Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-10-06
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemisphere During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The Senator Lorimer inquiry begun |
last Monday at Chicago.
Jerome A. Quay of Pennsylvania, the
American consul at Florence, was
found dead in bed Sunday morning from
heart disease.
Wireless saved 10 more lives on the
recent trip of the Koenigen Luise of
the North German Lloyd Line to the
Mediterranean and back.
By unanimous vote the board of
trustees of the University of Mississippi
decided to abolish Greek letter socie
ties from that institution.
1t is feared that Capt. John J.
o Council of the Twenty eighth infan
try, at Fort Smelling, the senior captain
of that regiment, has been murdered.
Hadji Mohammed Jamulai Hiram H.,
sultan of Sulu, titular head of the No
hammedan faith in the Philippines and
pensioner of the United States, is now
in New York.
Teheran, Persia.-The Mails national
council recently elected Nasir Ul-Mulk,
former premier and minister of finance,
regent to succeed Azad- u Mulk, who
died September %.
The twin fiiers, Yale and Harvard
plying between New York and Boston,
will not tie up for the winter, but
will instead round the Horn for serv
ice on the Pacific coast.
The premier of New South Wales
announces that he proposes as soon as
possible to open up for settlement i'm
mense areas of suitable crown lands
in the west and northwest.
Harry Pratt Judson, president of the
University of Chicago, has been deco
rated with the insignia of Office of the
Legion of Honor by the French govern
ment. The decoration is second in rank
in the legion.
Julian A. Mock, wanted in connec
tion with the Staying of Jesse Smith
at Medford, Ore, after quarrel over
the possession of cur dog, was cap
tured near Talent, after a chase that
lasted three days.
Ralph De Palma, in his Fiat racer
made a new world record for 10 miles
on circular track at Philadelphia Sat
urday, going the distance in 1881 is
= This beats his own record of 9:49 made
J at st. Paul last year.
l A move on the part of attorneys t,
obtain the release of John R. Walsh
, the aged Chicago banker, now servin,
term in the federal prison at For
=. Leavenworth for violation of the ma
j tional banking laws, was begun Sat
+, urday.
An investigation of the fedora
prisons at Atlanta, Ga, and McNel
:. island, Wash, has been ordered by tn
e department of justice to ascertai
o whether opium, cocaine and whisky ar
being struggled by guards for use Q
d the prisoners.
9 A considerable sensation has bee
caused by the announcement that Ell
s. gene Kasseli, a Hungarian millionaire
: who died recently, has bequeathe
100000 sterling for the foundatio
: of an institution at Buda Pesth. II
left his entire fortune for this purpos
The memory of the late King E,
IS ward of England is to be perpetuate
1t by a street in Paris, which will
q known as "Rue Edouard VII. An
Parisians believe that London will +
ciprocate by naming street in tn;
city after the great Napoleon or son
- more useful man-some one who use
10 his genius in the art of peace.
Among the last official acts of Go
ernor Hughes before his departure f,
g. Washington in October to become
member of the United States supren
court, will probably be a decision {
an application made to him for e
ecutive clemency in behalf of Peter
Oh Haines, Jr., who shot and killed w
% liam E. Annis at Bayside Yacht ell
D. on Long Island in 1908.
Ten patrolmen and three sergeant
the squad in charge of Seattle's I
stricted district, resigned from the d
% partment following the charges
grating made by Acting Mayor M;
g Wardell, the "boy councilman" in t
absence of Mayor Gill and Chief
n Police Wappenstein, both of whom a
'r. on vacation in California, but they !
considered and decided to go back pen
r.. ing the mayor IS return.
NJ Grand lodge officers selected Ia
90 week by the Scandinavian Brotherho
" of America of tho maatinn af Walla,