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LINCOLN COUNTY TIMES
L. T. Alexander, Publisher
JEROME . .
. . IDAHO
IDAHO STATE NEWS
Fred Jones, who formerly conduct
ed a lunch counter at Weiser, was ar
rested last week on the charge of
bootlegging.
Agriculture is the backbone of the
Fremont country. There are 300,000
acres of prime farm lands contribut
ing their wealth to the residents of
that county.
St. Anthony has electric
and water system, supplying electric
power for light and power purposes,
lights
and water for domestic use, and pres
sure for fire protection.
One family near Wendell boasts that
the only staple groceries needed to be
purchased are coffee, flour and sugar
They produce everything else they
need right on their good north side
farm.
Everything is running smoothly at
the state industrial school in SL An
thony, according to Governor Hawley,
who spent a day inspecting that In
stitution on his recent trip through
the southeast.
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Jack Flynn, who shot and seriously
wounded a Twin Falls man named
Connors, at Jarbidge, has been ac
quitted by the trial judge, the evi
donee showing that the shooting was '■
in self defense. '
Hop smokers are having all sorts of
trouble in Boise, says the Statesman, I
Where they wer« smoking a quarter's
opium a years ago they
are now paying three and tour dol
lars for the same amount.
W. A. Rose, a farmer living near
Boise, is the owner of copies of one
of the oldest newspapers published in
New York state, the Ulster County Ga
zette, of which he has two copies of
the edition of January 4. 1800.
Boise valley's fruit crop was great
ly benefited by the recent rainfalls,
and the fruit men claim that this year
Is going to he the best in their his
tory, because of the excellent fall of
rain and the temperate weather.
Delegates to the annual convention
of the Intermountain Good Roads
sociation to be held at Pocatello June
22 to 24 will work for good
throughout the western states under
the slogan, "Good roads for good peo
ple." j.
Charles Elmer Johnson, believed to
be a resident of Boise, has been kill
ed In an accident on the railroad at
as
roads
Mabton, Wash., and citizens
have written to the postmaster
Boise, asking Information regarding
biro.
there
at
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! The annual Grand Army encamp- i
ment for the state of ladho will this I
year be held at Twin Falls June 20,
21 and 22, and is expected to be one
of the most successful that has been
held in the history of the state organ
ization.
There will be slight decrease in the
corporation tax collected in the Mon
tana-Tdaho district this year as com
pared to the tax collected a year ago.
Assessments in this district to May 1
aggregated $202,799 as against $203,
444 last year.
Because of the rapid Increase in
the number of prisoners at the state
penitentiary and the consequent de
mand for cell room, Warden Snook
proposes to at once begin the instal
lation of forty more cells in the new
cell house In the prison yard.
Southern Idaho will have the great
est crop tihis year ever known in Its
history, acoording to Charles J. Sin
sei, a well known fruit man. who has
just returned from an extensive trip
through all of the fruit growing sec
tions of this part of the state.
Fremont county embraces 3.963,000
acres; Is 60x100 miles: six times as
large as the state of Rhode Island.
Two-thirds of this area is rich agri
cultural and grazing lands; the other
third timber lands. The population in
1900 was 12,821; in 1909, 31,250.
Work was begun last week laying
the steel on the Golden Gate branch
of the Short Line from Caldwell to
Homedale, about a mile and a half
to be laid dally, so that It will only
be a few days till business and traffic
can be done between the two towns.
The Southeastern Idaho Beekeeprs'
association, composed of a number of
those interested in the production of
honey In that section of the state,
met in convention at Idaho
week. The members of the associa
tion will market 300 tons of extracted
honey this season.
After
about two years, the deal whereby the
state of Idaho will come into posses
sion of the land to be known as Hey
burn park, has been concluded.
Albert Collier, the 14-year-old
of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Collier of Nam
pa, who was accidentally shot Memor
ial day, died at a Boise hospital where
be had been taken for treatment.
It is the intention of the Ohio so
ciety 1 of Idaho to see to It that the
2,000 former Ohioans now residents
of Idaho exert every influence in the
future to bring to Idaho Its fair pro
portion of desirable citizens, says the
Boise Statesman.
Bernard Thompson, aged 8. and
Russell Moore, aged 10, were drowned
in an old mill pond south of the city
limits at St. Maries. The pool was
partially filled with sawdust, which
negotiations pending for
the boys must have swallowed with
the water and which hastened their
death.
