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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06

fog on the bay all day long and as
night fell it seemed to thicken. Cap
tain Mckenzie of the San Rafael sent
his ship along under slow bell.
He was somewhere near Alcatraz
island when the Sausalito, coming
from Sausalito to San Francisco.
crashed into her. There were but few
passengers on the Sausalito, but they
were badly scared and for a few mo-
ments it looked as if both boats were
going down. When it was seen that
the Sausalito was not badly injured
she stood by the San Rafael, and Off
GERS, crew and passengers engaged
in the rescue of the unfortunate pas
sengers of the sinking vessel.
Both boats are side wheelers and
ordinarily carry many hundred pas
sengers Fortunately this was the
winter season and the last trip, so
there were not so many passengers
as usual.
Marin county, from Sausalito to San
Rafael, distance of 20 miles, is lined
with homes of wealthy people. During
the summer the ferryboat traffic is
very heavy, but in the winter it light
ems and there are comparatively few
people who travel on the boats during
the winter season.
News of the disaster did not reach
the city until o'clock and the news
spread with great rapidity. There was
Intense excitement at the opera house,
where an immense crowd was listen
ing to Calve in Carmen" Many peo-
Pile left the house and rushed to the
newspaper Offices to obtain informa-
ton about friends and relatives who
might have been on board of one of
he vessels.
Never has the fog been thicker in
San Francisco and On the bay. 1t
was a day and night of anxiety. In
he early hours the fog came up "as
.hick as mush." and tonight it was
almost impossible to see a boats
ength.
The steam schooner Arctic ran down
he French bark Edmond Rost, and
n the early morning hours the En-.
'inal and Albatross came together in
he fog. Many a vessel had asaarrow
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
night in shooting scrape at the COM
nanyfS hknardiney ho,,so

night in a shooting scrape at the com
pany's boarding house
During recent fire at Omaha thu
supply house of the Creamery Package
Manufacturing company at Eleventh
and Jones streets, three firemen were
injured and loss of $85, 900 sustained
The report of the manager of ath.
ietics at Harvard university for tha
past year shows that the receipts from
adj branches of athletics amounted to
$117,317. and the expense to $7S,23s.
The receipts from football were S55. S1S
and expenses $19,699.
Flour thousand Boer sympathizer at.
tended meeting held at Detroit, Mich.
Sunday, under the auspices of the
1Tansvaal league, and applauded the
anti-Brdtish sentiment of Commandment
Jan Krige, who served under Gen.
Botha, and ex-Congressman ]. j. Lentz,
of Ohio.
William Alexander Selkirk. a Cali
fornia pioneer of 1850, and for nearly
half century a prominent figure in
the newspaper and political world of
the Pacific coast, died in Seattle re-
Gently after lingering illness, aged ~
years. He had been an invalid for many
months
bill will be introduced in congress
at the next session reducing the postage
On letters to 1 cent. 1t is doubtful if
the bill becomes a law. One cent post
hlQ honn 6al for
years, but so long as the receipts of the
postofiice department are not equal to
the expenses, the officials are not likely
to call strongly for cutting the present
letter rate in two.
The Denver Post says Senator Will
liam A. Clark, of Montana, and Thomas
F. Walsh, of Colorado have, it is ru-
mored, Joined issues in railroad con-
strlIction, and will build practically
new transcontinental railroad. The
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is said
TO belong to Senator Clark and tMr.
Walsh.
Five persons, mother and her four
were burned to death at Gwyn
station, three miles north of Altoona,
Pa The husband escaped with severe
Injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Mary c.
Burke, AZ years old; Adam G. Burke,
l6; -aark e. Burke, 10; Joanna Burke.
IL; Joseph Victor Burke, 8 years; Carl
W. Burke, the husband, Is seriously
burned about the back.
Mystery attends the shooting at Gas
sade, Montana, of Fred Dawkins. who
Is fatally wounded. Dawkins claims
mat he was shot from ambush by ]. b.
Mcbride. The officials have a theory
that Dawkins is monomaniac ON the
subject of the capture of Pat Grove,
and that while performing the self
imposed duty of effecting the capture
of man whom he suspected of being
Grove, he accidentally shot himself.
The military departments of North.
ern and Southern Luzon have ceased ito
exist. Major General James F. Wade. |
-ormerly in command of the southern |
IlWlsion, will leave Manila tomorrow |
% assume command of the American
forces on Cebu island, and Major Cen
eral Lloyd Wheaton, formerly com.
nander of the northern division. will
AXE command of the department of the
Northern Philippines.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
IDAHO GLEANINes

