Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY

death.
The Torreon branch of the Bank
Of Coahuils at Torreon, Mexico, vas
robbed last week of $4,000 in gold
and bills.
The Japanese Buddhists of Southern
California have decided to raise
$4,000 for the building of temple in
Los Angeles.
The French Senate has ratified
the Algeciras convention, which on
Dec. was approved by the cham
Der of deputies. f8EFt
American Vice ConsuI-General Fair
child shot and killed himself at Muk-
den. 1t is believed that the shoot
ing was accidental. Fr
The shipment of coffee from the
port of Rio de Janeiro is at stand
still, owing 10 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 a 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 a bulletin issued by
the Census bureau there had been
ginned up to December 10, of this
years cotton crop 11,099,001 bales,
against s,297 ,S19 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 disconnected
as a 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 e8O,O00,OOO. 1t is pro
posed to build two parallel tunnels "a
miles long.
John Wilkis, a capitalist of Abba, |
Iowa, is dead as the result of drink
ing from a bottle of carbolic acid
which he had mistaken for bottle |
of whisky. He had 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
n broad daylight, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the state peniten-
larry for a term of from ten to
years.
John Elliott Walker, sheriff of
daricopa county, Arizona, committed
suicide at Phoenix by shooting him.
elf through the head, while temper
Lrily deranged. He had been brood
ng over financial reverses and over
lis 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
Iyers, now confined in Jail at Libei-
V. Mo-, under sentence to be hanged
N January 10 for the murder of her
husband The United States supreme
curt refused to reopen her case.
The San Diego chamber of com
nerce is making efforts to secure an
appropriation of s2,500,O00 for 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 a result OF
he conclusion of the inspection Of
allots in the recent gubernatorial
ontest.
About 1000 Chinese soldiers from
Ianking, armed with modern weap
MS. trained by European officers and