Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-27
WORLD news NOTES
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
LATEPRESS DISPATCHES
In THE DAILIES.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past w educational, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.

The plague in China continues to
spread, according to reports.
The Iowa senate has passed resolu
ton favoring San Francisco for the
Panama exposition.
Miss Eleanor Monaghan of Spokane
has been invited by the navy depart
ment to christen the destroyer Mona
CHAN.
Russia gets about three-fourths OF
its typewriters from the United States
20 American machines being in the
market there.
Backed by $4,000 endowment fund
the University of Leeds, England, has
established a chair of coal, gas and
fuel industries.
The funeral of Paul Morton, presi.
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, took place Saturday afternoon
in New York.
The Oldest priest in France is Canon
Gadenne, parish priest of Roches, where
he celebrated his 105th birthday on
New Years day.
With the construction of but 20 sta
tions, all of Britain s possessions
throughout the world would be linked
by wireless telegraphy.
The lumber cut in the United States
last year totaled 44,5s5, 100000 feet,
board measure, an increase of 34.2 per
cent more than in 1908.
A big fire at Payson, Utah, Saturday
destroyed property to the value of $780,
000 Five business houses, all in the
same block, were burned
General Gomez, at the end of Cuba IS
second year of independence, finds his
administration apparently more firmly
entrenched in power than it has been
at any time.
A new trial was denied to Mrs. Annie
Sutherland, convicted of numbering her
husband in Wisconsin, and she was sen.
fenced to Is years at hard labor in the
state prison.
Again it is rumored that Herr Won
Bethmann- Holweg, the chancellor OF
the German empire, tired and discour.
aged with his many political failures, is
thinking of resigning.
Attorney General Wickersham dis
cussed the Alaskan coal lands bill Sat
urday before the senate committee on
public lands. He declared the bill
would tie up all lands SO as to make de-
veiopment impossible.
Floyd B. Merrill, 17-year-old Sc
attic boy, has been offered $4,000 by
the Pennsylvania railroad for an in
vention of an electric device to warn
the engineer of train of displaced
rail or a bridge washed out.
Announcement of Andrew Carnegie Is
additional gift of $10,OoO,OOo to the
Carnegie institute and the enconiums
he pronounced upon the work of Mount
Wilson solar observatory has caused
much citation among scientists.
A. ]. Davidson of Milwaukee, for
merly president of the st. Louis & Sa1
Francisco railroad, has been elected
commissioner of the Pacific Northwest
ern Demurrage Bureau at Seattle. HI
will fill the vacancy caused by the deatl
of Robert Dudgeon.
A thorough investigation of severa
New York state departments, including
prison, banking, insurance, health, pub
lie service commissions and others, thu
heads of which are appointive officers
is to be begun this week at the direc
ton of Governor John A. Dix.
Pearl Kindall, aged %, died from tn,
effects of burns sustained in the Hub
bard house fire at Niobrara, Neb., re
Gently. He was son of M. w. Kindall
the proprietor, who also lost his life
This brings the total death list to 81,
Mrs. Kruhicka, aged rs, having die
during the week.
Congressman Poindexter called on i
H. Newell, chief Of the reclamatio
service, recently in behalf of the hig
line irrigation project in Kittit'
county. He urged that plans be mao
to obtain an appropriation as soon
possible that the work might be take
up. He was given assurance that Il
department favored the project al
would give it support.
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