Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-06-05
TELEGRAPH NEWS summary
cuLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseH Told.

Gould interests have wrested contro
of the Baltimore & Ohio from the Penn
sylvania system.
Rowland G. Bowman, aged 80, car
toonist on the Minneapolis Tribune
poet, author and entertainer, died re
Gently at his home in Minneapolis.
The death is announced of Bruce
Price of New York in Paris, aged 81
years. Mr.. Price, who was president OF
the Architectural Society of America
A. Corn, an alleged anarchist, was
held by the Ogden police pending the
When searched by the police a muir
derous looking dagger was found In
Corn's pocket.
Memorial day was observed in San
Francisco with more than usual i'm
pressiveness. The weather was per
feet and all business houses were
closed.
Sixteen negroes, composing two fam
lies of cotton plantation hands, were
drowned recently in the Mississippi
river near Pecan Point, 40 miles north
of Memphis.
The intercollegiate debate between
Nevada and Utah-"Resolved, That
Municipalities Should Own and Oper.
ate Street Railways, Light and Tele.
phones won by Nevada.
| The Brooklyn Eagle says that $780,.
900 annually is paid in excess of the
commercial rent of postoffices. The
Eagle adds that if the leases run ten
years the total excess will amount to
$5,0O0,00O.
| The war department has awarded
to the Boston Steamship company the
contract for the carrying of all pas
sengers, freight and public animals
originating or passing through Puget
sound en- route to. the Philippines.
| Edwin Gould has offered $1,000 re.
ward for the capture of John Heffer-
mans murderer, which occurred re-
Gently, and said nine other members
of the Ardsley club would offer a SINH
lar amount, making the total amount
$4,000.
An order has been issued in the
circuit court directing that the Ferris
wheel that stood on the Midway at the
worlds fair be sold after June to the
highest bidder, and If no bids are re-
ceived it will be broken up and sold
for junk.
With solemn and impressive cere-
monies Memorial day was observed in
the national capital on a more elabo-
rate scale than ever before. Business
was suspended not only in the depart
ments of the government, but through
out the entire city.
In consequence of the scarcity of rain
and numerous fires occurring in Otta-
wa and the surrounding country, upon
the suggestion of Mayor Cook, the min
lister of militia, Sir Frederic Borden
has given instructions that the sky be
bombarded by the artillery at Nepeen
point.
The San Francisco building trades
council has taken important action re-
garding demands of affiliated unions
for Increase of wages. By resolution
adopted at the meeting of the council
it took the stand that henceforth it
will sanction requests for increased
pay until such time as the further pros
perity of the city warrants such action.
Advices from Pekin state that Prince
Ching has rendered his resignation on
the ground of i'll health, but the en-
peror and empress dowager have re-
fused to accept it and have instructed
him to recuperate his health. The
prince is suffering from a throat COM
plant through cold. He has lost one of
his children and has therefore asked
for five days leave.
An electric car on the Fillmore street
branch of the lines of the United rail-
road, San Francisco, got beyond the
control of the motorman while descend
ing the steep grade between Page and
Haight streets. At the crossing it ran
INTO a Ha1ght street cable car filled
with passengers. There were no IA
tailties, but a score of people were
more or less badly hurt.
The arrival of large delegation of
capitalists to file on desert land claims
IN six townships of Franklin county
discloses plans for perhaps the great.
est irrigation enterprise the northwest
mas yet seen. In brief, sufficient wa
ter is to be stored in three lakes near
the summit of the Cascade mountains
IN hittitas county to run a large vol
ume down the River Yakima as need.
ed; divert this in a ditch at Prosser
ana run across northeast Yakima and
southern Franklin counties, irrigating
az tract variously estimated from ZOO
ooo to 100000 acres. The Columbia
river is to be crossed by steel tube
wnlch will carry water from Yakima
to Franklin.