Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-07-28
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

sively used by Coast farmers for graz
ing purposes.
A carload of immigrants about t.
start West were held up at the landing
at Weehawken, N. j.
King George, of England, seeks tC
establish and maintain peace among
the different political parties.
Forest fires rage around the town Of
Rainy River, Ontario, and there is
little hope of saving the town.
A delirious typhoid fever patient ir
a Spokane hospital leaped from 6
fourth-story window and was instant
ly killed.
1t is now believed that President
Rawn, of the Monon railway, COM
mitted suicide to escape gigantic graft
exposures which he knew would soon
occur.
August Ropke, bookkeeper of the
Fidelity Trust company, of Louisville,
KY, is believed to have embezzled the
entire surplus of the corporation,
amounting to 81, 10000
A salmon was caught at Astoria,
Ore., with fish hook of foreign make
embedded in its mouth. 1t is believed
to have come from the Southern Cali
fornia or Mexico coast, as no hooks OF
this kind are made or used in this
country.
Flour will soon advance 20 cents a
barrel.
Rainfall has checked the forest fires
in many localities on the Pacific Coast.
Norway's recognition of the Madriz
blockade has aroused Indignation at
Washington.
Eleven men were killed in a prema-
ture explosion of a 12-inch gun at
Fortress Monroe, Virginia.
1t is said false reports of gold strike
at Iditarod, Alaska, have filled that
camp with hundreds Of destitute men.
"A bitter fued between John D.
Rockefeller and his brother Frank, of
many years standing, has been amic-
ably settled.
A diamond weighing 191 carats and
worth $3.50, 900 in the rough has been
found in the famous Premier mine, in
South Africa.
A Chicago man made his wife crawl
several blocks to church on her knees
and confess that she was to blame for
their domestic troubles.
A French scientist declares that
within few years many surgical oper-
ations will be performed by electricity
instead of by the surgeons knife and
saw.
1t is believed that some $40, 900, 900
assets of the Pillsbury Washburn Mil
ling company of Minneapolis have
been dissipated in bad notes and gam
bling by crooked officials.
The postmaster of Tropic, Utah, who
has been fugitive from justice since
May Is, when a shortage of $4,000
was discovered in his accounts, was
found dead within few miles of his
home.
Owing to the scarcity of railway
laborers Canada has decided to admit
without restriction from ale countries
except Asia, all construction laborers
who are mentally, morally and physic-
ally fit, and who are. guaranteed en-
ployment.
A negro has been appointed collector
of customs at Washington, D. c.
Stock is reported to be dying on
Montana ranges on account of drouth.
Fire destroyed a North Yakima,
WASH. clothing store. causing Sl8, 800
damage.
The Forty-seventh annual convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is
in session in Portland.
President Taft visited Eastport,
Maine, in the extreme northeast cor
ner of the United States.
The First National convention Of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, Board
of Erin, is in session in New York
City.
There is much trouble in Bogota,
Colombia, caused by feeling against
the American streetcar company oper-
ating there.
A motor fishing boat on the fishing
grounds at the mouth of the Columbia
was seen to capsize and sink with two
men. No help could reach them in
time and both were lost.
1t is reported that President French,
of the North Bank road, has resigned,
but he says he knowns nothing of it.
Forest fires have destroyed the log
ging camp of the Slsde Lumber com
pany, near Elma, Wash.
A Roseburg, Or, man aged rs years,
shot a panther, and thinking the ami
NAL dead, leaned over to examine it,
when it reused up and attacked him
and nearly killed him before it was
despatched by his companion.