Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-11-15
WORLD SN[SSBRI[FLY TOLD
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Complete Review of happenings In
Both Eastern and Western Hearts,
pheres for the Past Week-Nation-
nj. Historical, Political ana Per-
sonaI Events Tersely Expouaded.

The payment to Indians of the funds
appropriated by the last session of con
gress for their Siletz reservation lands
has commenced at the agency.
Mrs. Alexander Drysdale, wife OF on,
Of the most prominent Eureka Fla
(Wash.) ranchers, committed suicld,
by taking strychnine, recently, at he
home twelve miles from Prescott.
G. G. Ross. an oiler at the Northpor
smelter, made a misstep and fell thirt,
feet to the brick pavement of the bias
room. Internal injuries are feared.
Fire has practically destroyed Thu
business portion OF Clifford, N. D. Loss
$4,000. Insurance, $21 900. The fire
probably was started by burglars In
their attempt to blow safe in butch
er shop.
In fight between the crew Of an o
r. N. freight train and tramps, who
were stealing ride, Walter Rose OF
Shawneetown, ILL.,. was shot by Con
ductor Laughlin. ten miles east OF
Portland. Rose is in hospital here
in a serious condition, but he may I'll
timately recover.
At Port Huron, Mich, recently, fire
dstroyed two large adjoining grain ele
vators owned by the Botsford Elevator
company, entailing a loss of 100000.
The loss on the building is estimated
at $125,000; on the 265, 900 bushels OF
grain. $4,000.
John Morley, NJ p, speaking recent
ly at Forfar. Scotland, asserted that the
ordinary annual expenditures of the
British government had increased e26.
100000 during the last ten years, or in
Guiding the supension of The sinkine
fund. f32,000.000. He declared tina
there was a real danger ahead of the
country.
News OF new Klondike strike was
brought to Vancouver, B. c., by the
steamer Amur. The strike is on Con
glomerate creek, tributary of Mon
tana creek. The prizes of claims Jumped
from 500 70 $4,000 in few days. and
undaunted by the nearness of winter
on October 20 party Of eleven set GU
for Conglomerate on prospecting
tour.
President Roosevelt has decided mo
to make any more appointments Of i'm
portance until congress meets.
A violent dispute with Paul Lessar
Russian minister to China, over the
Manchurian treaty. appears to have
been the immediate cause Of the death
Of III Hung Chang.
AT Baltimore, Md, Peter Maher mt
a sudden stop TO the championship as
pirations Of Jim Jeffords Of California
recently In the second round of what
was to have been ten-round contest.
Az Omaha, Neb., the jury in the case
Of James Callahan, after being GU.
thirty-six hours, brought in a verdict
finding the defendant not guilty This
Is the last echo In the Cudahy kidnap
ing case, and Callahan is acquitted of
the kidnapping charge.
Minister Conger at Pekin has in.
formed the state department that Yuan
Shi Kai has been appointed to she
coed Ii Hung Chang as viceroy of Chi
u, and that Wang Wen Shao has been
appointed deputy viceroy of the same
province. Yuen Is the present viceroy
OF Shan Tung province
At New York Mrs. Archibald S
White, 40 years old, wife of the presl
dent OF the National Salt company. was
found dead in the bathroom of the resi-.
dence on Eighty-sixth street recently.
"A slip on the floor of the bathroom
caused her to fall backward, her head
striking the edge of a marble basin
fracturlng her skull.
President James j. Hill will he the
dominating influence in a new eorpor
alton which is to take in the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific. A
large number Of the reorganized board
OF directors of the Burlington, probably
half, will, 1T is understood, represent
the Union Pacific directly, and that
company will in any event have half
voting interest in Burlington affairs.
There will, OF course, be no extension
to Salt Lake to meet Senator Clark's
road, or to any other point not fully |
countenanced by the Union Pacific rep
resentatlves in the Burlington's board. |
The democratic party has adopted
General Bartholomew Masso as its
for the presidency of Cuba
1t is asserted that the brigands have
recently been treating Miss Stone with
more severity in order to exercise
and to compel more ready
acceptance of their conditions.
Fire broke out in mine No. z of the
Pacific Coast company at Franklin
rear Seattle, and one miner, Jacoi
Rose, is missing. The other members
Of the shift reached safety without
difficulty.
The French foreign Office has an
nounced that the sultan has signed
an trade for the execution of his en-
with the French govern
ment and that the Franco Turkish dis
quite is at an end
AT Valley City, N. D., while an omni
bus was on its way to North City. it /
was held up by masked men. Half of
the lS passengers aboard were robbed
Of money and other valuables to the
Of about $500.
N. r. Murphy was drowned or sui.
located to death. ]. w. Russell was
scalded to death and James McMahon /.
and W. B. Hoover were each badly
gfalded af fho Kanrao CS,t., ,o<1-x., = /,