Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-10-20
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, died sud
denly of heart failure.
The San Francisco moral wave il
driving many crooks out of the city.
Immense census frauds are alleged
in the count of Coast cities, and COM
plete investigation will be made.
Walter Wellman, with five assist
ants, started in his great dirigible bal
loon America, to cross the Atlantic
ocean.
New York society women are adopt
ing the latest Partisan fad of carrying
dolls. They often spend $25 to S10O
for the doll costumes.
Adolph Busch, the millionaire brew
er, has finished the expenditure of
$500, 900 in improving and extending
his famous sunken gardens at Pasa-
dena, Cal.
The French dirigible balloon, the
Clement-Bayard, flew from Compeign.
France, to London in six hours, Cross
ing the English channel and outdis-
tancing all express trains.
Many arrests have dampened the ar
der of the French railroad strikers.
New York art dealers are accused of
customs frauds aggregating a million
dollars.
Thomas S. Baldwin was injured and
his biplane wrecked in flight at Iowa
City, la.
Presidents of two big railroads ar
gued before the Interstate commerce
commission for higher freight rates.
Extensive frauds have been discov-
cred in the Japanese navy, and several
prominent commanders have been ar
rested.
Over half the children in the public
schools of Kansas City have been rec
commended for treatment for mental or
physical defects.
President Taft has placed his O. K. !
on the plans for raising the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor, and work
will begin next February.
Twenty-Five men were discharged by
California mining company for steal
ing high grade ore. 1t is believed
$50, 900 worth has been stolen during
the past few months.
A government engineer at work on
the Alaskan boundary has discovered
mountain which he believes is fully
%, 900 feet high, which is nearly 1000
feet higher than Mt. Mckinley.
President Taft will sail for an in
spection trip to the Isthmus of Panama
on November 10, leaving Charleston,
S. c., on the cruiser North Carolina,
conveyed by her sister ship, the Mon
tana.
Relief is being sent to the forest fire
sufferers in Minnesota and Canada.
Coal from the Pacific Coast is to be .
given thorough test by the navy.
One death has occurred in the slums /
of New York from virulent attack Of
Asiatic cholera. s
Roosevelt made short flight in an
aeroplane at st. Louis, and said he en- !
joyed it immensely.
The Supreme court is now complete /
and will begin hearing important t
cases against the trusts in January. b
Soldiers have almost disappeared
from the streets of Lisbon, and con- I
ditions are rapidly becoming normal I
again. q
A bride of four days set fire to the +
house and tried to burn her husband at |,
Elmhurst, CAL, after they had been c
hrving family quarrel. $
Willamette valley shippers have
fled rebate suit with the Interstate
Commerce commission covering exces-
'ive freight rates during the past ten n
years. o
The town Of Rockville, Md, near 5
Washington, D. c., is tired of its rep :
ltation as a Mecca for elopers, and =
ministers will no longer marry couples y
Unknown to them. Z
Latest estimates of casualties in the q,
Minnesota forets fires place the death n
list as high as 1000. "
A Walla Walla groceryman has had b
lis 15-year-old daughter arrested for Of
his store.
A girl highwayman, dressed in mems
clothes, was captured by an intended =,
yictim at Wallace. Idaho. - -
Taft and Roosevelt have expressed Fl
opposite opinions on many points of 0,
he conservation question. N
There is great activity among Span ~
sh revolutionists at Barcelona, owing sI
o the complete success of the Portu- -
yuese uprising. y
Colonel Roosevelt declares that the IA
government should do all it can TO re-
lain the vast swamp areas of the
valley.
A mysterious visit Of four Union de
,aders of San Francisco to Los Ange- ar
3 may furnish a clew to the perpe- ri
ratOrs Of the Times dynamite outrage. 81