The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-10-15
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

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The German government will ask
for loan of $l25,000,000 in the be-
ginning of 1910 to cover deficits.
Miss Campbell of Scotland won the
woman's golf championship of the
United States by defeating Mrs. r.
H. Barlow of Merton, Pa.
Four small Minneapolis boys found
can of powder on dump. They
poured gasoline over and touched a
match, seriously injuring all four.
Yale university's 200th year opened
with falling off in the number OF
freshmen entering and decrease in
the number of students in attendance.
Hotels throughout Kansas are clos
ing rapidly, and unless the provisions
of the new fire escape statute are
overlooked many of the smaller
towns will be without hostelries.
The New York Legislature League,
composed of progressive women, has
decided by resolution that it is not
incumbent upon married woman to
use her husbands name.
Cholera threatens to become seri'
Gus epidemic in Seoul, Corea The
palace of the emperor has been in
vaded and the home of the resident
general has not been immune.
Seattle celebrated the last Sunday
Of the A-Y.-P Exposition with an
attendance of 30,253, bringing the to-
tai attendance since the fair opened
up to 3,555,570.
A report is current that the Stand
ard Oil Company has purchased nine
of the leading oil properties of the
Kern River (Cal) oil fields for more
than $5,OOO,OO0
Mrs. Eliza Meeker, wife of Ezra
Meeker, who recently retraced the
"Old Oregon Trail" died at her home
in Puyallup, Wash, last week, aged
IS years.
Seventeen persons were killed, ten
of them Mexican laborers, and ten
severely injured in collision between
Santa Fe construction train and q
regular freight at Topeka, Kansas.
An inquiry has been inauguratet
into the cost to the railroad com
panes of transporting the mails, fol
which the companies receive annually
from the government $50,000,0O0.
J Between 1000 and 5000 natives were
drowned during a hurricane which
swept over the Yucatan coast and is
lands off that section of the Mexican
mainland Most of the victims wers
poor fishermen.
A cut of 10 per cent in salaries O
all Chicago officials and employees o
the city from the mayor down, ha'
been agreed upon by Mayor Buss'
and department heads for the mex
year.
More than 100000 prairie dogs have
been killed by ]. W. Holman, the of
fcially recognized United States gov
eminent poisoner of the pests in thu
Southwestern states, during the las
eight months.
T. p. O'Connor, M. P, will sal
. soon for the United States, at the re
quest of John T., Redmond, the Irisl
: leader, to explain the political situa
ton to the supporters of the Irisl
cause in America and to appeal TO
funds to carry on the struggle TO
home rule.
After search of his former room
in Boston and his recent quarters a
| Monterey, Cal, the literary executor
| of Charles Warren Stoddard has dis
covered that the author of the 'Sout
Sea Isle" had burned all the manu-
script of unpublished as we'll as @
published poems, the day before hi
, death.
Workmen engaged in tearing dow
the old Owen county (IndO court
house found gallon jug of whiske
buried in the foundation stones. TIL
$ lug was sealed with sealing wax an
t bore on one side discolored pape
label inscribed: Deposited by Josep
Freeland, 1926; distilled in Owe
county, 1928"
) Director of Census Dana Duran
n believes that college students wi
f make excellent census enumeratof
l. and he proposes to suggest that edit
n cational institutions give leaves of al
n sence in April next to such SUDDEN
as may care to join the army of 65,0(
=, enumerators.