The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-09-10

SHORT NEWS NOTES.
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1t is reported that Mrs. Roosevelt
has engaged house at Khartoum,
Egypt, where she will meet her hus-
band when he comes out of the
jungles.
i verdict of not guilty was
brought in by the jury in the case of
Thomas Broadhead, ex-Chief of Po-
lice of Los Angeles. charged with
having accepted bribes to protect re-
sorts in the old restricted districts.
Mayor Franklin p. Story. of At
lantic City, was arrested on war
rant charging him with ignoring an
order of State Attorney-General Will
son, which notified the Mayor to en-
force the law against Sunday selling
of liquor.
William Clyde Fitch, known to
playgoers in every part of the world
as Clyde Fitch, the successful Anne
rican playwright, died, following an
| operation for appendicitis. Mr.. Fitch
had been spending the summer mo-
toring through Germany and was en-
route to Paris when seized.
f. ]. Heney. prosecuting attorney
in the bribary-graft cases in San
Francisco, and who is candidate
for District Attorney, upon his re-
turn from an extended vacation in
local theater, which was packed to
the doors with friends and support
ers of Heney and the graft prose-
cution.
w. J. Bryan narrowly escaped in
jury at Springfield. Mo-. when a
motor car, in which he was being
taken to make an address, got be-
yond control, going down a steep
hill. The brake broke, but the car
was stopped just on the edge of an
embankment.
Isaac Brock, of Waco, Tex, who
claimed to have seen 26 Presidents
elected, is dead at an age said to be
121 years. According to Brock S
family Bible and other documents
he was born in Buncombe County
North Carolina, March l, 1888.
The full return of prosperity tc
the railroads of the United States
is evidenced in reports Just published
of the gross earnings of rs roads fol
the first half of August. For the
first time since the panic of 1907 tht
= aggregate weekly gross earnings ex
ceed the high records reached II
August, 1907.
The Legislative act prohibiting
; wholesale as we'll as retail sale o
LIQUOR in the State OF Tennessee wa
upheld except as regards sales 70
shipment outside of the state. in al
opinion handed down in Chancer,
Court at Chattanooga by Chancello
T. M. Mcconnell.
The awards OF the contracts 70
the two American dreadnoughts o
$4,000 tons each, the battleshtp
Wyoming and Arkansas. will b
made to William Cramp & Sons. 0
Philadelphia, and the New Yorl
Shipbuilding Company. at Camden
T. ". J..
: William r. Hearst. at a meetiu
7 of the independence party's count
. committee in New York. declare
8 that he was prepared to use all hi
\ power in an effort to defeat Tam
7 many at the approaching municipa
n election. He announced himself a
a favoring fusion with the various ar
ti-Tammany organizations II he wer
satisfied that the organizations wer
loyal in general to the principles c
:, the independence party.
f. LIE Febvre. the French aviato
was killed by fall from his aero
plane. in which he was practicin
:. Tuesday. The machine left tn
!, ground easily and flew around tn
aerodrome at height Of about 2
:. feet. udienly without apparei
:, reason. the machine tipped sharp
: downward and struck the groun
- with great violence.