The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-01-14
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS

A Boston syndicate has offered ST.
100000 for the Alaska building at
the A.-Y.-P. exposition.
Cardinal Satolli, former apostolic
delegate to America, died in Rome
Friday
The cost of the Panama canal, &C
cording to Congressman Langley of
Kentucky, will be nearly $5OOOOO,-
600.
That the world will see Russia and
Japan again locked in deadly en-
brace before many years is the opin-
ion of the leading papers of Japan.
Without dissenting voice the
senate adopted joint resolution in
troduced by Senator Jones, of Wash
ington, providing for an investiga-
ton of the Ballinger- Pinchot con-
troversy.
Transportation of the mails by
railways, steamship lines and vari-
GUS star routes cost the govern
ment during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1909, $s3,4o3,762.
Four former employees of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
convicted of under-weighing frauds,
were sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment
After the selection of Portland,
Or, for the next meeting place, the
4oth annual session of the National
Woolgrowers' Association closed at
Ogden, Utah.
| Quartermaster General Aleshire
has recommended to the secretary
OF war the acceptance of 100000
feet of Oregon pine for army use in
the Philippines.
Delegates will soon be appointed
to represent the United States at
the fourth Pan-American conference
to be held at Buenos Ayres next
July.
An investigation of the salmon
canning industry has been started
by the department of agriculture as
a result of complaints that many
fish are misbranded.
Mrs. Chas. Ermilano, of Spring
Valley, ILL.,, who husband was a vic
tim of the Cherry mine horror, is
dead of a broken heart. Doctors
say that the case is one of the few
that have come to their attention.
Deposits in state and national
banks of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho aggregate $32S,5o7 900. Wash
ington banks had $187, lo5,0O0; Ore
gon banks $104,l12,OOO, and Idaho
! $37, 100000.
President Taft is still looking for
ward to trip to Alaska late in
the coming spring He plans to go
the far northwestern territory imme-
diately after the adjournment OF
congress-
CONSERVATION prevails among the
100 or more students Of Tulare Col
lege in New Orleans, following the
examination of every student for
hookworm. 1t is announced that
more than third of the members
of the class were found to be in
fected.
In his annual report, Clifford Pin
chot shows the total expenditures
made on account of the forestry
service of the fiscal year ended June
80 last to be $3,o36,2o7, while the
receipts from all sources credited
to the forestry service aggregated
$1,sO7,27O
The Oregon delegation at Wash
ington, D. c., has taken notice of
the bill introduced by Representative
Lafean of Pennsylvania, to establish
standard packages and grades for
apples, and will oppose its passage,
believing its provisions inmcal to
Western fruitgroders.
The Arctic Club of America
founded by DR.. Frederick Cook and
his supporters in the north pole con-
roversy-through its board of di-
rectors, has dropped the name OF
the explorer from the membership
roll
After AZ years in public life, Bing-
err Hermann, ex-Oregon congress
man and commissioner of the general
land office, is on trial at Portland
charged with having been a party to
a conspiracy to defraud the United
States of a portion of its lands in
the creation of the Blue Mountain
forest reserve