Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-06-01
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DURING The WEEK..
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.


Sane men have large feet and sane
women small feet, according to sta
tistics.
Robbers recently broke into the La
mont, Wash, postofice and stole 5000
in cash.
Over 1000 people were in Cheney,
Wash, Friday to celebrate the May
day festival
J. ]. Gottlob, prominent on this coast
as a theatrical manager, died recently
near San Francisco.
President Diaz says he feels good,
with the exception of an liberated tooth
and is in excellent health and spirits.
Forest fires in Hokkaido, the north
ernmost of the islands of Japan, are
devasting a vast territory of the land.
The grand lodge of the Knights of
Pythias and the Pythian Sisters will
be held at North Yakima, Wash, next
year.
At Bridgeport, Conn, Saturday Mrs.
Caroline Thompson, daughter of the
late P. T. Barnum, died. She was s3
years old and wealthy.
Mayor Mccarthy of San Francisco
announces that he has removed Police
Commissioner Percy Henderson from
office for neglect of duty.
Choking on piece of bacon, little
2-year-old Clarence Kelly died in the
arms of his mother, Mrs. William
Kelly, at Spokane recently.
The Mexican government officials dis
credit the report of a plot to attempt
the life of Francisco Madero on his
arrival to discuss peace terms.
Farm products as we'll as stock, i'm
plements and household goods will be
auctioned at the proposed Farmers
Union auction market to be estab-
lished in Spokane.
Private John Lepp, who escaped from
the guardhouse at Fort Russell after
seriously wounding two other soldiers
was shot and killed by posse. Lepp
first fred upon the posse.
The practice among lumbermen of
"blacklisting" concerns which sell di-
rectly to the consumer is declared to
be practiced in the northwest as else
where in the United States
Miss Gertrude Gaynor, % years old
daughter of Mayor Gaynor of New
York City, and William Seward Webb
Jr., son of the New York millionaire
eloped recently and were married.
The first state ball of the coronation
of King George, the date for which
was selected in honor of the visit OF
the German emperor and empress, tool
place at Buckingham palace Friday.
Beginning July 1 the Wells-Fargc
Express company will displace the Pa
cific Express company on the Missouri
Pacific, the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
g. Southern, the Texas & Pacific an'
the Wabash.
A report from Calgary states tina
nearly 200 structural steel worker
employed on the Grand Trunk Pacih
railway bridge where the Calgar.
branch crosses the Red Deer river, nea
Alix, are on strike.
Passengers arriving at Quadalajar'
from Colima, on the Mexican Pacih
slope, report that the revolutlonlst
took that city Saturday without blood
shed, Governor De La Madrid turning
over the government on demand.
Tho record of the inquiry made b.
the department of justice and the pu
reau of corporations into the Unite
States Steel corporation is to be uti
lied by the special house committe
selected to investigate that corporation
To enable John Hays Hammond t
carry out his commission as specis
American ambassador to the corona
ton of King George Washington Il
c. judge has ordered the continuane
until November of further proceeding
in the case of D. j. Sully against Han
mond.
An appeal has been taken to COZ
gress from the navy department b
non-Mormons who have protested to tn
government against the acceptance
the silver service for the new BATH
ship Utah, one piece of which beal
the likeness of the Mormon leade
Brigham Young.
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