The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-03-18
HAPPENINGS, OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

At a meeting at Eureka, CAL, of
representatives. of practically all of
the single mills of the redwood belt
of this state it was decided to organ
ize selling association which will
work for the expansion of the red
wood shingle market on the Pacific
Coast.
The Northwest Corporation, which
owns and controls numerous gas,
water and electric light and power
plants in Oregon and Washington, has
been sold to H. M. Byllesby & Co.,
of Chicago, one of the largest pro-
motion houses in the country.
Suicide by shooting caused the, death
of Thomas NICK. Laughlin, brotberin-
law of Mrs. Taft, wife of President
Taft. .
The price of live hogs reached the
I'll level at Chicago last week.
After a worldwide search of 25
years, Mrs. Annie Lowe, of Butte,
Mont, has found her son, William
Vaughn, an invalid, in a hospital at
Ell Paso, Texas.
The Indian appropriation bill, car
rying $9,416.11S, an excess of more
than a million dollars over the total
carried by the bill as 1t passed the
House, was passed by the Senate
The Military Academy bill, carry
ing appropriations of $1,700,000, was
passed by the House, and considera-
ton was begun of the executive and
judicial appropriation bill, which
carries nearly $34,000,00O.
Francis ]. Heney is in Washington,
where 1t is stated that he will con-
suit with Attorney-General Wicker
sham in regard to the Oregon land
fraud cases in which he has been
acting as special prosecutor.
About $1,000 acres in Oregon were
placed under the enlarged homestead
act by the Department, bringing the
total in that state designated for set
tlement under that act to S,40,96O
acres.
Representatives of Oregon and
Washington apple-growers who have
been before the committee on agri-
culture in opposition to the Lafean
apple-box bill express entire satisfac-
ton with the facts developed at the
hearing, and feel confident the bill
cannot pass in it's present obnoxious
form.
The lands in Idaho, withdrawn I'M
der the first form of the reclamation
act in 1904, 1907 and 1908 for use in
connection with the .Minidoka irriga-
ton project, will be restored to set
tlement, with the exception Of about
944 acres along the Snake River
The ship subsidy bill is apparently
dead, SO far as the present session is
concerned, and the same is probably
true of the short session next Win
ter. The bill is killed by it's friends.
A sharp earthquake, in some parts
the severest shock since the big
earthquake of 1906, was experienced
through the central part of California
last week.
Charles E. Hunter, commander OF
the organization of Rough Riders, has
the regiment to meet in New York
City, June 16, to join in the welcome
that will be accorded the ex-Presi-
dent on his arrival from Europe The
Rough Rider veterans number about
900 and Hunter believes every one
of them will go to New York
Coal operators in the Northern Col
orado fields have announced to the
miners that rather than accede to the
demand of the organized miners they
will be forced to close. They base
their reply on the new rate rulings of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Approximately 100000 corporations
amenable to the law imposing a tax
of l per cent on their net incomes
above $4,000 have made returns to the
Internal Revenue Bureau
The American Legation at Bogota
is being strictly guarded. as the feel
,ng against the Americans is intense,
following the rioting which accom-
panied the recent demonstrations
against the American-owned street
railway.