ENORMOUS TREASURE DISCOV.
ERED OFF HONDURAN COAST BY
CALIFORNIA EXPEDITION.
Immense Quantity of Gold Hidden by
Crew of Chilean Cruiser Over Twenty
Years Ago Found by Expedition
Backed by Clubman.
.
San Diego, Cal.—A message received
herp from a party of treasure seekers
aboard the steamer Eureka, says their
expedition to
recover an immense
cache of gold, hidden by the crew of
a Chilean cruiser off the Honduran
coast more than twenty years ago, has
been successful,
The treasure has
been variously estimated at from $ 15 ,
000,000 to $65.000.000. according to
ports circulated here of the Eureka's
ouest. The steamer is now headed for
this port.
The Eureka is in command of Cap
lain Burtlss and
■
was taken on a thirty
uay charter by a party of San Fran
cisco people about two weeks ago.
The expedition is said to have been
known ^rufhm r>
Tim "an ' ^ Franc,8CO '
buried Ir'eas'nre thp locat * on of ,hp
in ... ' .' 18 sa d to have Deen
" Honduras ° * ° r " er resident
Honduras ' "ho succeeded in inter
a well
esting Kreiling in his
buried gold
story of the
The fact that most of the
South
American republics will not allow the
exportation of gold, made it necessary
to guard the plans of the expedition.
Steel Trust Executive Urges New Leg
islation to Protect Property Interests
WANT NEW TRUST LAWS.
Washington i ■
the "herman sZm tf.°" °
propertv interests ' ana 3 tT tD pr0t . edt
"elfare alike was urged bvVbm H
Garv chairman of ts k ' j , I*
lors he UnHea Q . J? f ^
in conclu tir " ^ corpor '
Thursday before „ tes " m ° n J
S ° ? led
Judge oLv seta h l" S TT
mirtee ln lts P m ®
United States st^i " 0I1 - SUe tbe
the committee corporatlon what
cornora^n s stl H, t0 b6 ' he
corporation s standing under the law.
would ake ad am!' '' th f is . committee
uLncZuTri
innuence to bring about the enactment
of proper legislation
protect the property interests of the
country, the interests of the
ation,
calculated
to
govern
men t and the people at large, so as to
permit us to continue bus '' ss prog
1-688 along liens of prosp« .
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Runs Amuck With Revolver.
Spokane, Wash.—E. W.
Byrd, em
ployed by John Mark! on the erection
of a building, became angry when dis
charged Thursday, and, drawing a re
volver, he shot and killed Mark! and
then fled.
W. H. Whipple started ini
pursuit and Byrd shot and killed him
M. Misner, justice of the peace took
Bvrd fired 'n-ai
probably fatally wounding him Byrd
is heina u,. „ , ' ru
S . b> a large Posse of
officers and citizens.
up the chase and
Plotters Convicted.
St.
Petersburg.—The
trial of the twelve
sensational
men, including
two noblemen, a lieutenant a
and four lawyers, charged with
spiring to secure the fortune of the
late Prince Bohdan Oginsky, was end
ed Thursday with the sentencing of
seven defendants found guilty.
Captain Von Liarliarski
demned to two years imprisonment
and his accomplices were deprived of
their civil rights.
priest
con
Staff
was con
Approves Honduran Plan.
W ashington.—The senate committee
on foreign relations on Friday decid
ed to report favorably the treaty be
tween Honduras and this country pro
viding a loan of $10,000,000 from bank
ing interests of the United States to
meet the Honduran debt. Of this
amount $7,500,000 is to be forthcom
ing at once.
Reciprocity Bill Ready for Senate.
Washington.—The Canadian recip
rocity bill is ready for consideration
by the senate. The finance committee
on Thursday voted ten to four to
port the bill Tuesday without recom
mendation, and with the Root amend
ment to the wood pulp and
clause tacked
re
paper
on.
Shot by Discharged Maid.
San Francisco.—C. Frederick Kohl,
millionaire clubman and one of the
best known capitalists of San Fran
cisco. was shot and fatally injured
Thursday afternoon by Adele Verge,
a French maid, formerly employed by
Mrs. Kohl,
to be insane.
The woman is believed
Lorimer Committee Begins Work.
Washington.—Preparatory to adopt
ing a plan of procedure, the members
of the Lorimer investigating commit
tee are reading the testimony taken by
the Illinois senate in its recent in
quirty into the case.
