The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-04-14


pension of $4,000 per year for widows
of former presidents.
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The local option issue has been be-
fore the people of Michigan recently
and as a result of the elections, 40 Of
83 counties win be dry and 43 will be
wet.
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Clifford Pinchot, whose quiet sailing
for Europe recently has occasioned
much comment and conjecture, is to
meet Colonel Roosevelt at Geneva on
April II.
The first comic opera ever written
by a woman, is 1.-THE Village Countess
which has achieved success in Berlin.
The composer is Fran Rachel Danzi-
ger, a native OF Amsterdam, but re-
siding in Berlin.
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Announcement is made from Brus
sells that plans for the entertainment
of Colonel Roosevelt have been COM
pleted. He will be given a dinner at
the American legation by William Jen-
nings Bryan on April %.
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served as attorney general of the Unit
ed States under President Grant, and
who was the last surviving member of
Grants cabinet, passed away last week
at his home in Portland, Ore.
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Frank Johnson, an aviator of Ala
media, Calf, was nearly drowned re-
Gently in San Francisco bay when one
80 ~ h rs inc faj
ed to work and the machine plunged
from a height of 80 feet into the bay.
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News comes from Berlin that Miss
Sheila Holterhoff of Los Angeles, Cal,
recently made her debut in that city as
a singer. Miss Holterhoff, who lost
her sight at the age of one year and
six months, has studied in Paris, Flor
ence and Berlin.
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The tendencies of life in New York
are shown by recent statements to the
effect that last year only fifty separate
residences were built on Manhattan
Island for family life, while 1900 tene-
ment or apartment houses were erect
ed with capacity for $4,000 people.
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At the closing session of the South
ern Anti-Saloon League convention
held in Atlanta, Ga, recently, resolu-
lions we're adopted advocating nation
al prohibition and condemning inter-
state commerce laws allowing the ship
ment of liquor from wet" to dry"
state.
Complaint was recently filed in
Boise by United States District Attor-
ney c. H. Lingenfelter against the
Oregon Short Line Railway company,
alleging violation of the 28-hour law
in the transportation of livestock from
one station to another in he state of
Idaho
A new bank for women has been OPP
ened in London. The bank is run by
women and the only male on the prem
ises is the messenger. Men will be
excluded from being depositors Five
hundred women's names are enrolled
already and everything points to the
success of the scheme.
BY the death of the late Thomas F..
Walsh, the state of Colorado will re-
ceive 100000 as an inheritance tax. 1t
is stated that this sum, with other in
coming moneys, will be ample to Ii
quidate all the debts Of the state, in
Guiding the appropriations of all five
classes.
The --latest" in wireless telegraphy
is the invention by Professor Gerebo-
TAM, Munich prist, of pocket wire
less telegraphy apparatus. This ma
chine is hardly larger than the hand
and is so equipped that the carrier of
the apparatus can be called from a
central wireless station.
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The czar has determined to have his
palace at Livadia pulled down, and in
its stead to build magnificent new
one of the beautiful Balaklava stone,
which, when polished, resembles pure
amber. In the light especially at sun
set. this stone is said to have a Won
drously fairy-like appearance, and this
palace when completed by 1912, will be
one of the wonders of the world.
AZ.
From London comes the statement
that number of young men are leav-
ing Nottinghamshire to establish a
new industry in the United States.
They make the best class of lace and
silk and silk ties, motor searfs, wells
and shawls-goods which have in the
past been sent in large quantities from
Nottinghamshire to the United States.
The young men are bringing their
hand frame machines with them.
The announcement comes from Co
penhagen that Russia has decided to
absorb Finland. The success of the
Finnish Extremists in the recent cleo
lions has FASTENED this decision. 1t is
said that some of the Extremists
threaten to resist the encroachment
by force of arms, and Russia is pre-
pairing to deal promptly and merci-
lessly with any attempted uprising in
Finland.
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d. G. lacking of Salt Lake City
vice president and managed of the
Utah Copper company, and the Ray
Consolidated Copper company, has
purchased Pelican lodge, the head of
klamath : lake, in AOregon, which the