Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-08
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DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs for the Busy

Half this years rice crop in the
Philippines is failure.
The Jewish population of New York
city was 906, 400 on January 1.
The sea claimed the lives of 1876 per-
sons with 325 American vessels during
the fiscal year of 1911.
German politics are sadly muddled as
the only certain thing about the reich
stag is the overthrow of conservatism.
phenomenal change in the course
of the Japan current, which is now set
ting closer to the Alaska coast, is re-
ported.
The first Hindu scholarships i'll an
American college have been provided
for the University of California by
rich Hindu.
Tormented by killing committed,
he says, 10 years ago in Kentucky, J.
W. Gray surrendered to the police at
Eureka, Calf.
The president left Washington last
Saturday on five days trip that will
take him to New York and Cleveland,
Columbus and Akron, Ohio.
John Mcpherson, cashier of a sewing
machine agency in Sydney, Australia,
is under arrest in San Francisco charged
with embezzlement of $4,000 from the
firm
think Colonel Roosevelt will never
be candidate. l think he will have
to be nominated without being a can
didate,' says Governor Glasscock of
West Virginia.
The Rev. Clarence V. T. Rcheson,
who is under sentence of death for the
murder of his former sweetheart, Avis
Linnel, has been expelled from the Bap-
fist church in Boston.
DR.. w. P Burke of Sacramento. con.
victed of dynamiting and attempting
TO murder Miss Lu Eta Smith and her
anfant, must serve the 10 years SEN
tence imposed upon him.
At the last meeting of the Kingston
(Surrey, Eng.) town council the library
committee recommended the acceptance
of an offer of "The Life of Mary Baker
Eddy for the free public library.
Judge B. A. Harlan, rs years old, and
Tor more than 10 years a member of
the board of review in the pension office
at Washington, d. c., died recently. as
the result of being struck by street
car.
Through the generosity of Mrs. Rus
sell Sage the signal corps of the ma
tional guard in New York is to be
equipped with a $4,000 aeroplane and
$3.50 to cover the expense of its opera
tion.
Army maneuvers are to begin in the
department of Luzon, near Manila. Feb
ruary ~. The plans drawn up for the
operations divide the available troops
anto two forces, consisting of $500 men
each
An indictment was returned by the
grand jury at Chicago charging Mrs.
Rene b. Morrow with numbering her
husband, Charles B. Morrow, an inven-
tor, whose body was found December
% on the rear porch of his home
TO a delegation representing cham
bers of commerce in Seattle, San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Ever
EFT, President Taft has promised to send
a message to congress calling attention
to the need of Alaska legislation.
The county unit bill, regarded as the
most drastic liquor legislation ever en-
acted in Kentucky, passed the state
senate. The measure, approved by the
lower house, now goes to Governor Nc
Creary, who is expected to sign it.