Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-17
news OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Former Vice President Charles w.
Fairbanks is now at Manila.
At Sacramento, Cal, fire of unknown
origin destroyed the Chamber of Com
merce building recently. George
Brosche ledger, was burned to death,
and Benjamin Storkman, stranger in
the city, is believed to have persisted.
Gilbert B. Densmore, pioneer news
paper man who came to California dur
ing the first gold excitement and who
for many years was identified with
San Francisco papers, died Saturday at
his home in Thermolita, Cal, aged 81
years
The wrestling polar bear of the
Hagenbeck troupe with the Hagenbeck-
Wallace show, died recently, leaving
only five of the troupe, which origin
ally consisted of 10 bears.
Mining men who have arrived in
Seattle from Fairbanks, Alaska, bring
glowing news of the prospects in the
Innoko district and along the creeks of
the Iditarod country, 40 miles from
Innoko.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
was derailed near Swope Park, 10
miles south of Kansas City, Saturday.
Several passengers were injured.
Beverly, Mass, was crowded as never
before Saturday afternoon, when Presi-
dent Taft reviewed a parade of some
1900 Grand Army men belonging to
posts there.
The sound of 10000 children S voices
singing columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean" in unison greeted President
Taft within half an hour after he step
ped off his special train in Chicago
Thursday morning.
C. s. barrow of Chicago, who was
taken i'll at Bellingham, Wash, is re-
ported better.
Manufacturers of the submarines
Porpoise and Shark claim that in the
recent trials of speed and marksman-
ship their vessels beat the records made
in the maneuvers on the Atlantic coast.
LOndon.-The admiralty denies the
report from Norfolk, Va, that 16 bat
tleships and cruisers of the British
navy might engage in maneuvers and
tactical evolutions in Hampton Roads.
There has been no change in the orig
inal plan of sending four British war
ships to the Hudson Fulton celebration.
Captain Harry e. Mitchell, com
mandant and military instructor at
Washington State college, has asked to
be detailed for another year. Captain
Mitchell went to the Preside at San
Francisco in June and entered the hos
pital for course of treatment for a
chronic disease of long standing. He
was given leave of absence for one
year, at his request, but the treatment
has been so successful that he has asked
to be returned to Pullman.
The receipts of the United States
assay Office in Helena during August
amounted to 1914, 1882. 10, of which Mon
tana contributed $24O,9s2.7S. By a
splendid margin this eclipsed all previ
GUS records within the last decade and
indicates the activity in the industry
throughout the state, and especially in
Chouteau county, which steps into first
place with a yield of $99,239. Fergus
county Is second with $61,524. Madi
county is second with SCI, 524, Madi
son third with $4O,427, and Lewis and
CLARK fourth with upward of $4,000
The Chouteau county showing is the
yield of the Ruby Gulch, August, Little
Rockies and other properties in and
near Zortman, which ore is susceptible
to the cyanide treatment at handsome
profit. Helena capitalists are the lead
ing operators in that field.