Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-06-24
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cuLLED PROM DISPATCHER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
4 Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt were
the guests Saturday night of Attorney
General and Mrs. Knox at their Valley
Forge farm.
The dropping of match into can
of oil in hardware store at Altura,
4...nn., has resulted in practically WHIP
ing out that village.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho will
produce 100000 bushels of wheat this
year, according to r. M Hall of the
o. r. e N. company.
The American battleship squadron,
commanded by Rear Admiral Barker,
has sailed from Lisbon on a visit to
the ports of Greece and Austria.
Honolulu.-Levi P. Kauhee, post
master at Kappa, KAUAI, has been re-
moved from the office by Inspector
Hare. The shortage in the Office is al
legged to be $500.
Edmund Morewood Ferguson, for
many years prominent in the financial
and business affairs of Pittsburg, and
who was reputed to be worth $25, OO0,-
900, died recently, aged 70 years.
The steamer katsuno was sunk off
Moji as result of colliding with the
steamer Yamatokan. Both vessels
were on their way to rescue the sur
yivors of the transports Hitachi and
Sado.
William e. Harmon, city marshal
of Pitkin, Col, and deputy sheriff of
Gunnison county, has been shot and
instantly killed by Tim Sullivan, whom
he was called to arrest for threatening
his wife. Sullivan escaped.
By unanimous vote the republican
national committee decided to seat
the delegates at large from Wisconsin
who are members of the "stalwart" fac
ton, headed by Senator John c. spoon
er and Joseph v. Quarles, and opposed
to the republicans led by Governor La
Toilette.
Chicago, Jt,ne 18.-Justice E. c.
hamburger, for many years magistrate
on the North Side, died early today of
heart disease. Justice Hamburger was
naval officer in the civil war. He
served on the sloop Constellation from
tired as lieutenant.
News has reached Ashland, Ore, of
tragedy at Picard, in Butte Creek
valley, California, east of Ashland, in
which George Potter was shot and in
stantly killed, and his companion,
man named Mckay, was seriously in
jured by a man named Snyder, at
cabin near the Picard postoffice.
Two men, whom the authorities be-
lieve to be the notorious Gates broth
ers, George and Edwin, of Alameda,
who on March 81 blew up and robbed
an express car and killed Messenger
William O'Neil at Copley, Cal, are in
Jail at Elko, New, having been arrest
ed on the charge of horse stealing.
Santiago de Cuba.-The recent fall
of ID inches of rain In five hours. &C.
companying a hurricane, has resulted
in the death of more than 100 persons.
The most severe loss was at the vii
lage of Ell Cobre. where some 60 per-
sons were drowned. The river rose
rapidly, destroying the lower part of
the village.
Rear Admiral Terry has received a
letter from Secretary of the Navy
Moody, stating that work is under
way in the preparation of the estab-
lishment of naval station of consid-
cradle proportions at Pearl Harbor. 1t
is believed that the station at Homo
lulu will eventually be removed to
Pearl Harbor
Ellen Beach Yaw, the singer, who
came to Mason City, Iowa, to sing in
a concert. discovered on her arrival
that her jewel case was gone, with
diamonds, necklaces, rings and gifts
worth $4,000 missing. She came d.
rect from California. There was a
wreck at Cathay, N. D., and it is be-
lieved her trunk was broken open