Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
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.


$4,000 fire at Salem, Or.
The patent office at Washington is
swamped with inventions of appliances
for aerial navigation.
A resident of Southwest China de-
clares the empire is ripe for rebellion,
and only spark is needed to start it.
The New Elms hotel at Excelsior
Springs, NO., built year ago at a
cost of $3.50, 1000, was entirely destroy
ed by fire.
The printing pressmen of Denver
are on strike and all allied printing
trades unions have pledged them their
full support.
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Garfield
is charged with having shielded the
Union Pacific Railway company in its
coal land frauds in Wyoming.
Five men suspected of the Los An
geles Times dynamite outrage were
arrested at Acapulco, Mexico, upon
their arrival there in gasoline launch.
The entire police reserve of New
York City, numbering about 5000
men, were ordered held in readiness to
answer riot calls on account of the ex-
press drivers strike.
Sarah Bernhardt arrived in New
: York City for a long theatrical engage
ment in this country. She was greeted
by delegation of suffragettes with
hugs and kisses and her path was
strewn with flowers.
A special grand jury has begun All
investigation of the Los Angeles Times
dynamite outrage.
A freshman at Cornell college died
from injuries supposed to have been
received in football game.
Bryan will enter the political cam
paign at his own expense, his first
speech being made at Lincoln, Neb.
Seven convicts escaped from the
Georgia state prison during a fire
which destroyed the main building.i
Three students were expelled from
the Salem, Ore, high school for haz-
ing. They cut the hair of several
freshmen.
By order of President Taft, Hart Fl.
North has been removed from his posi-
tion as commissioner of immigration
at San Francisco.
More than three inches of snow fell
in Northern Michigan, and light fall
is reported from Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska.
A strike of express wagon drivers
and their helpers is on in New York
City, and rioting has begun, following
the use Of strikebreakers.
President Taft has accepted the po-
sition of honorary president of the Boy
Scouts of America, who now number
$50, 900, and are scattered over 46
states.
Leonard Olson, "a prominent Socialist
and l. W. W. speaker of Tacoma, will
probably lose his citizenship for de-
nouncing the constitution and the gov
eminent.
The census bureau announces that
heart disease is second on the list of !
which cause death among the '
male working population of the coun- '
try. tuberculosis leads.
Forty packers in Washington orch
ard put up 2, 1S9 boxes of apples in
one day.
1t is reported that great lake has {
been discovered in the Northwestern :
wilds of Canada. t
Roosevelt declares that the business
mems fear of him is caused by false
reports of Wall street.
Belva Lockwood celebrated her 80th
birthday and says she does not feel any
older than she did at 28.
The price of cotton jumped So per |
bale on the strength Of census esti- S
mates of the visible supply.
Bacon reached the highest price in
10 years at Chicago, though corn is
cheap and hogs are standing in the
pens.
A Federal grand jury in California |
has indicted William Longfellow for {
setting fires in the Klamath reserve '
the past summer. 7
The entire student body of the Colo
rado state university, numbering 500,
went on strike because II of their
number were suspended for hazing.
A revenue cutter reports that the
natives of the Aleutian islands, off ,
the Alaskan coast, are being EXTERN
mated by consumption, measles and :
pneumonia
A red hot rivet falling onto a tenn
porary flooring started fire in one of
Portland's new steel frame skyscrap- ,
ers.
Losses from recent forest fires in
Montana and Idaho are estimated at
BIS, ,OOO,O 900. The burned areas will
be sold.
A storm and tidal wave swept an is I
and in the Mediterranean, causing !
zreat property damage and the loss Of :
several lives. u