Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-12-01
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week--National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The potato crop Of France is a fail
ure this year, and the poor will have
hard time to get along.
Sir William Ramsay, the wellknown
scientist, thinks that England will soon
supply the world IS radium.
At Santa Barbara three earthquakes
were felt Saturday night. Although
two were quite sharp, no damage was
DONE
II. M. Hoyt, the noted jurist, is dead.
He was counselor for the department of
state and former solicitor general under
Roosevelt.
The rich gold finds in Australia bid
fair to eclipse anything in the history
of the state, says the prime minister
to parliament.
A severe earthquake shock, moving
from north to south, was felt at Fort
de France, Martinique, Saturday night
No damage was done.
Civil service examinations for rural
letter carriers will be held on Deem
Der at Pearson, Ridgefeld, Turner
and Thornton, Wash, and Deary, Idaho.
The Woman IS Trade union of New
York has formed a large committee
which will endeavor to unionize all
the 100000 working girls in Greater
New York.
At the recent election in Oregon one
of the laws passed was the establish
ment of an insane asylum somewhere
in eastern Oregon at an expense not to
exceed 100000.
The many scent theaters and NOV
ing picture shows of Chicago will face
keen competition when the school
,, "centers" which the board of educa-
ton has established are opened to be
free.
John R. Walsh will not be liberated
from the federal penitentiary at Leav'
enworth, where he is serving a FIVE
year sentence for the wrecking of the
Chicago National bank and allied in
situations.
At recent lecture at Dublin, de
s livered by Alfred t. Dickens, son Of
Charles Dickens, the famous author
at Clonmel Mr.. Dickens denied that hi
father was a man without religious
belief.
Success has attended a, novel sur
f gical operation at London hospital
a where the final stage in the operation
of making a new cheek for patien
= from the skin of his arm was com
l.. pleted a few days ago.
The assessed valuation of New Yorl
a will show an increase of more thai
q 5000, 900, 900, bringing the total up t.
!. nearly $4,000, 100000. This will meal
Il an increase in the city's debt-ineurrin
e capacity of $6O,ooo,ooo.
= There was much baseless talk abou
Paris being in danger of starvation ha
g the railroad strike continued. Now on
n can transport goods from Paris via tn
J. Seine to Havre, and from there to tn
J. English and other capitals.
e Governor c. N. Haskell has issue
u proclamation calling for an extr
session of the legislature to assembl
m November 90 at Oklahoma City: Blu
If one subject is suggested for legisls
d ton, the location of a state capitol.
With the help of the Indian reclaim,
70 ton service the Indians are turnin
ie some of their desert land holdings int
profitable agricultural lands, accordin
Ig to H. Robinson, who has charge of til
g, Indian irrigation in Arizona, New Me,
TO leo and Colorado.
u However much people may rail {
y English customs and institutions til
ie administration of English laws is aboy
reproach. Criminals are neither co,
BIT died nor lionized and when they al
a proven guilty that settles them unit
he they pay the penalty.
IS Senator Ell1ins of West Virginia, WI
y is suffering with severe illness, is r
II ported to be considerably improve
3D. Mrs. Ell1ins and Miss Katherine Elkin
III their daughter, are now in Washingto
to and expect to remain there until thel
err is change in the senator's conditio
e. The kaiser has laid down a new ru
49, of conduct and it is this: That I
H. mother, especially a member of IL
III royal family, has right to absent he
self from her children for five month
or The crown prince desired to take h
or wife with him on his trip to the cas-
TT but his father vetoed his plan on Il
an ground stated. 1t would not be pc
u sible to take the children.
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ce The oldest woman in Vienna, Kat