Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-04-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


An oficial cable from Caracas states
that department secretaries are sal
filing the cabinet positions made va
cant by the resignation of President
Castro.
The population of Los Angeles, Cal,
according to the city directory census
of April l, 1906, is 22S,29S The popu-
lation as given in the directory for
May l, 1905, was 1854. On this ba-
sis the city has increased 30,684 in
population in IL months
President Roosevelt will not hunt
any more while he is president, ac-
cording to Colonel Cecil Lyons, repub-
lican national committeeman from
Texas.
George R. Young, cashier of the Pos
tai Telegraph company at st. Louis,
who was arrested charged with en-
bezzlement, committed suicide while
on the way to Jail.
Arthur Turner, editor and publisher
of Vogue, died recently from pneumo-
MIA at his home. He was SO years of
age and had been in the publishing
business in New York for nearly 80
years.
The planters association is arrang
ing to send an agent to the Philip
pines to secure Filipino or Japanese
laborers to work in the Hawaiian ISL
ands. The agent will also be instruc-
ed to secure laborers in Porto Rico.
All hope has been abandoned for
the recovery of Father Louis Martin,
general of the order of the Jesuits, and
known as the BLACK pope" He is
suffering from cancer.
The official enrolment figures of lhe
University of Michigan for 19O5-19O6
were given out recently and show a
total of 4571 students. This is gain
of 495 over last year.
The cruiser Washington returned to
the yards of the New York Shipbuild-
ing company after a successful trial
off the Maine coast. The cruiser at
tanned 22.27 knots, little more than
quarter of a knot in excess Of the
government requirement.
Miss tombstone Bennett, the actress,
died recently.
The king of Spain was recently
elected member of the royal yacht
squadron, preparatory to his arrival at
Cowes, April II, to visit Princess Ena
of Battenberg, the future queen of
Spain.
King Victor Emmanuel has decorat-
ed Professor Matteucci director of the
royal observatory on Mount Vesuvius,
with the rank of commander of the
order of the crown.
Incendiary articles in the Appeal to
Reason have resulted in it's being
barred from the Canadian mails. 1t
is a sOcialistic organ, published at
GIrard, Kan.
Israel Ludlow of New York, inven-
tor of the aeroplane, was so badly in
jured by fall at Atlantic Beach, Fla,
that he will probably die.
The recent discovery Of a plot of
anarchists to assassinate ali of the
members of the royal family of spain
has caused a feeling of apprehension
throughout the entire country.
The French postmen have been re-
turning to work. There are now only
400 strikers among total of 10000
postmen. The strike at Lyons is end
ed.
King Frederick, notwithstanding de-
malls, is endeavoring to obtain from
the pope the ecclesiastical sanction for
divorce from the Countess Montig-
/ uncO in Oq.do1. ~ N, q IsVvy
General E. S. Bragg, who has been
consul general of the United States at
Hongkong for the past three years,
has returned to the United States.
Two men were killed and IL prob
ably fatally injured in a collision Of
coal cars at the Territory mine of
the Stonewall company near Charles
ton, W. Va. The cars went over a
100 foot embankment.