The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1910-01-07
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
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The deficit of the last year in the
postal revenues. OF the United states
amounts to $l74ilJl9.
The Australian legislature has
voted 100000 for assisted passages
for immigrants
1t is now proposed that congress
appropriate $4,000 annually to main
tain box for the president and
Mrs Taft at the grand opera,
Mrs. J. G. Turk. OF Vernon, Cal,
is holding at bay the Union Oh
Company. which is seeking to lay
a pipe line across her property
Mayor mccarthy ot san Francisco
has announced that he will make
clean sweep Of all the commissions
of that city
Cable adviccs report violent
earthquake in the French island OF
Martinique. Mount Pclcc, volcano
on the island, is reported active.
More than S4l,OOOCOO in interest
and dividends for the last six months
were distributed to Boston people
the first of the year.
Mrs Russell Sage has donated
100000 TO Yale University to meet
the entire cost of securing 80 acres
Of land.
The seventh annual meeting OF
the Western Retail Lumbcrmcn's
Association will be held in Portland,
February IL TO 10.
The new law against the manu-
facturc of intoxicants became effec-
tive January |, and for the first
time in the history of Tennessee 1t
is against the law TO manufacture
liquors in the state.
A California syndicate has just
signed n contract with the Japanese
government TO deliver l0.000,000 bar
rcls Of California oil yearly for the
next ten years.
The "wct" forces Of Lincoln, Ncb.,
arc laying their plans for an active
campaign looking TO the re-estab-
lishment Of saloons when the refer
endum is taken early in the spring
Officers ~ the American Fedora
ton Of Labor have issued call on
is $4,000 members to subscribe
TO fund with which 10 wage n
fight on the steel trust.
Western railroads are engaged In
dispute regarding reduced rates Of
all kinds during 1910, aud the first
Of the year finds the policy Of the
roads underlined,
Ray I.amphcrc, convicted slayer Of
Mrs. Belle Guinness, OF Indiana
murder farm" notoricty and her
children. died oi tuberculosis in the
Michigan City pcnitcntiary.
Nearly onc-hith Of the saloons In
Omaha closed permanently the frs,
OF the years rs result, Of the law
passed by the late legislature COM
pclling all saloons In the state TO
close at o'clock In the evening.
The value of the mineral output
Of Alaska for 1909 was S20.200OO
| Alaska has produced since 1870
when mining first began, SloS,0O0OOO
OF which all except %0O0,0OO has
been gold
A central bank that would abso'
lutely be beyond the control OF the
Wall street interests Is an impos-
sibility. according to Prof Sprague'
Of Harvard University. one Of the
best informed students Of the sci
ence Of finance in America,
During the past year not less than
" railroads and industrial corpora
tions have increased their rates oi
dividends. involving total annual
disbursement Of approximately S2O'-
100000 more than was paid to hold
ers of these securities last year,
Mrs. Ella L. Young, superinten'
dent Of the Chicago public schools
has been elected president of the
| Illinois State Teachers Association
This is the FIRST time in the history
Of the association that woman has
been chosen for the head OF the
association,
Driven by the pressure Of nm lee
jam, the false work Of the Mckinley
bridge across the Mississippi river
at 81. Louis went out SiNty-ninc
men were thrown into the river
Forty of these were rescued by tugs
Of the others, it is possible that al
least some may have escaped over
| IN. 10 the shore