Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-28

communications in the last Ito cabi-
net, was stabbed at Yokohama at a
meeting Of the city assembly and died
shortly afterward. Hoshi Toru was
Japanese minister at Washington, and
! was formerly president OF the house.
The assassination is supposed to have
been due to politics.
1t is reported that a syndicate of
capitalists is planning a combination
with 500, O0O, 900 capital to control the
entire production and sale within the
United States Of the various products
and by products of cotton seed. There
are 400 cotton oil plants in the United
State, of which the American Cotton
Oil Company with capital of $S0,000,-
| 900 owns 35 and the American Oil Com
pany owns 10. The others are operated
largely by cotton planters.
| Secretary Root has received letter
from Governor General Wood contain
| ing the official announcement of the
adoption of the Plat amendment by
! the Cuban constitutional convention.
Like the constitutions of most of the
South American republics, the Cuban
| constitution has been framed with the
constitution of the United States as a
model, The adoption OF the Platt
amendment makes it sufficient for all
the purposes of this government in its
relations with Cuba.
DR.. D. K Pearsons of Chicago has
IL hn Foil oo1Ioo-o
pledges. due by January 1, 1902: Whit
man college, Walla Walla, Wash, $780,
900; Illinois college, Jacksonville, $780,
900; Fargo college. Fargo. N. D., $780,
900; McKendIie college, Lebanon, ILL.,,
$4,000; Bethany college, Linnsburg,
Kan, $25, 900; Fairmont college, Wichi-
ia, Kan, $4,000; Drury, Springfield,
Mo-, $4,000. Total, $275,G00. This is
an official list of gifts "to struggling
colleges" which DR.. Pearsons proposes
to make before the end of the year. In
addition there are one or two other
promises which will make the total
$3.50, 900 in round numbers.
Each nation is to help in the de-
struction of the forts in China.
The grain warehouse of the Taco
ma Grain company at Reardan. Wash,
is now mass of burnt ruins. together
with about 10000 bushels of wheat.
The fire is supposed to have been
started by drunken tramp, and he is.
not to be found, his remains are now
supposed to be in the ruins.
s. E. Stevens, county judge and a
wealthy farmer, and John A. Webb, a
neighbor also prominent in county af
fairs, met on the road three miles
from Miakka, Manatee county, Flori-
da, and renewed an old feud that ex-
listed between them. Stevens was
stabbed to death, and Webb seriously
hut probably not fatally cut
Recent events in Cape Colony seem
to prove the Boer invasion of that
country to be serious. A letter to the
Daily Mail dated Cape Town, June S,
confirms the pro-Boer report, and says
the invaders number anywhere from
1000 to 10000; that they are swarming
all over the eastern and midland dis
tricts and getting recruits and horses.
The death of H. S. Church of Louis |
Vile was the second act of a bloody |
tragedy that began in Louisville with |
the murder of Emily Stewart, but |
which did not come to light until re- |
Gently when the police found the hor-
ribly mutilated body of the woman hid
den in a closet in the same house
where the man was dying from
wounds self-inflicted with pistol and |
razor.
A shooting and cutting ARRAY in
crowded coach on the st. Louis & San
Francisco Sunday ended in the killing
Of one person and the wounding of
several others, and created a panic.
The killed: Mrs. Samuel Hart, col
ored, st Louis. The wounded James
Laughlin, conductor, st. Louis, shot
through the arm: Frank Williams. col
pred, st. Louis, shot through the leg
and badly cut about head.
A tornado struck the residence Dor
ton of Middleport, Ohio, early Sunday
morning. Two houses and six barns
were blown down, about 20 buildings
lnroofed and 500 trees uproted. All
the telephone, electric light and tele-
graph wires were torn down and
across the trolley wire of street cars.
Horses were killed by contact with
the wires and one man was fatally
burned. Thousands of dollars damage
was done to bridges.
The annual report of B. H. Tatum
assayer in charge of the United States
assay Office at Helena, Montana.
shows the mineral production of
Montana for 1900 to have been
Is follows: Gold, $4.736,225; silver,
8,4S2,211; copper. $39.S27, 1876; lead
total, $63,746,727. This is a
decrease of $4,71O.5S1 as compared
With the previous year and is due to
he falling off in silver production and
he lower average price received for
copper. whose output exceeded the
preceding year.