The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-03-11
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

The direct primary law passed by
the Nevada Legislature year ago
has been declared constitutional.
A monument, shaft of Vermont
granite, to the memory of Lieutenant
Joseph Petrosino, who was murdered
in Italy while on a secret mission for
the New York police, has been
erected in Brooklyn cemetery.
In no other country has there been
such great growth of interest in art
matters as in the United States. Dur
ing 1909 the value of importations of
art works into this country amounted
to more than $40,000,000.
According to Premier Gouin, the
order prohibiting the expectation of
Canadian pulp wood will be ratified
at the legislative ASSEMBLY, of Quebec
and will become operative Septem-
Der l.
A new society calling itself the So
ciety of American Officers has been
organized in New York with its main
object "the bringing together of Of
Ulcers of the National Guard Of the
United States Of America"
The National Labor Alliance, or
ganized in secret meeting at Wash
ington, d. c., will oppose the influ-
ence OF the American Federation OF
Labor in National and Congressional
elections. fFG
One hundred and fifty prominent
New Workers have been named to
comprise the committee which will
give Theodore Roosevelt welcome
i home from his hunting expedition in
( Africa.
OF the go Canadian Pacific train
men, trackmen and laborers buried
by an avalanche in Rogers Pass, on
the summit of the Selkirk range of
the Rocky Mountains, all are prob
ably dead
A gold medal in recognition OF his
services in conserving the woodlands
OF the country was presented to Gift
ford Pinchot, ex-Chief Forester of the
United States, at the dinner of the
Campfire Club of America in New
York city.
First meeting of the board of ar
bitrators who are to settle the switch
mems strike on eight railroads enter
ing Chicago was held in the Federal
building at Chicago. Hearing of evil
dence will be held next Wednesday
Each side will have three days in
which to present its case.
The completion of the second unit
of the Bellefourche, s. D., irrigation
project embracing 10000 acres, and
divided into 40 and 80 acre farms,
has been announced by the Interior
Department. These farms are now
available under the homestead and
reclamation laws.
Representative McCredie of Wash
ington, has introduced bill fixing
the size of apple boxes to be used in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho at 1Sx
11Ex10h inches, inside measurement,
and pear boxes at 18x11hxS. This is
proposed as substitute for the La
fean bill.
Twenty Republican editors of the
Eighteenth Congressional District of
Illinois, represented in Congress by
Speaker Cannon, at meeting in
Danville Endorsed the Speakers pol
icies, calling upon him to again be
candidate for Congress; approved the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and paid
high tribute to President Taft and
Governor Deneen.
1t is estimated that about one-third
the membership of the Senate are
millionaires, while enough to make a
majority of the body are what might
be called wealthy men-that is men
whose assets top their liabilities by
half a million dollars or more. The
richest man in the senate is Gug-
genheim of Colorado.
The Administration bill providing
that the United States shall issue
$30,000,000 in per cent bonds for
the reclamation of arid lands, may
meet a summary fate in the House.
1t is contended by members of the
House that this Is revenue pro-
ducing measure, and that such legis-
lation can originate only in the ways
and means committee of the House.