Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-22
NEWS SUMMARY


The cabinet has decided definitely
that the Spanish fleet shall be recon
structed. The work will be entrusted
to British firms.
Advices from various north and east
Texas points are to the effect that
heavy frost April IL seriously damaged
the fruit and corn crops.
Rev. C. w. Eldredge of Cincinnati.
while delivering a speech in favor of
the dry at Adelphi, small town in
ONO, was given shower OF rotten
eggs.
Hchard Stedman, a deputy warden
IN the Alberta penitentiary at Ed
monitor, Alberta, was killed by con
Wet, who struck Stedman on the head
| with an ak.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway company has asked the Kan
| sas railroad commission to allow the
road to issue seyenty-three million
dollars worth of common stock.
Charles Dewes and Moses Lantz
were blown to atoms when the nitro
glycer|ne factory of the Independent
Tospedo company at Gordon, his,
was destroyed by an explosion.
An investigation conducted by the
Des Moines Iowa) Tubercular asso
citation has resulted in the discovery
that six out of every ten children ex.
amined are infected with tuberculosis
President Taft has instructed Di-
| rector North of the census bureau to
disregard party lines in securing suit
able men for supervisors and other
| appointive places under the new CEN
sus act.
John Bullette, wealthy Indian
landowner, widely known throughout
Oklahoma, Texas, and old Mexico,
was assassinated while sitting at his
desk in his office at Claremore, Okla
homa
Colonel Moses Gibson, who served
in the confederate army during the
campaign in Virginia, committed sui
eide at Louisville, KY, by drowning
in bathtub, after slashing his wrists
with a razor.
That a combination of silk indus
tries in southern France representing
! $10,000,000 of capital, will transfer its
| plants to this country, is stated by
Jean Duplan, head of large silk dye
works at Hazleton, Pa.
During March, 4,7S3 settlers from
the United States entered Canada al
North Portal, on the 500 line, with 72G
cars of effects. During the year end
ing March 81, the total was 1909 set.
tiers and 1859 cars of effects.
Mrs. Blanche ONeill, once a well
known opera singer, is in Provi
dence, R. l., hospital, under treatment
for illness said to be due to hunger
and exposure The woman has been
living in poverty for several years.
A vacancy as chaplain in the navy
will be filled by the appointment of a
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and Secretary Meyer will
ask the board of bishops soon to meet
in Richmond to nominate a candidate
Stanley Ketchel, who has been
matched to fight Jack Johnson for the
heavyweight championship of the
world, will fight the breach of prom
Use case brought against him by Miss
Elizabeth Houman of Grand Rapids
Mich.
Seven young farmers from the town
of York, Mimi, were lodged in Jail last
week. charged with try ng to black
mail DR.. D. Beckman out OF $4,000, the
alternative being the burning of the
Beclman residence and the kidnapping
of his son.
While attempting to cross the Pa
cific Electric tracks near Pasadena
CAL in an automobile, Mr. and Mrs
H. B. Hoffman of Pasadena were in
jured in a collision with a car Mrs
Hoffman died fifteen minutes after
the accident
The Japanese government is nego
tiating with an American builder OF
submarine boats for the purchase OF
plans and specifications for a new
type of submarine OF smaller model
than the type now in common use. but
of double speed.
The strike of coal miners at the
Port Hood, N. s., mines ended fruit
lessly last week, $50 miners who had
been out for several weeks returning
to work under conditions which were
practically the same as those existing
previous to the strike.
Steps have been taken to hasten
final adjudication by the Kentucky
court of appeals of the test case to
determine the status of the Latonia
Jockey club. A decision by that body
is expected before the opening day
of the Latonia spring meeting, May
25.
John Craig was killed in his home
at Roaring Fork, Va, and his two
sons, aPtrick and Arthur, aged 9 and
liz, respectively, were arrested
charged with the crime. 1t is said
; Craig had been brutally treating the
: boys and that while he was ASLEEP
they shot him.
Marian Grey. the youthful matri
monial agent, whose manner of con
Quoting the 'Searchlight" club, at Ell
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