Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-11
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-National Historical
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

King Victor Emanuel recently re-
ceived ex-Vice President Fairbanks of
the United States in private audience.
They chatted for half an hour.
Baker City is to have a commercial
club, according to the Citizens league,
a business men IS secret order which has
taken the place of commercial club in
the past.
To inquire into causes of decline in
fax growing industry in Ireland com
mittee has been appointed by T. W.
Russell, vice president of the Irish de-
partment of agriculture and technical
instruction.
Guglielmo Mareoni, the inventor of
wireless telegraph, has arrived in New
York from England on his way to Cape
Breton, where he will superintend the
erection of new power station to re-
place that destroyed by fire last year.
June has been fixed as the date for
the first meeting of the international
court of arbitration for the adjustment
of the differences between the United
States and Great Britain, growing out
of the Newfoundland fisheries case.
Lacking the means to maintain the
personal political organization essen
tial to success, Senator Frank P. Flint
of Los Angeles, Cal, announced recently
in statement that he would not be a
candidate for reelection to the senate.
w. G. McMorris, who has resigned
as manager of the Nelson Daily News,
has left for Vancouver where he will
engage in business. His position as
president of the Nelson Tramway COM
pany was filed by the appointment of
J. E. Taylor.
Surgeon Charles F. Stokes has been
confirmed by the senate to be surgeon
general and chief of the bureau of
medicine and surgeon of the navy de-
partment, with the rank of rear ad.
miral. He becomes the successor of
Medical Director Rixey.
One of the features of Monte Carlo
for Americans is Paddy Myles, who has
charge of the bar at the Hermitage.
Myles spent some 20 years in the states,
mostly in Chicago, Denver and San
Francisco. He takes care to make it
pleasant for Americans there.
Jesse P. Churchill, cyanide operator
at the Flagstaff mine near Baker City.
Ore, was fatally burned recently while
painting the interior of cyanide tank.
He was working by the light of a gaso-
line torch, which was accidentally over
turned.
The carriage free of postage of all
mail matter sent by Theodore Roose-
welt is proposed by Representative
Hamilton Fish of New York, who in.
troduced bill to that effect recently.
Franking privileges are enjoyed by
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Harrison,
widows of presidents.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Taylor Huff of
Louisville, KY, who died in that city
recently of pneumonia at the age of
sc, was descendant of two presidents
james Madison and Zachary Taylor.
She was granddaughter also of Com
mander Richard Taylor, who fought in
the revolutionary war.
Colonel Roosevelt will give to the
Smithsonian institution specimens of
the white rhinoceros family complete.
He also has two skins for the American
Museum of Natural History at New
York and a head for William T. Hor-
naday's collection. Mr.. Roosevelt will
not keep any of the white rhinoceros
trophies which he has obtained.
John A. Hall, the alleged defaulting
treasurer of the suspended Southbridge
Savings bank of Southbridge, Mass,
was rearrested recently on a warrant
charging him with the larceny of $780,
600 from the institution. Hall was at
liberty under bonds of $4,000 on
charge of stealing $4,000.
John H. Garbar, federal food and
drug inspector for the western district,
was found dead recently in his apart
ment in Portland hotel Garbar was
stricken with apoplexy while
standing in front of a dresser, for his
body was found lying partly on this
dresser and chair which stood near by.
Sunday vaudeville shows and moving
picture theaters in New York received
a hard blow recently and many may be
closed on Sunday as a result of the de-
elsion of the appellate division of the
supreme court, which declared illegal
all Sunday performances in theaters.
except sacred concerts and perform
ances of an educational character.
Taking a leaf out of the book of
American commercial history as exem.
plifed in the sending of a trade ex-
hibition ship to the far east by the
merchants of Seattle, Wash, Russia has
placed fine exhibition of Russian
and products aboard a
ship and is sending it to the ports of
the Black and Caspian seas. 1t is prob
able it will also be sent to the Mediter-
ranean.