The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-11-26
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
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NSND6N1GD I'm N@ADASANS
A. P. Leonard, former county ad-
ditor OF Chehalis county, Wash, was
acquitted by jury of the charge o.
embezzlement.
After unanimously re-electing
President Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell, Secretary
Frank Morrison and other execu
tive officers, and selecting St. LOUIS
as the place for holding the next
meeting, the 2oth annual convention
of the American Federation OF La
Dor adjourned.
At the convention of the Women's
Foreign Missionary society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Pittsburg, it was discovered that the
ladies of the organization have been
assessing $40 on each member for
each baby that is born.
The Oregon & Washington Lum-
Der Manufacturers Association has
adopted a resolution providing for a
permanent traffic and legal bureau
with permanent manager The
manager will look after claims
against railroads, also all legislation,
new rates, etc, affecting lumber in
terests.
The Alsop claim against Chile for
more than 100000, pending for IS
years, has assumed critical stage.
Mr.. Dawson, American minister to
Chile, is now on his way to Wash
ington.
Washington apple trees are to be
experimental with in Austria, and a
Touchet valley nursery has just re-
ceived an order for 1000 trees to be
shipped Immediately to Galacia, Aus
tria.
Mrs. Allan F. Read was found
guilty of attempted extortion in Den
yer. A year ago she attempted to
force Mrs. Genevieve Phipps to give
her 100000, threatening to blow
her up with dynamite unless she
complied.
The Oregon Academy of Sciences
will hold its annual meeting in For
est Grove November 20 and q.
Richard Watson Glider, editor-in-
chief of the Century Magazine since
its foundation in 1881, died suddenly
~ in New York.
Secretary Ballinger, acting on the
recommendation of the agricultural
department, has withdrawn tempo
rarily from settlement the vacant
unappropriated lands comprised il
48,522 acres proposed as an addition
to the Sewer national forest, Utah.
Mulai IIafid, the sultan of Moroc
co, bent on being a saint if he can
not be a statesman, is engaged il
writing a book on the Koran.
The Italian government has pre-
scented a plan for the, reduction o
-4- indirect taxation, chiefly as affect
ing sugar, the loss of revenue in thi
direction 10 be offset by progress
sive income tax.
The superior court has granted al
allowance of $4,000 monthly to Mrs
Claus Spreckles until the estate o
her late husband, Claus Spreckles, i
settled.
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, excom
municated Christian Scientist leade
of New York City, has secluded her
self, following the action taken b
the Mother Church in Bosto
against her, and just what will b
the outcome of matters in the FRS
Church of Christ, Scientist, of whic
she was formerly the dominant fig
ure, is problematical.
Football has claimed its annu;
toll. Thirty dead, ZIG crippled
many for life, and scores still no,
ering on the brink of death in tn
- surgical wards of hospitals; that
the tale of the gridiron covering
period of 90 days.
Famished, nearly exhausted an
CARRIED mostly in borrowed clothing
the 1903 persons who were passe'
gers on the steamer St. Croix, whic
burned and sank off Point Dunn
10 miles up the coast from SAM
Monica, Cal, Saturday night, a
rived in Los Angeles. There we,
no lives lost in the wreck.