The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-09-18
NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Events in Both Eastern
and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Histori-
cal, Political and Personal Events
Tersely Told.

Seattle StreetcarS ran in almost
their usual number and practically on
schedule time, in spite of the street.
car operators. strike.
There is no bread in Panama, Ow.
ing to the bakers union ordering q
general strike in compliance with the
master bakers regarding the number
of working hours.
1t is said that Senator Fred T. Du-
bois Of Idaho will resist the claims of
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah to seat
in the United States senate.
The mineowners' association of
Cripple Creek, COL. has announced
that no member of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners will be employed in
any of the properties owned by mem
bers Of the association.
Wheat reached the highest price of
the season at Garfield recently, when
$4,000 bushels sold for so cents per
bushel, sacked in the warehouse. The
grain sold was club and red wheat
Bluestem is worth four cents a bushel
more than club ana red.
San Francisco was visited by a hot
wave recently. The mercury stood at
81 degrees in the early morning and
during the day it gradually rose until
at 1:20 p. m. the thermometer regis
tered 80 degrees in the shade.
James Powell, lineman for the
Northern Pacific, engaged in stretch
ing wires along the route Of the Belt
line, was killed by an electric shock
at Renton, near Seattle, recently
Chris Berg, who was pulling the line,
was knocked over and thrown several
feet from the wire, and suffered in
juries.
Six inches of snow on the level has
fallen. throughout Yellowstone park
during Sunday.
The last statement Of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $780,
7S5.6S5; gold. 500, 17S,e95.
Charles Kuhnle, one of the best
known and wealthiest farmers of Paso
Robes, CAL, was murdered recently.
In the Alps all Geographic communi-
cation was for time completely in
terrupted and Italy cut off from Eu-
rope and America.
United States Senator Plat of Con-
necticut has announced that he favors
the nomination of President Roosevelt
as the head of the republican national
ticket.
William A. Hoffman,, who shot and
killed his father-in-law, DR.. A. j..
Brandt, near Mayestown, ILL.,, and
threatened to take the lives Of others,
is under arrest at Belleville, III.
Frank Day, formerly of California,
VS. killed in an automobile at the
State fair grounds at Milwaukee, Wis,
while driving against Barney Old
fields record in race against time.
Before crowd Of $4,000 people, Ar
thur Featherstone's Igniter won the
$4,000 annual championship stakes,
two miles and quarter, at Sleeps
head Bay recently.
A Rome paper says: 1t is insistent-
ly rumored that the discovery was
made recently that sum of money
was missing from the treasury of the
propaganda. Pope Plus ordered that
an inquiry into the matter be made by
Cardinal De La Volpe, project of econ
omy OF the propaganda, who, accord
inc to the reports, found $20,oOO to be
missing.
A dispatch from Augusta, Wis, says
that the town and vicinity are flooded,
the result Of a cloudburst. The levee
went out and the floods swept through
the town, carrying everything before
it. Every railroad running through
the Northwest is crippled from wash
outs.
Recently at Clay Center, Neb., two
unknown highwaymen attempted to
secure money from several persons.
A party Of four resisted, and dad"
Stevens, J. w. Houserman, Night
Waterman Bush and Louis Behrends
were shot by the robbers and severely
wounded. Behrends was hit in the
head and is not expected to live The
bandits got no money, although their
victims had considerable cash and
jewelry in their possession. The high
waymen escaped.
1t is estimated that the loss to the
Florida orange crop will be from rs
to 40 per cent.
The contract for the construction
of a bridge across the Snake river at
Weiser, Idaho, has been awarded.
A fire, which originated in Klosser's
candy store, destroyed an entire block
of stores in the heart of the business
district of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
States senator from Oregon, died at
his residence in Washington, D. c..
recently, aged "a years. He was
native of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin d. Ogden, major and lead