Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-16
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DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST week.
Review Of Happenings in Both Eastern
and Western Hemispheres During Past
week-National,' Historical, Political
and Personal Events Told In Short
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George James, one of three convicts
who escaped from the Nevada state
prison recently, was captured.
Colonel E. z. Steever, commanding the
Mexican border guard, is investigating
the recent shooting of Private Baker,
Company C, ED infantry.
The public playground, in the opinion
of Miss Jane Adams, is the greatest
agency so far brought forth for the
Improvement of the city boy.
One company of the Twelfth infan-
try, which left Monterey, Cal, for the
Mexican border line, will divide itself
between Yuma, Ariz., and Calexico, Cal.
The movement for the emancipation
of Turkish women, which under the
regime of the Young Turks, gained con-
siderable momentum, has now received
serious setback.
Petitions for the recall of Mayor
Frank X. Mott and Commissioners Fred
c. Turner and w. G. Baccus, which the
socialists of Oakland, Cal, have been
circulating, have been filed.
The new military Zeppelin airship is
fast approaching completion in Ger
many. This will make the second per-
fected Zeppelin in military service, and
the third has been ordered.
The American Cereal company has
filed a certificate of dissolution with the
secretary of state of New Jersey. The
company was incorporated in February,
1899, with an authorized capital of $780,
100000.
The cod fishing schooner Joseph Russ,
which sailed from Seattle April for
the Boring sea cod banks, was wrecked
on Chirikof island southwest of Kodiak,
April 26. She carried 35 men, all of
whom escaped.
Dissatisfaction is general in the inter
Tor districts of China, due to the revival
and at the same time an increase In the
likin or transit duties and to the made
quate protection afforded merchants
against marauders.
The American minister to Spain,
c. Ide, and his daughter, Miss Ide, gave
dinner in honor of Fred w. Carpenter,
the United States minister to Morocco,
who was passing few days in Madrid
as the guest of the minister.
The Canadian Pacific railroad round
house and machine shops at Eholt, B. c.
burned recently. One locomotive was
in the roundhouse at the time of the
fire. The loss of the building and equip
ment will amount to 100000
At Toronto, Ont, Saturday, the south
wall of fve-story building recently
constructed for the William Nelson
company, Ltd, fell in, burying a score
of employees. Two persons, man and
woman, were killed and nine Others
seriously injured.
The power schooner Silver Wave, the
FIRST cargo carrying vessel to sail for
Boring sea ports this season, left Sc
attic for Nome Sunday loaded with
fresh vegetables and fruit with which
to replenish the larders depleted during
the long winter months.
n rluc puiiet SidhcihS 1ioii ios
struck Dan Sven, aged 10, son of D.
r. Sven of Tacoma in the temple re-
Gently, inficting wound from which
the boy died. The shot was fred by
Douglas Hofus, aged IL, orphan son
of w. D. Hohus, the wealthy Seattle
steel man who died few weeks ago
Both boys were students at Dekoven
hall, a private academy near Tacoma,
and had stolen away from their classes
to practice with the rifle.