Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-04-07
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

Hearing of evidence in the Gun.
ningham coal land case was con-
cluded in Salt Lake City, last week,
by Special Commissioner William ].
MCGEE.
The Diggers negro disfranchisement
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 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 Aokis dream of love is over.
Finally convinced that the environ
ments in which she was surrounded
were not for the Caucasian, the wisp
Of a. girl, taking her dark-skinned
baby, quietly slipped out of Seattle a
few days ago and is now al her fam
lily home at Corte MADEIRA, Cal.
The Government has filed suits in
the United States Courts to recover
title to thousands of acres of valu-
able coal lands in the Elk Mountain
district in Carbon County. Wyoming.
The suits are signed by Attorney.
General Wickersham.
Hush money amounting to $4,000
was paid by Clifford w. Hartridge to
a portion of the acquaiutances of
Harry Thaw, according to Mr.. Hart
ridges own testimony in his suit to
recover s92,082 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
zeal 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 aYukon-Pacific Ex,
position for $535, 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 DIR. Frederick A. Cook, the
explorer, 1t is announced that about
$175,000 had been guaranteed toward
a fund to help DR.. Cook prove his
claim to discovery.
Three hundred thousand organized
miners Of the bituminous coal fields
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, I'LL
nois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas. Okla
homa and Arkansas quit work pend
ing settlement of a new wage scale,
according to the estimate of Presi-
dent T. l.. Lewis, of the miners union.
Mrs. Russell Sage has inaugurated
a statewide plan to thwart the loan
sharks who fatten upon the necessi.
ties of the poor. She has returned
flcm her trip across the continent to
put into immediate effect measures to
save the unfortunate from the exac-
tons 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 Cali
fornia made formal request upon
the San Francisco registrar Of yoteru
that their names be enrolled upon