The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-19
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Moncure D. Conway has finished his
autobiography and has gone to Lon
don for long rest.
During Lieutenant General Chaffee's
recent tour of the country he inspected
thirty-eight army posts.
The Crown Prince of Siam, who has
been travelling in Europe, is to enter
the Buddhist priesthood.
General Herman Haupt, the oldest
living graduade of West Point, was ap-
pointed a cadet at the age of - by An
drew Jackson.
The government of Ecuador has in
troduced into Congress a bill for the
separation of church and state and the
confscation of ecclesiastical property.
In Vienna, the answers made by
prisoners in the sweat box" will be
recorded by photograph, SO that there
cannot be subsequent doubt of the
statements made.
More than three thousand expert
ments on living animals were made
for British government departments of
public authorities in 1903, and 1913 for
the tuberculosis commission.
An angry man who called a tele-
phone girl a "sheepshead" over the
wire in Nuremburg, Germany, has
been fined $6.25. A Viennese who call
ed the woman operator Chinese" in
similar circumstances has suffered to
the extent Of So.
The restriction that salmon may not
be taken from the waters of southeast
ern Alaska until after July l of each
year has been removed and in view
of this it Is expected that the catch
will be very much larger this year than
previously.
For cutting down with his sword and
afterward stabbing a drunken man
who had jeered at him, a German SER
geant has been sentenced to forty-five
days imprisonment. The same court
sent to prison for four months a pri-
vate who had neglected to feed his
horse.
Great progress has been made in Ire.
land with the Town Tenants League
within the last few months. 1t aims
to do for the tenants in towns what
the various forms Of the Land League
have done for the agricultural tenants
to protect town tenants from confis-
cation of the improvements by ground
landlords.
A doctor in the coal mining districts
of upper Silesia thinks he has discov
cred in coal dust cure for consump-
ton, owing to its drying and disinfect-
ing effects On the lung tubercles. He
was led to investigation by the fact
that consumptive people coming from
other regions to the neighborhood OF
the mines recovered their health.
A poacher, writing in the County
Gentleman Of London. says: "Wben 7
left home at night to go poaching 7 al
ways left an end of candle burning
IN a saucer of water in my bedroom.
this was arranged so that If would
splutter out about 10 o'clock lust as IL
l mad exunguished it and retired for
the night. This I did because 7 die.
covered that the keepers were given
10 watching my house for signs of nv
leaving and it was long time before
they found that a candle couId On o,,+
without human agency"
London Engineering illustrates and
describes the largest monolith vet hniIt
Two of these structures form the fonn
ualons Tor the roundheads at the en-.
trance OF the new Midland RAILWAY
Company's harbor at Heysham. IN
MofcamOe Bay. The roundheads ara
'hree hundred feet apart, and only =
SNORT distance removed from the main
channel nlnel formed by Heysham Lake
lucy are built on monoliths. which