Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-04
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
LATE DISPATCHES In
The DAILIES.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The supreme court of Montana has
given Eureka the county seat of Lin
coin county.
Switzerland has a new reform plan
and will make over the Calendar and
have good one this time.
The labor troubles in Norway may
lead to an increase in the Norwegian
immigration to the United States.
Judge w. S. Kenyon, the newly elect
ed progressive republican senator from
Iowa, took the oath of office Monday.
Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of
the interior, has rendered his resigna-
tion and it was accepted by President
Taft.
The plague is now extinct in north
China and has been almost entirely
stamped out in Manchuria, according to
reports.
At Seattle L. M. Hughes, a shoemak
er, aged so years, was shot through the
neck and killed Saturday night and his
pockets rifed.
AT Missoula, Mont, BARLEY Bennett.
railroad employee, was struck by
train and instantly killed Saturday He
wouldn't get out of the way.
1t probably will be two or three
weeks before the Canadian reciprocity
bill, which has passed the house.
energies from the finance committee of
the senate.
Twenty San Jose, Cal, veterans of
the Spanish-American war have signed
agreements with representatives of the
provisional government of Mexico to
serve in the insurrecto army, now at
Jaurez:
The appointment of Frederick c.
Harper, rejected by the senate last SEES
sion on the objection of Senator Piles.
for customs collector at Seattle and re-
appointed by President Taft, recently,
will be confirmed.
Private cable advices received here
from India announce the death there of
Miss Grace E. Wilder, a well-known
Presbyterian missionary. She was so
years old and had been prominent
worker in India for nearly 25 years.
The colossal task of piercing the
Bernese Alps between the Kander val
ley on the north and the Rhone valley
on the south has just been completed.
The new tunnel, known as the Lotsch
berg tunnel, is, about nine and a half
miles long.
While attempting to escape from the
steam whaler Belyedere,- scheduled to
sail for Alaskan waters Saturday.
Powell Holdorf and g. M. Hogan, resi-
dents of San Francisco, who had signed
for the cruise, were drowned off Goat
island in San Francisco bay.
Norway in particular and all Scan
dinavia incidentally is stirred with the
news that Captain Raold Amundsen is
actually making for the south pole, in
stead of as it was generally supposed
he was, on his way for another drift
around the northern point of the west
ern hemisphere.
BY order of Secretary of War Dick
inson authority has been wired to the
commanding officer at Douglas, Ariz.,
to permit 25 wounded Mexicon soldiers,
accompanied by attendants, all un-
armed and without uniform, to proceed
in special car from Aqua Prieta by
way of Douglas to hospital at Can
anea.
The pope, who is proud of the fact
that, in his younger days, he was
plain country parish priest, is opposed
to all favors of extravaganza. Hence
ne RECENTLY suggested that children on
hrst communion day dispense with out
ward display in order that the mind
and heart may dwell undoubtedly on the
act of the first reception of the sacra-
ment.
While Richard Pasha, the Ottoman
ambassador at Vienna, claims that the
Albanian revolt is merely a matter of
local interest and of no great import
ance, he observes that the Albians. who
for centuries have paid no taxes and
nave been exempt from military SER
wee, have not become accustomed to
the young Turk regime. He added that
the Turkish troops will soon put an end
to the rising.