Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-13
WORLD news NOTES
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
LATEPRESS DISPATCHES
FROM THE DAILIES.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past " educational, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador
to Great Britain, has returned to this
country for two months visit.
Fourteen per cent of the area of Lon
don is free from buildings, while Ber
lin has 10 per cent free space and
Paris Az per cent.
Oscar Solomon Straus of New York,
formerly cabinet minister and for more
than a year and a half ambassador to
Turkey, has resigned.
California increased its coal output
st a greater rate than any other state
last year, mining more than twice the
quantity mined the year before.
Mrs. Ellen Changrow, wealthy In
dian woman of the Umatilla reserva
ton, Oregon, is suing Nicholas Chan
grow, her ninth husband, for divorce.
Besides shipping several chinook
down" steamboats, to South America, a
Pittsburg firm has sent one to the
Congo and another to the River Nile.
The steamship Alameda arrived Sat
urday in Seattle from Seward, bringing
$150,000 of Iditarod gold that was con-
veyed from the camp to Seward by
dog sled.
At Vancouver, Wash, Rev. Angus
Mckenzie, retired Presbyterian min
lister, for 40 years actively engaged in
religious work in the Pacific northwest,
died Saturday, aged II years.
AL O. Truskett, who Saturday shot
j. d. S. Nicely, prominent Oil man,
at Caney, Kan, was arraigned on a
charge Of murder in the first degree.
He was released on a $4,000 bond.
Representative Knowland of Cali
fornia has introduced bill making it
unlawful for a railroad to control either
by lease or by stock ownership steam
ship line with which it may or does
compete for traffic.
Representative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,, who has already been pledged the
speakership Of the house in the next
congress, says that he was not unduly
excited over suggestions that he be
come a candidate for the presidency.
Two northbound Missouri, Kansas s
Texas passenger trains collided during
fog at Abbott, Texas Saturday morn
ing, causing the death of two persons
DR.. X. Aiken, dentist, of Dallas, anG
IL. d. Reynolds, Pullman conductor, OF
Austin,
1t is announced that james j. Hill
of the Great Northern railway, will
contribute $4,000 to the endowment
fund of willamette university at Salem
providing other contributions to the
endowment fund are secured up to
$250000.
On the first anniversary of her hus
bands death in railway accident
Mrs. Anna Atwater, widow of Colonel
IL. q. Atwater, founder of Clearwater
colony, near Los Angeles, died Satur.
day from burns received in lamp ex-
plosion at her home.
Ben Simon in a recent aviation meet
accomplished an unusual feat in the
manipulation OF an aeroplane, when
after a spectacular flight, he brought
his machine to earth, and started it
into the air again without having en-
tirely stopped the motor.
The Erie railroad management has
honored one of it's oldest engineers,
both in years and in point of service,
by presenting Alexander Larkin on his
68th birthday the huge engine which
he drives daily in hauling the Pittsburg
fier between Cleveland and Youngs-
town.
Judge Lebbeus r. Wiley, who was
the first judge of the United States
court in Shanghai, China, has just ar
rived in New York from Mexico, where
he has been for year studying mining
conditions. Judge Wiley declares that
the revolutionary movement in Mexico
is of small consequence.