Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-09-22
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A Review of Happenings In Both East
ern and Western -Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told In
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The population of Boston, Mass, is
670,5s5.
England today is face to face with
the danger of national industrial
strike.
s. S. lines of Charleston, s. c., shot
and killed himself in New York re-
Gently.
The conflict between Spain and the
Vatican is being followed closely in
Vienna.
Pickpockets in Paris are reaping a
harvest through the prevalence of the
hobble skirt.
Sydney.-Land legislation continues
to be pushed through the commonwealth
and state parliaments.
The rice crop in Japan is a failure
and the crowded people of the mikado s
nation face starvation.
: Emanuel Fremit, the noted French
sculptor, died in Paris Saturday He
was born December Is, 1924.
By the overturning of a canoe con-
tanning two men on Moyie lake (B. c.
Thomas Hugeon, a miner, lost his life
Saturday.
The duke of Beaufort has refused
party of Americans permission to
conduct treasure hunt in the vicinity
of Chepstow castle.
DR.. Joseph A. Holmes, formerly chief
of the technologic branch of the geo
logical survey, is now director of the
new bureau of mines.
Former Governor Benjamin B. Odell
Jr. has retired, as he says, permanently
from the political arena in the city, dis
trict and state of New York.
The property of the Deschutes Irri
CATION Power Co. in Oregon, is to
be sold at foreclosure sale. The claims
against the company aggregate $780,
600.
The statistics of the movement of
population in the German empire in
1908 have just been published. The
excess of births over deaths was $780,
562
The kaiser is greatly pleased over the
cordial letters received from King
George of England on the subject of
the crown princes coming visit to
India.
Fire Chief Brown of San Jose was
killed almost instantly Saturday when
an automobile in which he was riding
from Go,
turned.
Lee Neil Browne was acquitted
at Chicago of the charge of legislative
bribery in connection with the cleo
. zion of William Lorimer to the United
States senate.
Prince Tsai Tao, the chief of the
Chinese military mission, which has
spent two months in visiting America
and the principal European countries,
has cut off his pigtail.
Thaddeus Kerns, 16-year-old Chico
(Cal.) youth, used a homemade aero
plane recently to circle mile race
track twice at distance of from 10
to Is feet above the ground.
Celebrating it's Tooth anniversary, the
University of Berlin is to establish a
students hotel, thus introducing a
feature of American university life
rare in German universities.
So incensed has King Victor EN-
manuel become over reports sent out
concerning the Elkins- Abruzzi affair
that he has ordered the premier to i'm
pound all dispatches relating thereto.
In spite of the hot pursuit of pack
of bloodhounds and posse of sheriff IS
deputies, George Reid, charged with
the murder of his 2O-year-old wife at
Clayton, B. c., last week, is believed
to have escaped to Seattle.
The death of Florence Nightingale
calls to mind the fact that of the rank
and file of those who took part in the
charge of the light brigade at Bala-
clava only 32 are left. Of these % are
in necessitous circumstances. The old
est is sc.