Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-26
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-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


college, has resigned.
Theodore Roosevelt was born in New
York city, October 81, 1858.
Northwest lumbermen are fighting
the proposed tariff removal.
More than $1,000 men will march in
the inaugural parade March 4.
Wheat for May delivery sold in Chi
cago Saturday at $1.16 IA bushel.
A printers strike is on in the Union
and Statesman Offices at Walla Walla.
The railroad rate case may 90
against Spokane, according to the lat
est report.
The cutting of prices by the steel
manufacturers has begun and a gen.
eral rate was is expected.
Mrs. Ida Cooper, a bride of four
days, was murdered in Chicago Satur-
day by some unknown person.
All within the space of five hours,
32 absolute divorces were granted by
Justice Thomas in Brooklyn recently.
Senior Francisco de la Barra, the
newly appointed Mexican minister to
the United States, has arrived in Wash.
Sngton.
The 35th annual convention of the
American Bankers association will be
held in Chicago in the week of Sep
TENDER IS.
Canes made from woods of historic
significance were presented by Presi
dent Roosevelt recently to several mem
bers of his cabinet.
AT Ware, Mass, Clara Laliefete, q
13 year old schoolgirl, shows signs OF
recovering consciousness after being
asleep six days. Doctors cannot arouse
her.
The announcement from the White
House is made that there will be nc
more appointments to federal positions
during President ROOsevelt's term of
Office.
Half of the business section of Love
lock, New, a small town not far from
Reno, is in ruins as the result of a
fire, which destroyed property valued
at 100000.
The Rev. John Eastman of Sisseton,
s. D., full-bloOd Sioux Indian, will
be South Dakota g representative on
the staff of the grand marshal of the
inaugural parade.
Count Boni de Castellane has ap-
pealed from the decision of the French
court handed down ON December 20
that his three sons remain in the Gus
tody of their mother, Princess de
Sagan.
President elect William H. Taft was
the other night in Cincinnati made a
~'Knocker at Sight" His initiation
furnished entertainment for 100 promi-
nent business and professional men at
the Knockers annual dinner.
'Chicago.-FOrmer Circuit Court
Judge Abner Smith and Gustav F. Sor-
row must go to the penitentiary. They
were convicted of wrecking the Bank
of America, 10 days after it had been
opened for business, the stockholders
losing $175,OOO.
President Roosevelt, by signing the
Dill Tor the creation OF the CalaVeras
national forest, California, has com
pleted legislation which saves for all
time the most famous grove of trees
IN the world. This act is the culmin-
alton of efforts extending over nine
years.
Sergeant Wilson of the northwest
mounted police force believes that
Bad Bill" Miner was one of the
gang of train robbers who robbed a
train near Denver the other day. He
asserts that the robbery was commit
ted near Miner IS old stamping ground,
where he knows every foot of the
territory.
So thoroughly impressed is President
Roosevelt with the necessity of con-
servation of the natural resources of
the world that he has directed Secre-
&ary of State Bacon, at the suggestion
of the North American conservation
conference, to extend formal invita-
ton to foreign powers to participate
IN an annual conference to deal with
this important problem, to be held at
The Hague next September.