The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-12-10
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS


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A free medical dispcnsary for the
poor will be opened at Portland in
the near future.
A new memorial to George Wash
inIton Is planned by the George
Washington Memorial Association,
which has just been organized in
New York City.
More than S60,000,000 worth OF
American merchandise was carried
by rail across the lsthmus OF Pan
ANA and Tehuantepec In the fiscal
year 1909, and In the calendar year,
which ends with next month, the
total probably will reach %s,000,0OO.
Anti-saloon men from all parts OF
the country are preparing to move
on Chicago In force. The campaign
for local option In the western me-
tropolis will begin in earnest when
the biennial convention Of the Ma
tional Anti-Saioon League meets the
first week In December
The United Mine Workers OF
America will attemp, to raise $780,
600 as permanens relief fund for
the widows and orphans of the VIC
Tins of the Cherry Hill mine dis
aster. II Is estimated that 1000 chill
dren have been made orphans.
Cattle "rustlers" are getting so
bold In northern Mexico, that
droves OF from ID to 100 head OF
cattle are being driven off almost
daily from the large ranches.
With every available man from
the sheriff's ohiek, aided by the
Great Falls, Mort., police depart
ment, at work on the grave robbery
case In which the lbody Of the baby
son Of Harhcld Q,nrad, a Montana
millionaire, was siplen from its last
resting place, thee Is no apparent
progress In traein the ghouls.
Frank Jay Couh. the nul,i-mill-
ionaire. who was but recently d.
vorced from Hetn Kelley Gould,
has been sued br 100000 by a
young dancing gil.
The Denver miat, which was shut
down last July because Of surplus
OF all denominations Of gold coins,
will open the hrsl OF the year with
between ss,000.00o and S2o,0o0,00o In
gold bullion on hand. which will at
once be coined into money OF small
denominations.
Measured by actual tonnage In
service. the United States ranks sec
ond among the nations Of the world;
Great Britain alone surpasses this
country.
II. o. Blaisdeil. of New York,
made new worlds typewriter rec
ord, writing '6o4 words from copy
he had not seen before In IS min
u,es. The pr-vious high record was
os words a minute.
The Por,lald FIGURING Mills Com
pany has ben awarded by the in
terror depar men, the contract to
furnish the Indian schools aud
agencies Of the Northwest and as
far south as Arizona the flour for
the present fiscal year. The con-
tract calls br the delivery OF more
than 2.00o.0e0 pounds to -four.
Three hundred Americans sat
down to a Thanksgiving dinner In
Exposition Park. Germany. where
the America, Exposition will be
held next ye,r
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her
daughter. Mis Ethel, have returned
from an extended trip to Europe.
For the frs time in the history
Of the United States Naval Aeade'
my, midshipmm will have the use
next summer Of three battleships for
their annual practice cruise.
Officers OF the United States Sig
nal Corps are preparing to install
wireless telegraph on the army aero
plane. 1t will send and receive Sc
miles.
With the testimony OF Squire c
chezum. the session In Seattle oi
the government inquiry into the
validity OF the Cunningham coal
land entries have closed and the in
quiry will be resumed In Spokane
Thursday.
The Oregon State Equal Suffrage
Association eeleoated its 3oth an
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