The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-11-17
THE WORLD
NEWS NOTES

Fred Carleton, SO years old the
grandsire of the Odd Fellows of the
World, is dead at his home in Austin.
Texas.
Governor Carroll, of Iowa, has an.
pointed Lafayette Young, editor OF
the Des Moines Capital. to succeed
the late Senator Dolliver in the Unit.
ed states senate, Senator Young will
serve until the next legislature meets,
January g.
Hundreds of visitors from several
states attended the unwilling at Car.
rollton, Mo-, of the United States gov
eminent monument to Brigadier-Gen.
eral James Shields. Congress appro-
priated $4,000 for the monument.
One of the civil wars great secrets
died with Gen. Thomas T. Eckert.
former president of the Western I'm.
Ion Telegraph Company and dominant
head Of the United States Military
Corps during the civil war. That Sc.
cret was the burial OF Wilkes Booth,
the assassin OF Abraham Lincoln.
General Eckert is said to have been
the only surviving man who knew the
facts.
Oyster Bay vainly wonders what has
become Of Colonel Roosevelt, who is
still in complete seclusion at Saga
more Hill. Not since mis- return from
the Spanish-American war twelve
years ago has the colonel kept him
self so secluded at his home and the
village folk do not know what to
make Of It.
1t is estimated that over 1000 aero
planes are being built in England at
the present moment
Devout French Catholics who re-
we're the memory of Christopher Co,
lumbus, are urging the pope to can
onize the great discoverer of the
American continent.
1t is officially stated in London
that the conference between the rep
resentatives of the government and
the opposition looking toward an
agreement on the subject of the
House of Lords veto power, had end
ed in failure.
Diplomatic representatives of the
United States, Germany. Russia,
Sweden and Norway have notified the
foreign office that they were auth
orized to resume negotiations with
the Portuguese government on current
affairs. The action following the
same notification by the British.
French, Spanish and Italian govern
ments. is regarded as virtual recogni-
ton OF the republic.
A syndicate of all the German and
Austrian banks. including the Roths-
childs, will take the Turkish loan OF
100000. approximately $31,50O,-
900. Germany secures the Ottoman
loan after the failure of negotiations
with Great Britain and France.
Four thousand petition circulators
cago in a new campaign to drive the
saloons from the city.
have been organized secretly in Chi
The Missouri, Kansas and Oklaho-
ma Hotel Mems association Endorsed
San Francisco as the place to hold
the exposition in 1915 to celebrate
the completion of the Panama canal
John Black, ex-member of teh board
Of directors of the old South Carolina
state dispensary, was found guilty OF
eonspiring to defraud the state by
giving rebates.
Drinking and cigarette smoking are
not on the increaSe among the women
Of America, according to Lillian M. N.
Stevens, president of the national W..
c. T. u.
After three hours debate, the con-
stitutional convention of Arizona de-
feated votes for women"
A bank to be controlled by women
and for women will be opened soon
In Chicago.
Four women will sit in the Eigh
teenth General Assembly OF Colorado
~ . result of the late election. In
the last general assembly there was
only one woman representative. There
are NO women senators.
The United States patent Office IL
assembling the models of the first
ideas along several lines of invention.
such as the first telephone. first sew.
ing machine and first photograph.
The beginning o, the month has
brought an improved condition of gov
eminent finances, showing a surNus
Of more than 100000 as against de-
ficit Of $2,500.OO0 a year ago. -.
The total net revenue of the steam
railroads in the United States last
July was $73,477,59O. or $30S.51 per
mile Of line, against $7S,139,043, or
3335.16 per mile of line, in July OF
last year, according to the revenue
and expense report issued by the in
terstate commerce commission.
Attorney General Wickersham, by di-
rection of President Taft, has begun
an inquiry to determine whether 5000
acres of valuable oil lands in Cali.
1ornia were known to contain oil when
patented to the Southern Pacific rail.
road. II such is the case suit to re-
cover will be instituted.
Also Il Uses Up Gold.
ibid you ever notice now RUG IL
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