The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-10-08
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SHORT NEWS NOTES.


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Rear-Admiral w. S. Schley, re-
tired, has Cancelled all engagements
for entertainments in New York and
will seek 'seclusion.
The Lord Mayor of London has
announced his intention of opening
a Mansion House fund to assist Cap
tain Robert f. Scott to raise money
for his expedition to plant the Union
Jack at the South Pole.
Orders for equipment and power
have just been placed by Hartman
lines which will bring the total ex-
penditures for this purpose during
the last six months up to fully $17,-
100000,
The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court in San
Francisco to rebating and was fined
$1,000. The maximum penalty is
$1,000.
A dispatch from Fez says inquiries
show that Ell Roghi, the pretender
to the throne of Morocco, who was
executed at Fez in the middle of
September, was put to death by Sui
tan Mulai Hafid himself under cir
cumstances of revolving cruelty.
The trial of Patrick Calhoun on
charge Of having offered a bribe to
San Francisco supervisor has been
continued until November Is, at the
request of the defense.
Submission of law providing for
statewide prohibition will proba-
ably be an issue in the next session
of the Virginia legislature.
Congressman w. S. Hammond, the
only Democratic congressman from
Minnesota, may become candidate
to succeed the late Governor John A.
Johnson.
Governor Glasscock of West Vir-
ginia has announced that he is in
favor of an income tax amendment
to the federal constitution, and will
use his influence to have the next
legislature ratify such an amend
ment. An extra session of the legis-
lature will be called this fall.
Experiments with bog peat by ex-
perts of the United States geologi-
cal survey are expected to produce
from the marshes of the United
I States a new fuel to take the place
of the rapidly disappearing coal sup
ply,
A reuusition was honored by the
Governor of Washington for B. Feis-
ter, wanted in Marion county, Or,
for breaking into a box car and
stealing a $25 oil lamp.
The Chicago, Milwaukee &c st.
Paul railroad has ordered 250 all
steel passenger cars, of which 100
are for the western coast extension.
Representatives of II govern
ments are attending the 18th an
nual meeting of the Association of
Military Surgeons in the United
States, now in session in Washing
!. ton, D. c.
In view of the Polar controversy
the board of directors of the Nation
al Geographic Society at specia
meeting to determine the attitude il
should assume toward Dr. Cook Oh
the occasion of his visit to Wash,
ington, D. c., to deliver lecture or
his Arctic experiments, decided moi
: to recognize Dr.. Cook in an oficia
way.
Mrs Charles T. Yerk IS has finally
arranged for settlement of the
fight over her husbands estate. II
is said she will get virtually a third
interest in the value of the estate.
Secretary Dickinson finds nothing
to criticise in the action of General
Grant in taking part in temper.
ance and law-enforcing parade in
Chicago in his uniform as a Major.
. General of the United States army.
Tammany Hall has accepted the
candidate of the fusion reform or.
ganization for Mayor of New York
and has nominated Judge William
I. Gaynor for Mayor