Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-05-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Events.
Warrants are out in Paris for the
arrest of the Fl signatories of the re-
cent antimilitarism manifesto, but only
seven of them have been captured.
John D. Rockefeller has decided to
the University Of Chicago a tract OF
land consisting of 10 city blocks valu.
ed at $2,000,OOO. The tract extends
from Cottage Grove avenue to Madison
avenue, in Chicago.
p. G. Russell, executive agent of the
Grand Trunk Pacific railway, com
mitted suicide at Port Simpson recent.
ly.
On account of i'll health, David s. w
Wilcox, who recently resigned the
presidency of the Delaware & Hudson
railroad, is said to have shot himself
while on board the steamship Bar.
borossa near New York.
Joaquin Cassarto, a young million
aire Of Pueblo, was shot and killed by
a revolver which is supposed to have
fallen from the pocket of priest
while the couple were riding together
in an automobile and to have thus
been accidentally discharged The
priest has been arrested and will be
held pending an investigation.
Mrs. Ida Won Claussen who is
much angered over the refusal of Mr..
Graves, United States minister to
Sweden, because of hts refusal to pre-
sent her to King Oscar has given out
the text of letter which she has sent
tc the prime minister Of Sweden, de-
manding that Graves be expelled be-
cause of what, she says, are insults TO
the king.
Russell Sage Raphael of New York,
with his mother and sisters, may come
into the possession Of fortune as a
result Of suit which he has brought
,against the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road and Rio Grande Western rail-
road, as holders of property of the
Wassatchan G Jordan Valley Railroad
company, upon which Nathan Raphael
held $6SO000 worth of second mort
gage securities. Through an error
made by a law clerk in the foreclosure
Of the first mortgage those proceedings
may be invalidated
A Seattle woman who withheld her
name signing only MRS. J. b." has
donated to the famine stricken Chinese
articles of valuable jewelry.
Rock Island-Nine women and three
children were injured, one woman in.
Jured, one woman seriously, in the col
lapse of a sidewalk at the opening Of
q 10 cent store.
more than usually determined agi-
tation against things English has been
inaugurated in industrial Ireland.
Taft, secretary of war, announces
that American troops would not be
withdrawn from Cuba until September
/. 1908
Fallon, Mo.-A locomotive on the
Wabash railroad blew up recently and
killed three trainmen,
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
may cost $1O,00O,00O.
st. Louis-Aeronaut Allen Hawley
of New York city made an ascension
here Saturday in the balloon Orient,
and was carried 81 miles before com
ing to earth, He landed in safety
'oN'cA AiAAAS0 OetoN VI OdIIOllIOu, Ill, dIl-
er being up for one hour and SIS min
utes.
Charles Purdy and William Binkley
Of Los Angeles, who in the United
States district court at Pocatello plead
ed guilty to unlawfully shipping elk
teeth and elk heads from Idaho into
California, and who were sentenced by
Federal Judge DIETRICH to pay a fine
Of 5000 each on consideration that the
other two indictments against them
would be dismissed by the government,
We're rearrested on complaint of the
federal authorities of Wyoming on the
charge of killing elk in Yellowstone
park, and of wantonly Strengthening
elk in the Jackson Hole country. The
killing of elk in the park is a felony
punishable by Imprisonment. This
move on the part of the government
will have far reaching effects in the
preservation of elk in the northwest
as urged by the president in a letter
to Grand Exalted Ruler Melvin of the
B, P. o. E.