Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-11-08

Nicaragua has given notice Of tn!
termination Of the treaty of 1867
granting the United States authority
to build canal across the country
Also the treaty of 1870.
| The Boston Commercial Bulletin
says that all American records have
been broken in the Boston wool mar.
l1et last week, the transactions aggre
eating not less than 25,0O0,OO0 pounds
1t is announced in a dispatch to O
London news agency from st. Peters.
burg that scores of fishing boats were
wrecked and that 40 men were
drowned during a recent storm on
Lake Baikal.
Lord Kitchener has reported to the
war Office disaster to the British
near bethel, Eastern Transvaal, in
which two guns were lost, several of.
fcers killed or wounded, 81 men were
killed and 100 were wounded.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hamburg, who was
born June 9, 1893, is dead in London.
Mrs. Hanhury was notable half cen
fury ago as an antislavery, prison re-
former and other philanthropic mat
ters, she could see to read ana write
up to her Tooth year.
At meeting of the executive COM
nittee of the William Mckinley Ma
.ional Memorial Arch association, 1T
was determined on motion of Secre
tary Gage, the treasurer of the asso-
cation, to raise $1,500,000 for con-
structing the proposed arch. Material
progress was reported by the execu-
i've committee in the work of prepar-
alton of raising subscriptions.
Jack Hebron, Familiarity known as
'Pasco Jack" railway switchma /
from Pasco, was shot and almost in
stantly killed at Ellensburg, Wash.
Sunday night by Ed Smith, locomo-
tive fireman. Both men were under
the influence of liquor and became in
rolved in an alteration, and in the
scuffle Smith fired two or three shots,
at least one of which took effect, re-
sulting in Heffron's death within a few
1oments. Smith is in the county JAIL
pending his preliminary examination
The prisoner is sbout % years of age
The census report on males of
school, military and voting ages for
all states and territories shows the
following summary for the country as
a whole: Persons of school age. 5 to
20 years, 26,110,7SS, of whom "a 1877, 1870
IRE native born, 22.490,211 are white,
and 13,S06,160 are males. Males
IF militia age, 16.36O,36S of whom
t3,1322S0 are native born. and
14,495,396 are white, and males
If voting age, 21,329,S19, of whom
76,227,9S5 are native born and
1896, 143 are white. OF the total num-
Der of males. Fl years of age and over,
2.926,255 are illiterate. OF the 49,
227,285 native horn males, 81 years
Of age and over. 1,706,292 are illiterate,
md Of the 5,102,534 foreign born, $780,
002 are illiterate.
.eport Of Commissioner Hermann of
the land Office says that Is, 562, 79b
acres of public land were disposed
# during the last fiscal year. an in
crease of 2,108,90S over the previous
year, which was the banner year in
public land sales. The net surplus
IRON the entire land and forest
administration is $S,54S,442. The
report refers to the large mum.
Der of prosecutions begun in Idaho
and Montana for perjury and subordia
alton of perjury in entries of land
under the timber and stone act, which
entries, it says, apparently were made
for speculative purposes and have be.
come the property of one man.
Ellis, H. Roberts. treasurer of the
United States, in his. report of the
of his Office during the
last fiscal year, says that the treas
ury was never stronger than at the
close of that period. The operations
which were of the first order both in
variety and magnitude, resulted in
noteworthy changes in the paper cur
rency, as well as steady and health
full growth of gold in the treasury ana
in the general stock. The net ordin-
airy revenues for the year were 1857, |
6S5,337, an increase of 500 ,444,4 S5 over
those of 1900, which were the next |
highest recorded. The increase came |
rom each of the heads of resource,
nut chiefly from the internal revenue. |
On the side of expenditures the total
II $5O9,967,353 has been exceeded only
our times, in 1868, 1864. 1866 and 1899.
The surplus of $77,717, 9S4 was slightly
lnder 100000 less than in 1900.