The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-04-06
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
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Hearing of evidence in the Cum
ningham coal land case was con-
cluded in Salt Lake City, last week,
by Special Commissioner William ].
MCGEE.
The Diggers negro Acknowledgement
bill passed the house of the Mary.
land Legislature. The measure had
passed the Senate and the Governor
will sign the bill at once.
The Young Egyptian Company has
published a protest against Colonel
Roosevelt's speech at Cairo, declar-
ing that his remarks were offensive
to the whole nation and were made
only with the object of pleasing his
official hosts.
Helen Aoki's dream of love is over.
Finally convinced that the environ
ments in which she was surrounded
were not for the Caucasian, the wisp
Of girl, taking her dark-skinned
baby, quietly slipped out of Seattle a
few days ago and is now at her fam
lily home at Corte MADEIRA, Cal.
The Government has filed suits in
the United States Courts to recover
titlas IN thousands nf oorac 30 vols,
able coal lands In the Elk Mountain
district in Carbon County, Wyoming.
The suits are signed by Attorney
General Wickersham.
y Hush money amounting to $4,000
was paid by Clifford w. Hartridge to
portion of the acquaintances of
Harry Thaw, according to Mr.. Hart
ridges own testimony in his suit to
recover s92,0S2 for his services in the
first Thaw trial.
Republican Congressman in the
Middle West, particularly in Ohio
are encouraged with the hope that
President Taft's Spring itinerary, as
revised at the White House, will help
them in their campaign for reelection
In the Fall.
Women will not be allowed to ap.
pear in decollete costumes at any OF
the big functions to be held at Mont
real in September, when Cardinal
vanutelli, Papal delegate from Rome
with Cardinal Gibbons and scores OF
United States ecclesiastics, will at
tend the Eucharistic Congress.
Prince Tokugawa, president of the
Japanese House Of Peers, will leave
Yokohama on April "a on the steam
ship Ava Maru for Puget Sound. He
Is the adopted heir of the last of the
Shoguns, who was deposed with the
war of the restoration in 1868, and
was educated in England.
L. L. Bales, an Alaska hunter and
trapper has been awarded judgment
against the Alska-Yukon-Pacific Ex
position for $685., the value of two
bear cubs, lent to the exposition and
which, the plaintiff charged, were not
properly cared for, but neglected, to
! the extent that they died.
On the authority of Captain B. F.
Osborn, one Of the most active sup
porters of DR.. Frederick A. Cook, the
explorer, 1t is announced that about
$175,O00 had been guaranteed toward
fund to help DR.. Cook prove his
claim to discovery.
Three hundred thousand organized
miners of the bituminous coal fields
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Okla
homa and Arkansas quit work pend
ing settlement of new wage scale
according to the estimate Of Presi
dent T. l.. Lewis, OF the miners union
Mrs. Russell Sage has inaugurated
statewide plan to thwart the loan
sharks who fatten upon the necessi
ties Of the poor. She has returned
frem her trip across the continent tc
put into immediate effect measures tc
save the unfortunate from the exac
tions of the usurer.
Demanding the privilege Of partici
pating in the next state election and
all others to follow, Representatives
Of the Votes for Women Club OF Call
fornia made a formal request upor
the San Francisco registrar Of voter
that their names be enrolled upor
the great register.