Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
D0INGS 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.

California is having the dryest
winter in years and is badly in need
of rain.
High winds at Chicago killed one
man, injured many others, and did
much property damage.
A California legislator would force
railroads to furnish cars where or
dered or pay demurrage.
A cloudburst flooded the city OF
Pittsburg at 4 p. m, Sunday and
made the city dark as at night.
A Harvard professor declares Ven.
us is covered with swamps and
marshes and supports variety Of
reptilian life.
A California millionaire has pur
chased an entire town and consider.
able land adjoining, and will make it
a model city.
Ex-senator Foraker explains that
no treaty with Great Britain inter-
fers in any way with the fortification
of the Panama canal
A young couple in Maryland died
from some mysterious poisoning on
the eve of their wedding, and it is
now believed they were murdered.
A daughter of Speaker Cannon
laughs at the report of a fortune be-
ing left to her father by a friend
in India, and declares the matter is
but joke.
A Los Angeles judge has forbidden
the grand jury to make a report in
the Times dynamite case, and de-
clares such a report would be con
trary to law.
An expert examination of the wreck
of the aeroplane in which Moissant
was killed shows the machine to-
have been in good order and exon
crates the mechanicians from any
blame.
Citizens of Houstonia Mo-, heard
five distinct explosions during the
night, but paid no attention to them,
but in the morning discovered that
the bank had been looted and all
wires leading out of town had been
cut.
Maine has repealed its prohibition
law,
s Twenty-Five indictments have been
returned in the Los Angeles Times
dynamiting case.
Senator Bourne advises Arizona to
adopt her proposed constitution re-
gardless of Taft's objections.
A new York baker fell asleep at
his work and fell into power dough
mixer and was chopped to pieces.
A California legislator will en-
deavor to put through a bill prohibit
ing aliens from owning land in that
state.
New York business men will estab-
lish a commercial court, in which all
business disputes will be settled vol
John Sullivan, ex-police chief OF
Spokane, was shot by an assassin.
who fred through the window OF
Sullivan's home.
A 5-year-old boy in Danville, KY,
has confessed that he shot his grand
mother accidently, and then ran away
to escape a whipping.
From the report of army engineers
1t is apparent that Oregon did not
get anywhere near her just share OF
the reclamation funds.
Representative Murdoch, of Kansas.
will endeavor to have a law made to
prohibit express companies from
carrying second. third or fourth-class
mail matter.
The Nevada. California & Oregon
railroad has ordered 5000 tons of
steel rails for the extension of its
line to Oregon, Pendleton being the
probable terminus.
An aviator's cap and goggles have
been picked up off the coast of Bel
gium, and are believed to belong to
Cecil Grace, who was lost in a fog
while flying across the English chan
mel, December %.
William E. Corey, president of the
United States Steel corporation, has
resigned.
The Supreme court upheld the bank
guarantee laws of Kansas, Nebraska
and Oklahoma.
A Juvenile court official of Portland
says picture shows and skating rinks
are all right for young folks.
Seventeen persons were killed in
FIRE and panic at a religious New Year
near Mexico City.
= Western railroads have cut freight
rates in response to orders of the In
terstate Commerce commission.
Speaker Cannon has been willed
fortune of 81, 500, 900 by the widow of
a client whom be befriended while
practicing law.
The government has lost its famous
libel suit against the New York World
in connection with the Panama canal.