Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-22
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Secretary of War Dickinson met
with hearty reception at Pekin.
Two freight trains met in head-on
collision near Cairo, ILL.,, killing four
men.
President Taft will ask $4,000, 900
to begin the fortifcation of the Pana-
ma canal.
The Spanish parliament is expected
to fully endorse the policy of Premier
Canalejas.
Union and Confederate soldiers min
gled at Grand Army reunion at At
lantic City, N. j.
King Emmanuel, of Portugal, has
appointed 16 new peers, all supporters
of the present ministry.
Bv an alliance with Bulgaria and
Servia, Montenegro is elevated from
principality to the ranks of full
fledged kingdom.
New Orleans is disappointed at the
poor showing made in the census, and
fears it may affect her chances for the
1915 Panama exposition.
Three out of 1S entries in the balloon
contest which started at Indianapolis
returned to earth within "a hours,
having made about 400 miles.
Secretary Wilson pays postage on
copies of his speech which were sent
through the mails, refusing to take
advantage of the franking privilege.
Captain Klaus Larsen, in small
motor boat, traversed Niagara rap
ids for distance of Az miles below
the falls, but was finally thrown on the
rocks and hauled ashore by a rope.
The boat was lost.
Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of
the Steel trust, says that San Francis
co is "obsessed with unionism," and
that in case he gets the contract for
number of new battleships for China,
they will not be built there.
President Taft celebrated his 53rd
birthday, Thursday, Septmeber Is.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
charges Roosevelt with insincerity.
Roosevelt defends his "New Nat
ionalism' in an address at Oyster Bay.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon has been re-
nominated for congress by small ma
jority.
San Francisco police are charged by
the mayor with protecting dancehali
proprietors.
Fourteen cases of cholera were found
on a ship which had just arrived at AL
menia, Spain, from Egypt.
1t is estimated that 2, 400 people went
to the Salem, Ore., fair from Port
land on Portland day, September Is.
Highwaymen held up two auto par
ties within a mile of Oregon City and
secured about $1,000 in money and
jewelry.
The fire loss on the south side Of
Frazer river, B. c., is estimated at
5000, 900, and several persons are
missing.
President Taft, in a letter to Secre-
tary Nagel, announces that Federal
patronage will not be withheld from in
surgents.
Retail grocers of the state of Wash
ington have passed resolutions against
trading stamps, premiums, and the
parcels post.
Senator Beveridge told the conven-
tion of Indiana bankers that the govern
ment should have supervision over all
big corporations.
Caleb E. Powers, who was alleged
to have been concerned in the murder
of Governor Goebel, of Kentucky, has
been nominated for congress.
Helen Gould gave a children's circus
at her country home in New York, in
which over 400 members of her sewing
class and friends participated.
George H. Primrose, the world
famed minstrel, is about to be re-uni-
ted with his wife, from whom he sep
arated last July. He is now so years
old.
Five persons have died of cholera al
Danzig, Prussia, and many more are
i'll.
The Southern Pacific has subscribed
$40. 600 to the New Orleans exposition
fund.
Railroad officials say increased
freight rates nearly all goes back tC
the people.
Fire destroyed an Alaska cannery
together with sl2O, 900 worth Of freshly
packed salmon.
Cornell university receives S689, OOI
ont of the 1892, ,s59 estate of the lat
Professor Goodwin Smith.
A hunter near ScappOose, Or, ha
been missing several days, and it is be
Iieved he has become demented and i
Aeein0 from his would be rescuers.
Government authorities state tina
vitbin a hundred years the Indian vii
he unknown, having by that time be
come completely merged into the whit
race.