Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-05
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.


Iditarod, Alaska, is worked out.
Pinchot advises Taft to cancel the
Cunningham coal claims in Alaska.
Archbishop Glennon, of st. Louis,
declares military men are but para
sites.
Ivy Baldwin, an aviator at Santa
Barbara, fell 20 feet, but escaped SER
ious injury.
The provisional government of Port
ugal is said to be tottering and its fall
is expected at any time.
England is surprised that the king
created no new peers for New Years,
which is contrary to custom.
1t is estimated that the gross earn
nings of the railroads of the United
States for the past year were $685.
S74, 591.
Berlin tailors are angry because the
kaiser has his clothes made in London,
and all the German nobility follow his
example.
An earthquake rocked the palace of
the sultan of Turkey, and badly fright
ened the inhabitants llear by, but no
one was killed.
The report of the California fish and
game warden recommends that no
crabs be taken in California waters
for two years.
A severe blizzard swept the Middle
West and Eastern states, the thermo-
meter at some points falling 46 de-
grees in eight hours.
A stray bullet, thought to have been
fired by New Year celebrators, in
stantly killed an 1S-year-old boy stand
ing on the street in Salt Lake City.
A revolution has started in Honduras
and fighting is in progress.
A movement is on foot to have a
permanent tariff commission appointed.
American and Canadian officials rec
ommend an international commerce
commission.
The Pennsylvania railroad has de-
clared dividend of per cent, max
ing per cent this year.
President Lowell, of Harvard, de-
nounces college yells and ragtime
music at students dinners.
A portrait of Julia Ward Howe has
been refused place beside other noted
Americans in Faneuil Hall, Boston.
A German inventor will attempt to
cross the Atlantic in dirigible bal
loon, attached to lifeboat, which it |
will drag after it.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany will loan money to its employees
to the amount of months salary
without interest, to enable them to
avoid the clutches of loan sharks.
Hiram Maxim, the noted gun manu-
facturer, says bad powder is the cause
of many accidents with military and
naval arms, but the secretary of the
navy says Maxim knows nothing about
the powder now in use.
A passenger steamer plying between
Mediterranean and European Atlantic
ports lost her propeller and foundered
for nearly two months helpless, until
an American wrecking steamer found
her and towed her to New York.
A scheme has been unearthed where
by certain reputable" picture dealers
in Europe have been making limitations
of old masterpieces and selling them to
rich Americans. 1t is said E. H. Har-
riman and j. P. Morgan have been ex-
tensively victimized.
Reports deny that General Navarro
surrendered, and claim he has received
reinforcements.
Michigan jurists score Roosevelt for
bis criticisms of the Supreme court.
Trolley cars collided head-on on
trestle 80 feet above the ground at
Kansas City, killing two and injuring
about so.
It is reported on good authority
that Taft would accept the nomination
for president in 1912, and believes he
could win.
Suit has been commenced to recover
title to sc, ,676 acres of land granted to
the Coos Bay Wagon Road company by
the state of Oregon.
The Northern bank of New York has
been closed, following manipulation of !
stocks by its president, who became !
insane and attempted suicide.
A Pennsylvania oil well employe put
a can of nitro glycerine in barrel Of Z
hot water to thaw it out. He was {
blown to pieces and the derrick and S
buildings wrecked. I
About S45, 900, 900 has been allotted
by President Taft for various irrigs-
tion projects.
Aviator Hoxsey, at Los Angeles,
broke the worlds altitude record by r
going up II, 474 feet. i
The Chinese government resisted
the demand for an assembly and the !
radicals backed down.
Exports and imports of the Philip y
pines showed a large increase during o
the first year Of free trade. li