The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-09-02

escaped serious INJURY from nrt AZ
her berth in Weehawl<en. n. ]. The
steamer was moored near the piers
of the Union Dry Dock company,
which were swept by flames with Q
loss OF about $150.000.
William Moody. aged u. arrested
at Nelson. Neb.. charged with robbins
the mails, broke down and confessed.
after which he took the officer to a
cave where he had secreted nearly a
bushel OF letters, $1,000 in cash and
several hundred dollars in drafts
Engineer John c. Pope. running on
a Georgia Northern railroad freight
train. and four negro laborers on a
log train were killed in head-on col.
lision at Peach City, Ca
Before the years outing season Is
over nearly half million persons will
have sought recreation and health in
the national forests OF the United
States According to the record of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, the total last year was, in close
figures, 406.775.
WASHINGTON.
/ An examination of the returns OF
the census show that the natural in.
crease OF the native-born American is
falling OFF to an alarming extent and
another decade, at this rate, will put
us in the class with France, whose
decreasing population has been the
burning question with the government
there.
The story published at Watertown,
N. Y, and elsewhere that Vice-Pres.
ident Sherman would, upon the ex
piration of his term, retire from poll
tics, is declared to be without au-
thority.
Clifford Pinchot of the National
Conservation association and former
head of the government forest ser
vice, holds that the loss of property
and life in the recent and present for.
est fires was unnecessary, being
traceable to the paredness to
deal with the situation, and scores OF
members of congress who opposed ap
preparations for proper equipment.
The census returns show that the
rural population is positively decreas
ing. and that the cities are absorbing
the greater portion of the newcomers
Estimating the cost of the expert
ment at about 100000, the war de.
partment officials declined requests to
order a bombardment of the skies by
all its guns on Puget sound and al
the mouth of the Columbia river in
an effort to bring on rain in the burn.
ing forest district of the northwest.
FOREIGN.
There are 10000 Americans in Eu.
rope who must be brought back tc
New York within the next two months
News comes from across the Allan.
tic to Edinburgh that arrangements
are being made by more than 1900
Scots. mostly from the United States,
to charter two Allan line steamers tc
Glasgow in connection with Back
to Scotland" movement next year.
The aeroplane industry has devel
oped in France with as much rapidity
as did the manufacture of automobiles
in the infancy Of the land machine
and now there are In France a mum
Der of well-equipped aeroplane fac
tories, turing out machines to their
fun capacity.
Instead of a peace monument,
first proposed, Americans in Mexic
viii erect a joint memorial to George |
Washington and Miguel Hidalgo
Costello, Fathers OF independence
of the two countries, as their contri |
button to the centennial celebration
planned to be held in Mexico City.
General Emiliano Chamorro, one OF
Presidents Estrada's chief lieutenants
and advisers, will relieve Jose Dolores
Estrada as acting president of Mica
ragua, and occupy the office until Gen
eral Estrada arrives at the capital pre-
pared to take up the reins of govern
ment
So great has been the destruction
wrought upon the beautiful Tyre birt
Of Queensland. that the state has pro
tected the bird till the middle OF 1915
A $25 penalty is attached to its cap
ture, or injury or taking its eggs.
The Young Turk committee at Salo-
nika entertains the idea of distribut
ng among the Servian and Bulgarian
villages in Macedonia settlers from
Albania, as the Bosnian Moslems have
proved unable to resist the Christian
bands formed last time.
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen. the Ameri.
IAN dentist, and his typist, Miss Ethel
Claire Leneve, have been returned
rom Canada where they were appre
lended by the police on suspicion Of
)eing connected with the disappear
ince of DR.. Crippens actress wife,
Selle Gilmore.
Professor Kohrausch OF Zurich who
las been analyzing the curative wa
ers in Switzerland for several years
leclares that he found at Romerbad.
lear the town of lohngen. about mid.
way between Bale and Lucerne. an
Id Roman spring whose waters are
mpre grated with radum.
Herman de Lagercrantz, the repre-