The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-12-31
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

his scventy-seeoEd birthday Sunday.
Never before in the history oi
railroads has there been such heavy
Christmas travel.
A 92-pound mnce pie, a creation
of the Newark, N. J, Iie Bakers
Association, was presented to Presi-
dent Taft for Christmas
The scarcity OF elephants in Cuba
has caused Cuban planter to re-
fuse TO accept a shipment OF ma
chincry delivered to his order by
New York manufacturer
Railways in Wcstcrn Canada have
made joint arrangements for a gilt
OF S2,0OO0OO for worlds fair IN
Winnipeg, provided il is postponed
until l0l4
Owing to the coal mining strike
In Australia in which $4,000 miners
are engaged l4,OO0 more men have
been thrown out of employment and
o. steamers are tied TIP there.
The board or governors OF the
Explorers Club voted that Dr. Fred
erick a. Cook be dropped from the
rolls of the club for frauds prac-
ticcd on its members and on the
public.
Joseph L. Austin. Of the United
States steamship South Dakota, was
dismissed from the naval service be-
cause he married in violation OF an
order issued during the Roosevelt
administration.
Edward Payson Weston, the aged
pedestrian. is planning to walk from
Los Angeles to New York, starting
January %. lie hopes 20 establish
new record for the trip.
Declared to have no equal as a
frst-elass fighting machine, the bat.
tlcship Utah, the greatest wafship
ever built in the United States, has
been launched at Philadelphia
Any person Of good judgment,
who has received an ordinary com
mon school cducatiou. can readily
pass the test to be given applicants
for census cnumorllors on Saturday
February 5.
After ~ years separation, in which
time both married and were LEFT
alone by death, T. r. puliord,
Sacramento. Cal, merchant. viii
soon rcwcd his former wife and be.
gin life anew
The entire west and northwest
from Winnipeg 20 the lower tier Of
Illinois counties, along the Ohio
river. are hard and fast IN the grip
OF the storm king.
According To the present official
program the Duke Of Connaughi,
brother Of King Edward, will sue
cced Rad Grey rs governor of Cana
da in 1910.
Judge K S Loyeit, successor ~
T., H. Hartman as head Of the
great Hartman system Of railways,
has already taken steps to meet the
effort OF the Seattle Commercial
Club to develop the Chinese trade
10 that port.
George Preston Sheldon, former
president OF the PhcniN Fire Insur-
ance Company. and accused of de-
falcations from the company Of more
than Sl,O0O000. died In Greenwich,
Conn. Christmas morning,
President TAFT according TO pub
lie men who have talked with him
on the subject, is inclined to await
the decision Of the United States
supreme court in the Standard oil
cases before pressing other prose
eutions under the Sherman antitrust
law
About Sl000O0O0O Is To be spent
by the United States Steel Corpora
ton and ils subsidiary companies in
improvements to the stecl-making !
territory from South Chicago to
Gary, Ind.
Alaskans who are spending the |
holidays in Seattle are urging the |
of J. c, Mcbride, of Ju-
neau, for delegate in congress from
the northern district Mr.. Mcbride
was chairman OF the Alaska commits
sion TO the A-Y.-P Exposition.
Mark Twain's invalid daughter,
Jean, met death tragicaliy when at
the bath in Rcdding, Conn. Miss
Clemens died not directly from
but more through strang-
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