Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-12-15
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! son n. .. and Wolfe Green all of
Lorah Iowa arrived here on Tues
day evening and are visiting with
son and brother Mr.. NJ G. Mcclure
of this place.
Dave" sasenberry came over
from Grangeville on Wednesday af
ternoon to take charge of the Cot
tonwood branch of the Cash Bar
gain Store" Of Grangeyilie. Dave
is popular young man in Grange
vile circles ard will be good ac-
QUESTION to Cottonwood.
1t is stated that an attempt will
shortly be made to connect Havana
and Key West by the Marconi sys-
tenn of wireless telegraphy.
Articles of incorporation were
filed at Trenton, N j., November %.
If the Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of america, with an au-
thorized capital of $10,000.000.
On the trip home, Signor Marconi
signaled to the station at the Needles
while the vessel was sixty miles out.
The terminal N reswas fitted to mast
of the steamship for the experiment.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad has just commenced to
equip locomotives with electric head
lights. 1t was found that on trains
travelling at very nigh rate of speed
a stronger light was necessary.
The Baldwin Locomotives Works
has just installed in It's erecting shop
a crane which has a span of 15S feet
1t will lift a 96,000-pound loco
motive 40 feet in the air, carry it
1886 feet and set it down again in
three minutes and thirty,six sec
onds.
Engine No. 1923 of the Reading
Road has established a new speed
record with heavy train on the
road running between Camden and
Atlantic City. The distance is 553
miles and was covered in AZ minutes
the average speed being 70'6 miles
per hour.
Passengers arriving on the stage
last night from Grangeville report
that there is great excitement
among the people of Idaho county
as the result of the appearance in
that section of the mild varialoid
contagion. The disease, it appears
! has appeared in no M Re- serious
form than at other points in the
northwest country, but the people
are tn oughly alarm 3 and genuine
smallpox scare has resulted. The
Lewiston Tribune.
We can say to the public of the
country surrounding Cottonwood
that the town has no small pox
within its borders. The epidemic
is SO mild that no fears, whatever
are entertained by large majority
of the people. We are glad to make
this announcement, so that business
will resume it's normal condition at
once.
A Among the lines mentioned in
the incorporation of the branches
of the 0. R. & n, we find the fol-
! lowing
"a line connecting with The rail-
road OF this company at a point be-
tween the towns of Cottonwood and
Mt. Idaho, in the, state of Idaho, and
ex xtending to Buffalo Huinp mining
region, Idaho"
The company having seoufed
twenty three ACRES in Cottonwood, !,
and only fifteen in GrangeVille, show
their determination to make Cot
tonwood their principal point on
the Camas Prairie extension.
The fight Of way has been pur
chssed and paid for all the way up
from Lewiston to this place and jill
the early spring the dirt will be fly
ing all along the line. Cottonwood
is the geographical and topograph-
ical center of d country whose rich
ness in mineral wealth and agricul-
tural resources are without a paral-
lei. Pure air and the purest water,
coupled with the many othef nat
ural advantages, makes this the
logical location Tor all those who
are seeking prosperity as we'll as
health and happiness. And Cotton
wood is the center and distributing
point for this grand region.
The Idaho Drug store has school
tablets composition books, states
slate peteils an d lean bsneiislehsaf