Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-23
DDINGS OF THE week.
Current Events Of Interest GahSred
From The World al Large.
General Resume Of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Eleven persons have been killed b,
heat in Chicago this season.
Corea has been taxed $4, 600, 900 an
nually to support the japanese army.
Roosevelt says he is ready and cage,
to take hold and help solve the nations
problems.
Mrs. Longworth has laid off her wed
ding ring and suffragettes take it as {
sign that she strongly favors theil
cause.
The entire population of Oyster Bay
welcomed Roosevelt to his home town.
He has absolutely nothing to say about
politics.
Two revivalist preachers near Lex
ingtcn, KY, fought duel with knives
in the pulpit during services and one
was killed.
Arizona and New Mexico are wild
with joy over the passage of the state
hood bill, and many enthusiastic cele-
brations are being held.
Surffagettes are trying to prevent
women appearing on any parades or
floats in Chicago on July 4, and men
may have to take their places.
A quartermaster's sergeant from
Fort Stevens, Ore, has been missing
for ten days and is believed to have
met with foul play in Portland.
New York City was swept by
frightful wind and rain storm just
after the welcoming of Roosevelt was
over. Several persons were killed by
lightning and wreckage and great
damage done.
Census figures show a most amazing
increase in the use of telephones.
A cloudburst in Hungary destroyed
several villages and killed nearly 300
persons.
A Los Angeles attorney is charged
with being an extensive operator in
stolen horses.
Governor Hadley of Missouri, be-
lieves Roosevelt will be ready to an
nounce Republican platform imme-
diately upon his arrival in New York.
An o. R. & N. freight train hit
boulder on the track near Arlington,
Ore, derailing and wrecking almost
the entire train, and badly injuring
four men.
A crank armed with loaded revol-
yer called at the White House and in
sisted on seeing President Taft. He
was Immediately placed under arrest
and is believed to be insane.
Eleven hundred machinists on the
Missouri Pacifc-Iron Mountain rail-
road systems refused the proposition
of the company to settle the strike, |
which has been in progress since May
2.
At indianapolis the motor of a
Wright bi-plane became clogged and
stopped while the machine was 800
feet in the air, but the aviator calmly
glided to the ground and alighted in an
open field.
The Russian senate granted the ap-
peal of the Jewish pharmacists at Mos
COW, who are subject to expulsion from
the city on the ground that they are
not practicing actively their profes-
sion, and ordered the repeal of the
ministerial circular dated July 20, |
1909, under the authority of which the
provincial authorities recently began
to act.
Mark Twain's niece won the first |
prize in English composition at Cornell
university.
Blackmail will be the defense of
Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, on trial
for bribe-giving.
A 1O-year old boy living near Eu-
gene, Or, killed a bear with a 32-
calibre Winchester rife.
A Chicago theater will employ girls
instead of men to take tickets, believ-
ing they will not become grafters.
The Hearst-Agnew anti-betting law
of New York has been declared valid.
1t will stop betting at Coney Island.
The international Harvester company
AYERS that it deals in 21 different lines
of business, and therefore is not
trust.
Thirty Japanese driven from the
town of Darlington, WASH, will return
to work in the mills there under pro-
lection Of officers.
A serious forest fire is raging in the
timber north and east of Fort Will
Iiams, Ontario. One town is COM
pleteIy surrounded.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, was
served with papers by Federal court
officerc for removing the capital of {
that state to Oklahoma City. {
Senator Hepburn declared that there
is enough power in the falls of the
Potomac river to run all the machinery
in the District of Columbia, and ad-
vised the conservationists to look after l
the East, and allow the West to care for
It's own resources.
American horses are winning many Y
prizes at the annual horse show in {
London. v
A eIoudburst in the Abr valley in t