Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-04-07
DO|NGS 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.

The political situation in Eagland il
extremely tense.
Roosevelt will be as closely guarded
as any king during his visit in Rome
Secretary Ballinger will bring suit
against Golfers Weekly for attacks
upon him.
At least six bankers will be indicted
as a result of the Pittsburg graft scan
dal and Investigations.
A guide who helped Cunningham To-
cate illegally on Alaska coal claims,
being chagrined at the small fee paid
him, has told all he knew about the
matter.
Eight cases of smallpox have devel-
oped in the town of Charleston, Wash,
near the Puget Sound navy yard, and
all schools, saloons and billiard halls
have been closed.
Decollette dresses will be barred
from the Eucharist congress in Mont
real next September, which will be at
tended by Cardinal Vanutelli, papal
delegate from Rome.
Donald Graves, IA years old, was
shot through the right eye at his home
at Long Beach, CAL, by Jesse Franzen,
aged IL years, and died two hours
later. The two lads were playing In
dian with a 22-calibre rifle.
A plan is being formulated by the
heirs to the millions of Russell Sage,
to make a systematic war on loan
sharks by establishing loan agencies
where people in stringent circumstan-
ces can borrow at reasonable rates of
interest.
Maintaining utmost secrecy until the
hour of attack, government secret SER
vice agents made raids simultaneously
on bucket shops in New York, Phila-
delphia, Jersey City, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati and St. Louis. In all 16 arrests
were made. Five millionaires are said
to have been caught in the dragnet, ex-
tending from the Missouri river to the
Atlantic.
Admiral Fournier of France predicts
war between the United States and
Japan.
A Seattle woman is believed to have
poisoned nearly so valuable dogs in
that city.
Pinchot refuses to say whether or
not he was summoned to meet Roose-
velt in Eruope.
Nat Goodwin, the noted actor, has
purchased ranch of 800 acres near
San Jacinto., CAL, for $54, 900.
President Taft says the policy of re-
turning men to congress for successive
terms makes the East more powerful
in that body.
The French government is conduct
ing extensive experiments in aviation
and is considering the appropriation
Of at least $4, 600, 900 for aeronautics.
More than 5000 white and negro
men, women and children, employed
in the American Tobacco company's
in Louisville, KY, have
struck for higher wages.
Three hundred thousand coal miners
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Him
bis, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Okalohoma
and Arkansas have quit work, pending
of new wage scale.
The department of agriculture has
the feeding, or Floating"
If oysters in brackish water, previous
to sending them to market, believing
t fruitful source of typhoid infec-
ion.
The Young Egyptian company has
published a protest against Colonel
speech at Cairo, declaring
hat his remarks were offensive to the
whole nation and were made only with
he object of pleasing his official hosts.
The fercest tornado in years, accom-
panied by heavy snow, has caused i'm {
nense damage and loss of life in South |
I'm Austria. A passenger train was I
,lown off the rails near Auggie, and {
oiled down an embankment, killing G
our persons and injuring Is. Y
Demanding the privilege of partici- \
'ating in the next state election and +
II others to follow, representatives of \
be Votes for Women club of Californ- d
a have made a formal request upon c
be local registrar of voters that their )
ames be enrolled upon the great reg 0
5ter.
Snow storms and billiards are
weeping the entire Rocky mountain =
egion. !,
Senator Aids, Of New York, is con- C
icted Of bribe-taking and resigns his n
lat in congress. a
Coal miners of the East demand an 6. s
Immediate increase in wages or a =
.rike will follow. y
The Supreme court Of California has c
scided that oral betting is not Illegal &
lder the Walker-Otis anti-betting
W.
The English house Of lords will not
We up their privilege Of the veto pow i'
and q fight is on with the Irish d
lrty and the Laborites. u
A United States attorney at Tacoma b
clares he is certain that smuggling Il
Chinese is practiced continually by in
ana-paoffc eteaunehip lines "