The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD
items OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH WIRES.
fUOMTOREICN AND DOMESTIC FIELDS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Told in Brief Paragraphs
for Busy Readers.

Willis Moore has resigned as chief
of the United States weather bureau.
Governor Walter E. Clark signed the
bill giving the ballot to the women of
Alaska.
Carranza, rebel governor of Coahu-
fla, Mexico, is seeking an opportunity
to treat for peace.
The Boy Scouts of Augusta, Ca, pre-
scented former President Taft with a
gold knife recently.
E. A. Peck, general superintendent
of the st. Louis Southwestern railroad,
committed suicide recently.
Blind, and i'll with pneumonia, An
drew C.. Thompson, n years of age,
committed suicide at Pleasant Grove.
Utah, Saturday.
Secretary of the Interior Lane has
signed the paper granting the petition
of the Tieton homesteaders for gradu-
ated payments.
William F. McCoombs, chairman of
the national democratic national COM
mittee, has declined to become am
bassador to France.
President Wilson is seeking John R.
Mott, on of the prominent information
al secretaries of the Y. M. G. A., to
take the post of minister to China.
The worlds consumption of oil az
gregates one million barrels a day.
The United States produced during
1912 we two hundred twenty billion
barrels.
The jury at Topeka, Kansas, in the
case Of Rev. w. l.. Beers, a Methodist
minister, charged with Staying his
wife by forcing her false teeth down
her throat, disagreed.
1t is reported that John Mitchell
vice president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, will be named as {
New York state department head, will
a salary of $4,000 per year.
A committee has been formed t.
erect a memorial to the late John Big
Glow, the distinguished publicist, diplc
matist and United States minister t
France during the civil war.
A bill authorizing the appropriate
of one million five hundred thousan
dollars for a United States exhibit a
the Panama Pacific Exposition wa
approved by the canal committee o
industrial exposition last week.
Then million dollars will be e,
pended between now and 1923 by tn
Dominion of Canada government fo
the advancement of agriculture. Thi
is in addition to any sums which tn
various provinces may appropriate 70
this purpose.
The death of General Manuel Boz
ed. The transfer of the executive pow
ers to Vice President DR.. F. Francisc
Bertrand was received quietly through
out the republic.
The German government in order t
cover the continually increasing e.
penditures of the army, is contempla
ing the establishment of governmer
m%onopolies in the sale of cigarette
matches and alcohol.
That Lord Denman, the governo
eSucld iIi1ou q houlS, was "ioht
fully elected from his headquarters {
Sydney by the state government wa
the decision of the full supreme coul
at Melbourne, Australia.
Plans have been perfected to issu
100000 postal cards and send the
broadcast over the United State
thereby calling attention to the reie
of King Apple in Idaho, Montana, Or
gon and Washington, the three mort
western states that have set aside tt
same apple day. April 5.
Henri Auguste Fromaleot, a dist
guished French lawyer and publicis
has been chosen by the government
of the United States and Great Brita.
as the umpire, or third member of tt
joint commission appointed und'
treaty provisions for the settlemel
of British and American pecunial
claims.