The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-02-02
THE WORLD
NEWS NOTES

FROM an authority it is learheu
that powerful group of french
banks is negotiating to supply 'he
Southern Pacific with S5O,OOO,O0o.
The National Highways Protective
society has completed a list showing
the number of registered autoiho-
bilcs in the United States up to NO.
vember /. This is estimated at
900 cars for the entire country.
Smoke costs the citizens of Chr
cago $21 $50, 600 "a year or about $lc
per capita, according to statistics
given out yesterday by City Smoke
Inspector Bird.
All past records for the Adams
county, Ohio, election inquiry were
smashed when the grand jury report
ed 32S new indictments. The last
batch brought the total for hve
weeks investigation up to 2l4S, or
pne-third of the entire electorate. Be,
tween 1900 and 1900 have been dis
franchised.
For the first time in the history
of aviation, an aeroplane rose from
the surface of the water, sailed about
Dad, returning to the starting point.
landed on the water as easily as
gull This feat was achieved by
Glenn II. Curtisr5 in his specially
equipped aeroplane on San Diego
bay.
Proceedings for absolute divorce
/ from her husband, Oscar Hammer
stein, the operate impressario. were
pegun by Mrs. Mavina Hammersteln
in the supreme court at Nyack, n. \.
/ Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS Ward, au-
i thor and lecturer died at her home
! in Newton Center, at the age OF 81
years.
1t is reported that King George
Of England will institute criminal
! libel proceedings with the object OF
ending once for all rumors freely
circulated for years that his majesty,
when Prince Of Wales, was morgan
aticaly married to a daughter of an
admiral at Malta.
Edward Green, son of Hetty Green,
is planning the organization of
trust company to look after his moth
ar's vast interests.
Five wealthy Southern lumbermen
at Atlanta will enter the Federal
prison to serve sentences for peon-
age. They are w. s. Harlan, Rob
ert Gallaghere, DR.. w. f.. Grace. C.
c. Hilton and E. S. Higgins all of
Lockhart. Ala.
The Benn constitutional amendment
for the submission of the question
of woman suffrage to the electorate
at the next general election was
passed by the California senate.
The Nevada state senate passed
b.ll making it unlawful to sell or
give cigarettes or cigarette papers
to any man, woman or child.
The county local option law was
superseded in Indiana by the Proctor
Kennedy measure when Governor
Thomas r. Marshall affixed his sig
nature and made it law. Under
the measure elections will be held
by cities and townships instead of
by the county as a whole.
Protest against the reported
change in the United States treaty
with Japan, whereby the coolie clause
will be eliminated, was made in a
resolution presented in the Califor
MIA assembly The language of the
resolution was SO strong that Speaker
Hewitt declined to submit it to the
house as a committee of the whole
and telegraphed it at once to Presi
dent Taft and members of congress
A resolution favoring San Fran
cisco for the site Of the Panam;
exposition was passed in the lowe
branch OF the Massachusetts legisla
ture by a vote of GO to 80.
San Francisco is Endorsed as thu
place in which to hold the Panam;
exposition in 1915, in resolution
which passed in the lower branch O
the Rhode Island legislature.