The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-11-16


Chairman Shonts, OF the isthmiaa
canal commission has issued signed
statement emphatically denying that
there is any friction between Secre-
tary Taft and himself,
An elevator carrying seven employees
of the Globe Tailoring company, in
Cincinnati fell seven stories. causing
probably fatal injuries OF four OF the.
number.
The isthn:an canal commission has
spent sa.0O9.573 to date.
The pension bureau reports loss
OF 2,0os civil war pensioners BY death
during September, The net decrease
OF pensioners was s4i. leaving total
OF 900. .270 on the pension rolls Sep
tember 30.
The duchess OF ARGOS formerly
| Virginia I.owery, of Washington).
wife OF the new Spanish minister to
Italy, has arrived In Rome from st.
Petersburg, the former post OF her
husband. On opening her trunk II
was discovered that 1t had been
robbed In transit OF Jewels valued at
81, 900. 1t Is supposed that the rob-
bcry took place between Turin and
Rome.
Mcclellan wins rhe election in
New York but II Is claimed by Hearst
men that the election was fraudulent
and they will contest.
The czar has signed the manifesto
conyoking the Finnish diet, giving
III control OF The budget and authoriz.
ing an election law along suffrage
lines. Another manifesto abrugates
the military and other laws Of Russi-
fication. These have been dispatched
by tornedo boats TO HelsingfOrs, where
they will arrive Friday.
4 When the university In Rome
opened, the students finding among
them two Russians, made 40 enthusi.
astic demonstration. crying "Hurrah
for constitutional Russia. They then
carried the Russian students on their
shoulders, Speeches were delivered.
and 1t was agreed to organize meet
Ing Of all home associations In favor
of free Russia.
The secretary OF state. having
asked through Senior Coiticca. the
Venezuelan charge d'atfaires at Wash.
ington, whether this government
would object II the committee Of the
Panama congress had selected Caracas
as the next meetingsplace OF the con-
gress. President Castro has replied
that Venezuela would be glad to vel
come the delegations.
Secretary OF War Taft, accompanied
by Colonel Edwards, chief of The
bureau OF insular affairs, Lieutenant
Colonel william Black and Lieuten
ant Mark ID. Brooke, last week ex,
amined the location for Notifications
at the Pacific termination OF th,
canal. The Associated Press Is In
2 formed that the small foothill at An,
con Is the point selected. Regardln,
the Notifications OF an island II
! Panama bay to protect the canal en-
/ trance 1t was decided to do d ins
until the canal is finished.
, The steamer Lansing, the larges
!. oil tank boat In the world, will b,
sent to the Pacific coast from the At
lantic-side by her owners, the Unioi
d Oil company OF San Francicso. with
a In the next 80 days. The steamer
Washtenaw and the Roma will also b.
!. sent TO this coast at about the sam
/. time. The combined earring capac
ity OF these three vessels Is $500
barrels. This Is greater than evel
the Standard OIL companys feet.
! A tornado struck Mountain Vie,
d Okla. last Saturday killing six peopl
e and injuring many more. The school
J. house, two churches, two liver
b barns, one hotel, cotton gin an
about u dwellings were blown ava
:. and many more houses, wrecked
. The business part OF town was no
/. touched. The tornado struck til
: town from the southwest and total
" demolisbed.alI the buildings in II
!. path. Fortunately the storm follow
J. ed ravine through tho town wher
: there we're not many buildings, other
!. wise the destruction would have bee
much greater.