hours.
A wealthy man of Ottawa, ILL.,, has
bequeathed $50, 600 to aid worthy
young men, provided they do not study
theology.
Mrs. Helen Flagg Young, superin-
tendent of schools of Chicago, was
given a reception by five thousand
teachers of that city.
A suit for $1OO, 900 damages for
false Imprisonment has been begun by
a Los Angeles man against the Burns
& Sheridan Detective agency.
1t is reported that an American en-
gineer operating with the Estrada
forces in Nicaragua has been captured
by Madriz, and the government has
been asked to procure his release.
Excessive heat has injured the raisin
grape crop of California.
1t is reported that Madriz has lost
all his artillery and 400 prisoners.
ex-governor Folk of Missouri, would
like the Democratic nomination for
president in 1912.
A banker of Minneapolis has been
fined $4,000 for smuggling two pearl
necklaces at Hoboken, N. j.
Taft would appoint Roosevelt chair
man of commission to tour the world
in the interest of UNIVERSAL peace.
A prisoner at San Quentin, CAL,
haunted by the face of his victim, has
confessed to killing man in boxcar
at Spokane.
Interest is growing rapidly in the
proposed long-distance aeroplane races
in the United States, and many big
purses will be offered.
The trial of the "golden rule" chief +
of police of Cleveland, Ohio, on charges :
of immortality and drunkenness have !
failed almost entirely. i
A British army officer in an Ameri- o
can aeroplane tcrossed the English e
channel and then returned, without t
alighting, in 80 minutes. a
Suit has been commenced to set
aside railroad land grants in Oregon
5000, 900 acres, and now
valued at about $50, 600, 900. a
East and Middle West railroads have
filed notice of an increase in freight
rates, nearly every road in the country "
now having given such notice. Il
President Taft told Bryn Mawr stu Il
dents that educated women make the 81
best companions, also that unmarried q
women are not necessarily failures. d
Charles H. Treat, ex-treasurer of the
United States, died Of apoplexy. t.
Four principal British colonies in Sc
South Africa have formed union. IL
A tidal wave swept the Oregon coast W W
at Tillamook, damaging the tramway +,
IF the life-saving station. gus N
twenty-five Western railroads were th
enjoined from putting into force on
Tune l, general advance in freight
'ates.
Spokane police have arrested four D.
'oys, the Oldest aged IS, who have "
obbed 25 houses and tents in the sub in
RIBS during the past month. de
A band of 48 Eastern Oregon cay SV'
ses en- route to Tillamook stampeded cu
n Portland and spread terror in down. col
OWN streets igor several hours ~. m
A rich New York Chinaman, about pal
embark for China, was arrested in Gle
an Francisco for the murder of an Ma
her Chinaman in Sacramento four pai
ears ago.
Dirt from the excavation for a bank
Hiding in Placerville, Cal, yields 81
the pan. At that rate enough gold par
,uld be taken from the excavation to iio
~ for the building. m IIo
An effort is being made TO bring sag
,out a conference Of representatives in {
the United States, Great Britain, Ecu
Ipan and Russia with a view Of agree meC
g on the terms Of treaty for the Uni
otection Of fur seals in the North and
acifc ocean. tior
The thermometer reached 80 degrees
San Francisco and three persons \
ere prostrated in one day. -
1t is alleged that only beginning 10
made in the legislative scandal in tie
inois and the big sensations are yet how
come. age
Edwin Gould Jr., grandson of the usui
.e Jay Gould, ran away from school, tire
ed on 15-cent meals, spent a night the
a board at the station house and has
IS finally returned to his home by csti
; police. fall.