Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-05-15
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
;vLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
Review Of happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

The bill granting women the right
to vote in Connecticut state were re-
jected in the house of representatives
by a vote of los to 60.
For the first time In the history Of
the republican party in Alabama ne
sroes were given recognition at the
conference held recently.
The Great Northerns report shows
5 per cent of the wheat area in the
company's territory. The area is con-
| siderably larger than last year.
General John c. Black of Chicago
has been unanimously indorsed as
candidate for the position of command
er in chief Of the G. A. R. by the H.
| inois division.
The receipts of the United States as
say Office in Helena for April we're the
argest on record for that month since
he establishment of the Office. The re-
eeipts amounted to $206,399.
Word from Ell Orc, Mexico, an
nounces the death of Augustus Sahi-
berg, the mulu-millionaire mining man.
at that place. Sahlberg went to Ell
ORC 10 years ago from Montana
Uncle Dan Yancey, who has lived In
Yellowstone park for 80 years. and
| whom President Roosevelt visited on
his trip there, is dying of old age. He
is 70 years old. He is one of the most
famous characters of the place and a
| noted hunter.
Major r. X. Evans, adjutant general
y. s. A., for the department of the
Columbia, is now out on a tour of in.
| spection of available sites for an en-
'ampment of the regulars stationed at
vancouver and the national guards of
Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne has
proclaimed British Monroe doctrine
n the Persian gulf and has practically
0otified the competing powers that any
attempt on their part to establish @
naval base or fortified post in those
waters means war with Great Britain
Trouble is brewing among the farm
ars of Bitter Root and Missoula and the
Farm Laborers' union over the scale
f wages demanded by the union. The
farmers allege they can not pay $3.50
FOR nine hours and compete with farm
ars of Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
The mail stage from Coos Bay to
7oseburg, Ore, was held up and
'obbed by two masked men recently
between Camas Valley and Olalla.
The three passengers on board were
compelled to get out of the stage and
inc up. While one of the robbers
TODD guard with rifle, the other re.
reived the money and valuables from
the passengers.
Miss Nellie Sturtevant, rs. years old,
laughter of Treasurer James S
Sturtevant of the Medford Cooperative
tank at Medford, Mass, was shot and
'Iilled at her home recently by an I'M
k'tnown man, who attempted to rob her
father as he was returning from bank
meeting with satchel filed with
'hecks and money. The girl stepped
between her father and robber and re-
ceived the shot The assassin then
jumped upon his bicycle and escaped
Admiral Cervera, the Spanish ad-
niral, has been gazetted a life sena-
tor
The battleship Wisconsin, which has
been at the Puget sound navy yard for
'everal months undergoing repairs,
Nae left for her station in the far east.
Heavy withdrawal of foreign credits
from New York is shown by an in
'-ease Of $4,000 900 in New York bank
loans. The money is wanted for suu-
scriptions to the new Transvaal loan
| n the strike situation at Montreal
everything is quiet. Work progresses
lowly, but the piles of merchandise
on the wharves are growing bigger,
with no immediate prospect of moving
them
| Postmaster William OLeary, soldier
and newspaper man, died recently ut
Dallas, Texas. He served with Gus
ter's cavalry in many Indian fights.
He was connected with the Dallas and
Galveston News and Texas Siftings
during his newspaper career.
| A serious conflict, the outcome of la
Dor troubles in Fremont, Ohio, oc-
CURED recently. Otto Mischke, 20
years old, was shot and killed, and
| Albert Gummell fatally wounded, the
! shooting being done by gang of nom
union men, three of whom are now in
Jail.
The Kansas supreme court has af-
drmed the decision Of the lower court
in the case of the state VS.. Jessie
Morrison. Jessie Morrison was lie.
clared guilty of killing Mrs. Olin Cas-
tie three years ago at the Castle home,
in Eldorado. The decision means 20
years Imprisonment.
The first weekly crop report for the
1908 season issued by the freight de-
partment Of the Northern Pacific, in.
cludes the following: Idaho, Wash
ington and. Oregon-Winter wheat ~
backward. The amount is the same as
last year; spring wheat seeding rs per
cent completed; increase in acreage,
10 per cent; season two weeks late.
Miss Louise Hadley, a chambermaid,
at hotel in Indianapolis, Ind, has
been discharged for refusing to make
up bed occupied by Booker T. Wash
ington the night before