The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-12-10
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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
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ny Nai'ioiiiid otdtS SuPiSIHS SOuit
has sustained the validity of the
Walker-Otis anti-betting law.
King George of Greece. has re-
sumed the idea of abdicating for
himself and his dynasty.
A gun is being designed by army
ordnance experts for the purpose of
shooting dirigible balloons and aer-
oplanes
Idaho is to receive on account for
the sale of public lands for school
fund for the year ending June 80,
1909, $lO,992.
A full-grown male lion, two lion
esses, two lion cubs and leopard
were burned to death Sunday when
cages in a Colorado Springs zoo
took fire fro man overheated stove.
The Chinese government has sent
circular note to the powers pro-
testing Russia's claims to the right
of administration over the Manchur-
ian railway zone.
HS SoiiaPoS VI DdlSolly III d
Walla Walla, Wash, department
store caused the injury of three
children and scores of others had
narrow escapes.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, intro
duced a bill Tuesday authorizing is
suance of $30,OOO,OO0 Of irrigation
bonds, in accordance with the rec
ommendation of Secretary Ballinger.
A series of hotels for the exclusive
use of women, to be conducted
somewhat after the manner of the
Mills hotels for men, will be built
in New York by the Cooperative
Service League.
Control OF the Equitable Life AS
surance Society by Thomas +. Ryan
soon after the insurance scandals
few years ago, has passed to J.
Pierpont Morgan with the $472,000.-
600 of assets, of the company.
Representatives of trainmen on al
the Eastern roads of the country
comprising 100000 employees, have
issued statement declaring they
would soon present demand to the
railroads for a 10 per cent increase
in wages.
Abraham Ruef, former politica
boss and for number of years the
dominating power in San Francisco
politics, has been released from the
Bay City Jail on bonds aggregatine
100000
Secretary Ballinger has designated
140,S30 acres of land in Wyoming
as subject to disposition under thu
enlarged homestead law The 10
calities affected are not considered
susceptible of successful irrigation a
reasonable cost.
Martial law has been declared a
Bridgeport, Ohio, where 1000 EN-
pp1oyes Of Tn Aetna Standard plan
of the Sheet & Tins Plate Compan,
are on strike. A regiment of infan
try, one squadron of cavalry and ] Isl
policemen are guarding the mills
The government expects to max
the sugar trust pay 100000, in ad
dition to the 100000 already col
lected, in reparation of variou
frauds upon the revenues in the i'm
portation of sugar during the las
few years at the port of New Yor
and elsewhere.
Nearly 10,OOO000,000 feet of struc
tural timber is destroyed each yea
in the United States and of tli
amount 81 per cent is due to decay.
The estimated wheat acreage seed
ed is 2o,o14,00 acres, against har
vested area this year of 27,536,O0
acres.
Chief Rockboy and his band c
l25 Chippewa braves are now off,
cially at home in their new, hunting
grounds on the Blackfeet rcserva
ton IN Montana, and 100000 acre
in Valley county of that state whic
were withdrawn to make HON
for the Indians have been reopene
to settlement
The fight for the heavyweight
championship of the world betwee
James J. Jeffries and John johnson
will be held in California, near Sa
Francisco, on July a, 1910. The SUI
cessful bid for the exhibition wa
$1O1O00 and two thirds of the mo,
ing picture privileges to the cor
testants.