The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-02-18
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

CON N6hDCNO
recommendation that Japan be
given the minimum rate under the
new tariff law will be made by Presi.
dent Taft.
Whether the Hawaiian Islands shall
be dry" will be left to the Hawaiian
people themselves and will not be de.
termined by Congress.
The case of the late Lieutenant Jas.
H. Sutton, Of the Marine Corps, the
Portland boy who met death at the
Naval Academy in 1907, will not be
reopened
Partial arrangements have been
made by Senator Bourne to have
geologist from the geological survey
examine the oil deposits of Oregon
next year.
w. j. Bryan has come out flat
footed for county option, and declares
Democracy must divorce itself from
the liquor interests, because an ALI.
ance with the saloon can generally
be regarded as an alliance with vice.
The Pacific Navigation Company's
steamer Lima is ashore on one of the
islands in the Huamblin passage of
the straits of Magellan, and prob
ably will be total loss. The chief
pilot and SO passengers were
drowned
Impairment of the efficiency of the
organized militia by the use of ar
mories in certain states for non-mil-
itary purposes is charged in advices
on the subject received by the War
Department.
| The French Antarctic expedition
under DR.. Jean NJ Charcot has
reached latitude 20 degrees south,
longitude 1876 degrees west and dis
covered 1870 miles of new land to the
west and south of Alexander Island
Charges that certain of the "insid.
ers" in the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany, knowing in advance that the
300 per cent "melon" would be cut,
had tricked stockholders out of their
holdings, will be laid before the In
terstate Commerce commission.
The directors of the Pullman Com
pany decided at a special meeting to
give the stockholders a stock divi-
dend of 20 per cent on the corpora
tons $100,000,000 of capital. This
will call for the issuance of $4,000
600 of new capital, worth nearly $40,.
100000 in the open market.
Believing that certain rays of the
X-ray machine may cure leprosy, DR..
George H. Slower, Denver physi-
clan, has started for Hawaii with the
intention of making experiments at
the leper colony at Molokai.
The joint plan formulated by Secre-
taries Ballinger and Wilson and now
approved by the President will re-
store 100000 acres, now in reserves,
to public entry, and will eliminate
from the reserves 100000 acres in
Idaho and about 100000 acres in Ore
gon.
Driven from her course the French
Transatlantic Steamship Company's
steamer General Chanzy crashed at
full speed, in the dead of night, on
the treacherous reefs near the Island
of Minorca, in the Mediterranean Sea,
and all except one of the 1877 persons
on board persisted
Confidently asserting that, after Is
years experimenting, he has discov-
cred process whereby black roses
may be grown, Dennis Tapley,
homeless cripple from Savannah, Ga,
is in Washington to obtain, if posi-.
BILE, patent upon his discovery.
Upon charge of having used an
explosive with intent to do injury to
human being, DR.. Willard P. Burke,
owner of Burke's Sanitarium, one of
the largest health institutions in Cali
fornia, was arrested at Santa Rosa,
Sunday.
Genuine fire opals similar to those
of Mexico have been discovered in
the bed and banks of Deadman's
Creek, within few miles of the City
OF Kamloops, B. c., and a company
will be formed to mine and market
this new and unlooked-for wealth.
promising resource. The discoveries
of the semi-precious stones sent
many samples to the Department of
Mines at Ottawa, which classified the
opals authoritatiYelY