The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-09-30
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few lineA
INTER-MOUNTAlN.

NTER-MOUNTAIN.
| Mrs. Charles NJ. Freehouse, of Ia
coma, who suicided by taking stry CHI
nine in hotel in fSeattle, had entered
into a suicide pact with Ruel Custer,
a soldier, with whom she had eloped.
Clusters nerve evidently failed him.
and he is still alive.
The Seattle Chronicle says that an
! investigation of suspected land frauds
in Alaska, which may exceed in scope
and startling developments the fam
GUS Cunningham cases, is believed to
be in progress, guided by federal Of
ficials in the northwest, and that
Secretary Ballinger is taking hand
in the investigation.
John Tiberg, the younger miner,
who arrived at Seattle from Nome
last week with $14 435 in gold slugs
and was arrested on the charge thai
he had stolen the gold from the
sluice boxes of the Pioneer Mining
I company, has agreed to return to
Nome for trial without extradition
proceedings.
Andrew Gallagher, a mining man,
! of Elliston, Mont. shot and killed
himself in Butte. No reason is known
for the suicide.
The steamship Umatilla, which ar
rived Tuesday at Seattle from Nome,
brought cargo valued at $1,000,000.
Besides gold from the Iditarod, the
ship carried whalebone. furs and wal
rus ivory.
DOMESTIC.
General Charles R. Brayton, the
blind leader of the Rhode Island Re-
publicans and the Rhode Island mem
Der of the national Republican com
mittee, died at Providence, Septem.
Der 90.
The steamer Victoria, from Nome,
brings news that three-days' storm,
beginning September 6, did great
damage to small vessels, lighters and
dredgers at Nome.
Speaker Cannon, addressing the Re
publican state convention at Spring
field, Ills, declared the insurgents
were trying to put halo on their
neads at his expense.
Lee O'Neill Browne, recently az
quilted of bribery in connection with
the election of United States Senator
Lorimer, was refused recognition or
the floor of the Illinois Democratic
state convention at East St Louis
Ills.
Lightweight Champion AID Wolgas.
and Abe Attell have been matched tt
fight in November before the club of
fering the best purse
An application for executive elem
ency for Captain Peter c. Hams, Jr.
has been filed with Governor Hughes
at Albany Captain Hams was con
victed of the killing of William E. An
mis- at the Bayside Yacht club, OF
Long Island, In 1908.
Because Miss Clara De Witt o
South Norwalk, Conn, tried to pla,
tennis in hobble skirt, she is In
hospital with broken leg Whil
making leap for fast volley on tn
opposite side she stumbled and fell
After q warm debate of more thai
three hours, the national encampmen
of the G. A. r., az its final session a
Atlantic City, N. j., indefinitely post
poned action on the controversy owe
the placing of the statue of Robert Z
Lee in Statuary hall.
Extensive smuggling of Asiatic
into the United States via Tia Juana
Mexico, was revealed in the deporta
ton from San Diago, Cal, on Satur
day of ten Chinese, three Japanes,
and one Hindu, caught in an attemp
to cross the international boundar,
line.
Courtney Cooper, reporter on tn,
Kansas City Star, who has been iden
titled with the newspapers crusad
against Migrants and criminals a
Kansas City, was stabbed and severe
ly beaten by crowd of unidentifie,
men.
B. W.. Yates, Z wealthy Detroi
business man, shot and serousl
wounded Mrs. Fred Singer. in win
room in Cleveland, o.. and two hour
later hanged himself in the count
Jail, without giving any reason 70
the act.
, John e. Gilman of Boston has bee
selected as ccmmander-in-chief @
the Grand Army of the Republic, an
Rochester, N. Y, will be the mex
place of meeting
: The tow boat Sally Marmet sank i
deep water near Gallipolis. Ohio an
the crew narrowly escaped drownins
Bogos Matsukian, an Armenian
! aged 35 years, fired four shots froI
a revolver at Mohammed Ahmed an
Ahmed Noory, both Turks. infiictin
wounds that caused Mohammed
death at Lowell Mass. Matsukia
said he shot the two men becaus
they had maltreated and killed hi
wife. whom he left behind at Shak;
jim, Armenia. six years ago.