The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-01-07
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

SoN0GNoIlb rON NEADENS
The deficit OF the last year in the
postal revenues OF the United States
amounts to $l7,44l,7l9
The Australian legislature has
voted 100000 for assisted passages
for immigrants.
1t is now proposed that congress
appropriate $4,000 annually to main
tain a box for the president and
Mrs. Taft at the grand opera.
Mrs. ]. G. Turk, of Vernon, Cal,
is holding at bay the Union Oil
Company, which is seeking to lay
pipe line across her property
Mayor Mccarthy of San Francisco
has announced that he will make a
clean sweep of all the commissions
of that city.
Cable advices report violent
earthquake in the French island of
Martinique. Mount Pelee, a volcano
on the island, is reported active.
More than SAL 100000 in interest
and dividends for the last six months
were distributed to Boston people
the first of the year.
Mrs. Russell Sage has donated
100000 to Yale University to meet
the entire cost of securing so acres
of land.
The seventh annual meeting of
the Western Retail Lumbermen's
Association will be held in Portland,
February IA to 10.
The new law against the manu-
facture of intoxicants became effec-
tive January /, and for the first
time in the history of Tennessee it
is against the law to manufacture
liquors in the state
A California syndicate has just
signed contract with the Japanese
government to deliver 100000 bar
rels of California oil yearly for the
next ten years
The 'wet" forces of Lincoln, Neb.,
are laying their plans for an active
campaign looking to the re-estab-
lishment of saloons when the refer
endum is taken early in the spring.
Officers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor have issued a call on
its $4,000 members to subscribe
to fund with which to wage a
fight on the steel trust
Western railroads are engaged in
a dispute regarding reduced rates of
all kinds during 1910, and the first
of the year finds the policy of the
roads underlined.
Ray Lamphere, convicted slayer OF
Mrs. Belle Guinness, of Indiana
murder farm" notoriety, and her
children, died of tuberculosis in the
Michigan City penitentiary.
Nearly one-hfth of the saloons il
Omaha closed permanently the frs
of the years as a result of the Law
passed by the late legislature com
pelling all saloons in the state te
close at 8 o'clock in the evening.
The value of the mineral outpu
of Alaska for 1909 was 100000
Alaska has produced since 1880
when mining first began, $16S000,000
of which all except 100000 ha.
been gold.
A central bank that would abso
lutely be beyond the control of the
yT,11 e+,ao+ ;,taraetc &c
sibilty, according to Prof Sprague
of Harvard University, one of thu
best informed students of the sci
ence of finance in America.
During the past year not less thar
II railroads and industrial corpora
tons have increased their rates O
dividends, involving a total annua
disbursement of approximately $40,
100000 more than was paid to hold
ers of these securities last year
Mrs Ella F. Young, superinten
dent of the Chicago public schools
has been elected president of tn,
T1'i-ois State Teachers Association
This is the first time in the histor,
of the association that a woman ha
been chosen for the head of thu
association.
Driven by the pressure of an ic'
jam, the false work of the McKinle,
bridge across the Mississippi rive
at St. Louis went out. Sixty-nin'
men were thrown into the river
Forty of these were rescued by tugs
of the others, it is possible that a
least some may have escaped owe
the foes to the shore.
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