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Newspaper
Heppner Weekly Gazette
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1890
Page
1
The New York World notes Mrs General Grant is physically healthy but mentally low, withdrawn from society, neglecting books and letters, rereading her husband’s works for comfort, and acting with ritual reverence toward keepsakes. She avoids visitors, relies on her coachman, and shows sorrowful behavior with limited mobility due to rheumatic pains.
The Burlington Route offers elegant vestibule trains from Denver and St Paul to Kansas City Chicago and St Louis with superb Pullman cars and fine meals. Western routes via Northern Pacific Oregon Short Line and Southern Pacific showcase Mississippi River scenery and Heart of the Continent cities.
The document outlines the printers ink trade and advertising contracts. It details how advertisers purchase space, the display costs, and the experience of large advertising agencies in placing orders. It cites PETATERS TEE coferstict and mentions P E Rowell Co and Advertising Bureau in New York.
In Wasmixetos Feb 6 the senate adopted the house amendment providing 275000 for improvement at the mouth of the Columbia River. The Oklahoma bill then went over in the afternoon session as the chamber moved toward final action on river and harbor measures and related appropriation items.
Blair continues critique of educational bills while Edmunds pushes resolutions on the Samoan treaty in executive session, later tabled. Secretary Tracy regains strength at the White House as he rests. Sherman denies involvement in a forged document alleging signatures of Sherman McKinley and Butterworth, examined by Halstead and Foraker, with Wood linked to motives for a Cincinnati post.
A Dallas express clerk F A Walton is suspected of stealing 35000 in gold and bills shipped to the Commercial National Bank. He disappeared after forging receipts on a duplicate, while the bank's bills were not delivered. Descriptions were sent via telegraph as investigators review his accounts.
Henry Schmidt a merchant tailor was convicted in federal court on twelve counts of violating the contract labor law in importing tailors. He was fined 1000 dollars for each offense totaling 812000 with a plea for remission claiming ignorance of the law.
Terrifying snowslides hit Burke Idaho mining district on February six. Five men buried in the QCuster mine boarding house died, others perished in Canyon Creek gulch and nearby camps. Damaged lines include San Francisco tramway and flume. At Bonneville a train trestle collapsed, nine dead and many injured.
A severe snowslide in Wardner damages the Ewma and Last Chance Milling Company property, destroys a gravity tramway and ore structures, and crushes a water tank while sparing lives. A later Canyon Creek slide alarms travelers but causes no injuries. A separate Burke route drift avalanche narrowly avoids a train car with eight to ten aboard.
David Alexander admitted to trying to assassinate Bishop Whitaker on Sunday. Dr. Andrews testified Alexander was sane on most subjects except prohibition. Alexander denounced prohibition and criticized the bishop’s stance as a hindrance to the church.
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