Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-15
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Fire insurance is said to have orig
mated after the great fire of London
in 1866.
Of the 112 tourists who lost their
lives last year by Alpine ascents, IL
were ome
England require 100, 000, 900 postage
stamps per annum
A system of electric signaling for
mines, operated by a hand generator,
has been invented.
Finger prints for Identification were
used by the Chinese as long ago as
the seventh century.
An amateur horticulturist in Cali
fornia has succeeded in breeding a
seedless tomato of large size.
Followers of former President Ze-
laya of Nicaragua are preparing to
rally to the revolution, according to
dispatches.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, head of the
Zion church, has arranged to carry the
gospel into nearly every state in the
Union by automobile.
1t is believed. that this country's
exports in manufactures for the present
fiscal year will reach the billion-dollar
mark.
Chicago street car men favor a
strike by a vote of 1899 to III unless
their demands for higher wages and
improved working conditions are
granted.
The condition Of the growing cotton
crop of the United States on July rs
was 76.5 per zen of a normal accord
report just issued.
At Nuremberg, Bavaria, ten work
men were killed Saturday, 35 seriously
injured and five are missing as a re-
suit of the collapse of an immense
power station under construction.
The Mexican government has placed
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the value of 1915, 900 with the Mauser
small arms factory at Oberndorff,
Wurtemberg, for immediate delivery.
Eugene G.. Chafin, prohibition can
didate for president, according to a
story given out at national h%eadquar-
tiers, intends to surpass his speech
making record of 1908 during the pres
ent campaign.
The conquest of Mount Sir Sanford.
the highest peak of the Selkirks, by
Howard Palmer secretary of the
American Alpine club, is announced
in a message sent by Mr.. Palmer to
the American Geological society.
An attachment for $4,000, 900 under
an alleged violation of the Sherman
antitrust law, was filed in the United
States district court, Boston, by the
M Electric company against the
General Electric company of Lynn.
At South Platte, Colorado, George
Ballew, 20 years old, a maniac, ran
amuck and with a double-barreled
shotgun shot and wounded five per-
sons, three probably fatally, then set
fire to the hotel, which burned to the
ground.
President Taft's supporters in the
senate declare they had information
that the president would veto every
one of the tariff bills now under con-.
sideration. The cotton, wool, sugar
and steel bills are nearly ready to go
to the White House for signature.
The committee of representatives
which took testimony against Federal
Judge Cornelius H. Hanford at Seattle
recommended to the house judiciary
committee that the impeachment pro-
ceedings be dropped and that Presi-
dent Taft accept the judges resigna-
ton.