Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-11-16
NEWS VI The; WORLD
iH0RT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western HemIspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The steamer Willie Hume, San
Francisco to Everett, in ballast, was
wrecked on Protection islands, Straits
of Juan de Fuca, recently during a
storm.
Joseph Dangel, president of The
Dollar Savings bank at Akron, Ohio,
was appointed receiver of that insti-
tuition in consequence of the suicide
of Fred A. Boron, cashier and treas
urer.
In recent address Senator ]. P.
Deliver said that the army canteen
will never be reestablished
The telegraph operators at Pitts
burg are applying for their former
positions. The Western Union has a
full force, but several were taken
back by the Postal.
Driven insane by scandal, Gustav
Lehman, wealthy merchant of Chi
cago Is believed to have drowned
himself in the Mississippi river.
Judge Brentano of>s Chicago receiv-
ed remarkable letter recently from
Richard Walton, the negro slayer of
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, who is I'M
der sentence to be hanged on Deem
Der 10. He confessed.
In a headon collision on the North
ern Electric railroad at Live Oak sta
ton, 80 miles south of Chico Cal,
seven persons were injured, two sew
erely.
]. ]. Hill is in New York using his
influence to secure between one and
two million dollars in cash for the
purchase of grain
Notwithstanding the active efforts
of detectives in the district attorneys
office and the New York police depart
ment, no trace has been found of Ray
mond Hitchcock, the missing actor.
Minneapolis bankers will make for
NAL demand on Secretary Cortelyou
to place several million dollars in the
banks of the northwest to be used
in moving crops.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not be a
witness when Harry K Thaw is plac-
ed on trial for the second time, within
three weeks, for killing Stanford
White.
For publishing in the College Month
ly, Of which he was the editor, an ar
ticle accusing women students of
forming a cigarette smoking club,
David L. Levy of the University of
California, was hazed by so under
graduates and compelled to admit
there was no truth in the offending
article.
The dark ages never saw worse con-
ditions than prevail in southern Nor
Deco. Property belongs to the man
who can seize it. Holman life is less
than nothing. Free lance cutthroats
fill the towns, and petty chiefs make
travel almost equivalent to suicide.
The Second cavalry at Fort Des
Moines has received orders to pro-
coed to South Dakota, the scene of the
Ute Indian trouble.
An Austrian electrician is attempt
ing to obtain financial support in Ber-
lin from the American colony for an
invention which he says will nullify
wireless messages in war time. The
inventor declares that his apparatus
will make unintelligible all messages
sent within radius of 700 miles.
Financial troubles in New York.
with their later echo in the west,
have not alarmed the farmers of Ne
braska. For the last decade the farm
ers of this state have disposed of their
crops by contract before they were
harvested, but this year conditions
are changed. During the past week
word came to Lincoln from all sec
tons of the state that farmers were
building bins to store away corn,
which they are soon to harvest.
Barbara Lapoukine, the Is year old
daughter of a Russian princess, was
not kidnapped in London by terrorists
at all, as her friends reported to the
London police early this week, but is
a terrorist herself, according to the
weekly dispatches
1t is announced that 81 steamers
have been chartered in Scotland to
convey coal and other supplies to the
American fleet which is to visit Pa
eific waters.