English Bank Fails.
London.—The Birbeck bank in High
Holborn, which withstood a run last
fall, caused by rumors that the insti
tution was in trouble, suspended
mert Thursday. The directors esti
mate i !: ■ :;ency at $1,875.000.
pay
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CHINA DEMANDS AN APOLOGY
Mexico is Asked to Apologize and Pay
Heavy Indemnity for Slaughter of
Chinese at Torreon.
Mexico City.—An indemnity of 12,
be demanded of
000.000 pesos will
Mexico by the Chinese government
for the slaughter of Chinese subjects
in Torreon. The demand will be
backed up by a cruiser which is on
the way to Mexican west coast ports.
Three investigators returned Friday
from
placed in the hands
of shun S Hal Sung, charge d'affaires
of thp Chinese legation, a detailed re
P° rt of «he carnage. This shows 303
amTiT" 6 ki " ed ' many ° f them iU
ost inhuma n manner, and that be
sides a b "nk and pblb house, eighty
aine places of business were sacked.
In add Ulon to the indemnity, an
apologJ - tor insult to Chinese flag
"I" bo demanded; also that aid be ex
tended to d estitute families of the vie
lims: tba t the guilty be punished, and
the constitutional guarantees of pro
tectioa »o Chinese lives and property
be made effective.
G f the 12.000.000 pesos Indemnity.
and SZemiUZ K damaRe -
loss of
lives.
CARRIE NATION IS DEAD.
Last Five Months of Saloon Smashers'
Life Spent in Sanitarium.
Leavenworth. Kan.—Carries Nation,
the saloon smasher, died here at 7:05
P. m. Friday. Paresis was the cause
of death. Mrs. Nation had been in
poor health for months, and on Janu-1
ary 27. hoping to recover from a ner
vous breakdown, she entered the local
sanitarium in which she died.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was born In Ken-j
tu<k >' in 1S46 - Her maiden name was
Carrie Moore and as a girl, ft is said,
she was absolut6 '. v fearless. In her |
^ 1Ue shp , married a man addicted
t0 the use of intoxicants, which créât
ed in her an intense aversion to the
saloon. When he died, she determined
to devote her life to the suppression
of the liquor traffic. Later she moved
to Kansas and married David Nation,
who sympathized with her temperance
principles. He divorced her ten years
ago.
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Mrs. Nation's first saloon smashing
was done in the barroom of the Carey
hotel at Wichita, December 17. 1900.
Mrs. Nation, after her activities in
Kansas, became a lecturer and the ed
itor of a paper called the "Smasher's
Mail."
ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED.
Father, Mother and Two Children Vic
tims of Fiends.
thews - a neighbor,
called at the house.
Portland. Oregon—William Hill, his
wife and their two small children
were murdered Thursday night in
their home In Ardenwald, a suburb of
this city. The four bodies were dis
covered Friday by Mrs. C. B. Mat
who causually
When Mrs. Matthews reached the
Hill home no answer was given to her
knock at the door. Finding It unlock
ed, she entered and discovered the
bodies of the two young children in
the bedroom. Their heads had been
split open with an ax. In an adjoining
room lay the body of Mrs. Hill, her
skull crushed in with the same instru
ment. Hill's body was found in
other room, also with the head crush
ed. There is no clew to the murderer.
an
Stokes in Serious Condition.
New York.—Millionaire W. E. D.
Stokes, proprietor of the Ansonia ho
tel, who lies wounded in Roosevelt hos
pital from bullet wounds inflicted by
two comely show girls, Ethel Conrad
and Lillian Graham, in the latter's
apartment late Wednesday afternoon,
is still in a serious condition.
One Killed, Twenty Injured.
Albuquerque, N. M.—Engineer W. A.
Green was killed and twenty trainmen
and passengers Injured Friday when
the westbound Santa Fe limited dash
ed into a light engine near Domingo
N. M.
The Yukon River Open.
Seattle, Wash.—Lake Lebarge Is
free form ice and the Yukon river Is
open for navigation along its entire
length. The first boat tor Dawson, the
steamer Whitehorse, left Whitehorse
Friday night.
» KILLED BY
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OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEO
PLE KILLED AND SEVEN
TOWNS DEMOLISHED,
Second Shock Adds to Terror of Sur
vivors. Who Are Facing Terrors of
Famine and Fear of Repetition of
Death Dealing Earth Tremors.
