Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-24


on in Philadelphia.
Roosevelt's visits in European cite
win be very brief, owing to lack O
time.
Mayor Mccarthy, of San Francisco
summarily discharged Is employees o
the Health department.
It is said the rush of homeseekers Il
the West will be greater the coming
season than ever before.
A rat afflicted with bubonic plague
has been killed in Seattle, and a gen
eral cleanup is now in order.
Negro deputies in Cairo, ILL.,, free
into a mob who were trying to lynch
negro prisoner, and feeling is at white
heat.
The discovery of new plot against
the government in the interest Of Cas-
tro has caused a sensation in Ven
ezuela.
James Gibbons, said to be the man
who sighted the first gun fred by the
Union forces at Fort Sumpter in 1861,
is dead.
The San Francisco Labor council has
adopted resolution forbidding any
union member working in a place
where Asiatics are employed.
It has developed that the coal claims
in Alaska for which the Morgan-Gug-
genheim syndicate expects to pay
$500, 900, are worth $25, 200, 900.
War against the packing companies
is becoming nationwide. New Jersey
has dug up an old law against storing
food to influence prices. Missouri
courts issued indictments.
The new American play Elektra had
its first production in London before
an audience which included the king
and queen and Prince Henry, Of Prus-
sia. 1t was a great success.
Fire in the basement of moving
picture show in Johnstown, Pa, weak
ened the floor supports, SO that when
the audience discovered the fire and
made rush for the doors, the floor
gave way, precipitating 500 people in
to the burning basement. One was
trampled to death and scores badly
wounded and burned.
Senator Tiilman is reported to be
dying.
The city of Cleveland now has 8
cent car fare, as the result OF ID
year struggle.
A Paris parmacist, jealous of his
wife, kept her chained to the wall In
their home for two years.
Francis ]. Heney declares he will
not be candidate for governor Of Cal
ifornia, but will again prosecute Her
mann.
1t is estimated that the city Of Khar-
toum will contain the greatest crowds
in it's history when Roosevelt arrives
there. .. l.,,,
The Roosevelt hunting trip is over
and the party is now,eu route to Kflar-
toum, Egypt, which place they will
reach about March 6.
Hundreds of letters begging finan-
cial aid are pouring into Pasadena,
Cal, for Mrs. Russell Sage, who ar
rived there a few days ago for a
"rest." -.
Agnes EIkins, a niece of Senator
Elkins, who attemped suicide because
her uncle positively forbade her be-
coming an actress, is admitted 70 De
dying, by her physicians.
One man was frozen to death near
Cincinnati, Ohio, train wrecked and
three train men fatally injured, and
railroads, telegraph and telephone lines
completely demoralized in the recent
blizzard.
Sheriff's deputies at Carlo, Ill, fired
upon a mob which had attacked the jail
with the intention of lynching a negro.
One man is dead, another dying, and
nine more badly wounded. Warrants
are out for the leaders of the mob.
Fierce billiards sweep the West,
Northwest and Southwest.
An orchard of COS acres in Rogue
river valley, Oregon, has. been sold for
$500, 900.
Taft calls on senate to hasten action
on bills to redeem party pledges and
leaders get busy
Traffic Director Stubbs testified that
no compe ition exists between the Un-
ion Pacific and Southern Pacific.
Taft says he is glad of criticisms Of
his first years work, believing the
next three years will be more pleasant
as q result.
Wills involving many millions have
been broken in the Smell and Warner
cases in the Illinois Supreme court.
The sudden return of Francis j.
Heney to San Francisco after the Her
mann trial is taken to mean that be
will enter politics in California.
The Navy department has abandon
ed the search for the missing naval
tug Nina and her crew Of 80 men, and
practically given up hope for the
vessel.