Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-04-21
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.

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bay.
An Oklahoma farmer was swindled
out of 50, 900 on a fake horse race at
San Francisco.
President Taft is confident that the
$50, 900, 900 irrigation bill will pass
both houses.
1t is reported from many cities that
moving picture shows are seriously in
terfering with the saloon business.
A fierce wind storm in Southern
states cost II lives and property dam
age amounting to many hundred thou
sands.
President Taft, speaking at BAN
quet in Washington, said one term as
president of the United States is
enough.
The Supreme court of Louisiana has
been called upon to define "what is a
negro" and the decision is being wait
ed for with great interest by many
states.
A woman in snyder, Texas, started
the fire with coal oil, and she and her
infant daughter and 14-year old sister
were burned to death by the explosion
which followed.
Passengers and crew of the steamer
Santa Clara, wrecked off the Califor-
MIA coast, were all saved, and the
steamer herself has been pulled off the
rocks and is being towed into port.
The wife of prominent coffee mer-
chant at Los Angeles has finally been
recognized as the mysterious girl at
the ringside" who has attended many
prizefghts in that city, disguised in
mems clothing.
A 685-pound woman has been jailed
in San Francisco for exhibiting her.
self as freak.
A Kansas tornado swept creek dry
for nearly mile, tore up telephone
poles and carried COW and calf 200
yards.
A mission at Chungsha, China, was
destroyed by rioters because Chinese
officials had cornered the rice supply
for export.
A forger was arrested in San Fran
cisco for trying to pass a worthless
check signed with the name of John D.
Rockefeller.
A 1S-year old girl in Pittsburg COM
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid because she was not getting
along well in school.
1t is believed that various large rail-
roads have been robbed by swindlers of
several million dollars. Thorough in
vestigation is being made.
President Taft spoke before the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage convention in
Washington, and was hissed when he
gave his opinion on woman suffrage.
A Burlington passenger train in
Montana collided with freight, kill
ling one brakeman and injuring several
persons badly. The freight conductor
had both legs broken.
Lawyer Seth F. Crews, Of Chicago,
was given $5, 600 by the Circuit court
for advising Sarah Peterson that it
would be legal for her to- marry John
R. Smith, wealthy mine owner, on
his deathbed. Miss Peterson married
Mr.. Smith and he died almost immed-
lately afterward. When his. estate
was probated she fell heir to $3.50, 900.
Prof. W. C. Sumner, of Yale, is
dead at the age of 70 years.
Senator La Toilette calls the rail-
road merger Morgan deal.
A Chicago girl of 10 years has given
birth to a fine girl baby and both are
doing well.
A Washington farmer was feeced of
$4,000 on sure thing race game in
San Francisco.
Chicago women strongly resent the
alleged slur in the census rules that
"housewifery" is not an occupation.
Roosevelt has accepted an invitation
from Pinchot to speak before the ma
tional conservation congress the com
ing summer.
A party of Alaskans claim to have
climbed Mt. Mckinley and found no
trace of the records DR.. Cook claims
to have deposited there.
A wealthy widow of Hannibal, Mo-,
was found dead in a trunk. She was
very timid and nervous and is believed
to have hid in the trunk and suffo-
Gated.
A Seattle man, as a memorial to his
dead son, has given 500, 900 in land
and cash to establish sanitarium to
fight tuberculosis.
A Nova Scotia man who had been off
a farm only twice in his life, was ex-
onerated for stealing some goods in a
store, as he evidently did not know it
was wrong to take what he needed.
An 1s-year old girl of San Francisco,
noted for her beauty, is in the hospi- |
tai. with one eye destroyed, the other
badly injured and her face and neck
fearfully burned by sulphuric acid, be-
lieved to have been thrown by young
man whose attentions she had refused. !