Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-29
NEW S SUMMARY

-Four persons lost their lives and |
nve others were severely Injured in a
nre that destroyed the Central hotel |
In Topeka. Kans
George Leavens Lilley, governor OF
Connecticut, died at the executive
mansion in Hartford, April 81. after
an illness of four weeks
Owing to long drought in the far
western part of Texas, reports are
being sent out to the effect that hun
ureds OF cattle are dying on the
ranges.
After burning fourteen days. sweep
Ing an area of 100000 acres and caus-
ing an estimated loss of 5000,
prairie fire was extinguished near
Pecos. Texas
Judge Lands in the United States
district court at Chicago, in the test
case against the Santa Fe railroad, in
the nine-hour law governing tele-
graphers, upheld the law
Six persons were killed, at least
fifty injured and million dollars
worth of property destroyed in tor.
nado that swept through Cleveland
and northern Ohio, April 81.
Last week 10000 persons wet
killed in the anti-Christian rioting ii
the Adana and Tarsus districts. En-
| tire villages were razed and the coun-
| try is smoking wilderness.
| There were 1874 people killed and
1924 injured in train accidents dur
ing the three months ending Decem-
Der 81 last, according to the inter
state commerce commission report.
The Columbus (Ohio) Biscuit COM
pany has announced that 1t has de-
termined to close down its bread de-
partment indefinitely because of the
high price of flour due to the corner
in wheat in Chicago.
Asa, son of Whoa, has been elected
chief of the Apache Indians, to sue
coed Geronimo, the noted warrior
who died last February. The cleo
ton will be submitted to the war de-
partment for approval.
The Waters-Pierce Oil company on
April "a paid probably the largest
fine ever paid by a corporation, nearly
100000 The payment ends the
litigation of the state of Texas
against the oil company.
A dozen persons were injured at
Centerville, Iowa, by the explosion Of
film in a moving picture show. The
auditorium was crowded. Women
threw their children from the win.
dows, many being badly bruised.
In a riot at the state inebriate asy
lum at Knoxville, Iowa, six inmates
and three attendants we're injured.
Twenty inmates were returning from
work in the fields when seven made
a dash for liberty. A running fight
enSued.
1t develops that Mrs. Boyle, the
: supposed wife of James H. Boyle, al
legged abductor of Willie Whitla, is
Helen McDermott of Chicago. and re
> ports that she is a member of prom
inent and wealthy family are without
: foundation.
The expenditure of s3,25o,00 OF
the canal zone during the month Of
January has brought the total expen
diture on the zone toward the con
struction of the ca-al, civil admins
tration, sanitation and plant building
to $93 ,915000.
A severe eruption Of the Colima vol
cano, in Mexico, followed by an earth
quake shock, has spread terror and
3 | confusion among the inhabitants O.
= nearby towns, a number OF whom de
I serted their homes and fed to point
outside the affected zone.
Colonel Gustave Pabst, while driv
ing in an automobile in Milwaukee
ran down and killed Lille Winkler
a 14-year-old girl. The accident oc
: Cured Just as the girl alighted from
: a street car and walked in front o
y the rapidly moving automobile
eff the country knew the truth re
garding the present condition OF tn
10 a nj n ia
striking sentence in letter from Ad
r miral Lord Charles Beresford read a
a meeting of the Navy league held a
e Bournmouth, England, last week.
Heirs of "Uncle' Jonathan Dear
who in 1870 died and left his SIC
acre farm near Petersburg, Ind. t
: ! be operated for the benefit of al
l. widows within radius of eight miles
, will try to break the will, now tina
productive oil wells have been bore
= on the land.
t In full view of dozens of horrifie
t passengers, who were looking out c
the car windows, Miss Matte Coz
way, a young and pretty telephon
girl of Frankfort, KY, was ground
a pieces by a Louisville & Nashvill
train from Louisville. The accider
happened on curve.
A telegram received at Vienna froI
. Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, declare
that Andre Kopassis Effendi, Prime
OF Samos, has been murdered. Same
, is a Greek island on the west coas
If | of Asia Minor. 1t pays an annui
tribute to Turkey, and Turkey mall
tains a garrison there.
e Secretary F. d. Coburn of the stat
X board of agriculture of Kansas, In
statement issued April %, says thu
there has been a decrease OF 400, oC
acres of wheat in Kansas compare