The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-11-26
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ditor Of Chchaiis county, Wash, was
acquitted by jury OF the charge o.!
cmbezzlemcnt.
After unanimously re-clccting
President Samuel Gompcrs. Vice
President John Mitchell, Secretary
Frank Morrison and other cxccu
tive officers. and selecting ST Loms
as the place for holding the next
meeting, the 10Th annual convention
OF the American Federation Of La
Dor adjourned
At the convention Of the Women's
Foreign Missionary society OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Pittsburg, it was discovered that the
ladies OF the organization have been
assessing $40 on each member for
each baby that is born.
The Oregon & Washington Lum-
Der Manufacturers Association has
adopted a resolution providing for a
permanent traffic and legal turcau
with permanent manager The
manager Aill look after claims
against railroads, also all legislation,
new rates, ctc, affecting lumber in
tcrcsis.
The Aisop claim against Chile for
more than SlOOJ000. pending lor IS
years has assumed a critical stage.
Mr.. Dawson, American minister to
Chile, is now on his way to Wash
ington.
Washington apple trees arc TO be
experimental with IN Austria. and a
Touchct valley nursery has just re-
cciycd an order for 1000 trees to be
shipped Immediately to Galacia. Aus
tria.
Mrs. Allan T. Read was found
guilty OF attempted cx,oriion in Den
YER A year age she attempted to
force Mrs Gcnoyicvc phipps 20 give
her 100000. threatening to blow
her up with dynamite unless she
complied
The Oregon Academy OF Sciences
will hold iis annual meeting In For
est Grove November % and p.
Richard Watson Glider, cdiior-in-
chief of the Century Magazine since
It's foundation 10 1891, died suddenly
in New York.
Secretary Ballinger, acting on the
uf the agricultural
department.. has Withdrawn tempo
rarily from settlement the vacant
unappropriatcd lands comprised IN
48.522 acres proposed rs an addition
90 the SEWER national forest Utah
Mulai Haiid. the sultan of Moroe-
CO. bent on being saint u he can
not be statcsman, Is engaged in
a book on the Koran.
The l,aiian government has pre-
scntcd plan Tor the reduction Of |
Indirect taxation. chiefly rs affect
ing sugar, the loss OF revenue IN this
direction 10 be Offset By a progres.
sivc income tax.
The superior court has granted an
allowance of 5000 monthly to Mrs
Claus Sprccklcs until the estate Of
her late husband. Claus Spreekles, Is
settled.
Mrs Augusta T., Stctson. eNeom-
muuicaied Christian Scientist leader
1f New York City has secluded her
self, following the action taken by /
IN, Mother Church in Boston
,gaiust her, and just what will be
hc outcome oi matters in the First
Church Of Christ. Scientist. OF which
,hc was formerly the dominant FIX
are, is problcmatieal,
Football has claimed It's annual
oil Thirty dead, 2l6 crippled,
many ior life. and scores still how
ring on the brink of death In the
surgical wards ol hospitals; that's
he tale Of the gridiron covering 4
,criod Of 90 days.
Famished, nearly exhausted and
.arbcd mostly in borrowed clothing.
he lO3 persons who were passer-
gers ON the steamer ST. CroiN, which
,urnel anl sank off Point Duma.
g miles up the coast from Santa
Monica, Cal, Saturday night ar
iycd In Los Angeles. There were
io lives lost In the wreck