Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-24
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
LATE DISPATCHES In
THE DAlLIES.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemisphere During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The Colville reservation will not be
thrown open until 1918.
The population of Greater New York
is in the neighborhood of 100000.
David H. Moffatt, prominent business
man of Denver, died suddenly Satur-
day in New York.
The American ambassador, Henry
Lane Wilson, has returned to Mexico
from the United States.
The strike is broken in New York
and teamsters who threatened to tie
up trittic went back to work.
Grover Baggott, an 1s-year-old lad,
was killed recently in the caving of
workings in mine near Omak, in
Okanogan county.
All approaches to the bridges leading
from the American side to Juarez, Mex
leo, are now guarded by three times the
usuel force of United States troops.
Andrew 10th has been released from
the Pennsylvania penitentiary after
serving 20 years for a crime he did not
commit 10th was accused of murder
The 700 American residents at Chi
huahua held a meeting Saturday to con
slider plans for appealing to President
Dlaz to end the war as soon as possible.
The attempt to secure the release
from San Quentin prison of Abraham
Ruef, former political boss, now serv-
ing sentence of IA years, was begun
Saturday.
The Mexican federal judge at Por-
firio Diaz has decided to release Henry
White, the American held in prison
| there on charges of connection with the
revolution.
The body of Al Haas, the Lind news
paper man who was patient at the
hospital for the insane and who escaped
Christmas eve, was found Saturday I'M
der the ice in Medical lake.
Active work has now been started
on the improvement of the channel of
the Columbia river north of Wen
atchee, Wash for which work the state
set aside the sum of 100000.
John Schenk, superintendent of the
Northwestern Gas Light and Coke com
pany, Chicago, was found dead recently
with two bullet wounds in his body, at
his home in Park Ridge, suburb
Eight hundred pounds of yellow pine
seed gathered from the Black Hills in
Dakota will be scattered over the Black
foot MONTE national forest this spring
during the course of reforestation of
the burned areas.
After June of this year no woman
or girl in the state of Washington EN-
ployed in mercantile establishments,
offices, laundries, hotels and restau-
rants will be permitted to work more
than eight hours a day.
In spite of the united efforts of the
officers, F. K. Jones, the supposed slayer
of Engineer A. S. Lowe at Washtucna,
Wash, on the night of March IA, has
managed to evade the posses of men
which are securing the hills in every
direction.
One man was killed and 800 head of
cattle burned to death in a fire which
destroyed square block of pens in
the Union stockyards, Chicago, Satur-
day. Various commission firms owned
the cattle destroyed. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Interest in the strange disappearance
of Miss Dorothy Arnold of New York
was revived Saturday afternoon when
three squads, under the direction of the
park department, commenced to drag
the three lakes in Central park in
search of the young wo1han's body.
The number of idle freight cars in
the United States and Canada, as
shown by a recent report of the
American Railway association, is on the
increase. On January IS there were
1872, 297 idle cars, more than twice that
of January 10, 1910, when 51,s36 were
reported.
Charles R. Davis, who served as a
private in the Indian wars in Montana,
Wyoming and the Dakotas and who, in
1877, killed the Sioux chief, Lame Deer,
after the latter had attempted to as
sassinate General Nelson A. Miles, died
recently at Seattle, aged So years. He
was born in Boston,