Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-05-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Twenty lives are reported lost in g
snowslide at Sunrise City, Alaska
Many houses were caught in the ava
lanche.
Waldes, Alaska, is crowded with idle
men anxiously awaiting beginning OF
work on the government line to the
interior.
AT Houston, Texas, in a fire which
destroyed livery stable and three resi-
dences recently, five persons were
burned to death and several others
were injured.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that the gold production of the Cripple
Creek district up to the close of the
present month makes a grand total of
over $10O,000,00O. Gold was first dis
| covered in this camp in 1889.
Light, life and air has broken in
onto the five entombed miners at Au-
rora, Ohio. Two were rescued alive,
one was found dead and the other two
are supposed to be hfeless. Grant
Shard was mangled by falling rocks
and earth and died instantly.
Thirty-one billion dollars is the ag-
gregate of national debts of the world
at the close of the nineteenth century
This is ten times as much as in the
closing years of the eighteenth cen
fury, according to expert statisticians
OF the treasury bureau devoted to this
work. This bureau has Just issued a
statement on the subject, it apparently
being suggested by the recent an
nouncement of the new British loan
of $300,00O,OOO.
The Mechanics Savings Bank of
westerly, r. l., lis closed. This action
came as a great surprise to the town
and great excitement prevails among
small depositors. The estimated
amount of deposits is something less
than 100000, the securities on their
face values less than $1,1O0.OOO. The
number of depositors is about 200.
Many OF the securities are western in
vestments, which are understood to
nave decreased in value year by year.
George Cummins, aged %, "a son of
u. w. Cummins, telegraph operator at
Northport, Wash, who recently re-
turned from volunteer service in the
philippines, and was employed in the
railroad yards as switchman. was
caught between two heavy ore cars
wnlle making a coupling, and killed |
almost instantly, living only a few
minutes. He called by name a fayorite |
sister May, who lies very sick at home |
and then asked to have his head raised
abter which he gasped a few times and
expired.
AT Cincinnati Mrs. Richard Crater
ohe wife of yhousepainter. on being
unable to keep her husband from a
saloon, went ito the place with one of
mis- kalsomine buckets and a white
WASH brush. She kalsomined him
from head to foot in the saloon. He
returned to the saloon after he had ac-
'ompan1ed her home and changed his
;ioohing. She followed him again and
me next time kalsomined the saloon.
Keeper and his bar fixtures, and gave {
lotice that she would repeat the ner.
ormance to anyone selling liquor to
Ter husband. Is
w. oayler OF Iowa, the special
gent In charge of the beet sugar in
'estigation of the department of aeri-
uIture, is in Washington and has sub-
nltted his report to Secretary Wilson '
re says this year shows an active ten. c
ency toward the institution of new
eet sugar enterprises. Next autumn
e says, Michigan will have three new
actories and. Ohio, Indiana. New
ork, Colorado, Utah, South and North
'akota and Illinois will install new
actory enterprises, making thirteen :
throughout the United States now in
A conservative esti-
late' he says, is that there will be AZ @
eet sugar factories in operation 2
lroughout the United States by the
10 OF next autumn. Everything in
Gates that the industry is thoroughly o
Established throughout the country. /,