Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-05-22
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY.
cuLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


eleven cities have voted to grant IL
censes for the sale OF intoxicating
liquors for the coming year.
Two hundred cooks, 400 walters, 800
butchers and $50 bakers were called
out on strike at Denver recently by the
pure food council. Nearly all the
restaurants in the. city are closed.
Joseph Bashaw, as near as can be
figured out, at least lis years old,
was found dead in bed at the home of
his stepson, near Sidney, Ore, recent
ly. He was probably the Oldest man in
Oregon.
The war department has received adj
vices from Manila that Miss Floy Gil
more has been appointed assistant
attorney general for the government
in the Philippines. She is the first wo-
man ever appointed to such an i'm
portant legal position.
The Oxford Cambridge athletic au-
thorities have received a cable mes
sage from the athletic authorities Of
Yale announcing that the proposed in
teruniversity athletic contest in Lon
don during the month of July is de-
clined, owing to Harvard's refusal to
participate in it.
A slight wreck occurred recently at
Nolin, a siding on the o. R. & N. 20
miles west of Pendleton, Ore. The
train in taking the sidetrack ran into
a cooking car, severely injuring Mrs.
Dozier, the cook, VINO was hurt about
the head. She will recover. One car
was thrown from the track.
Abalon Jacobs, Young German SER
want girl employed on the Scharnhorst
ranch, six miles west of Genesee,
Idaho, gave birth to an illegitimate
child several days ago. Either sup
posing the child was stillborn, or for
some other reason, the woman, it is
said, buried the infant while it was still
alive.
At the Pastime club in Portland,
Joe Cans, the colored lightweight of
Baltimore, and Tom Tracey of Port
land met in contest which was sched-
uled to go 20 rounds. In the middle
OF the ninth round Tracey's seconds
threw up the sponge and Cans was de-
clared the winner. Tracey was no
match for Cans, and after four rounds
there was never a doubt as to the re-
suit of the fight.
While resting and feeding a band
of 500 horses shipped by Grant Smith
from the Big Bend country, in Wash
ington, to Sioux City. Iowa, at the
stockyards at Kalispell Mont, over
100 died, and many more are sick
from stomach trouble. It is supposed
the water has became poisoned IN
some manner. Within 10 hours after
being unloaded and watered and fed
the animals became sick and shortly
after were seen to reel and drop.
Friction between the war and navy
departments may result from the &C.
ton of the general board of which Ad-
miral Dewey is president, in preparing
plans for the defense of Manila, the
new naval stations at Bahia Honda
and Guantanamo and other naval
property. According to the law, the
ecretary Of war els charged with all
matters relating to the national de-
tense and seacoast Notifications" His
authority in this regard has been rec
ognized by both the navy department
and congress. =
King Edward ana Queen Alexandra
returned to London from Scotland
May Is.
Tom Sharkey, the pugulist, was bad
ly injured in a wrestling match at
Perth Amboy, N. j., recently, with
Hanson, the Danish champion.
Sibyl Sanderson, the we'll known
American opera singer. died suddenly
recently in Paris of pneumonia, re-
sulting from an attack of the grip.
The loss of Mrs. Pierre Lorillard,
who is reported to have been robbed Of
$50, 900 worth of jewels, amounts prob
ably to far greater sum than at first
reported.
During ten days that collections
were made in the United States for as
sistance of the sufferers in the relig-
ious riots at Kishineff. Russia, about
$50, 900 has been subscribed to the re-
lief fund.
Eight persons were injured by an ex-
plosion of gasoline on the auxiliary
yacht Vagabond, anchored in the Hud-
son river, N. Y, city, recently. The
injured we're mostly burned about the
face, head, hands and arms.
Premier Irvine has announced in the
Australian legislative assembly that
he had received letter from the off,
Gals of the Engine Drivers association
declaring the strike OFF and submit
ting Internationally.
President Palma has assured the
correspondent of the Associated Press
that an understanding would be
reached on all the treaties between the
United States and Cuba, and that the
signing of them will follow shortly.
The police authorities of Southport,
Conn, are searching for Oliver Sher-
wood. cashier of the Southport Nation
al bank, who is missing. 1t is alleged
by the bank authorities that Sher-
woods accounts are short between
$50 900 and $4,000.
President Roosevelt, for the second
time since he left Washington on his
present trip, was last Sunday cut on