Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-11
PACIFIC COAST EVENTS.

Portland. TT is stated that the fed
eral authorities are searching for a gang
Of counterfeiters which is making bogus
Lincoln pennies.
Circle City.-Frank White recently
shot and killed Mrs H. A. Stade, pro-
prietor Of laundry, and then shot
and killed himself.
Portland. A bill appropriating
$1,5oo,0oo for a site and construction
of postofhce building at this place
has been reported to the senate.
Portland. George w. Hunt, pioneer
freighter and railroad builder in the In
land Empire, died here Saturday, aged
SO years. He has been i'll for many
years.
Washington. According to DR.. Horn
naday of the New York ZOO the seal
herd in Alaskan waters has been re-
duced from 100000 to $4,000 in com
paratiyely brief period.
Los Angeles.-John Hanuscheck, 10
years old, was sentenced to % years
in prison for having attempted to muir
der his mother by pouring formaldehyde
into her coffee. Mrs. Hanuscheck has
recovered.
Observation-Disclosures the congrega
ton passed resolutions forbidding card
playing and dancing, there started a
schism in the Baptist society here
which has resulted in forming Of a
second church.
Eugene The Eugene school board re-
quests that nothing be done or said
| by speakers before the high school
students calculated to give the inn
preston that religious or sectarian
views are being inculcated or impressed
upon the students.
| Seattle.7Th following cablegram
was sent to Baron Shibusawa Of Toxic,
Japan IS leading private citizen, by ].
d. Lowman, president of the Seattle
/, chamber of commerce.: ''You realize
stories American hostility to Japan are
absurd. Please reiterate Seattle cham
ber' enduring friendship
Portland The largest waterproof
leather belt in the world has just been
sold in this city for use in a big mill
This huge piece of fabricated leather
is 1o5 feet in length, "a inches wide
and weighs 3,239 pounds. In its con
struction were used 227 of the heaviest
steer hides to be had in the Chicago
market.
Aberdeen.-Bot local and New York
capital, the latter to the extent Of
, $1,500,OOO, viii be used in building {
new interurban ROAD to Seattle, fol
which G. c. Quackenbush viii ask the
franchise. 1t will cut off Az miles Of
7 distance between Aberdeen and Seattle
3 and viii own its right of way, 20 PEI
! cent of which is already secured.
! Santa Rosa.-Two indictments, one
; charging him with attempted murde,
! by means of Dynamite or some othe
: explosive and the other with abortion
were returned against DR.. Willard P
: Burke as result of three days in
? vestigation by the grand jury into tn,
9 circumstances surrounding the dynamit
/ ing of the tent house occupied by Luell'
Smith and her 11-months-old baby Feb
ruary 5.
n Marshfeld.- Seated upright in al
t armchair, Leroy Jones, aged so, wa
found in his home at Bandon, with hi
e throat cut from ear to ear. William
s White, stepson of Jones, has confessed
/. Portland Ross Udy, aged 10 years
is under arrest here for highway rob
e berry and shooting Manly Thompson
d a resort entertainer, on the night o
$ January 80. Udy made full confes
a sion and implicated his cousin, Harr
q Baker, whose whereabouts is unknown
IS San Francisco Opium valued a
IS So, 500, which was hidden in variou
3. parts of the Pacific Mail liner Nor
y goia, was found and seized recently b
l. federal officials. In this seizure an
IS the arrest of man at Williams, Ariz
It supposed to be Chick Wallace
n known as the liking of the smugglers,
who was apprehended on informatio
sent out from San Francisco, the al
thorities believe they have dealt
y crushing blow to smuggling rim
q which has been operating betwee
= China and this port for several month