Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-08-09

few months. Colonel Dewey du
plicates this amount. At presen
he is taking Il quartz mill in OF
pack animals.
The assessment roll Of Ada coun
ty for 1901 shows that there is rea
estate in the county of assessed
value of 81, 443, $3.50; personal prop
erty, vi 800, 125; total assessed val
uation, IS, 1873. Abs.
Cyrus Odds, aged 19, was drown
ed in Snake river Sunday about
O'Clock in an eddy half mil,
from the Mayview Tramway com
pany's warehouse opposite Wawn
wal. The body was recovered two
hours after the accident.
The Salmon Recorder says:
couple of weeks ago a nugget
weighing $50 was picked up, al
Bohannon Bar diggings. This j,
the largest nugget ever found il
that vicinity and created consider.
able excitement in the camp.
Spokane, Aug. 3.-Judge VII.
liam H. Claggett, of Washington
and Idaho, died early this morn.
ing at his residence. He was
prominent in fusion politics in
Idaho and was at one time a can
didate for United States senator
before the legislature. Judge Clag-
gett was born in Maryland in 1888
The code commission (commis.
sion number two) will finish its
work within few days and the
work will be ready for the printers.
There will be four volumes and the
acts of the last session of the legis-
lature will be contained in the last
volume. When the laws are
printed a certain number OF the
completed books mill be distribute
ed among the officers and attorney
of the state for inspection.
Lewiston, Aug. 81. Z. Thomp.
son OF the Hardwood company OF
Spokane left this morning for
home. He has just returned from
the Mohler region, where he closed
the creamery. Mr.. Thorn pson
said: '"rhe Hardwood company
expect to start the creamery again
about the first OF October. by which
time we expect to stock the Mohler
country with dairy cows-Jerseys
and shorthorns."
Sheep men are generally buying
up all the hay at prices ranging
from "a to IS per ton that is being
offered for sale. Their reason for
doing so is on account of the un-
usual shortage OF the range on &C,
count of the hot and dry weather,
which will compel them to begin
feeding earlier than usual. Too,
they look for severe winter, stat
ing as a reason that several win.
tiers of late have been mild and in
the natural course of things, there
will be chanee.-Caldwell News.
Nezperce, Aug. 1.-The first
meeting OF the town trustees was
held Monday evening. The full
board comprising John. d. Ora,
ham, Thomas Mockier, n. Il. Har-
ris, Joseph Schultz and Carl Davis,
were present. The following Off
GERS were elected: Mayor. Joseph
Schultz; treasurer, j. T. Orbison
city attorney and clerk, C. NJ.
Stearns. The mayor is we'll
known banker here, who resided at
Uniontown for many years, Y here
he was prominent merchant.
Lewiston, Aug. 2.-Nelson
Brothers thresher, operating in n
field in Tammany, eight miles
south OF the city, was destroyed by
fire today, resulting from smut ex-
plosion, The top Of the harvester
was blown off by the force of the
explosion and the flames spread
rapidly. The entire threshing
outfit was destroyed and 500 bush
els of grain in the stack, The SER
vices of 90 men were necessary TO
prevent the flames from spreading
to the stubble. and for a time the
entire section was threatened.
Grsngeville. Aug. 3.-The Nc,
kinley mine Lear Lucille on the
Salmon river is showing better re,
suits as work progresses. The
management reports that they have
1876 feet of tunnel already run. In
the upper tunnel, which is 100 feet
long, a cross-cut shows the ledge to
be Is feet wide. A mill sample
from the entire ledge yielded
return OF SIP Sc to the ton. The
lower tunnel is in 225 feet and is