Mexico City.—Fifteen hundred and
thirty-seven persons killed; forty-one
cities, each with poulations of more
than 1,300, damaged: seven big towns
entirely demolished. That is the
suit of earthquake shocks on Wednes
day which visited this war stricken
country, as compiled from
received here,
A new and terrific earthquake
shock occurred in the southern and
re
reports
It
was
western sections of Mexico shortly
after .> o'clock Thursday evening,
was of five minutes' duartion and
distinctly felt here.
Mount Colima is In frightful erup
tion. The cathedral in the city of
that name is destroyed, together with
many homes and business properties.
The city is
■ ... practlcal,y in ruiDS -
total wreck, and Tonlla^tatTIff Cob
ima. is one mass of flames Ponocit
apetl also is in ?ull eruption S
cones of stnoke^ hovering ^r^
crater and lava pouring down the
sides. P B d ° Wn ^
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The slates of Morelos and Guerrero :
have the terrors of famine added to I
those of the earthquake, while cloth
ing, bedding and shelter is
fires
scarce as
a er 1
swept many towns
earthquake had passed.
The quake* was most severely felt
from the town of Bravos in the south
to Doros Hidalgo in the
miles.
north. 560
It extended from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Pacific ocean.
in- famous floating gardens of the
.tontezumas. located on an island In
v:' k ® m l . C0 ' are no mor, '- Gar '
dens, homes inhabitants, island and
aH are sunken beneath the
How many victims
claimed by the earthquake here
surface of
the lake.
were
_ no
an! T the ^ Ut coai P aral lvely few if
have «Leaned ^ be " eVed to
Tho v u * » 1 .»
dire!! ! antS ° f thlS ls,and ar °
dtrect descendants of the Aztecs ami
of pure, unmixed
They raised
and sold nearly all the flowers
tegetables for the markets of Mexico
City. Now they and their homes
their products
The entire rebel army Is giving aid
by order of General Alfonso Miranda,
who is here. Thirteen thousand men
are distributing such food as can be
had. helping to rebuild homes to she!
ter the homeless, care for the
lured and bury the dead.
and
and
are no more.
in
DRUG BANKER, LOOT BANK.
Two Men Chloroform Cashier and Get
Away With $9,000.
Tooele. Utah.-A bold bank robbery
occurred in the
. new to"n of Tooele.
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock The
robbery
v. aa
l. , committed by two
masked men, who entered the hank
Just as the cashier, S. I. Shafer was
preparing to lock the vault. They held
him up at the point of a gun, bound
hhTZ "Z thlorr,formpd him, placed
riZd lavatory and 'hen leisurely
rifled the bank, obtaining somewhere
between $8,000 and $9.000. The rob
bers made their escape and the rob
hour mûr" 01 di8covered unt " half an
Prominent Sugar Ma
n Dead.
New York.—Nathaniel Tooker first
vice-president of the Cuban American
Sugar company, and a director
wtdn 8U f 8r POmpanlP8 ' fp| l dead ho!!
Wednesday from heart
was seventy-three
disease
He
years old.
Another Protest Filed
Pittsburg. The Reformed
terlan synod, in session here
day adopted resolutions protests
against the acceptance of the 8 »vër
service for the battleship IT ah toZ
presented by the people
Presby
Wednes
of Utah.
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FRENCH PRESS DECLARES THAT
GERMANY IS AT THE BACK
OF SPAIN.
Over Morocco Grow» More
France Asks the
Trouble
Serious and
Spanish Government to Define
Its Motive«.
Paris.—The storm raised by Span
ish military action in Morocco shows
The French press
no sign of abating.
Is unanimous in condemning the atti
tude of Spain and the Nationalist see
ls beginning to raise the "Gcr
lion
man bogy."
La Patrie declares that Germany Is
behind Spain.
"poking up the fire"
Means Idle dispatches from Morocco
show that Spain is carrying out her
Alcazar is occupied and Te
program.
tunn soon will be.
La Liberté says the French govern
ment has Invited the Spanish govern
ith precision the mo
ment to define
lives, object and conditions of its mil
itary action at El Araish and Alcazar,
and France will then decide what
steps to take lu accordance with the
reply.
RAILROAD WILL WIN.
Government Will Lose Suit to Recover
Oil Lands Worth $500,000,000.
