Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-06-21
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-NatlonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

A dispatch from Tula again reports
Count Tolstoi as being seriously i'll.
The New York longshoremen have
returned to work and 10000 strikers
acknowlede defeat after a hard fight.
Thomas Dobson, wealthy citizen
of Portland, Ore, died recently in
Alameda, Cal He was native of
England, GO years old.
Los Angeles, CaI.-William LeBar-
ron Jenny, a veteran of the civil war,
a prominent architect and engineer,
recently died at the home of his son.
Catania, sicily.--After period of
uuietude somewhat violent eruption
OF Stromboli occurred recently and
terrified the countryside. No damage
was reported.
Charged with assaulting and robbing
Mrs. Sallie Gibbons of Columbia, s. c.,
of $4,000, Rufus Williams has con-
fessed the crime in the county jail
at San Antonio, Texas.
Miss Alice Bell was shot and ia
tally wounded in San Francisco by
Roy Huff, a ieweler, who then blew
out his brains. Jealousy is given as
the cause of the tragedy.
The federal grand jury at Pierre, s.
D., indicted on IS counts Charles G.
King, former president Of the First
National bank of Scotland, s. D.,
charging him with embezzlement.
The State bank of Bingham Lake,
Mimi, was robbed recently of $1,000
in cash. Later two men, heavily
armed, were arrested. They gave the
names of George Chester and w. R.
White. Later $500 Of the stolen
money was recovered.
In the capitalization of new national
banks founded during the time between
March IA and May 81 Washington
leads the Pacific northwest, with Idaho
second, Oregon third With the ex-
ception of California, Washington
leads all of the Pacific states.
With the purchase of the Everett
street railway from the Hill interests
by Stone & Webster, the Boston CAPT |
talists, owners now of every electric |
traction line on Puget sound, the way
is made easy for the completion of
the through line from Seattle to Van
and work will be started at
several points this season.
District Judge Greeley Whiteford of
Denver has awarded Mrs. Rosa Hill,
wife of Frank w. Hill, damages in
The sum of $4,000 against Mrs. Anna
Bent, wife Of Edwin Bent, banker
If Oursy, Col, for alienation of the
affections of her husband. All parties
concerned are prominent socially.
Colonel s. H. Wreford, a prominent
BUSINESS man of Brownsville, was shot
md killed recently as the result of a
circular he issued in which he bitter
y denounced Captain William Kelley
ecause Of Kelley's testimony before
he senate committee, which is investi-
ating the Brownsville affair in Wash |
ngton. Jesse Thorman, a stepson of
captain Kelley, is charged with the t
illing. t
Raising the point before Judge t
Vhitson in the federal court that the I
service has not the right
o condemn for it's use property OBJ \
aimed under the homestead act, At &
orney H. j. Snively seeks to prevent
he government from taking Chris S
Iansen's land, valued at $4,000. The +
ssue is one that will be common to Il
. number of cases now awaiting trial. l
Judge Whitson has taken the matter t
nder advisement, intimating, how G
'ver, that he favors the position of 4
dr. Snively.
Three survivors of the Steptoe and s
Wright campaigns against the confed- !
grated hostile Indians Of the Inland I
Empire in 1858 went over the extend "
ID Steptoe battlefield at Rosalia, Whit +
nan county, recently, and explained to
learly 60 visitors from Spokane and ;
many citizens of Rosalia the scenes f
Ind stirring events in that disastrous
light. These survivors were: Thomas :
!. Beall, Michael ]. Kenny and ]. ]. I
lohn.
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