The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-11-12
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Ben Heney, brother of Francis
J. Heney of San Francisco, has been
removed from Office as MAYOR of
Tucson, Arizona, on a charge of re-
moving city records.
Within few months, a public
highway to the top of the famous
Royal Gorge will have been built
and some of the most rugged and
magnificent scenery in Colorado will
be easily accessible.
The possibility of an Anglo-Cer-
man understanding appears to be
under consideration in high German
circles. Failure to reach such an
understanding heretofore is attribut-
ed to the method adopted by Great
Britain.
w. Cameron Forbes, vice-govern-
or general of the Philippines, has
been named by President Taft as
governor general to succeed James
Smith, resigned
A squash weighing Isl pounds has
been placed on exhibition at the
Chamber of Commerce in Marsh
field, Or There were six other
squashes on the vine, the smallest
of which weighed 90 pounds.
E. A. Ross, professor OF sociology
in the University of Wisconsin, de-
clares that school vacations are
relic of pioneer days. and that chill
dren should attend school IL months
in the year.
DR.. VIM. Ames, aged 88 years,
died at his home in Fremont, Ohio
He is reported to be the oldest |
member of the Elks in the United
States.
A New York magazine has con-
tracted to pay Commander Peary
$4,000 for story of $4,000 words.
The story of Peary's dash to the |
North Pole will be run serially.
John Stuart Kennedy, one of
Americas little-known rich men,
who died of whooping- in his
New York residence, left requests
of more than $25,0O0,OOO to religious,
charitable and educational institu-
tons.
After sustaining their lives for
five days by eating lizards and cac-
tus, Ed. Lauhr and Jim Reynolds,
prospectors. were rescued near
Reno. Nevada.
The United States government has
offered to purchase Pacific port
from Peru for coaling station
Jesse James, Jr., son of the ia
nous bandit and now living in Kan
sas City, Mo, was made defendant
in divorce suit filed by his wife.
Refusing to be drawn into the
Cook Peary North Pole controversy,
the state department declined re-
quest that it cable American Minis
ter Egan at Copenhagen permission
to examine the records of DR.. Cook
when they are submitted to that
Judge Cotteral in the United
States district court of Oklahoma,
Gam NiCu his ucSiSiOH tIldt state OF
ficials could not interfere with in
terstate commerce shipments of
liquor before they had been deliv-
cred to the consignees.
Because it is alleged prisoners in
the Texas prisons and on the state
convict farms were whipped to death
Or shot by their guards, a special
session of the legislature will be
:alled to enact measures reforming
he whole convict system.
The Dominion government as
'embled at Ottawa Thursday. The
principal measure the government
will present during the session will
'e bill concerning the creation of
! Canadian navy and the participa-
ion OF Canada in imperial defense.
For the first time in the 20 years
# its existence the American Fed
ration of Labor has crossed the
'order line of the United States, and
eginning Monday, will hold its an
ual convention in Canada.
The government of the United
'tates has taken steps to correct the
l-treatment which the govern,ne
f Honduras is charged with hav-
ng accorded A. R. Miller, an Amer
Fan citizen. who has business inter
SITS there