Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PABTS OF THE GLOBE
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatlonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Although Pierce county and the
state were the losers in the recent
hearing as to the mental condition OF
Chester Thompson, slayer of George
Mead Emery, 1t now appears that At
torney VIII H. Thompson, father OF
Chester, will have to pay the bills fol
his side of the case, an amount close
to $1,000.
The efforts of Mexico and the
United States are being exerted In
every way to prevent violations OF
neutrality by any of the Central
American countries.
San Francisco has placed it's off.
cial stamp of approval on the direc.
toire gown.
At Ottawa, Kan, Mrs. Mollie Stew
art was found guilty of the murder of
Mrs. Jane Schneick and her punish
ment was fixed at life Imprisonment.
The extremely hot weather of the
last few days will decrease the Cali
tornia raisin crop 1000 tons.
Schurz, thriving little Nevada
town in the center of the mining dis
trict, was recently wiped off the map
by fire.
The most important up-country
townsite deal of the Grand Trunk Pa
cific railway this year has been COM
pleted in the purchase of land for the
site of a future city on the Buckley
river, in British Columbia.
Preparations are well under way for
the national convention of the indie
pendence party, which will be held at
Chicago, Monday, July 81.
Mayor John E. Reyburn of Phila-
delphia has instituted proceedings
against e. A. Van Valkenburg, editor
and president of the North American,
and six members of the staff of the
newspaper, charging them with Grim
inaI libel.
A report from the City of Mexico
says: A lake of oil covering an area
of more than one square mile and of
unknown depth, in the state of Vera
Cruz, is on fire.
The bodies of H. D. Everett, a govern
ment forester, and T. R. Wakeley, a
school teacher, who were murdered
several weeks ago by tribesmen while
on an expedition into the UNEMPLOYED
mountain regions of the island of
Negros, have been recovered by Lieu
tenant Ahern of the constabulary
forces.
Right Rev. Alfred A. Curtis, former
ly Roman Catholic bishop of Whining
ton, Del, and for a number of years
vicar general of Baltimore, died re-
Gently.
The cruiser Albany has been or
dered to Amapala, the Pacific port of
Honduras, to remain as long as neces-
sary.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn,
the explorer, who is trying to reach
the north pole by new route through
Nansen strait, and whose friends were
fearful that he had met disaster in
the frozen north, has been heard from.
The Yokohama municipality has
voted the sum of $1,000 yen to cover
the expenses of the entertainment to
be given the officers and men of the
American feet while in that city.
Wenatchee friends of ]. K. Crute,
late of Stehenkin, are anxious to know
what has become of him, and from
what has been gathered it looks much
as though there had been foul play
and that Crute has been murdered.
A report from Dubuque, Iowa, says
Mayor H. A. Schunk, who disappeared
recently, was later found in the Trap
pist monastery, Is miles away.
Troubles in legal and political affairs
are assigned as the cause for the
officials desire to shun the world.