Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-15
NEW S SUNNI A r Y


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A violent earthquake occurred Sat
urday near Sundsvall. Sweden 1t
lasted nearly a minute, and. accord
ing to reports, did considerable dam
age.
Wool growers OF Mexico have re-
duced considerably their shipments
of wool to the United States because
of the duty Most of the product is
going to London.
A 300-ton schooner for~ the north
pole expedition under Walter Well
man was launched at Christensen,
Norway last week. 1t will be taken
to Spitzbergen in May.
The date for the trial of the Star
company. publishers of the New York
American. charged with criminal libel
against John d. Rockefeller Jr.. has
been set for April 20.
Tom" an elephant in a circus at
Dos Moines. Iowa. ran amuck. and
selling his keeper, Charles Bellew.
hurled him high in the air and when
be fell tram pled him TO death
The Illinois Central Flyer struck
and instantly killed Anna, Mabel and
Ruby, aged z, 8 and IA, respectively,
daughters OF Fred Folder, four miles
west of Dubuque. Iowa. Sunday morn
ing.
BY majority of II. 463. Frederick
Kriesmann. Republican. was elected
mayor OF ST. Louis. He received So
SIG votes and his Democratic oppo-
nent William G. Woerner, 4S.353
votes.
Thirteen school boys were drowned
near Famn etz. Russia. as result of
the foods They were on bridge
over the Morritch river at the village
# Oriniua when the structure col
apsed.
Governor shallenberger of Ne
braska has signed the daylight" sa-
loon bill. The measure forbids the
sale of liquor except between 7 a. M
and D.. M. The bill goes into effect
July g.
The city council of Santa Fe. N. NJ,
| by a vote of five to four. passed an
ordinance closing all saloons in tn :
city after December 81, 1909. In tho
meantime the license fee for saloons
will be doubled
A dispatch from Pyatigorsk, a wat
ering place in Sis-Caucasia. says the
governor of the province has issued
orders that Jews be denied admission
| 10 the nealth resorts IN the OducdSu US
during the coming season
Mrs Fanny Van Zandt, mother .l
the Texas republic died at Fort
| Worth, Texas, April s, aged 81 years
She was the widow of the late Isaac
Van Zandt, who signed the treaty be
tween the Texas republic and Mexico
Former Queen Liluokalani of Ha
wall, otherwise Mrs Lydia Dominis
must pay $11,600 to her court ply
sician," under judgment rendered
| by Chief Justice Calbaugh of the su
preme court of the District of Co
lumbia.
Joe Landi, a miner. has been ar
rested at Hartshorne, Okla, charged
with being a member of the Blacl
Hand organization and with trying t.
extort $1,000 from ]. H. Baker, vice
president of the First State bank o
Hartshorne.
With a possible prohibition battl
in prospect the Florida Legislature
convened at Tallahassee, April G. Al
though the prohibition forces hav'
waged a vigorous campaign their OF
ponents hope to block all dry leg
islation from the outset.
Anonymous blackmailers, who wrot
from Delavan Wis, have threatene
the lives of the mother and sister c
10-year-o1d Harold Moon, whse bod
was found in a pond at Flint, Mich
unless L. N Moon, the boys fathe
turns over $4,000 to them.
Sergeant Lima. who betrayed hi
comrades involved in the revolution
airy uprising of January, 1908 whe
King Carlos and the crown prince c
Portugal were assassinated, wa
stabbed to death in Lisbon, April {
The act was one of revenge.
Just as Mrs George CULVER c
Usage, Ia. had started a search 70
her aged mother, she was Mortified t
Z see her plunging to the ground froI
a fifty-foot windmill to her deatf
/ Mrs. j. Pierce was rs years old an
: 1ad been i'll several months.
The British steamer Mabritta frol
Calcutta for London, which wei
ashore on Goodwin sands, has broke
: In two and been abandoned. The pa
sengers were landed soon after til
vessel struck, and all the crew wei
u rescued The loss is estimated at s.
000,0 900.
= The general land office holds that
a order to enable the heirs of HON
stead entryman to submit commut
ion proof of his entry. they mus
show both residence on and Guilty.
? ion of the land for fourteen month
n by the entryman or heirs, or part
by both
While playing wild west" with fly
IL companions, at Linton. Ind. Cliffol
killed by Loren Hamilton, IS yea