Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-06-03
news OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
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A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispkeres During
the Past Week-National Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

EISnJ cases OF cnllufen DlCJen by
dogs were reported to the police in Chi
cago Saturday.
Page M. Baker, for the last 81 years
publisher of the New Orleans Times
Democrat, died recently.
Commander Robert E. Peary was the
guest of honor at dinner at the Saw
age club, London, recently. He was
elected life honorary member.
President Taft will make his first trip
to the Panama canal zone since his
Inauguration in November, after the
fall elections, if his plans are carried
out.
Clarence E. Hagar, former secretary
of the state board of pardons in Colo
RADIO, has been placed under arrest upon
warrant charging him with accepting
bride to secure a pardon.
Sixteen members of the Fort Collins
(Colo.) High School Alumni association
are seriously i'll from the effects of pto-
maine poisoning, caused, it is believed,
by eating impure ice cream served at
banquet.
A cold-b looded murder was revealed
recently when the body of Luigi P.
Coscia, an italian engineer, well known
in the Swiss and Italian colonies of San
Francisco and Berkeley, was brought in
from his lonely cabin near Mount
Aukum.
Fire Saturday practically destroyed
the seven-story brick building occupied
by the Great Northern Implement COM
pany and the Rock Island Plow COM
pany, South Seventh avenue and Third
street, Minneapolis, entailing loss esti-
mated at 100000.
The University of Pennsylvania Sat.
urday won the greatest track and field
meet of the year. Yale made gallant
struggle for supremacy, but fell 21a
points behind the winners. The men
from the Quaker state scored 271a
points, while Yale scored rs.
Vienna.-It is reported that Lieuten-
ant Adolph Hofrichter, who recently
confessed to having sent poison to a
number of officers of the general staff,
one of whom died, has been found
guilty at a secret cnnrt-martial and SEN
fenced to be hanged.
Mrs. Frank Bond of San Francisco
was drowned in the Russian river, near
Bonneville, Cal, Saturday afternoon,
when the automobile in which she and
her husband, their daughter, Hazel, and
R. R. Strange of San Francisco were
riding plunged over 15-foot embank-
Iment into the river.
Realizing that conviction was inevita-
ble, and that long penitentiary SEN
Hence faced him. John B. Merton,
charged with cashing a forged check
for $3S on the Finlen hotel, changed his
plea at Butte to "guilty," and was
Immediately sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary. In Spokane Merton
was known as M. s. Healy and Bud Lee.
Stealing registered mail to finance
the publication of his musical compost
tions, and, incidentally, to bestow val
mable gifts upon his men companions,
led to the downfall of Bishop B. Nc
Carter, 20 years old, the railway mail
clerk who was arrested recently on a
charge of pilfering the mails while
working between Spokane and Portland.
McCarter has confessed to stealing reg
istered letters for more than year,
and his thefts aggregate several hun
bred dollars, so far as known. He is
graduate of the University of Idaho.
Star Sherman, fruit grower, and
Dallas CARED and A. M. Higgins, two
pharmacists, have discovered a spray
that it is claimed will destroy the hemi-
spherical scale. G. l.. Whitney, fruit
inspector, says its work is final, and
f. A. Huntley, state horticultural in
spector, is coming next week to give an
official pronouncement on it. The scale
has so far triumphed over all sprays
1t can live on Bordeaux mixture,
thrives on lime-sulphur and considers
,creosote a delicacy. The composition
of the new mixture is secret.
As result of inhaling fumes from
gasoline Fred Gardner and Harold
Btackhouse of Standpoint are dead and
Hart Flynn of Dover narrowly escaped
death. The Standpoint baseball team
went to Newport Sunday morning to
play ball The gasoline launch Bell
was chartered. On the return trip a
number of the players, fatigued from
the days exertion, retired to the rear
cabin of the launch and reclined on the
floor. On arrival at the city dock at
home Gardner and Stackhouse were
found dead and Flynn unconscious
Physicians were hastily summoned and
Flynn removed to the hospital, where
he recovered.
Rice production in the United States