Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-25
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Rockefeller is richer than ever since
Che dissolution decree His oil stock
has increased enormously in value.
All passengers from Havana for the
United States are now subject to seven
days detention on arrival on this side.
DIR. Charles w. Eliot, president emeri-
tus of Harvard university who has been
making an extensive visit to Japan, has
returned.
London.-Dr. Oliver Colley Maurice of
Marlborough, Wiltshire, has died from
pneumonia, contracted while following
his profession.
President Taft says that he will not
make any extensive campaign trip this
fall. He declined an invitation to at
tend the Minnesota State fair in Sep
TENDER.
John j. Manning, president of the
National Malleable Castings company of
Toledo, Ohio, was killed Saturday night,
when his automobile crashed into an
electric car.
Industrial troubles are causing great
anxiety throughout New Zealand, and
the impression is growing that a gen
eral strike will break out in the spring
(September)
The president probably will get along
for the next four months without
secretary, as c. D. Hilles was recently
made chairman of the republican ma
tional committee.
A plan to preserve the neighborhood
of public parks and gardens and the
best views of the country around Lon
don has been devised by the London
county council, with the approval of
the home secretary.
The japanese cruiser Naniwa, which,
commanded by Admiral Togo, fred the
first shot of the Chinese-Japanese war,
sinking the Chinese transport Kowshing,
was wrecked at North Island in the
Kurie group recently.
A complete new system of water
mains has been installed on the grounds
of the Spoakne Interstate fair, assuring
exhibitors of excellent fire protection,
and making it possible to check blaze
before it can spread.
The Cleveland Grays, the famous Ohio
militia organization, were in Frisco,
Sunday for a three-day visit. They
were met by the California Grays, a
band and a committee of citizens, and
marched to their headquarters.
General Henry M. Dufield, adjutant
general of the Twenty third brigade
army of the Cumberland, in the civil
war, and in command of the Second
army corps in Cuba during the Spanish
American war, died recently at Detroit,
Mich.
At Louisville, KY, Charles II. Rogers,
for seven years a member of the Louis
vile staff of the Associated Press, died
Saturday from burns received July in
a fire that destroyed his apartments.
The death of Mr.. Rogers was the third
resulting from the fire.
Charged in an Indictment voted by
the federal grand jury at Los Angeles |
with setting fires or causing fires to be
started on the Cleveland forest reserve,
E. S. Babcock, president of the Los
Angeles & San Diego Beach railway, and |
one of the wealthiest men in San Diego. |
is under arrest.
At Los Angeles Harry Weber, mar
BILE layer, shot and killed his wife re-
emily, and then blew out his own brains
Weber was 81 years old and his wife
was &c. They were married about
year ago in Portland, Ore, where the
young woman resided. Her name prior
to marriage was Rose Wilson.