Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-18
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with a severe cold.
A coal famine threatens Minneapolis
if the cold weather continues.
Uncle Sam has officially placed the
ban on baldheaded men for service in
the army
1t is said Colonel Bryan resents hav
ing his name filed in Nebraska as
presidential candidate.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed against the Fed
eral Biscuit company.
Charles Taylor Catlin, prominent for
80 years as a dramatic reader and re-
otter, is dead at his home in Brooklyn,
sged II years.
The state department is taking no
further steps to have the war depart
ment embark troops now in Manila for
duty in China.
Governor General Forbes of Manila
denies that he has any intention of re-
signing, but intends to visit the United
States in March.
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York trolley car, was killed and five
others were seriously hurt when the car
was derailed Saturday.
A settlement of the strike of the laun-
dry workers in New York city, which
has involved more than 20 900 workers,
is expected this week.
New Mexico, the 47th state to enter
the Union, ceased to be a territory Sat
urday, when President Taft signed the
proclamation of statehood.
The federal government is now ready
to begin the construction of the Grand
Valley irrigation project in Colorado.
The project will irrigate about SO, 1000
acres.
w. II. Taber, president of the Ameri-
can State bank of Terre Haute, Ind, is
in jail charged with embezzlement of
the bank S funds. The shortage is
$4,000.
Buildings of the Industrial Cotton Oil
company, containing 10000 tons of seed
and other produce, were burned at
Houston, Tex, recently entailing $780,
900 loss.
Two very high personages. one Ital
ian and the other Turkish, met in
Paris Monday to discuss the questio
of opening peace negotiations between
Italy and Turkey.
At Wicklffe, KY, Saturday, Frank
Turner shot and killed John Clay, Al
years old. Turner said he killed Clay
because he had given Mrs. Turner 8
pair of shoes at her request.
Schedules in bankruptcy of William
j. Cummins, former officer and director
of the Carnegie Trust company, filed il
the federal court show Liabilities o
s4,6S0,0O0 and assets of $135,OOO.
George w. Wickersham, attorney gen
.eral of the United States; j. J. Jusse
rand, French ambassador, and T.. Have
NTH, Belgian minister at Washington
with their party, are visiting in Cuba
Professor Frederick Starr of the uni
versty of Chicago has been appointe
commander of the Order of Leopold III
the highest honor in the way of deco
ration given by the government of Be
GUM.
Wholesale registration irregularitie
involving probably 20 per cent of tn
democratic voters of Acadia parish, La
are alleged in a series of 500 suits. TIL
filing of which is under way in the eli
cult court.
The case against Barney Stevens,
wealthy real estate dealer of Kans;
City, Mo-, charged with receiving near
$4,000 worth of plumber from Hem
Barr, confessed Spokane burglar, h;
been dropped on account of the grei
expense.
The possibility of an eventual inte
vention by the powers in China in son
form is an absorbing topic of discr
sion in diplomatic circles at Paris. r
feeling, however, is that nothing of
concrete nature is justified or can
carried out at present.
When the American Hawaii
freighter Nebraskan arrived in S
Diego from Salina Cruz, the mast
Captain Knight, reported to the coll,
tor of customs the discovery by him
"a tins of opium, valued at SIS each,
a storeroom of the ship. He threw
overheard.