The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY

| Emilio Dubois OF Santiago. Chill,
VINO Is known to have murdered Nv
persons, has been condemned t
death.
The Torreon branch of the BAN
Of Coahuils at Torreon, Mexico, wa
robbed last week of $4,000 in gol
and bills.
The Japanese Buddhists of Southern
California have decided to rais'
$4,000 for the building Of temple il
Los Angeles.
The French Senate has ratified
the Algeciras convention, which Oh
Dec. 6 was approved by the cham
Der Of deputies.
American Vice Consul-General Fair
child shot and killed himself at Muk
den. It is believed that the shoot
ing was accidental.
The shipment of coffee from the
port Of Rio de Janeiro is at stand.
STILL owing to the fact that the steve
dores have gone on strike.
A merger of the leading wooden
mills of the south, involving a cap
italization of one and quarter mil
lion dollars, has been effected.
Representative Hardwick, OF
Georgia, has introduced bill requir-
ing all railways to install the block
system and providing that every tele
grapher shall be licensed.
According to bulletin issued by
the Census bureau there had been
ginned up to December 10, of this
years cotton crop 11,099,001 bales,
against 9,297,819 at this time last year.
Secretary Root and Sir Mortimer
Durand have signed supplementary
article to the existing extradition
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain, including bribery in
the list of extraditable crimes.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin de-
scribes the situation as critical, ow-
ing to the agitation of the South
China opium dealers and owners OF
gambling houses, who are discontinued
as result of various recent reforms
and the suppression of the opium
traffic.
A bill empowering an Anglo-French
company to construct tunnel under
the British channel has been deposit
ed with parliament. 1t is estimated
that this scheme will involve the ex.
penditure of s8O,OO0,0OO. It is pro-
posed to build two parallel tunnels "a
miles long.
John Wilkis, capitalist of Abba,
Iowa, is dead as the result of drink
ing from bottle of carbolic acid
which he had mistaken for a bottle
of whisky He had a bottle of whis-
ky hidden in the barn, where he also
kept carbolic acid. Wilkie emptied
the acid bottle.
Joseph Skerns, the former Chicago |
dry goods clerk and newspaper man,
captured at Great Bend, Kans, re-
Gently, after holding up local bank
in broad daylight, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the state peniten-
tiary for term of from ten to
twenty-one years.
John Elliott Walker, sheriff Of
Maricopa county, Arizona, committed
suicide at Phoenix by shooting him
self through the head, while temper
arily deranged. He had been brood
ng over financial reverses and over
his defeat for denomination at the
asst democratic convention.
Habeas corpus proceedings have
,een brought in the federal court at
Kansas City in behalf of Mrs. Agnes
Myers, now confined in Jail at Liber.
y, Mo-, under sentence to be hanged
IN January 10 for the murder of her
husband. The United States supreme
;ourt refused to reopen her case.
The San Diego chamber Of com.
nerce is making efforts to secure an
appropriation of $2,50O,000 Tor the
purpose of controlling the waters OF
he Colorado river and preventing
hem from overlooking Imperial
alley.
Eight votes are lacking to place
he Prohibition party upon the regu.
ar ballot at the next New Hamp.
hire state election, as result of
he conclusion of the inspection OF
'allots in the recent gubernatorial
ontest.
About 1000 Chinese soldiers from
Janking, armed with modern weap-
ms, trained by European officers and
accompanied by batteries of field ar