Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-21
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News of the death of Captain William
Kidston of the Panama Liner Pennsyl-
vania is reported.
General Roias looted the Juarez
branch of the National Bank of Mex
leo of 10000 pesos.
Free raw wool to follow free sugar
was reported to be on the program Of
the house democrats.
Vassar college now has its own vol
unteer fire department, made up of
young women students.
Senator Hoke Smith attacks evils
of special pension legislation, saying
real soldiers who bore brunt of battle
were Disseminated against for favorites.
Slightly better progress was made in
excavation for the Panama canal in
the month of February than in the pre-
ceding month, in spite of heavier rain
rail-.
The United States transport Warren
has sailed from Manila for Taku, 80
miles from Tien Tsin, with II officers
and 46s men of the Fifteenth infantry
on board.
The final appraisal of the estate of
the late e. H. Hartman of Arden, to
determine the amount of the state
transfer tax, showed that the value of
the estate to be $100,000,000.
Announcement is made by the United
States Steel corporation that the un-
filled tonnage on its books on Febru-
airy 20 totalled 5,454,200 tons against
5,379,721 tons on January 81.
The senate has confirmed the presi-
chancellor of the state of New Jersey,
to succeed the late Associate Justice
Harlan on the supreme bench.
Francisco de la Barra, former pro-
visional resident of Mexico, reiter-
ates his intention soon to return to
Mexico from Paris and aimed at bring
ing about peace in the republic.
From China comes the news that DR..
Sun Vat Sen has been elected di-
rector of the Canton Hankow railway.
lie Lee Yu King, secretary of finance
of the provincial government, has re-
signed.
Chairman Adamson of the house COM
merce committee has introduced bill
in congress providing for a physical
valuation of all of the common car
riers of the United States by the in
terstate commerce commission.
The lord mayor of Berlin, X. A. Mar
tin Kirschner, who has occupied the
position since 1899 and was reelected
for another term last year, announces
his intention of resigning. He will be
20 years old this year.
George Houston, chauffeur, held up
two employees of McNab & Smith,
drayage firm, in the lumber district of
San Francisco, forcing the men at the
point of a pistol to drive him to a Sc
$4,000 payroll and escaped.
DR.. Ethel Smyth was among the suf-
fragettes sentenced in London for par
ticipating in the riots March 1, when
the women went ON a window breaking
expedition in the shopping district. She
was given the now customary sentence
of 2 months Imprisonment at hard
labor.
Senior Pedro Mel Ospina was not re-
called by Colombia as minister to the
United States as result of his alleged
insult to this country by informing the
state department unotficially that
visit by Secretary Knox to Colombia
might be "inopportune, but resigned
of his own accord.
A radical cure for cancer is an
nounced to have been discovered by
Assistant Professor Won Stein of Mos
cow (Russia) university. The cancer
institute of Moscow, founded by the
millionaire cotton manufacturer, Moro
zoff, has passed favorably upon it and
has introduced it in its clinic.