Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-06-14
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

Charles Quigley, laborer employee
in Golden Gate park, in San francisco
was killed by an automobile.
After an existence Of IL years ant
three days, the Chicago Chronicle sus
pended publication last Friday.
The lid is on in St. Paul, Mimi, al
saloons having been ordered closed
Sundays by board of police commits
sioners.
Rear Admiral Coghlan, retired, does
not believe Japan and the United
States will go to war in the near
future.
John E. Hasen, city editor Of the
Desert Evening News of Salt Lake,
died from pneumonia, following an
operation for appendicitis.
Secretary of State Root will visit
Mexico in the near future. He will go
to Mexico City and will, of course,
confer with President Diaz.
The steam dredge Seattle caught
fire in dry dock at Naples, Cal, from
an explosion of oil and was burned to
the water edge, with loss Of $3.50, 900.
The Panama canal as now planned,
will be 40 and a fraction miles long
and 40 feet deep, with minimum
width of 200 feet. The estimated cost
is $145,O0O,000
Engineer Temple and Fireman
Hardwick we're killed recently when a
switch engine on the Houston & Texas
Central rolled down an embankment |
near Lamont, Texas.
Grief-stricken at the series of mis-
fortunes heaped upon him in the last
year, Thomas R. Melody, for Al years
an official in the Chicago postof1ce,
lies at the point of death.
Geneva-Federal engineers and peas
ants are making brave effort to save
the little tourist resort of Kienthal,
in the Overland, from being swept
away by the slowly advancing avail
anche.
Emperor Francis Joseph, in celebra-
ton of the 4Oth anniversary of his cor
Onation as king of Hungary, June 8,
1867, decreed a far-reaching amnesty,
for persons sentenced for
lese majesty.
The decision of the federal authori-
hes not to institute criminal proceed
ngs against e. H. Hartman in connec-
ion with his railroad operations is
he principal subject of discussion on
Wall street.
The United States revenue cutter
Rush broke down recently at Port
simpson, after towing the seized Vic
oria sealing schooner Carlotta G.
'ox from Sitka to that port to turn
Ter over to the British authorities for
rial.
The outbreak at Kaiseien, in the
'rovince Of Tzechuan, China, in which
he mission station there was destroy
ID, was due to the efforts of the gov
rnment to enforce the new law
gainst the cultivation and sale of
plum.
It has been learned that Miss Elsie
FOX win pay Mrs. Parrish, widow of
he man who was killed in the acct
Iental collision with an automobile in
london, which Miss Fox was driving,
he sum Of $500. Miss Fox is an
Captain S. FRANKIE, who was master
u the steamship Dakota when she
vas lost in Japanese waters a few
months ago, has appealed to Supervis-
ng Inspector John Birmingham to mi
igate the severity of the sentence i'm
posed on him by the United States in
ipectors of hulls and boilers at Sc
little.
One of the largest deals that has
aver been put through in fruit lands
n British Columbia has been consum-
mated in the sale of the Cold Springs
ranch, situated on the west arm of the
lake about 16 miles from Nelson.
which was disposed of to Messrs.
Francis Brothers and Gordon of Lon
don, England, for sum closely ap-
proximating 100000, the sellers be-
ing DR.. D. LaBau and S. A. Bridges.