Washington.—Just as the govern
raent is sitting in for the biggest legal
game it ever played the discovery Is
made that it is bound to lose and the
Southern Pacific to win $500.000.000
if the play goes on.
The stakes are a great area of Call
fornia's richest oil lands. They were
granted to the railroad with a clause
in the grant expressly excepting all
mineral lands save those containing
coal and iron. Most of these lauds
were patented to the grantee more
than six years ago.
The joker in the situation Is a spo
cial statute of limitations, slipped
through congress In an act of March
3. 1891, and perfected by another act
of March 2. 1896
The effect of there acts, as con
strued by the United States supreme
court. Is absolutely to bar proceed
ings by the government to annul
patent of land to a land-grant rail
road after six years from the Issuance
of the patent
a
Until these acts aro
repealed the government has not
a
chance on earth to get back its lands,
Three Meet Death in Storm.
N«" York.—A survey of the nearby
n!ght°!ihow*cd^that VreeZ
in t nt th . . lhrie s oro
w.Ln ' th " hav ° c wrought by
J '"wind and nrc amount
i,nii i * i ° UaaUds of dollar8 - Two
bod 1 ea found ° n tht> '»ore »f Grave
send bay were
Emilie Faulkner, a widow.
identified as Mrs
and her
brother. Captain George Lante, a boat
builder.
They had gone out to his
houseboat. .U-h provisions for a party
"hioh had born idunuod for Sunday.
The third death
was in Jeysey City,
wire electrocuted David
where a fallen
Clark.
Russians Welcome War Vessels.
! Cronstadt.—The second division of
the United States Atlantic fleet under
command of Rear Admiral Badger ar
rivpd hpre Sunday from Stockholm for
a week's stay
The American squad
ron was escorted from Koval by elgh
A fleet of excur
, teen torpedo boats.
sion steamers, tug boats and yachts
including the yacht of M. Kokov«!*.
" ,e UusBian minl8tpr ° r «nance, as
sembled ofT Tolbukino lighthouse and
j0lnpd th « procession, Tho cruisers
Gromovoi and Pallada. stationed In
the other roadstead.
Ri ,„ 1o . WPre lhe 80lp
Russian units to greet the squadron,
as Russia's navy is much depleted
gambler who fired " r r a ' tbe
!hs"body This wife ""T n 1 tu
stantly declares he w-Is , Cf ln '
„„r .1 ' v. U 8 h ° a Koadp(1 10 des
peration by spiritualistic revelations
portraying his wife's alleged infidelity
Alter ten years of these mystic com
munications. ho says, he became
vinccd his wife
Goaded-to Desperation by Spirits.
Denver.—William
Riots Rmuk „ J
ctev . . er
«the! . nd ' J °~° ne man iB dp ad, an
«ruf fW P Un {T ar,<i3t • charged with
undo? or r e I/ ni, K der ' and 8lx 0therH ar "
cZimu s ' ?° d With ««orderly
8 tt result of Saturday's do
velopments in the strike of 6.000 gar.
con
was unfaithful.
ment workers here.
Auto Went Into River
driving along the
Jim river late
earth gave
thrown into the
drowned.
S. I).,
bank 0 f the
Saturday night,
automobile
river and both
were
the
way, the
was
wore
Pour Girl, Drowned
Appleton, Wls.—Four
drowned and five
a small sailboat
death near here
struck the craft
des Morts and
Fatal
KirlH
were
O'her Occupants of
narrowly escaped
Sunday, when a squall
on Utile Uike Butt
capsized It.
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Shooting in Colorado.
Castle Rock. Colo
W- Elision
the former
—Mr. and Mrs
a " dead as the result' of
a Picnic. andW M T?, 8UDday 11 '
pending LL. "!? 8 '* in
with killing Elistcm ga °"' chftr K pd
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MAOERO HAS NO OPPOSITION
Will Be Chosen President of M
and Will Be Supported by De La
Barra and General Reyes.
«xico
Mexico City.—There now
«cents
doubt that Francisco I. Madcro «m
be chosen president of Mexic
fact It does not appear that he ha,
any serious opposition. 1
is regarded us an assured fact
no
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Ills election
In an Interview on Saturday. Ma
dero said: "If I should be
eelcted
president, Senor Do lu Hurra will be
minister of foreign affairs and Gen
eral Keyes will be minister of war p,
my cabinet."
Madero, President lie l u Hurra
General Keyes.
