Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-01-19
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
LATEPRESS DISPATCHES
FROM The DAILIES.
A Review Of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past W educational, Historical.
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.

Whitelaw Reid, American ambassado,
to Great Britain, has returned to this
country for two months visit.
Fourteen per cent of the area of Lon.
don is free from buildings, while Der.
lin has 10 per cent free space and
Paris Az per cent.
Oscar Solomon Straus of New York.
formerly cabinet minister and for more
than year and half ambassador to
Turkey, has resigned.
California increased its coal output
at greater rate than any other state
last year, mining more than twice the
quantity mined the year before.
Mrs. Ellen Changrow, a wealthy In
dian woman of the Umatilla reserva-
ton, Oregon, is suing Nicholas Chan
grow, her ninth husband, for divorce.
Besides shipping several "knock-
down. steamboats, to South America, a
Pittsburg firm has sent one 10 the
Congo and another to the River Nile.
The steamship Alameda arrived Sat
urday in Seattle from Seward, bringing
$i5O,000 of Iditarod gold that was CON
veyed from the camp to Seward by
dog sled.
AT Vancouver, Wash, Rev. Angus
Mckenzie, a retired Presbyterian min
lister, for 40 years actively engaged in
religious work in the Pacific northwest.
died Saturday, aged II years.
AL o. Truskett, who Saturday shot
J. d. S. Nicely, a prominent oil man,
at Caney, Kan, was arraigned on |
charge of murder in the first degree. |
He was released on a $4,000 bond.
Representative Knowland of Cali
fornia has introduced q bill making it
unlawful for a railroad to control either
by lease or by stock ownership a steam
ship line with which it may or does
compete for traffic.
Representative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,, who has already been pledged the
speak ership of the house in the next
congress, says that he was not unduly
excited over suggestions that he be-
come a candidate for the presidency.
Texas passenger trains collided during
a fog at Abbott, Texas, Saturday morn
ing, causing the death of two persons,
DR.. x. Aiken, dentist, of Dallas, and
IL. d. Reynolds, Pullman conductor, of
Austin.
1t is announced that James J. Hill
OF the Great Northern railway, will
contribute $4,000 to the endowment
fund of Willamette university at Salem.
providing other contributions to the
endowment fund are secured up to
S25O,000.
On the first anniversary of her hus- :
band IS death in a railway accident
Mrs. Anna Atwater, widow of Colonel
IL. q. Atwater, founder of Clearwater
colony, near Los Angeles, died Satur-
lay from burns received in lamp ex- '
plosion at her home. :
Ben Simon in recent aviation meet '
an unusual feat in the t
manipulation OF an aeroplane, when /
after a spectacular fight, he brought I
MS machine to earth, and started it s
INTO the air again without having en- 6
'irely stopped the motor. 4
The Erie railroad management has I
one of its Oldest engineers. :
both In years and in point of service, :
'y presenting Alexander Larkin on his /
18th birthday the huge engine which
he drives daily in hauling the Pittsburg
iier between Cleveland and Youngs- '
own.
Judge Lebbeus r. Wiley, who was
he first judge of the United States
'ourt in Shanghai, China, has just ar
lived in New York from Mexico, where I
'e has been for year studying mining Y
onditions. Judge Wiley declares that v
he revolutionary movement in Mexico a
of small consequence t.
Charles Carver Yale Divorcad e