The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-01-28
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

Sacramento's public library is SOON
to be converted into city Jail
Mayor James c. Dahlmann, of
Omaha, has announced his candidacy
for governor of Nebraska.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stan
ford White, has been declared a
bankrupt.
Heavy losses of sheep are re-
ported in Wyoming because of the
lack of food.
The senate committee on irrigation
will report bill providing for a
$30,0O0.00O bond issue to complete
irrigation projects.
A vigilance committee has been
organized in Wyoming to capture
gang that is slaughtering elk for
their teeth.
The North Pacific Conference of
the Seventh-Day Adventists will be
held in Portland from February 10
to 20,
A national aviation circuit, some
what on the order Of the big base
ball organizations. may be the re-
suit Of a conference to be held at
St. Louis next month.
Arthur Goebel, who carried on q
hunt for ten years for, the slayers
of his brother, VIM. Goebel, gov
ernor of Kentucky, died in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Despite the denials of Eastern rail-
roads, prominent shippers in the
west and in Chicago believe that the
railroads are paving the way for
a general raA1 increase.
Thomas TSggart, Democratic ma
tional committeeman from Indiana,
while hunting in Mississippi was shot
in the eye and will lost the sight
of that optic.
Rewards aggregating $500 have
been offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the outlaws who held up
and robbed Missouri Pacific train
last week near Eureka, Mo- They
secured approximately $4,000.
United States shipyards have won
notable victory against European
competition in securing contracts for
building two battleships of the
"Dreadnaught" type for the Argen-
tine government.
Following more thorough search
of the wreck of the Canadian Pa
cific's Montreal Minneapolis express,
which plunged over an embankment
into the Spanish river, it is estimated
that between IS and 40 persons lost
their lives.
The finance division of the Pana-
ma-Pacifc exposition committee at
San Francisco has launched cam
paign for $5,0O0OOO, which it's men,
bers declare must be raised before
the government appropriation can be
assured.
January dividends in stocks of
nearly all the great corporations of
the country have been reported as
the largest on record-$2020 32, 602,
and it is predicted the next July
dividends will be quite as large, if
not larger.
An agreement is understood to
have been reached by the National
Sugar Company and federal prosecu-
tors, by which the company soon
will refund $65O,OOO to the govern
ment as settlement in full of back
customs due on underweighed impor-
tations.
A decision by Judge Hough in
the United States court quashing the
indictment against +. Augustus
Heinze, fnancer and promoter, has
given renewed hope to friends and
counsel of Chas. w. Morse, the
banker now serving term of IS
years in the federal prison at At
lanta, Ga.
The Canadian conservation confer
ence, held in Ottawa last week, has
developed sentiment in favor OF
the prohibition of all pulp wood ex-
port, which may have serious eff
feet on the situation now existing
between Canada and the United
States.
Paul o. Stensland, ex-president OF
the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank,
of Chicago, and H. w. Herring. form
erly its cashier, who were convicted
in connection with the wrecking of
the bank and the disappearance OF
81, 100000 of its funds, have been