Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-11
SUMMARY
OF NEWS
SHORT CONCISE ITEMS
FROM DISPATCHES.
NEARLY ALL PARTS or THE
WORLD REPRESENTED
HEREWITH.

Recommendations have been made
by bank commissioners tn Attorney
General Weber to take legal action
relative to appointing a receiver for
the California Safe Deposit Trust com.
pany II San Francisco. which sus.
pended business several weeks ago.
The open navigation season on the
great lakes this year cost 1876 lives
and property losses aggregating ST..
$4,000.
After a 80 days run that reduced
deposits from $135.00C to $65.00O, the
Bank o. Miami. Oklahoma, closed re-
Gently. Its funds were tied up in the
National Bank of Commerce of Kan
sas City, which failed last week. Tho
bank is capitalized at 100000. c. P.
Williams is president.
Leaders of the liberal party in SEES
sion at Havana Endorsed Presiden,
Roosevelts message to congress, so
far as it relates to Cuban affairs.
At Kalamazoo. Mich. Mayor Thomp-
son has issued an order that all of the
theaters close during Sunday. The
order prohibits Entertainments or any
other form of amusement"
Miss Alada Stryker. daughter of
President and Mrs. Woolsey Stryker
of Utica. N. Y, became the wife of
Elihu Root, Jr.. at the home of her
parents. After a wedding Journey Mr..
and Mrs. Root will take up their resi-
dence in New York city.
DIR. w. 8. Woods. president of the
National Bank Of Commerce at Kansas
City. asserts that the bank may re-
open within q short tune.
Governor Malcolm r. Patterson of
Tennessee was married Saturday to
Miss Mamie Gardner at Union City,
Tenn.
ALI but one of the IL troops of cav
elry sent to the Cheyenne river reser-
walton have been ordered back to their
former post, Fort Des Moines.
o. A. Sutherland. who was widely
known throughout the Boundary (B.
CO. district. being employed in the
customs service at Nelson and Kaslo
for FIVE or six years. died of pneumonia
and pieurisy at Winnipeg recently.
A sudden and destructive flood swept
down Salmon river. on tho east coast
of Vancouver island. last week, rails
ing the liver 20 feet in three hours.
General Liautey, commanding the
French flying column in Algeria, re-
ported that he has destroyed the camp
of Marah0ut Bouthick, one of the lead
ers of the revolt and who proclaimed
a holy war on the French frontier.
Mrs. w. J. Bryan and her daughter
have sailed for Europe and will spend
the winter in the holy land.
Twenty-one sailors implicated in the
recent mutinies at VladivostOk were
condemned to death by courtmartial.
Twenty-four more were given varying
terms of penal servitude.
The National Committee of Repub-
licans has selected the place at Chi
cago and date June 16 for the next
national convention.
John w. Reeves, who was convicted
of setting fire to freight cars which
caused the explosion of a quantity of
dynamite, resulting in the death of
several persons and the destruction
of the Colorado G. Southern freight
depot and considerable other property
during the recent switchmen's strike
was sentenced to not less than 10
nor more than Is years in the peni.
Tertiary.
1t is understood that the appoint
ment Of Baron Takahira as ambassa
dor to Washington will be made short
ly after Viscount Aoli leaves America
M. A. Wilkins, who is charged with
killing Viona Carmen. with whom lie
lived. and burying her beneath an out
house at their home in Elmhurst, was
today teld to answer before the supe
rior court on the charge of murder.
At a meeting Of prominent hol
growers held In Sacramento, CAL, the
preliminaries were practically com
pleted looking toward the organization
Of hop growers association.