Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-12-14
NEWS SUMMARY

Inc question or spelling undOubteG.
ly will receive attention at the hands
of congress this week.
The yellow fever situation in Cuba
is satisfactory There is one case In
Havana and two in the interior.
During the past week eight terror
lists have been executed at Warsaw
and eight others condemned to death.
military raid on the Rakofr Iron
works at Czenstochova. Russia. re-
suited in breaking up an extensive rev.
dictionary organization
In an explosion of gas in the Balti-
more mine of the Parrish Coal com
pany, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, two men
were killed and five others injured.
Orders have been placed with the
Nikolaeif ship-building yards for the
construction of four modern torpedo
cruisers for the Black Sea fleet of
Russia.
Charles G. Washburn has been NOM
mated by the Republicans to succeed
the late Representative lockwood
Hoar, of Massachusetts, for the unex-
PRED term.
With the coming of the new state
OF Oklahoma, it will require the CO.
operation of thirty-one legislatures TO
secure from congress call for con.
stitution convention.
j. F. Culpper, former chief of police
and widely known throughout the
southwest, was shot and killed in a
pistol duel with a negro named Brock
at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The Imperial budget, presented last
week, adds $4,000 to the salary of the
German ambassador at Washington,
owing to the increased cost of living
at the American capital.
A report made to congress by the
governor of New Mexico shows that
&c, 1875 voters in that territory favored !
joint statehood in the recent election, |
while 14,4S5 voted against it.
A letter received at Phoenix, Ari-
IONA, reports the stoning TO death OF |
an Apache squaw by tribesmen. one
mile from Fort Apache. The natives
charged her with being a witch.
1t is reported that a side lead has
been opened in the old Comstock mine
at Virginia City, Nevada. which bids
fair to be richer than anything ever
yet taken from that famous property.
Lulu Bridges, an 1S-year-old girl. was
arrested at Los Angeles and lodged
IN Jail, charged with having accepted
1 bride at Paris, Mo-, for leaving the
own to escape being called as court
witness.
The Chicago Board of trade has
decided by vote of sec to 277 to
.educe grain commissions from Ac
o &c a bushel on orders filed for
outsiders and from sc to 1-16c for
members.
The trial of Harry X Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White, the archi-
ect, will not begin until March or
april of next year, unless District At /;
orney Jerome consents to rearrange
is court calendar.
1t has been determined by the pro-
isional governor of Cuba that Christ
las gifts sent from the United States
D officers. soldiers and American en-
loyees serving in Cuba shall be adj I
lifted free of duty.
The Agricultural chamber of West {
russia has adopted a resolution en- ,
owering its executive committee to =
repare to import Chinese as farm la
orers in order to relieve the pre- 3
INT sarcity of such labor. S
AS a result on the explosion on IA
oxes of blasting powder on the q :,
vel of the Quincy mine at Hughton, .
ich.. two miners were killed, two 4
.riously injured and number over S
me by the gas and smoke. S
A term of six years for the presi-
mt and the vice president of the +.
nited States is proposed by Sena =
r Cullom in a joint resolution intro t,
ICED last week, providing for an
nendment n the constitution a
The biggest cavalry drill hall in the W
rid is to be built at Fort Leaven- a
nth, Kas The quartermaster's de =,
rtment win soon ask for bids for
, erection OF the building, which al
Il be $40 feet long by 40 feet wide. ~