The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-27
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
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Prosecutor Jeffry has filed suit
against 65 insurance companies do
ing business in Arkansas, asking
penalties amounting to $65, 100000
for alleged violation of the Arhan-
sas antitrust law.
During the present hot days in
Oklahoma the owners of farms with
good swimming holes are charging
10 cents admission to persons who
desire to take plunge.
The British Admiralty has lent to
Canada a number of naval officers
who will advise on the work of or
ganizing the new Canadian navy.
Since the death of Representative
Cushman, of Washington, there has
been much haggling among senators
| and members as to who now becomes
| the "homeliest man in congress"
Litigation has been renewed in
tate, said to amount to $5,000,0OO,
after a lapse of 25 years.
With a large representation from
| Oregon and Idaho, the Oregon-1daho
| Development Congress convened at
Marshfield, Oregon.
! The police of Budapest, Austria,
have captured 2S anarchists who re-
Gently arrived to attend the forth
coming anarchists congress.
Falling 80 feet, s-year-old Iris
Hill, of Portland, Ore, sustained
only slight injuries; 10 months ago
a man topping off the same fire es-
cape was instantly killed.
Gen. VIM. Booth, commander-in-
chief of the Salvation Army, has
ing of the eye, and may lose his
sight.
| A company is being organized in
North Yakima for the purpose of
fumigating fruit trees.
The famous stable of show horses,
considered the best on the Coast, and
owned by John w. Considine, of
Seattle, was sold at public auction.
After lengthy debate, the annual
convention of the Montana Fedora
tion of Labor went on record as
favoring woman suffrage.
By plunging into the Lewis river
to save the life of his little friend
at the risk of his own, Freddie Bry-
ant, aged 12, made himself the hero
of Woodland, Wash.
The names of the two boys ac-
cused of robbing $4,000 from the
Santa Clara Valley (Cal.) Bank, q
week ago, are Leo Nevins and Frank
Smith, both of Seattle.
John Christie, a deep-sea diver
has been engaged by E. T. Earl. the
millionaire publisher of Los Angeles
to search the bottom of the San
Pedro harbor for the 100000 string
of pearls lost by Mrs. Earl.
M. D. Wisdom, one of the best.
known horsemen of the Pacific
Coast, died at his home in Portland
Oregon, last week.
1t is said that enough pitchblende
has been discovered on the McClouG
river, in California, to supply the
world with radium for all time.
In a battle between troopers and
strikers at Pittsburg, Pa, following
wild riot, six were killed, ten per
haps fatally wounded and nearly {
score hurt
Ouray, Colo, was visited by dis
astrous cloudburst, water being
three feet deep in the streets. M
fatalities are reported.
An epidemic of homicide crimes
swept British Columbia last week, M
fewer than seven murders in all be
!: ing reported.
Two lives were lost and two savet
, as the result of a rowboat acciden
in the middle of Liberty Lake, on
of Spokanes summer resorts.
, The United States cruiser st
, Louis made record run of fou
, days and 22 hours between Honolulu
y and San Francisco.
! In the movement to stamp ou
6 revolutionary tendencies, the Span
, ish government has closed "a da.
i. schools in Barcelona, on the groun'
, that they are seditiously inclined.