Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-05-19
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.

E. B. Garriott, chief forecaster Of
the United States weather bureau, is
dead.
The Herschel Parker Mt. Mckinley
expedition has sailed from Valdez for
Ssldovia.
Mourning over the death of King Ed
ward has hushed .,all political troubles
in England.
1t is announced that California's new
primary law is a piece of patchwork
and woefully inefficient.
Remarkable attentions paid to
Roosevelt in Germany are causing
much comment in Europe.
A woman who had been bitten by a
rattlesnake was taken so miles in an
auto to doctor by the Louis W. Hill
party, now touring Eastern Oregon.
Roosevelt arrived in London as spe-
cial American ambassador to attend
the funeral of King Edward, which
will entitle. him to the highest honors.
The flood of emigration from the
United States to Canada is beginning
to worry officials of the departments
of agriculture and commerce and labor.
!Advices from Changsha, China, the
capital of the disturbed province of
Human, state that the Yale mission in
that city has been placarded for de-
struction by fire. The foreigners, who
were beginning to return to Changsha,
are again living on boats in the river.
Harry F. Waugh, of Seattle, a min
ing prospector, member of the Arctic
club and leader of the Waugh sledge
expedition to the delta of the Macken-
zie river, committed suicide by hang
ing himself. Failure to interest cap
italists in his mining project when sue
cess seemed within his grasp is be-
lieved to have been the cause.
Forest fires in Wisconsin have des-
troyed six farm houses.
An alleged combine in the fish trade
at San Francisco is under probe.
Eight high school students, at Wilkes
barre, Pa, were drowned while boat
riding.
It is rumored at Washington that
Peru and Ecuador will come to open
war soon.
Three hundred pounds of powder ex-
ploded in a magazine near Logansport,
Indiana, killing one man and injuring
about 20.
w. Cooper Morris was found guilty
of embezzling SIS, 900 of the funds of
the Oregon Trust & Savings bank at
Portland.
An explosion in" the Wellington coal
mine in England has entombed 137
miners. Fire has broken out and there
is no hope of saving any of the men.
A carload of dynamite near Tacoma
jumped the track and exploded, blow
ing two brakemen to bits and tearing
up the track for considerable. dis
tance.
More than a hundred persons were
thrown into the waters of Great Salt
Lake by the collapse of a stairway
leading to the pavilion. All were res
cued, and none seriously hurt.
F. August Heinze, of the Mercantile
National banksof New York, was ac-
quilted of illegal fnanciering in the
panic of 1907. He now claims the
trial was but plot to ruin him.,
That the four great express compan-
les get net returns Of from 43 to 115
per cent more, on the capital employed
in actual express operations, was
stated in report issued by the Mer-
chants association of New York.
Eastern senators disagree with Hey
burns statement that "water competi-
tion is fiction.
Havemeyer, the sugar king, is be-
lieved to be implicated in the Friar
land deal in the Philippines.
The Panama canal commission has
built and launched a barge made of
concrete, for use on the canal.
Emperor William of Germany warm
ly welcomed Roosevelt and party at
the entrance to the imperial palace.
Forest fires in Wisconsin and North
ern Minnesota are destroying vast
areas of fine timber and threaten many
towns.
The Oregon State grange is begin
ming to think the initiatiative and refer
endum is dangerous to the best inter-
ests Of the people.
Roosevelt's French disappointed his
hearers at his public speech in Paris,
and Germans are wondering If he
speaks their language any better.
Forest fires are destroying much val
liable timber in Western Washington.
Two unconscious men were found in
the car of a wrecked dirigible balloon
in Kentucky. They had started from
Quincy, H., to make long distance
record.
An electric linemsn near Colfa1,
Wash, got !, 500 volts, and was rend-
cred unconscious for three hours, but
his fellow workmen brought him to
and he will recover.
An Astoria girl caught a 5-pOund
trout 2s inches long with a light rod