The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-10-29
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

The lone highwayman who robbed
the Vinton hotel, at Vinton, Cal, was
found in barn near the scene of
the trouble, dead.
According to the figures of the in
ternal revenue commissioner, more
whiskey is being withdrawn from the
bonded warehouses throughout the
country than ever before.
The worlds automobile record of
64.44 miles an hours was beaten in
the Portola automobile races at Oak
land, Cal. The winning car sustained
an official average time of 6451 miles
per hour.
The police of Colorado Springs have
been asked to look for VIM c. Lilley,
wealthy retired church and temper
ance worker of Pittsburg, who disap-
peared on the day set for his mar
riage, and who is believed to have
come to that city, where he has rel
atives.
Charged with the murder of Thos.
Patton, a rival in love, in Hendricks,
KY, y years ago, Alexander McFar-
land was arrested last week in Hunt
ington, Va.
Edward A. Jones, who founded the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, died at East Orange, N. J., at
the age of IS years.
The Spanish cabinet formed Janu-
airy rs, 1907, under the premiership
of Antonio Maura, has resigned as a
result of the bitter attacks made
against the government by EXPIRE
mier Moret y Pendergast
| Because he was asked to pay $l(
for plate at the luncheon that will
be given to President Taft on the oc
casion of his visit to Columbia, S. C..
November f, Senator Tillman has de-
clined to attend and says that he ma,
not serve on the reception committee
The battleship Delaware, the frs
American fighting ship of the dread
naught type, made splendid show
ing on her screw Standardization rum
over measured mile course i'll Pen
obscot bay, exceeding her speed re
quirements by nearly knot.
The Tennessee Grand Lodge of tn
Independent Order of Oddfellow
adopted resolution denying mem
bership in the order to dealers il
near-beer and also to men who con
duct so-called "soft-drink" stands.
The annual report of the Norther
Pacific Railroad Company for tn
year ending June 80 last, shows to
tai operating revenue of $68,4o0,7H.
A $4,000 endowment fund has bee
completed by the Woman's Nation;
Missionary Association of the I'm
versalist church.
American capitalists have bee
granted concessions in Turkey fc
l243 miles of railroad through Al
menia for an electric line at Patia
Greece, and for new railroad
Honduras.
Gerald Mann, telephone linemal
seized live wire, was instantly kille
and slid to the foot of pole befor
the Mortified gaze of thousands {
Portola sightseers in San Francisco
Henry Farman, the French aviato
was awarded the grand prize of SIC
600 for the longest flight at the avi;
ton meeting in England. He co,
; cred AZ miles in his best attempt.
Great impetus to the movemei
for the rapid settlement of the zoe
100000 acres of semi-arid lands
, the west and south is expected to /
given by the fourth Dry Farmin
Congress, which met in Billing
/ Mont, Tuesday for a session of thr,
days.
An important meeting OF the foul
dation for the promotion of industri
peace will be held in Washingto
Thursday of this week.
A covered wagon with six hunte
as occupants toppled over a 60-fo'
embankment into the canyon OF Il
Sandy river, near Troutdale, Or, ar
: while the wagon was utterly demo
D ished, the men escaped with b,
minor injuries and the horses we,
}. unhurt The hunters were saved /
!. a projecting tree upon which II
,. wagon caught, easing the fall of mt
i. and steeds.