Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-24
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iudrine corps OmcerS are prescribed
in an executive order just issued.
Separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico is provided for in two
bills introduced by Senator Foraker.
Frank Hannum of Laporte, Ind, is
dead at Seattle. Wash, of injuries re
ceived In a football game. He was
26 years old.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
First National bank at Eufaula. Okla,
and escaped with sum said to be
about $4,000.
Indications multiply that the liquor
question will be burning one before
the legislature which meets in Nash
vile, Tenn. In January,
The house has passed bill placing
an annual tax of 500 on all dealers
in cigarettes and cigarette papers in
the District Of Columbia.
James Curren, 10 years old. was
killed In boxing bout with Benjamin
Barnet. IL years old, at the Broadway
Athletic club, Philadelphia.
Two colored men lost their lives in
fire which destroyed the home OF
"Auntie" Matte Crosby, an old col
ored woman in Columbus, Ohio.
Ten persons were instantly killed
when two passenger trains ran to-
gether between Pouche and Limoges.
France. Many others we're hurt.
An unknown man was instantly
killed and Marshal G. f. Woods OF
Greenwich, Ohio, was seriously
wounded in an encounter with f1ve
men in the railroad yards of that vii
lage.
Four men were instantly killed and
four others seriously injured by
portion of a concrete pier of the new
bridge being erected over the Poto
mac river at Williamsport, Md, col
lapsing.
A Northern Pacific coast train was
damaged by fire to the extent OF $40,-
| 900, while at the station at St. Cloud
MINI. lighted match dropped by
| passenger on a window curtain start
ed the fire.
The report of the state tobacco mo
nopoly filed last week shows that the
French nation last year consumed
| 100000 900 worth of tobacco upon
which the government made a profit
OF $75,000,000.
| BY the arrest of nine of the most
| important Bengal leaders and in their
| deportation to secret destination, it
! IL believed the authorities have sue
| cessfully put down the seditious move
| ment at Calcutta.
Miners and operators on Paint
| Creek, Kahawha county, Pennsylv-
| ania, where 1900 miners have quit
work following reduction of wages
| posted by operators, are considering a
| compromise proposition
Senator Bourne has introduced a
bill providing for an increase in the
salary of the president of the United
STATES from $4,000 to- 100000, and
in the salary of the vice-president
from $4,000 to $25 900.
The Lisbon correspondent of the Co
| logne Gazette says In a dispatch that
he is authorized to deny the story
! from Paris that Germany is about to
acquire the Bergelen islands, off Por-
tugal, for coaling station
DIR. Thomas Birdson, slayer OF DIR
! A. B. Pitts. a prominent physician OF
EIazelhurst, Miss, last week entered 9
! plea of guilty and, in accordance with
an agreement between counsel, was
given a life sentence in the peniten
tiary.
By unanimous vote the house has
| adopted a resolution presented by the
| special committee of five calling or
| the president for proof of his charge
that members were fearful of an in
vestigation by the secret service
agents.
The S-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Spomer of Fesno, Cal, diet
while its parents slept 1t had beer
sick from brain fever while teething
and at an inquest the parents de
clared they had cured it by means o
prayer.
Statutes fixing the official status o
Prince Ch1n, the regent, were pub
Hshed in PeIxin last week. The primes
Is given an annual salary of $105,00'
and is made commander-in-chief o
both the land and sea forces OF the
empire
The w. C. T. u. of Delaware has
passed a resolution requesting Gov
| ernor-elect Pennewell to provide. l
possible, the substitution of water fo
wine at the naming of the new battle
ship Delaware at Newport News II
February.
General Tasker H. Bliss, I'm com
mand of the forces of the Philippines
las reported the death of eleven en-
listed men of the Eighteenth regi
raent. stationed at Camp Keithley
| Mindanao, from methyl poisoning, re
eulting from drinking Columbian spir
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