Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-04-14
DOINGSOF 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.

the king in the Irish controversy.
Eleven sections Of fine fruit land in
Eastern Oregon will soon be opened to
entry.
Attacks of the ship subsidy lobby are
resented warmly by members of the
house committee.
The incident between Roosevelt and
the vatican at Rome may cause the re-
moval of the papal secretary, Merry de
Val.
DIR. Hollis B. Frissell, of the Rookie
feller Sanitary commission, says hook
worm infection is spread largely by
Southern people going barefooted.
A duel between ex-Premier Count
Witte and General Kuropatkin, COM
mander-in-chief Of the Russian forces
in the war with Japan, has been avert
ed through an explanation by the form
er.
Smugglers of Chinese and opium
have been driven out of Southern Cali
fornia and are believed to have trans
ferred their operations to Northwest
coast cities.
Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of ].
Pierpont Morgan, attracted much at
tention at Pasadena by going for a
three-hour cross-country horseback ride
arrayed in "pants suit riding habit.
D. C. Jacklin, Salt Lake million
aire, has bought e. H. Harriman's
Pelican Lodge property on klamath
lake, Oregon. He will carry out the
plans of Hartman for making sum-
mer resort of the place.
After being whirled down Hat creek
in a small skiff, G. Magerstadt was
carried over Hat creek falls. in Cali
fornia, and dashed into the foaming
waters so feet below. The boat was
dashed to pieces on the rocks and Mag
erstadt managed to grab a boulder,
from which he was soon rescued.
Where and when the Pittsburg graft
probe ends is contingent, to quote
District Attorney Blakely, on develop
ments. Mr.. Blakely has spread his
net and is waiting for more men to
ttcome in and confess, as result of
the intimations contained in the grand
jury presentment.
Harry Thaw's mother, though aged
and worn, still continues her fight for
her wayward son.
Chicago police will exercise strict
censorship over bathing costumes worn
at lake beaches this season.
Rural carriers at Walla Walla are
quitting because of the small pay, and
no one seems to want the places.
New York saloons sell wood alcohol,
and four persons who drank it died,
while several others are totally blind.
Two men raced on horseback 100
miles for the opportunity of filing a
contest on an Eastern Washington
homestead.
A 14-year-old school boy in Pitts
burg, respondent at his playmates' jibs
because he was slow in his studies,
hung himself.
Two brothers in partnership in the
real estate brokage business in st.
Louis, committed suicide because of
business reverses.
Miss Nellie Anhouser, one of the
family of millionaire St. Louis brew
ers, is fighting dentist bill which
amounts to S25 an hour.
The managers Of the Northwestern
and Western railroads are jubilant
over the spring movement of colonists
into all the territory west of the Rocky
from the Canadian border
to the Mexican line. Although official ]
figures have not been prepared regard !
ing the movement of people seeking
homes in new country, it is conf
dently stated that the number will ex-
ceed that of last year, when all records
were broken. !
The report that Hetty Green is seri- I
ously i'll is denied absolutely by her {
son. E
Stock in all copper mines throughout
the lake region has suffered great
decline. |.
Nine persons were killed and twelve {
badly injured, three of them fatally, {
in panic at Mexican bullfght.
A bill is before congress to extend
the franking privilege to Roosevelt
and also to widows of ex-presidents.
DR.. E. E. Barnard, of Yerkes OBJ
says Halley's comet is wear !
ing itself out whirling through space.
James A. Patten, wheat king, lost t
81, 500, 600 in cotton, and losses of s
himself and associates may reach S5,- e
300, 900.
Bank robbers at McKees Rocks, {
Pa, killed one bank clerk, mortally !
another and escaped with
b4OO in coin.
Roosevelt has declined to attend
Methodist reception in Rome, alleg-
ng the Methodist church there was
trying 10 make capital out of his trou-
Die with the vatican.
Two hundred taxicab drivers in Chi {
ago are on strike, and the remaining q
200 are expected to join them. ii