Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-03-25
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF Hemisphere.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


Uruguay have signed an extradition
treaty between the two countries.
The battle on the right flank and
around Mukden appears to be the |
greatest of the war, except Port Ar
thur.
w. j. Clark of Independence, Kan,
was found dead in bed at his rooms in
San Francisco. Gas was issuing from
two burners.
George w. Wakefield, judge of the
district court and ex-president of the
Iowa State Bar association, is dead,
aged IS years.
Robbers entered the Bank of Rem
frow, Oklahoma, recently, at an early
hour, blew open the safe and escaped
with $1,000 in cash.
All the diamond settlers and polish
ers in one of the trade centers in New
York are on strike for a 10 per cent
increase and shorter hours.
A magnificent living specimen of the
California condor has been shipped to
the Central Park zoo in New York 1t
measures II feet from tip to tip.
Mrs. Mamie Nye Jackson, widow of
Frederick Wolcott Jackson, formerly
general superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad in New Jersey, is dead.
Henry Norcross Mum, editor of The
Scientific American, is dead at his
home in New York. He was a member
of the firm which published that paper.
Dowager Empress Margeria Feodo-
rava the cars mother, will soon leave
st. Petersburg for Denmark at the ur-
gent request of King Christian, her
father.
Vice President Fairbanks has ap-
pointed as his private secretary Fred
c. Fairbanks, his son. He was gradu-
ated from Princeton in the class of
1908.
Santo Domingo's debts total the sum
of $24643,3 S7. according to date COM
piled by Senator Morgan. The amount
is owed by the little republic in big
Jumps.
Thomas ]. Ryan has been informed
by the president that he is to be con-
tinued as assistant secretary of the in
terror. Mr.. Ryan has held the office
nearly eight years.
The British steamer Saxon Prince,
bound for Vladivostock with a cargo
of steel rails, has been seized by the
Japanese in the Tsu straits and taken
to Sasebo for trial.
Count Tolstoi is against the strikes
in Russia. He says the people take the
wrong course. Religious and moral
perfection of the individual is the prop
err course to pursue.
1t is now announced that 20 lives
have been lost as a result of the eX
plosion which occurred recently in the
Cambrian colliery at Clydachvale, in
the Rhonda valley, Wales.
o. e. Snyder, the DIN Qowa) bank
err. who assigned last December, has
disappeared. A warrant for his arres
has been issued. Snyder's liabilities
amount to $145,000, mostly bank de
posits.
President William r. Harper of the
University of Chicago has so far re
covered from the effects of his recen
surgical operation for cancer that hi
feels equal to taking journey to Eu
rope.
Ebenezer Buckingham Converse,
well known lawyer, practicing in New
York, is dead at his home in Engle
wood. N. j. He was a son of the lat
Charles C. Converse, judge of the SUI
preme court of Ohio.
Water from Minnehaha Falls will b.
used in christening the battleship Min
nesota. announces Governor Johnson
Miss Rose Marie Schaller, the univeI
sity student, is to christen the battle
ship.
Saturday is payday at the Granb
and the Montreal & Boston mines, a
Phoenix. B. c.. aad the amount to b
distributed being about $4,000 or Wit
the amount also paid out at the CON
panies' respective smelters, about SIS
900.
An explosion in the Yough mine nea
Irwin. Pa. caused by a miner ignitin
a blast. started fierce fire in the shai
ard endangered the lives of ITO me
who were at work. All escaped IL
iurv. however. Efforts to smother tn
flames have been unsuccessful.
The funeral services of William Bat
of Tennessee were held in the senat
chamber Saturday. The presiden
members of his cabinet, the chief jul
tice and associate justices of the 81
preme court, the diplomatic corp
members of the house of represent
tives. who are in the city, and repr
sentatives of the army were preser
and occupied seats in the chamber