Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-11-29

with heavy fighting, compelled the
Beers to retire and release their pris
oners. The British losses includes
Major Fisher killed and three officer:
wounded. The casualties among the
men have not yet been reported.
Sunday while party of Portland
men were duck hunting on Columbia
slough, six miles from Portland, Sid
ney Spreadborough was shot in the
head and instantly killed by S. b
Banks. A flock of ducks approached
the blinds where Spreadborough and
Banks were hiding, and both men rose
simultaneously to shoot. Banks fired
in a straight line, and the charge OF
shot struck Spreadborough, with the re,
suit indicate above.
News has just reached Denver of the
suicide of Judge M. A. Rogers, former,
ly of the supreme court of Colorado,
and one of the ablest lawyers in the
state, at Steamboat Springs, Col. The
manner of the suicide was unique.
Judge Rogers laid down on the ground
with a stick of dynamite under him,
lighted IA cigar and with it lighted the
fuse which caused the dynamite to ex-
plode. Judge Rogers has been at
Steamboat Springs all summer with his
wife. No cause is known for the sui.
eide?
DR.. William Duane, professor of ply
sizes at the Colorado state university,
has just been granted patent for an
invention by which large number of
telegraph messages can be sent over
one wire and return at the same time.
In the physical laboratory at the uni
versity, 1t Is said, he has had as many
as eighteen circuits working ON tht
same wire and retire all at the same
time. On any of these circuits thu
Morse instruments can be placed and
used exactly as with the single wire
now in use. DR.. Duane's invention is
based on the principle of synchronizing
motors.
The application of the Chicago Union
Traction company and the Consoli
dated Traction company for an injunc-
ton restraining the Illinois state board
OF equalization from assessing the cap.
ital stock of those companies for 1900
was denied recently by Judges Gross
cup and Humphrey in the United
States circuit court. The temporary
injunction issued by Judge Grosscup in
Chicago Tuesday was dissolved. I'm
mediately after the decision it was an
nounced assessments aggregatfng SIS,
100000 and involving over 81, 600. 900 in
taxes were made by the board of equal
ization as the fair value of the capital
stock of the traction companies over
here and above the assessment on their
tangible property, The SIS 900, 900 val
uation takes the place Of $500, 900 valu
ation made last year, as representing
che fair cash value of the property as
5essed. The teachers federation esti
mate was $25,000,000 No written opin
ion in the case was filed.
James Seeley, of the secret service
- Law auhOh, wiz hS Ill NlCUOTId, b.
y, says the conspiracy formed in Daw.
son was discovered by the police there
N September. 1t was an organization
known as the Order of the Midnight
SUM-" founded at Dawson by some
American Fenians, and branch was
formed at Skagway, but the order did
not extend south. The plan was for the
conspirators in Dawson to rise, when
the word was given, after the Yukon
had become unfit for travel, sieze the
barracks of the northwest mounted DO.
lice, while their Skagway conferees,
after cutting the wires, were to sur
prise the mounted police patrols along
the river. There are about $50 mount
ed police scattered through the dis
erict, and as there are few in Dawson.
The scheme was thought to be feasible.
The papers of the association were
seized at Skagway, but the seizure be.
ing made in United States territory. is
held by the American officers. The sec
retary of the order has fed to Seattle.