Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-04-26

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left hand blow on the jaw which D,
Cur out Of business.
United States Consular Agent Geors
l.. Schetky, who recently returned frol
San Francisco, gives most pessimi
tic account Of the condition of the coz
trade there. He says oil is putin
coal out Of business everywhere excer
for domestic use. The slightest fluctl
alton in the present prices would b
fatal to the coal industry.
-Four men confined in the Carbo
county (Wyo.) Jail cawed the bars O
their cells, waylaid the jailer on hi
evening round and locked him in a cell
The prisoners secured the jailer's Dis
tolls and coatless and hatless escapet
to the hills. A large possee is search
ing the country. Two of the escape,
prisoners, Orno McSwain and jane
Mcmahon, were awaiting trial on the
charge of murder.
! Frederick Berstecher was beaten tc
death with rifle last night by Adolph
Won Grueningin at Bethany, a village
IL miles from Portland, Ore.
Recently four innocent white men
were shot, one perhaps fatally, a negro
was shot and another badly cut, the
result OF a drunken fight started by a
crowd of negroes in Rosedale. Kan a
suburb of Kansas City.
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, is dead
Death was due to heart disease Mr..
Hume established the first salmon can
merry on the Columbia river in 1874
In 1896 his business interests were
transferred to Alaska.
me horribly mangled body of John
A Smith was found on the tracks Of
the Seattle & International railway he
tween Fremont, suburb of Seattle
and Ballard. There is a belief that
smith was sandbagged, robbed and
then thrown on the track to cover nm
the crime.
Inc London war Office has received
dispatch from Lord Kitchener report
Ing that since April IS various British
commanders have taken 81 prisoners
together with 100000 rounds of small
ammunition and many horses, cattle
and wagons. Lord Kitchener reports
also the surrender of 20 Beers since
that date.
A high wind that struck Chicago re-
Gently loosened huge iron water tank
from it's fastenings on the roof of the
Galbraith building, Madison and
FRANKLIN streets, causing it to crash
through the six floors to the ground.
lnJuring five persons and resulting
In damage to the building estimated
1T $4,000.
me Flood Hollow dam in Middle |
held, Mass, gave way recently, letting
loose the water in the big reservoir.
which rushed with terrific force into
he west branch of the Westfeld river
sweeping everything before it and sub
merging the greater part of the town.
NO lives were lost, but great damage
las been done, the extent of which it
s impossible now to estimate.
Henry H. Morrick, a 7-year-old
grandson of Henry Harris. a well
Inown rancher, was instantly killed
It the Roup farm, on the Yellowstone
abroad Sunday night. The youngster
inferred the granary to drive out some
hlckens and while he was doing so a
nicken flew against a loaded gun in
he building, knocking it down. the
orce OF the fall causing the weapon to
Q discharged. The contents struck
ne little fellow, killing him instantly.
me MOTEL and lighthouses at historic
steamboat Springs, Nevada, which in
ne Dalmy days of the Comstock mines
'as watering place where more
honey has been squandered in night
nan at almost any other resort on the
past, are no more. A fire, which start.
! In the hotel, crossed the road to the .
vo-story bathhouse where the main
aths were situated, and entirely de-
'royed both buildings. There was no
lsurance on the property.
The steamship Indravelli has arrived I
Portland from Yokohama. The In
ravelli Is the first of feet of 5000
m vessels comprising the Portland
1d Asiatic steamship line established q
the o. r. & N. to operate between I
Drtland and the countries of Asia. c
he other vessels of the line as at pres
IL constituted being the Indrapura
Id Knight Companion.
Pao-Ting-Fu, China, has been for
me time big military camp of fl
rench and German soldiers on the
ay to the front. 1t is now estimated a
at 5000 French troops and 5000 Ger a
ans Will form the entire force when
the reinforcements have arrived. K
lere is no truth in current reports t.
garding severe fighting between the
tposts and the Chinese. OF
Dr.. H. L. Nietert, superintendent of Al
st. Louis city hospital, has per.
rmed one of the most remarkable W
erations ever recorded in the annals gu
surgery. 1t consisted of taking tic
rec stitches in the heart of Philip
nm, who had been stabbed in a m
awl. The point of the knife blade fl
d entered the right ventricle and st
pierced to the cavity of the heart 81
9 knife entered the heart obliquely
the result was that the opening bu
ween the cavity and the pericard- In
n, or covering of the heart, was lip an
ped on both sides. tn
The wound acted as valva oDd ~ \