Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-02-13
GENEpAL NEWS :

dent today signed the bill provid-
ing for free homesteads on public
lands for actual and bona ide set
tiers in the northern half of the
Colville Indian reservation in !
Washington and resarving the pub
lie land for that purpose.
Olympia, Wash, Feb. II. The
railway commission bill, the most
important measure to come before
the present session of the legisla-
ture, was defeated in the senate to-
day by vote OF % to II. In the
house the bill is hung up apparent
ly for The entire session and with
ont recorded vote being entered
on the measure.
London, Feb. ga news agency
dispatch from Brussels asserts that
M. Giron is returning TO Geneva In
response to an urgent appeal from
the former crown princess OF Sax
ony. The princess having failed
to obtain permission to see her sick
children considers it futile accord
ing to the dispatch to make any
further concessions to the Saxon
court.
Montreal, Feb. 6.-J, O. Arm
strong, emigration agent Of the
Canadian Pacific railway, says TO-
600 American, Scandinavian and
English farmers from the western
states; Frenchmen from New Eng
land and Swedes from New York,
will come to settle in Canada next
4 year. Armstrong announces the
removal in the United States of the
old prejudice against Canada.
/ New York, Feb. 10.-A speed Of
over 80 miles an hour for dis
lance of Is miles has been attained
by the Midland Railway COM
pany's new engines with load OF
$50 tons, says London dispatch
to the Tribune. A Newcastle pa
per which records the feat claims
that the engines in many respects
are ideal ones, and distinct ad-
vance on any locomotive built
hitherto in this country.
New York, Feb. 10.-When the
, transport Prairie sails from the
Brooklyn navy yard on Thursday
she will carry 100000 Of Uncl'
Sam's currency, which is to pay
the officers and crews of the ships
e of the North Atlantic squadron
now on the West Indian station
/, The Prairie also will take ammu
r pition for the battleships Kear
i sarge, Illinois, Massachusetts, an
! Indiana, which are lying at Gal
e weston.
!. Washington, Feb. 7.-Senato
i Foster today presented to the pres
y ident Clarence Ide, collector of Gus
. toms of the Puget Sound distric
. Ide is in Washington in conferenc
!. with the treasury officials regard
ing the smuggling of opium an
il the illegal entrance into the Unite
% States of Chinese. 1t has been de
n termined as result of the confer
ence, that radical measures shall /
q taken up to put stop to both pra'
;, tees, which are particularly fl;
: grant in Ide's district.
&c Boise, Feb. 9.-The Legislative
N reapportionment of the state wa
IS determined this evening by Il
Is Joint republican caucus. AS tt
OF result the following counties eac
IN gain one Representatives: AID
y Bannock, Bingham, CANYON, Ow
y. hee, Nez Perce and Oneida, viii
OF Boise and Lsmhi each lose re
OF resentative, thus increasing Il
y, membership of the house by for
OF The number of votes necessary f
O. each representative was fixed
'r- 1850, or major portion thereof, t
e vote for governor at the last elt
an ton being used as the basis.
Ier New York, Feb. 11.-Haste
x. the work Of repairing the ships
in the Brooklyn navy yard is +
Ter order of the day. Repeated CO.
I'd. mands have been received fro
is, Washington directing that no {
asst lay he PERMITTED and that all shi
hit be put in commission as rapiC
RS. as possible. To obey these ord,
he it has become necessary to empl
id about 200 additional machini
of and mechanics. No definite inf
hts nation as to the reason for hurl
lille ing the repairs is in possession
nd the officers at the yard, but they
led all pushing the work.
81 IS New York, Feb. 10.-John
- Rockefeller, Jr., is supposed to
en- the richest young man in Amer
'ata and owes 100000, and has OF
an $4,000 of personal property,
an cording to the statement filed W
Dan the department Of taxes and asse
~ ments. Mr.. Rockefeller was
bas sessed at 100000. From WI