Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-18
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT ITEMS FROM EVERY
WHERE, ALL The TIME.
A Review of Happenings n Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week--N National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

General Booth Of the Salvation Army
is expected in Berlin next week. He
is expected to make addresses at many
of the important German centers.
Antonietta Fratini, who was 72 years
old, shot herself at Rome because she
had been awaiting death for so years,
and there was no sign as yet of her
dying.
A protest against the government
letting exclusive contracts for printing
of stamped envelopes and return post
cards to a single firm was made by the
resolution committee.
Former Governor Lewis Wolfley of
Arizona, who was struck by car on
the Pacific electric line in Los Angeles
recently, is dead He did not regain
consciousness.
John Caddell who died at Joplin,
Mo-, at the age of 80 years, had hair
and beard as black as ebony. His
widow says this was due to his tran
gull life Caddell never worried.
New England was visited last week
by a severe storm of wind and snow,
one of the results being an unusually
high tide. Several wrecks of sailing
vessels are reported.
The Methodist association of Rome
denies the published statement that it
has been arranged for former President
Roosevelt to speak at the Methodist
church during his visit here.
Elliott Kaufman, wealthy mining
man of Colorado, who is now in Pasa-
dena, Cal, received letter which was
written to him by a sister in Germany
40 years ago. The writer has been
dead for 25 years.
Unpaid depositors in the defunct Ore
gon Trust and Savings bank, whose
claims aggregate more than 100000,
have been paid in full by the German
American bank, which succeeded the
Idefunet bank.
Brigadier General Hiram l.. Chit
tenden, recently promoted and sta
toned at Seattle, has been placed on
the retired list. His retirement will be
followed by the promotion of Colonel
Frederick w. Ward, commanding the
OCNOhlh CAV al at EOIb nifty.
George w. Stratton, special agent of
the treasury department in the Puget
sound district and formerly private
secretary to Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw, died recently at Van
couver, B. c., soon after undergoing an
operation for appendicitis. He was "a
years old.
A number of Chinese girls, specially
trained in San Francisco, have begun
work in Picking as central operators in
the telephone system recently opened
there. Subscribers, when ringing up,
address them as "Lily of the air. and
3" Butterfly that talks"
The budget was passed after slight
additions by the house of representa-
tives at TOXIC. The passage of the
budget was assured through the recent
compromise whereby the land tax was
reduced per cent, involving $4,000
900 and the appropriations were pro-
portionately reduced.
The Irish department reports that
1909 was not so favorable to root crops
as 1908. This yield of turnips and
mangels fell below the average of 1908,
but are above the average of the 10
years, 1s99-19Os. Carrots and parsnips
show an average in 1909 considerably
lower than that of 1908.
Colonel Charles Chaille-L the ex-
plorer, will come from his home in
Baltimore to New York early next
week to receive from the American
Geographic society its medal for emf
nence in exploration. The honor is
long deferred one for discoveries along
the Victoria Nile in 1876.
Peter Wilson was almost instantly
killed while digging well near Helix,
Ore, recently. He was working at a
depth of 90 feet when short piece of
two by four scantling was dropped
from the top of the well and struck
him on top. of the head. He was
brought to the surface and rushed to
town, but never regained consciousness.