Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-08-04
DO|NGS OF THE WEEK
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Tor men wear.
The mayor of New York will prohib-
it the distribution of free beer to fire.
men and policemen.
Forest fires have broken out afresh
near Whitefsh, Mont, and are destroy
ing valuable timber.
Count Zeppelin, undismayed by his
many failures and misfortunes, will
build another airship.
An army transport has on board,
bound from Seattle for Manila, Fill
ipino sailor 101 years old.
John D. Rockefeller has been ordered
by his physician to take whiskey baths
to maintain his bodily vigor.
Japanese and Portuguese fans had
a general fight at ball game in Homo
lul between Japanese and Chinese
players.
Attorney General Wickersham has
decided there is no law under which
the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee can
be removed from the national capitol.
Captain Bernier, of the British navy,
has been commissioned to take his ship
through the Northwest passage, and
incidentally to plant the British flag on
any lands he may discover.
Troops have been ordered home from
Durand, Mich, where they had been on
duty in connection with the Grand
Trunk strike. Before they left, the |
troops and civilians played a game of
baseball, the proceeds of which went
to the strikers.
A Chicago paper claims $95, 900 was
collected to be used in bribes to elect
Hopkins senator.
Stockton doctors declare that the
adulterations in ice cream cones cause
infantile paralysis.
Germany has turned down the plea
of Nicaragua for intervention against
the United States.
Farmers in Imperial valley, CAL, are
becoming desperate over the delay in
the irrigation project.
Minnesota Democrats have nomi-
mated John Lind for governor, but he
positively refuses to run.
A Tacoma thief turned in fire
alarm and then robbed the fire station
while the company was out,
1t is said the Western Federation of
Miners is likely to affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor.
A coasting vessel plying between
Seattle and Alaskan ports reports hav-
ing run through herd of 20, 900 VOL
rus.
Fourteen accidents occurred in the
lower Columbia and Willamette rivers
in 4S hours, but none very serious and
no lives were. lost. +.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
that Ira G. Rawn, late president OF the
Great Monon railway, died by his own
hand, presumably to escape graft dis
closures.
The Mount Mckinley expedition
failed to reach the summit of Mount
Mckinley. and is now returning to
OCW d401 1AAoOhoe
Tacoma is having big legal fight {
with its streetcar company.
Bryan was deposed as a Democratic
leader by the state convention of Ne
braska.
The steel business of the country has
increased many millions over the same /
period last year. 3
Alaska census enumerators did much I
of their work when the mercury was
20 degrees below zero. c
A range war between cattlemen and +,
sheep men has broken out in Montana
and serious trouble is expected.
The o. R. & N. will reduce grain
rates to compete with the Northern Y
Pacific in hauling grain to the Sound. s
Five inmates of the criminal ward of
the Oregon state insane asylum es
capped. Three were recaptured i'm '
mediately but the other two are still
at large.
The skeleton of young woman was /
found in sack half buried IN the sano q
on the beach at Newport, Or. 1t is s
believed the woman was murdered and Z
has been dead many years.
The conductor of a Northern Pacific
switching crew, was run over by cars :
at Tacoma and had both legs severed :,
below the knee. AS he lay on the
ground waiting for an ambulance he
coolly gave orders for the work Of the
crew for the rest of the day and chat
ted with the men.
The mayor of Toledo, o., was ar
rested for breaking the speed limit in n
his automobile, but was released when p
he made himself known. t
Official census returns give Oklaho-
ma City population Of 4,2O5.
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, expects TO
harvest a wheat crop of $4,000, 600 =
bushels. Y
Rock Springs, Wyoming, was ser c
iously Jared by several shocks Of c
earthquake.