Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-07-08
news OF THE WORLD.
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.
Two inches of rain fell at Aberdeen,

Two inches of rain fell at Aberdeen,
N. D., Saturday and Sunday.
Vice Admiral Juan Williams, the
ffather of the Chilean navy" died
Saturday.
Seven men are believed to have been
lost in storm which swept Cook inlet
wednesday night, according to a late
report.
w. j. Bryan sailed Saturday from
England for Montreal aboard the steam
er Royal George. Mrs. Bryan accom-
panied him.
In a hard fought lacrosse match Sat
urday afternoon the Victorias defeated
the New Westminster senior amateurs
by six goals to FIVE.
Daniel Sully, the old-time actor, died
at his home in Woodstock, N. Y, of
Bright's disease and heart failure. He
had been i'll for three months,
At 1920 O'Clock Saturday night
President Taft, in his room at the SEN
ate end of the capitol, signed the $780,
100000 irrigation bill, making it law.
The house passed the 100000 APP
preparation to protect lands and prop
erty along the Colorado river. The
senate had already passed the measure.
While in charge of the navigation of
the Pacific mail liner China at sea Third
Officer Albert Grant Sansen committed
suicide by taking poison. He was in
love.
The Balilnger Pinchot investigating
committee have adjourned to meet in
Minneapolis on September s, when an
effort will be made to agree on re-
port.
The old home Of Clara Morris in
Yonkers, where the actress lies al
most blind and dangerously ill, is
to be sold under foreclosure of
mortgage.
The house Saturday adopted the CON
ference report on the bills authorizing
$2O,OOO,0OO bond issue for irrigation
and providing for survey of railroad
land grant.
England is facing a meat famine.
Already the prices of all kinds of meat
have gone SO high that it is beyond the
reach of the poorer classes and there
Is no relief in sight.
The next great function attendant on
a change of monarchs will be the coro-
nation of King George. Two dates are
mentioned, May "a, Empire day, and
June 8, the kings birthday.
Mrs. Mary A. Lavender, who sued
the Rev. E. D. Crawford, pastor of the
Woodlawn Methodist Episcopal church,
Chicago, for $4,000, charging SANDER,
was awarded $4,000 by jury.
r. M. Boyle, once wealthy con
tractor Of Pittsburg, is alleged to have
lbeen stolen by A, M. Quinn, lately pro
prietor of a Salt Lake sanitarium
Quinn was arrested at Aberdeen
Wash.
Look, mother, I've got torpedo,
said 7-year-old Mallas McCollum OF
Louisville, KY, to his mother and be-
fore she could prevent him he struck
the railroad torpedo with hammer
aAd was killed.
Oficially the kaiser has recovered
from the disability caused by the bite
of an insect, and is in normal health
In well-informed circles, however, thi'
official declaration is taken with gooC
deal of allowance.
Il. E. Walker, the South African
sprinter, Saturday defeated F. L. Rams
dell of the University of Pennsylvani;
in the 100-yard dash at the Chart,
sports. The time was 10 LIS seconds
the track being slow.
King George is asserting himself t.
the full extent of the royal prerogative
to bring about an agreement in tn
conference between the chiefs of tn
rival parties as to the future of tn
house of lords as a legislative body.
Mining Engineer j. L. Ames, b
tramping over % miles of burning de'
est, facing a blistering wind all tn
way, sent succor rushing to six stricke
comrades who had been overcome an
saved them from a horrible death i
Nevada.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who ws
married to Eleanor Butler Alexande
in New York recently, has arrived i
San Francisco, where the couple wi
make their home. Theodore Jr will h
connected with large carpet establish
ment
The recent action of the Prussia
diet in increasing the civil list approx
mately $5,OO0,O 900 a year give the &c
man emperor the second largest incou
of any European ruler, The car {
Russia with a civil list of $s,5O0,0C
leads them all.
Theodore Roosevelt may never NAL
another political speech, as he told I'll
newspapermen the other day, but he
going to roll up his sleeves and plunl
into the thick of the political fig
to be waged this fall for the cOntr
of New York state.
Two Drown in Kings River.
III NJ.