AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

A COLD SNAP. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) [United Press Association.—l3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] NEW YORK, November 30. fl'lie whole of the United States suffered a severe cold wave with temperature near zero, even in the southern States. A total of twenty deaths were ■■ecorded during the day. THE YACHT CARNEGIE. NEW YORK, November 30. A message from Tuituila, Samoa, states ending twenty years scientific cruise the non-magnetic yacht Carnegie exploded and the subsequent fire spread to fiie nearby vessels, which were also destroyed. S.S. Ontario is proceeding to Apia to assist. AN ARMED CAMP. AFTER APACHE INDIANS. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) CHICAGO, December 1. Douglas, Arizona, resembles an armed camp, six hundred rough riders with war experience having volunteered to go out and exterminate Apache Indians who have been a thorn in the flesh of American and Mexican Governments for ; years. In 1926 they ambushed the wife of Francisco Fimbres, killed her, and mutilated her body, and kidnapped >an eight-year-old s’on. Timbers pledged the remainder of his life to avenge the slaying and has dogged the renegades trail ever since. He recently returned from the mountains and reported that the Indians had gone into; a winter camp and cannot emerge until the snows melt. Timbers child is still with the hand. , ,