Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-01-09
Domestic.


Triplets, boy and two girls, were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Butter.
haugh of Ell Paso. Tex.
Mike, the largest elephant in Ameri.
ca, died in the circus winter quarters
at Bridgeport, Conn. The cause of
his death is unknown.
The annual meeting Of the Geologi.
cal Society of America was held at
Albuquerque, N. M. About seventy.
I've delegates were present.
John D. Rockefeller has just added
81, 1871 900 to his gifts to the University
Ut Chicago, making the total of his
benefactions over $23,O00,00O.
Andrew Carnegie has donated &c..
900 for public library at Fairbury,
Neb., under the usual conditions, the
donation of site and an appropria-
ton of $4,000 year for maintenance.
The Hippodrome has been opened at
Cleveland. The theater cost $4,000.
900. 1t will seat $500 persons. The
stage is 100 feet wide and 1O4 feet
deep. Beneath the stage is tank for
aquatic sports.
Three men Of Albion, Iowa, all of
whom are of middle age and all of
whom are married and in business,
soon will enroll in the Iowa state agri.
cultural college at Ames for the regu.
lar courses of study.
A bill has been introduced in the
Philippine assembly to make the
speaker of the assembly vice governor
of the islands. The Office of vice gov
ernor has been vacant since the pro.
motion Of Gen. Smith to be governor
general.
Controller Metz of New York, in a
review of the growth of the city in ten
years since consolidation, says that
the assessed valuation of real estate
owned by the people had advanced
from $2,532,416.S19 in 1898 to $6,24O,.
4S0,6O2 in 1907.
Clad in a thin bathing suit. Miss
Helen Wilcox of Eltingville, Staten
Island, took a swim in the ocean near
, her home. She remained in the water
j. five minutes, although the temperature
registered degrees below freezing
The bath was taken on wager.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $25 ,OO(
}. to the city of New York to restore tn,
g governors room in the city hall to it.
e original condition, as shown by plan
5. in the possession of the historical SC
ciety. The offer has been accepted
4. with the approval of Mayor Mcclellan
S, 1t is now almost certain that tn
s, Raven" mantle, before which Edga
IF Allen Poe sat when he wrote his ma.
9. terpiece. will 60 to Columbia uniye
t. sity and find place of honor in Han
d ilton Hall. William Hemstreet {
Brooklyn, owner of the mantle, offere
i. it to some institution which woul
d properly preserve it.
4, Judge Trieber, in the federal cour
l. 1T Little Rock, Ark, upheld the cor
S stitutionality Of the anti-futures hi
e passed by the last legislature at tn
e request of the Farmers union. Tn
decision established a precedent fo
). the Southern states.
t. Forty-three hundred barrels Of bee,
l. valued at $17,5oo, belonging to tn
p New State brewery at Oklahoma CITY
l. was poured into the sewers bv tn,
d United States revenue collector. Th
d brew was completed after Oklahom
became state. The state authorize
i. would not permit it's sale and chi,
le ment from the state.
ID The vail Of Van, ruler of the terr
M tory in the vicinity Of Mount Arara,
ID where Noah landed from the ark alto
n. his voyage of forty days and night,
te has ordere! motor boat built q
Bridgeport. Conn., for his use on tn
lakes in the region.