Tills was after a meeting bet««
•«•h
and
dero had been conferring with Pregl
The meeting was accidental.
Ma
dent De la Harra about the polit^ al
situation when General Keyes arrived.
Madero was asked to remain.
Frank
discussion of the situation resulted.
In talking of the meeting General
"It Is true that I am
going to be minister of war if Senor
Keyes
said :
Madero is elected. I am not
be a candidate for the
participate in the elections
Koi to
residency or
"Just before you came," he said to
the interviewers, "a committee called
ou me to ask me to be a candidate
for the presidency, but 1 told them I
Intended to be a member of
H**nor
Madcro s cabinet if he is elected.
"To offer myse'f as a candidate
might mean a confusion which would
produce anarchy, and 1 can assure you,
both President De la Barra, Senor Ma
dero and myself will work earnestly
and Incessantly to prevent such a
contingency."
Madero's remark that President De
la Burra would return to his recent
post of minister of foreign relations
is looked upon as an Indication that
the new government will contain rep
resentativis of all elements and will
have a stable effect on the future ad
ministration.
ORGANIZE VAST CRAFTS UNION
Employes In Various Branches of
Railroad Service Perfect System
Federation.
Salt Ixtke City With the adoption
of a constitution and by laws, the elec
tlon of officers and the selection o'
members of advisory board, the con
vention of delegates representing the
different crafts of ibo railroad lir.< i
comprising the llarrlman i) item »•
of the Mississippi river on Sutcrd.r.
at Federation of Labor hall cotnpb '• I
the organization
tlon. By uniting themsel
if ih*' System fcder.i
s lute
' , " 1 ' of " "iutT " d
by the transportation comp mloa of I !•
ui"
vreat west have created a potential
factor that doubtless is destined t >
play a leading role lu future relation*
transactions between railroad
employer and employee,
CAPTAIN MURDERED BY CREW
and
Beaten to Death by Three of Hi« Men
as He Lay Asleep.
Boston—A hunchback
William Do Graff by
with two husky bargemen.
I'rlskirk and William \c|s<
s<-.a
her
Antonio
name.
m, all of
Boston, were locked up In Jail S.itur
day afternoon, charged by the federal
authorities with murdering their cap
tain on the seas.
The men are member* of the crew
of the Philadelphia barge Glendow. r
whose captain. Charles |> Wyman of
Parkerhead, Me . had been found dead
In his bunk on the barge. He had evi
dently been beaten to death a* he lav
sleeping.
Surrender After Fierce Fighting.
San Diego, Cal.-Cullpcan In
8,a,p of Sinaloa surrendered to the
MadorUias May 31
I! e
after nearly twi
days of fierce fighting in which hun
dreds are reported to have been killed
Thp «Hy was nearly destroyed Max
l '' an ln •«*' same stale, surrendered
w,thoul "«'stance on June 2. These
advlpp * v,prp brought by steamer Hem
>o Juarez, which has Just arrived fre
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Worry Killed This Woman.
K. Mlnnrd was
1 Chicago—Mattie _
j found dead | n borf at Maywood, a su
burb - Parl J r Sunday, following the
appearance of her husband. Charles W
i ' I " ,;,rd - Principal of a public school
* lorf ' Minard left hl» home to coni*»
, f ?^ rh,rMn s »»"rrlny afternoon «.ml
I ? d ■« rcfu rn 1Int || Sunday night
' r8 ' ' ,ln ard died Horn heart disease,
i aRBrava,Pd hv ,
dl*
worry.
The Plague In Chi
na
Amoy, China The plague Is nhsl
■ng In the Interior districts to the
north and
west, but is Increasing in
" ,P •"»mcdlata vicinity of Amoy,
reported that last month the popula
tlons of
It Is
several villages on Amoy
stand and in the districts to the south
.. avp ,,p ' n 'lecimatrd. Stories of en
re amilles perishing are common.
Military Stations Being Abmdoned.
Brownsville, Tex —The palrollng of
î s seel Ion of the Mexican border by
tilted States troops to prevent a vio
lation of neutrality laws has ceased
■ ml the various military sub-stations
nave been abandoned.
Burglars Cau«e Big Fire.
Elkins, W. Va. —Burglars blew open
• e site i n th e French Creek postof
a o. twenty-two miles from here, early
• aturday. Fire followed the explosion
and between twenty and thirty build
iiiRH were lirKtroyeci.