Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-03
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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-
lila, 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 ill 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. C. A., to
take the post of minister to China.
The worlds consumption of oil ag
gregates one million barrels a day.
The United States produced during
fWn hundred funntU hi11inn
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 a
New York state department head, with
salary of $4,000 per year.
A committee has been formed to
erect a memorial to the late John Big
Glow, the distinguished publicist, diplo-
matist and United States minister to
France during the civil war.
bill authorizing the appropriation
of one million five hundred thousand
dollars for a United States exhibit at
the Panama Pacific Exposition was
approved by the canal committee on
industrial exposition last week.
Then million dollars will be ex-
pended between now and 1923 by the
Dominion of Canada government for
the advancement of agriculture. This
is in addition to any sums which the
various provinces may appropriate for
this purpose.
The death of General Manuel Bon
lila, president of Honduras, is report
ed. The transfer of the executive DOW
ers to Vice President DR.. F. Francisco
Bertrand was received quietly through
out the republic.
The German government in order to |
cover the continually increasing ex-
penditures of the army, is contemplate |
ing the establishment of government |
matches and alcohol.
That Lord Denman, the governor |
general without home, was wrong
fully elected from his headquarters at
Sydney by the state government was
the decision of the full supreme court
at Melbourne, Australia.
Plans have been perfected to issue
100000 postal cards and send them
broadcast over the United States,
thereby calling attention to the reign
of King Apple in Idaho, Montana, Ore
.gon and Washington, the three north
western states that have set aside the
same apple day. April S.
Henri Auguste Fromaleot, distin-
guished French lawyer and publicist, |
has been chosen by the governments |
of the United States and Great Britain |
as the umpire, or third member of the
Joint commission appointed under |
treaty provisions for the settlement |
of British and American pecuniary |
claims.