Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-01

dl mousse Ol RuSSld.
Colonel Roosevelt enjoyed a 30-mile
ride across the Wyoming plains on 6
COW pony.
The kaiser's outburst on his "divine
right to rule" is attributed to irrita.
tion at the Socilists.
Official announcement has been re-
ceived at Washington of the annexa-
tion of Corea by Japan.
1t is estimated that the new north
jetty at the mouth of the Columbia riv-
er will cost 81, 205, 900.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York, has
left the hospital and will soon take up
his official duties again.
The Federal census shows that the
smaller cities made the largest per-
centage of gain in population.
Ray Thomas, 23 years old, of Oswe-
go, Or, was struck and instantly killed
by lightning during thunder storm.
The city of Bogota, Colombia, has
bought the street car lines from the
American owners to avoid complica-
tions resulting from recent riots.
A wealthy woman tourist returning
from Europe was caught trying to
smuggle in S6, 900 pearl necklace and
spun-gold purse, purchased in Switz-
erland.
Ivy Baldwin, expert aviator and ex-
signal man of the U. S. army, fell so
feet when his aeropIane struck tele-
pone pole at San Francisco He was
uninjured but the machine was consid-
erably damaged.
A California train was derailed
twice in one day by striking cows on
the. track.
Conservatives in Nicaragua oppose
elevation of General Estrada to the
presidency.
A big cyclone and rain storm did
much damage to crops and buildings
in Michigan.
The government has forbidden the
burning of any more money on funeral
pyres by Yuma Indians.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York City, is
SO far recovered that he is planning to
take up his official duties soon.
Ex-President Castro, of Venezuela,
is believed to be at the bottom of re-
cently-discovered plot against Presi-
dent Gomez.
Eight are known to be dead and
many badly injured in a train wreck
near Durand, Michigan. Several more
are missing.
A 16-year-old girl is dead from
starvation at Los Angeles. She is
the second one of party of Holly Rol-
lers to die as a result Of religious
fanaticism.
Customs officers held up the IL
trunks of Mrs. Nat Goodwin, wife of
the famous actor, at New York City,
not being willing to take her word as
to what they contained.
About 40 men who had labor liens
against the North Bank Lumber COM
pany's mill at Yacnlt, Wash, will
probably lose their claims, since the
mill is destroyed by forest fires.
There was almost riot at the inter
national convention of hotel stewards
at Pittsburg when both San Francisco
and New Orleans sought an indorse-
ment for the Panama exposition in
1915.
Further revision of the tariff will be
made the keynote of the coming cam
paign.
1t is estimated that the fire loss in
the forests Of the Northwest will reach
$40, 100000.
Official news has been received in !
Washington of the death of the Madriz ,
government in Nicaragua.
Paris fashions decree that the "hob-
bic skirt" for women shall be sup
planted by the tube skirt"
Southern delegates to the National I
Coopers' convention declare that prohi-
bition has not hurt their trade.
An o. R. & N. train was struck by a
landslide near The Dalles and narrowly i
escaped being pushed into the Colum- +
bia river.
An effort will be made to shift the s.
entire responsibility for the Illinois :
Central car repair graft on J. T. Hara- :
han, president of the road.
A 14-year-old girl while out rowing d
on Puget Sound was caught by the tide t
and carried away from shore, and was B
not rescued until 2 o'clock next morn
ing. She was nearly exhausted from
exposure and fright.
A 14-year-old boy sleeping in camp P
near Weston, Ore, was seized by
huge cougar and was being dragged
away when a man with whom he was 2
sleeping was aroused, and timely
frightened the beast away.
The boy was uninjured.
The steamer F. A. KIlbum was de-
Itroyed by fire at her dock in San Fran
cisco. e
Thirty-three soldiers were prostrated t
BY heat during practice marches in o
Kansas. q