Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-07-12
NEWS ITEMS.

A forest fire southwest of Buena
Vista, Col, has destroyed many thou
sands of dollars worth of valuable tim.
Der.
The steamship Braemar has arrived
in Tacoma from Yokohama with 5000
tons of silk and new tea and q steerage
passengers
The total attendance to date at the
Pan-American exposition is 1,778,811.
The average daily attendance for June,
including five Sundays, was over 81
00o.
Elmer Burkhead, aged 10, adopted
son of M. H. Burkhead, section foreman
of the Washington Central railway,
was drowned while bathing in Medical
lake Sunday afternoon.
James F. Yeatman, a well known
philanthropist, Is dead in st. Louis,
aged "a years. When the civil war
broke out Mr.. Yeatman endeavored to
maintain peace and labored earnestly
to that end.
AS result of the explosion of gaso-
line tank in the cellar of the country
house of w. F. Fitzgerald at Lake
Nagawicka, near Milwaukee, Mr.. Fitz-
gerald was so badly burned that he
died. His coachman, William Grun-
wald, is in dying condition.
Special dispatches from a staff cor
respondent of the Anaconda paper on
the ground are to the effect that there
is now but little hope of the sheriff's
posse overtaking the men who held up
the Great Northern express train at
Wagner, Mont, last Wednesday. The
correspondent has just returned from
the section of country where the posses
were expected to overtake the robbers.
His account is that the pursuers have
been outwitted and that the robbers
have eluded them.
A headend collision took place on the
Southern Pacific at Black Butte sum-
NIT, % miles north of Dunsmuir, Ore,
between the southbound California ex-
press and special northbound train
carrying volunteers from the Philip
pines, just mustered out. Two helper
engines, baggage car and mail car
were badly wrecked. A tramp on the
soldier special was instantly killed and
another had his arm and leg broken.
Engineer Henry Wentz of the express
train sustained serious injuries and
number of passengers received cuts and
bruises.
Superintendent Conley of the North
port, Wash, smelter, came in on the
train from Spokane, bringing with him
10 men to take positions in the smelter.
When the train slowed up at the depot
Conductor st. Clair gave a signal for
increased speed and the train was run
to the smelter grounds, where the new
men alighted. The train was followed
by a large number of union men, who
were at the depot to dissuade non-union
men from going to the smelter for
work. The strikers, not being prepared
for the new move, were left behind by
the train and reached the shelter
to find their progress opposed
by guards. A conflict seemed immi-
nent, but the cooler heads prevailed |
and the men returned to town without
attempting to trespass on the COM
pany's property.
Pierre Lorillard died recently in New
York. The members of the family pres |
emit at the bedside when the end came
we're Mr.. Lorillard's daughters, Mrs.
L. S. Taller and Mrs. William Kent,
md their husbands, and Pierre Loril-
ard, Jr., and wife, and also Pierre
Lorillard third. Various estimates
nave been made of the value of Mr..
4orillard's estate, and while it's exact
1alue at the present time is not known.
t is believed it is more than S25,OOO,-
700. AS long ago as 1884 it was said
o be from $15,OOO,0OO to 500, 900 900.
'ierre Lorillard was the eldest son of
Pierre Lorillard, founder of the for
une which made the family name
amous. He inherited much of the
BUSINESS ability of his father. and
marked success attended the CONNER
ial enterprises which he planned and
xecuted. At the death of his father
e received about 100000 and an
interest jointly with his brothers and
listers in the great house of which his