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

A monster battleship of $4,000 tons
displacement, which will be the most
powerful ever seen, is the ambition OF
the Navy Department, according to a
statement made to the committee on
naval affairs by Secretary Meyer.
A strike vote by the members Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen on the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific sys-
TENS is almost completed and in a
few days the vote will be sent to Chi.
cago or Peoria to be counted.
A 30-day crusade against liquor and
saloon interests will be conducted in
San Francisco. Plans for beginning
the prohibition war March 20 have
been made.
President Taft will be the principal
speaker at the banquet of the League
of Republican State Clubs in Wash
ington, D. c., on April 8.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has
Informed the Italian government that
the United States will accede to the
proposal to extend the parcels post
convention existing between the two
countries so that parcels may be ex-
changed with the postoffices In the
Asiatic and African colonies of Italy.
A great fight pavilion. capable Of
holding $4,000 persons, at San Fran.
cisco, will stage the Jeffries-John.
son fight next July, If plans of the
promoters and of Supervisor Herget
are carried out. 1
Deals are now being organized In
Denver which will probably result In
the formation of trust that will con-
troll 80 per cent of the asbestos of the
world.
The Secretary Of the Interior has
decided to report favorably upon the
Bourne bill amending the enlarged
homestead act so as to permit patents
Of issue in Oregon upon proof of pro-
duction and cultivation instead Of re-
quiring residence.
1t is announced that the Great
Northern Railway has planned an ex-
penditure of about $6,000,000 this
year for additional equipment.
Personal friends of Charles w.
Morse. the convicted banker. are pre-
pared to spend more than $1,O00,000
in working for his release from the
Federal prison at Atlanta.
The Senate finance committee has
agreed upon the form of measure for
raising $30,O0O,0O0 for an addition to
the reclamation fund, and it will be
submitted to the irrigation committee
for substitution for the bill which has
been reported and is now before the
Senate finance committee.
Consul-General John E. Jones, of
Winnipeg, reports the formation of
$5,000,000 Americana Canadian COM
pany to exploit the oil fields of AL
berta.
Fire which had been burning some
time before being discovered, COM
pletely gutted the Motter-Wheeler
Mercantile Company's store, at Boise,
last week, causing loss estimated at
100000, partly covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
S. A. d. Puter is in Washington
trying to get recognition from the
general land office of preference
rights to locate certain claims which
by contesting he assisted the Govern
ment in canceling. The law gives a
successful contestant 30 days pref
erence right to locate.
Mrs. Alma Vaughn, widow of Pro-
fessor J. T. Vaughn, of Kirksville,
Mo-, who died of strychnine poisoning
in October has been arrested charged
with completely in the death of her
husband.
Leading Democrats of Washington,
D. C., are planning a national love
feast of party celebrities to be held
April 13 in the form of a jefferson
banquet.