Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-07-14
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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President Diaz., of Mexico, advises
Taft to modify his Nicaraguan policy.
An aviator in a Wright biplane
reached height of 6,175 feet at At
lantic City, N. j.
A burglar serving three and a half
years in San Quentin, boasts that he
has SIS, 900 cached in the hills.
At the international aviation meet
Just closed at Rheims, France, the
monoplanes proved to be the best all
around machines.
Vital statistics of Kansas show a
large decrease in the birth rate, and
the cause is said to be the great in
terest in autoing.
Sunday, July 10, was the hottest
day of the season. Temperature at
Dayton, wash, was 104; Roseburg,
Or, 9S: Portland, Or, 81.
A fireman was knocked from the cab
of North Bank engine at Cascade and
instantly killed, and his absence was
not discovered until the train had gone
seven miles and the steam began to run
low.
The engineer and fireman of a st.
Louis passenger train prevented rob-
berry by slipping away from the robbers
in the darkness and dashing to the en-
CINE, where they jumped aboard and
got the train under way before the
robbers realized that they weEe being
tricked.
Count Apponyi, leading Hungarian
politician, has warm praise for Roose-
velt.
The first death from bubonic plague
in three years has occurred in Hon
olulu.
President Taft has withdrawn 35,-
O73, ,164 acres of coal land in North and
South Dakota.
A receiver has been named for the
Boston Herald, which is bankrupt with
$4,000, 900 indebtedness.
A new opera by Wagner, son of the
famous composer, nearly caused riot
at its first production in Berlin.
Experts say that oiling of roads and
streets goes a long ways toward ex-
terminating flies and mosquitoes.
A Chico, CAL, man has twice at
tempted suicide on account of disap-
pointment at the defeat of Jeffries.
San Diego CAL, would elect A. G.
Spalding, veteran sport and sporting
goods manufacture, for U. S. senator.
A select commission from parlia-
ment has recommended raise Of $685.
600 per year in the salary of King
George.
Without warning or explanation the
Western Union cut off its bucket shop
brokerage wires in ten of the large cit
les of the East.
Oklahoma has won its suit against
the Waters-Pierce Oil company, which
has agreed to pay fine of $4,000 and
obey the laws hereafter.
Miss Nellie Anheuser, daughter OF
the St. Louis brewer, is fighting her
dentist over a bill of $500. The den
tist charged $25 an hour for his work.
The Pullman Palace Car company
will fight the proposed reduction in
rates by the Interstate commerce COM
mission, claiming that under the pro-
posed new rates some lines would be
operated at loss.
Director Newell is to be dropped
from the reclamation service.
David Starr Jordan denounces col
Iege football as sordid and degrading.
1t is believed that train dispatcher
caused the Big Four wreck in which Fl
persons were killed.
= A tov balloon set fire to the town of
Newburg, Indiana, and destroyed the
principal business buildings.
Roosevelt plainly implies that ne
will support Miles Poindexter, for U.
S. senator from the state of Washing
ton.
1t is believed beyond doubt that ex-
Governor Hughes, of New York, will
be appointed chief justice of the Uni
ted States, to succeed the late Chief
Justice Fuller.
A miner in Colorado Springs now
claims to have ascended Mt. Mckinley
and found the records DR.. Cook claims
TO have left there. DR.. Cooks hackers
will investigate the story.
Premier Canalejas will submit to the
king of Spain bill forbidding further
religious orders to enter that country
pending negotiations at the Vatican for
the revision of the concordat.
The headquarters Of the Independ-
ence league in Chicago have been
abandoned.
Race riots growing out Of the Reno
fight have caused the death Of IA ne
groes and two white men, and it is
feared that more trouble will follow
whenever the moving pictures Of the
fight are exhibited.
Ballinger promises that Oregon shall
have full share Of the $50, 600, 900 rec