Arrangements for the w,,.
meeting at Lewiston are co Il
A meeting of the board e. Y.
the University of Idaho w.s
Moscow December S Thu -.
turned over the new buildinos
pleted.
An effort is TO be made 4
union of all the colonization i.
and landed interest for Idsss
purpose of a more systematic MI
attracting immigration to tba h
Superintendent VOORHEES, II n
wal INDIAN Industrial schnol
that present attendance Al II.
now reaches 100, an increase i |.
ance over last year of about 4
cent.
Senator Heitfeld Of this shat. !,
dressed a letter to d. IT Ans'
Boise. chairman of the populis "
committee, announcing his w#hsj
from the populist party and III 4,
zion with the democracy.
|Adjutant General J. L. Wavs
mustered in Company G. seconsj
ment, Idaho National Guard Il 81
ton, with SO members and The iOT1
officers: Captain, e. McCullouys
lieutenant, John Wiggln; secOoi i
tenant, Jess Harlow.
Edward Rice was hanged S,.
morning in the state penitentI,S'
the murder of Matt Mailley Al M,
on September 4, 1900. Malleg
found in his cigar store dead MI
crime was traced to Rice.
Captain Mccullough of the M,
Norma, which has been making /
trips from Riparia to Alrno.a n
turn since October 10, stated III
believed the grain delivered It
points between lewiston and Ri
to be fully 100000 bushels.
Jack" Dunn and w. S. WIKI
two of the principal stockholderss
Wild Rose mine, in the Pierce Cit
trict, Idaho, recently brought Oa
pounds of gold bullion valued at II
the result of a 30-day run by
stamp prospecting mill. The mine
discovered May %, 1901, and sine
there has been taken out over 1901
Professor H. T. French, in chan
the university department Of agr
ture, has left for southern Idaho, N
he will hold a series of farmers
tutes. Institutes will be held at
ton, Franklin, Weston, BlackfOOt
ley, Iona, Lower Boise and New
mouth, and the last at Meridian.
lessor French will be assisted In
work throughout the series by
Engineer Ross, whe will discuss III
non problems and road making;
F,rult Inspector A. Mcpherson ami
.. Glpson, editor of the Gem
Rural, who will act as secretary d
Institutes. After the holidays 1t il
purpose of the agricultural college
ION staff to hold several institute
he northern portion of the state.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
A. G. Marshall /.

A. G. Marshall. a pro...
pioneer of 1852, died as
Knox's Butet, L mn. cioun,,
Physicians of UmasI,,'s 'l
EASTERN Oregon organi,a "a
Oregon District Medical !. .f'l
dieton last week. seelst
The Portland wooden n,,,,
wood are rapidly being III; ,''a
iw'hll be ready for starnoa '''p'
the first of the year. y
The lockwood act has I
by the supreme court q IS. 20
law requires all political ns.a v
primaries on the same ~ y
copied after the Mlnnesotsa 7.
The first move to establ,a y
nent county fair for Umssi,s'al
set On foot. N. Berkeley +
nent real estate man, has' II 4 I,
get subscriptions of slo oaa s'!'
100 shares at 81 each. ''''
Al Nell of San Franci...
ferrous Billy" Smith Of Pm NJ !. =
~ rounds to a draw at ~ y
building in Portland ~ X
proved himself to be 4 clas'
but his blows lacked forcs s''s'
George u. Bingham ana i ,
mack. of Salem, have escana,'
of the $4,000 bond to which Il, !,
sureties for G. W. Davis. fo,.
school land clerk, because H.
outlawed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
Baby Burned to Death

