Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-09-04
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Yokohama.-The American consul
ate at Hakodate reports that the loss
from the recent conflagration was
SIS 900, 900. Fifteen thousand houses
burned and 10000 people are homeless.
Madame Emma Games Story, the
opera singer, is now completely free
from the matrimonial bonds which
bound her to Julian Story, the artist.
The secret marriage of the young
son OF the secretary of the navy to
Mrs. Ouida Vevans, q widow ten years
his senior. at Oakland, CAL, Is now
public.
President Roosevelt has announced
the appointment Of August E. Menter
to be collector of internal revenue in
Edward F. Sweeney to be
Of the mint at San
and William Cutter to be
conner at that mint.
Honolulu boarding house keepers
chartered a ship and sent it loaded
with Japs to British Columbia on spec
ulation. They had to advance each
Jap $25 in order to land him. The
Japs vanished and the shippers are
out $4,000 on the deal.
Commissioner Sargent has ordered
officials to inform resident
Chinese who intend to visit China with
the intention of returning to the Uni
ted States, that immigration officials
will make out the return certificates
free Of charge as a part of their du-
ties.
Roosevelt has given up his plan to
have Arizona and New Mexico admit
ted to joint statehood. The people
wouldn't stand for it.
The ministers of La Crosse. Wis,
formed a union and united with the
central organization. They were
dropped because the brewery workers
kicked on them.
The next national Democratic con-
vention may be held in Chicago. 1t is
said Folk and johnson are to be candi-
dates If Bryan decides to make race.
It is learned from Manila that samp-
les Of Philippine woods, believed to be
for making lead pencils, have
been sent to New York to be tested.
The Swiss woman who was lost in
the Alps near Loeche-Les-Bain for 20
days is Nine. Schopfer. She has re-
covered her senses.
Long-term convicts. burglars. Ed
ward Quinn and Harry Varmon, de-
tailed as nurses in the Joliet prison
escaped recently.
Koyama, the Japanese who assaulted
and wounded Ii Hung Chang at Shi-
moneseki in 1895, during Japanese
peace negotiations, and who was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. has been
pardoned.
The Ogden tabernacle choir will sing
at the Fifteenth National Irrigation
congress in Sacramento. Cal.
The so-called lumber trust is to be
the next big corporation to be inves-
tigated by the United States depart
ment Of justice.
School opened at the Washington
State Normal Wednesday.
The crew of the Hill liner MINES
ota, which arrived In Seattle Saturday.
fought fire n one of the coal bunkers
nine days during the run to Seattle.
Ex-Gov. Durham. of Indiana. claims
that he was offered bride of So, 600
to deliver Gov Taylor to the Ken
lucky authorities.
Machinists and other workers in the
shops of the west are rejoic-
ing over news that the nine-hour day
is to be tried on several Of the larger
railroad systems.
st. Louis, Mo.-The historic Dent
farm of 438 acres outside the city lin
It's has changed hands, the consider
alton being $4,000. The log cabin.
at one time the home Of General u.
8. Grant. still stands.
After wagering that he could catch
and hold a boar which was roaming
about the streets Of Richmond. Texas.
recently, Adam Kaulfer, a prominent
young man Of that place. laid hold OF
the animal and was killed.
Miss Anna Goodyear, granddaughter
of Charles Goodyear, is trying to put
a bill through congress which Will
make flashing a punishment for all
crimes.
George Gould, 65 years old. no rela'
tive of the railroad magnate, died re-
Gently from starvation and exposure.
Gould, although he died from starva-
ton, was one Of New Rochelle's
wealthiest men.
Word from Clinton, Ill.,says Judge
Cochran has decided that Mrs. Isabel
la Robinson Warner. stepmother Of
Commissioner Warner, is entitled to
dover rights of the estate of John
Warner, the commissioners father,
She secures life interest in $3.50. 900.
A million-dollar union stockyard for
railway companies. The site for the
proposed yard is said to be at Cote
Point, situated about ten miles west.