Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
NEWS SUMMARY.

ion the pension appropriation bill, ear
rying s1ss. 100
Red Cloud, the celebrated Sioux
chief. almost blind and very feeble, is
dead at Pine Ridge. s. D.. aged 81
years.
Estimates place the worlds produc-
ton OF Indian corn in 1903 at $780,,
100000 bushels, against 3,04o, ZOO 900
bushels last year.
1t is estimated that 100000 pounds
Of dried figs we're produced in CaIifor-
MIA in 1902, against $500, 900 pounds
the year previous.
General John c. Black has accepted
the civil service commissionership and
the president will send in his nominal
ton when congress reconvenes.
Representative Lacy of Iowa has In
I troduced a bill for the protection OF
wild animals, birds and fish in the for
est reserves of the United States.
Six persons were asphyxiated by IL
Eliminating gas in San Francisco Sun
day night, and the coroner concluded
that all the cases were accidental
The three main departments of the
Illinois Steel company at Joliet are
now idle, the billet mills having been
ordered 10 close. About 1900 men are
affected.
The London Daily Mails Toxic cor
eign office denies the reported agree
ment TO employ Russian officers in the
Korean army.
The wool clip Of 1903 Is estimated at
z45. 100000 pounds of fleece and A.
100000 pounds of pulled wool, making
a total wool product of 2s7. 100000
pounds Of wool in the grease
General Pimentel has raised force
against the provisional government at
Hama, San Domingo. The situation
is becoming complicated, and the pres
ence of warships is desirable
For the first time in the history of
the United States, as far as the rec
ords show. jury composed of six
women sat on case before Judge Ho-.
more in the juvenile court in Chicago
last week
One thousand miners employed in
the mines OF Tunnelton. TOWNSVILLE
and Aatlantic, w. Va, are on strike
because of the operators attempt to
reduce the rate Of pay 10 cents a ton
for mining coal.
With the Ohio river frozen over and
great gorges at many places, a rise
Of three feet threatens danger to all
kinds of craft. harbor steamer
was sunk at Cincinnati, Sunday, by
run out of ice"
General Delarey made a speech to
the Boer prisoners at Admadnagar,
and succeeded in persuading all but
ten of them to sign the oath of allegi-
ance to Great Britain General Delarey
spoke for five hours.
Mrs. j. Messersmith, her daughter
and Frank Smith, a clerk, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the meat market and resi-
dence and the dry goods store Of J.
Simon at Braidwood H.
1t is announced that the shortage in
the accounts of W. A McKowen, the
defauIting secretary of the board of
Of the University OF California
will amount to over $4,000. McKowen
lost the money at the race track
Five residences and vacant store
building were wrecked by dynamite
At New Castle, thirteen miles west Of
Colorado Springs, Colo, on the 18th
There is no clue as to the perpetra-
.ors Several persons had narrow es-
apes from death
Alexander Half, the suspended SUI
of foreign mails In the
New York postoffice, who was to have
been brought TO trial in the federal
,ourt this week for robbing the mails,
TILED himself Sunday night by shoot
ng-
A dispatch from Rome says tho
of Durbo in Italian So
maitland, where Lieutenant Graham
Tas killed, which has been undertaken
y the Italian warship Calico. Is
merely for the purpose OF impressing
he natives
Exports of cottonseed oil from the
Tnited States for the ten months end
d October 30th. were 0,436, 155 gall