Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-12
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-N National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

William ]. Bryan announces that he
will join in the fight against the spread
of tuberculosis.
The conservation commission will
continue it's existence under the Taft
administration.
F. v. Brown Of Minneapolis has been
appointed counsel fer the Great North
ern railway at Seattle.
Municipal Judge Grove has declared
that "shot to pieces" as applied to
some automobiles, as a perfectly good
term.
kilograms received from Carinthia,
Australia, report that q series of
devastating avalanches have occurred
there.
The technical high school at Munich
has conferred the honorary degree OF
doctor of technical sciences ON Wilbur
and Orville Wright.
AS far as any war between the
United States and Japan is concerned,
all such talk is buncOmbe," declares
Admiral RobleY d. Evans.
The last day Of April was suggested
as the proper date to inaugurate the
president, in a resolution introduced
recently by Senator Depew.
Forty-seven sail and steam vessels
of 1894 gross toms were built in the
United States and officially numbered
during the month Of February.
Former Senator Joseph B. Foraker
was presented Friday with a massive
silver loving cap, the gift of the negro
residents of Washington, D. c.
Figures issued by tho Irish Immigra-
ton society show that during the year
1908 there landed at the port of New
York from Ireland 1891 persons.
For the 6rst time in many years
Uncle Sam is not seeking men for his
standing army. It Is new recruited up
to its full complement Of 77,753 men.
General BaalingtOa Booth, founder
of and president of the Volunteers Of
America, is on the Pacific coast on an
inspection trip Of the volunteers Of
the west.
An estimate Of the damage done in
Baltimore by the recent storm places
it as high as t1,O00, 900, falling chiefly
on telegraph, telephone and railroad
companies.
At Parker, s. D., Mrs. Herman
Fikens and three little children were
drowned while trying to drive across
the Vermilion river. They were swept
from q bridge by the flood.
Compelled to leave his car, bound
and robbed and left lying on the track
was the experience Of Conductor Good
fellow Of the Popular Grove line of the
Salt Lake street railway recently.
Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of
the United States, will be the personal
guest at a ceremonial breakfast at the
home of Robert J. Collier in Park
avenue, New York, Saturday morning
next.
j. w. Blythe Of Burlington, Iowa,
general counsel Of the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad, died recent
ly at WapellO, country place near
Des Moines, while hunting. MIR.
Blythe was 50 years cid.
During spell Of dependency Mrs.
Louisa J. Jones, aged 3S years, the
wife of Alexander Jones Of New York
city, committed saicide in San Fran
cisco by inhaling illuminating gas at
her home in Cough street.
Another Chicago landmark is being
removed to make way for the mod.
ern apartment building. The home
stead of Carter Harrison, at one time
one of the handsomest homes in the
city, is in the hands of the wreckers.
Sixteen were drowned and three in
jured at Birkenhead, England, recently
by the breaking of dam being con-
to form deck. The victims
were working As feet below the level
of the restrained water when they were
overwhelmed.
Grove L. johnson, author of the jap
enese school segregation bill in Cali
fornia that aroused so much antagon-
ism in Washington earlier in the ses-
sion, withdrew Saturday a joint reso-
luton he had introduced in the as
sembly calling upon congress to enact
an Asiatic exclusion law.
The body of a we'll man, par
TALLY covered with snow and with a
ragged wound in the neck, was found
Sunday near Alexandria, Va, a short
distance from Washington, D. G. In
the pockets of the clothing were trav-
eler IS check for $500, issued by the
Express company at Los
Angeles, payable to Walter F. Schultz,
a card bearing the same name, but with
the address 1914 Douglas street, Sioux
City, Iowa, and another card which
bears the name of Mrs. Alma Hume
Gillette.
Strains Ambassador. Jams Saw.