Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-05-03
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complies Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands--Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

Seattle will ask Governor Rogers for pre-
lection against Snohomish county. Sh
wants quarantine
BILLY" Smith, the American pugilist
who was knocked out in glove contest a
the National Sporting club recently, died
Governor Odell Of New York has signec
the bill authorizing women taxpayers il
villages and towns to vote on proposition
to expend money for public purposes.
Mgr. Falconia, the papal delegate in Can
ada, will succeed Cardinal Martinelli a,
papal delegate in the United States, ant
that Mgr. Zalesky, the papal delegate il
the West Indies, will succeed Mgr. Fal
COMA
News has reached London of severe
battle in the vicinity of Fort Darwin, Ma
shonland, between force of Charterland
police and natives from Chintzi under the
outlaw Mapondara. Sixty of the outlaws
were killed.
At Chicago two men will die as the re.
suit Of shooting atfray that occurred in
the Harrison street police court room just
after the court had adjourned. The
wounded men are Policeman William Mes
senger and DIR. Nelson.
The famous Humbug silver mine, To-
? Gated at Tintic, Utah, has been sold by
Jesse knight of Provo for quarter of
million dollars cash. The purchasing par
ties are j. E. Dubois, millionaire mine
owner OF Dubois, Pa, and E. w. Center, a
Salt Lake capitalist.
Brigadier General Sir Frederick Lud-
gard, high commissioner and commander
in chief of Northern Nigeria, and Colonel
G. V. Kemball, with force of West Africa
frontier troops, have completed a success
full campaign against the powerful slave
raiding emirs of Bida and kontagora, in
Northern Nigeria.
once again peace rumors are in the air,
says London correspondent. Mrs. Botha
has been in correspondence with Lord
Kitchener, and as a result it is believed the
British commander in chief has agreed to
receive the three Boer generals Botha, De-
larey and Viljoen-within the next few
days. While nothing is definitely known,
1t is expected, perhaps not without signif-
canoe, that the news should reach London
from Amsterdam that Mr.. Kruger is afraid
that Mrs. Botha's efforts will cause her
husband to surrender.
Governor Hunt Of Idaho has decided
to escort President Mckinley across
this state.
British Columbia is again in the |
throes of political crisis brought |
about by the governments bill to Dor.
row $5,000,00O to substitute railways in |
the province.
The Great Northern expects to con-
meet with Canadian line at boundary
and have connection with Republic and |
Kettle river districts In operation this |
fall. So says President James j. Hill. |
The official name of the exposition to
be held In Portland in 1905, as decided
upon by the Oregon and Washington
commissioners tonight, is "The Lewis
and Clark Centennial and American
Pacific Exposition" The whole is to
be surmounted with the legend:
Where rolls the Oregon"
The steamer Pilgrim burned recent.
ly to the waters edge at Ballard,
suburb Of Seattle. Circumstances sur.
rounding the conflagration were sus.
picious. Parties rowing to the doomed
steamer say that strong odor of kero-
sene was In the air. She was insured
for $4,000. The owners claim she was
worth $1,000.
The coroner's jury at Helena. Mont.
found that Matthew Hager shot Charles
Geiss at Marysville with intent to kill,
and he will be tried for murder. The
evidence showed that Hager had de-
clared his intention of shooting Geiss
while in conversation with another
man. When they met in a saloon Ha-
ger went upstairs to his room, Dor.
rowed revolver and fired the fatal
shot with It. ,
At Springfield, ILL.,, unostentatiously /
and without any ceremony, the re-
mains of Abraham Lincoln and the
other members of his family which,
since March 10, 1900, when the work
Ok rebuilding the Lincoln monument
commenced, have been reposing in a Il
temporary stone vault near the monu- 81
ment, were recently replaced in the e
crypt In the monument which has been h
built by Illinois at a cost Of 100000. I
q. e. Marvin, chief clerk of the land t,
department. of the Northern Pacific, re- C
'ently at the Lewiston land office, I
placed Mounta Rainier scrip ON 10000 fe
'cres of white pine land in the Clear ri
water country The land fled on ad. tc
oins the selection Of $4,000 acres made g
asst year, thus increasing the holdings
4 the company in one body to so, 900 o,
ores. The lands are south of the north to
ork OF the Clearwater, in the best and ia
most extensive white pine belt in the lar
7orld.
AT Portland a bloody tragedy &C. to
urred recently on the fourth floor of OF
he building occupied by the New Eng to
md Telephone company. George II. lpe
'rainard, foreman electrician, who dc
las employed by the company for al. wi
lost 20 years, while chatting with his pr
GLOW workmen, whipped out a 3S. ca
alibre revolver and opened fire on the
arty around him. He was evidently
expert marksman, for in a brief
pace OF time he killed one man out ag
ght, fatally wounded another man Al
nd probably fatally wounded two 9TH hei