Sioux City, Dec. Mrs. j. Fred
Meyers, living five miles from Correction
vile, wrapped her five months old baby
in blanket, put her in the oven of the
kitchen stove to keep warm and went out
to gather fuel. When half an hour later
she returned the fire in the stove had
'blazed up and the room was filled with
smoke. Rushing to the stove she found
the blanket and clothes in flames. The
baby was dead and its arms and legs were
burned to a crisp.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
-FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
NEWS rs BRIEFLY TOLD HERE.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week
Harvesting Is in Full BIast-Bi&
Crops Assured - Many Accidents
OccUr-PersOnals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Aberdeen is to have an electric street
railway.
After attaining the remarkable age OIL
95 Alexander Hinman died in Walla
Walla recently.
At North Yakima thieves entered the
house Iof Frank Fuller on the west sidt
last week and stole 500.
Frank Stentz of Cheney was found
guilty of manslaughter for driving ovel
M. w. Orion near Cheney.
The anti-gambling convention at
Whatoom has renominated Mayor Ba'
con on a platform of enforcement OF
the law.
,Adjultant General Drain, assisted by
the board of examiners, has mustered
the Everett rifles into the state Ma
tional Guard.
The dead body of Peter Faure of
Walla Walla was found in San Fran
cisco. An open gas jet told the story
of his taking off.
w. E. Lawrence, a clerk in the Top
penish Trading company's store at Top
penish, lost leg Thanksgiving evening
by failing under freight train.
Farmers are adding hogs and cattle
to their list of farm products at rate
that promises to make this one of the
greatnest live stock states in a few
years.
Wheat grown in Oregon and in the
famous Palouse country of Washing
ton can now be shipped into Utah at a
total cost of from 70 to rs cents per
bushel.
Washington supreme court holds that
owner of delinquent tax certificate for
general taxes does not have to pay
street grade assessments before fore
closing his lien.
Albert TAFT, a logger employed at the
Wilcox camp, on the Snoqualmie river,
was drowned under a log jam, and John
Nelson, a logger, was instantly killed
by breaking cable.
At Ellensburg, Elwood Smith, charg-
ed with the killing of Jack Heffern.
better known as "Pasco" Jack" was
discharged. Judge Rudkin held that
the evidence was not sufficiet.
Jim Jeffries, the worlds champion
pugilist, may appear in Spokane uvder
the auspices of the Spokane Athletic
club. The date considered in the I'M
completed plans is December -.
The industrial department of the o.
r. & N. is gathering data on the hog
industry in the Palouse, Walla Walla
and Pendleton districts with a view to
taking steps to encourage hog raising.
A freight train ran into a band of
sheep below Yakima City last week and
killed 81 of them. The engine was de-
rallied and traffice was delayed. The
sheep belonged to Charles McAllister.
John w. Saunders, a rancher living
six miles west of Walla Walla, after
spending 5000 received from a sale of
cattle in week of dissipation recently.
shot himself through the head with a
rifle, death resulting instantly.
One OF the largest lumber deals
which has been made in this section of
the country was recently consummat-
ed, in which the Gould Manufacturing
company of Oshkosh, Wis, purchased
something like 100000 feet of lum.
Der from several milling firms Through
out the Inland Empire.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
The Beers Were Rennlsed.

[retorla, Dec. 1.-The Beers on ID
I'isnt OF November 26 made a general !;
Tempt to break the blockhouse ccrdal
aioiis the railway west of MiddlebOrcuss
pu' were repulsed with considerable Joy
AN armored train turned back the MAJ
Douy OF 200 of the enemy and the gam
suns OF the blockhouses checked the AZ
lacking party at other points.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06

many of them jumped to the Sausalito
and others went on the gangplank run
between the two boats to safety. The
list OF those lost will probably not be
available tonight. 1t is safe to say.
however, that those lost were all
prominent people in the community.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
Monitor Florida Was Launch.d

New York, Dec. 1.-The new monitor
Florida was safely launched at the shin.
yard of Louis Nixon at Elizabeth N 7
The christening was done by Mrs. Nixon,
who is a native of Florida.
The vessel is of 5000 tons and is pos
feet long.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
Viceroys Opposed 1t.

ool London Dec. 1.-The foreign office hsls
u ''',ns the report that the Russo-Cn,
ng e manehurian negotiation are broKel
VII Inc official, however. attribute t0'
NOR, more to the opposition of the Chimes
AZ and the death of Ii Hung Chaas
'""" 10 the operations of Japan.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
Labor Organizer Ar-....,

Madisonville, KY, Dec. l.-Willian
Blakeley, national organizer of mine
workers, was arrested today charged with
intimidation. The trial of Charles L.
Plackman, another union organizer. was
continued today until next Tuesday.
Plackman gave bond for his appearance.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06

N T y IN h September last Miss Ellie Stone American
was captured BY party of bands 40 in
taken along ompanion
carried the mountains where they st
equivalent
SnokoV within Is
receive that
demanded
U.
he matter has
ahe at least been seconded by the
10 Ie accounts ne has fered the bgands
stones release them
would withdrawn
treated ana are IN good health 1t is believed
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
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iden4 os p w. U1urch, well known res.
t oraaov OIL :, Portland and native son '1 Of
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06

London, Dec. 1.-The stupendous iaa
IN government, railroad and other secun
lieS since the South African war COM
menced is almost without precedent
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-06
WHEAT REPORT.

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bluestem, Coo.
Tacoma.-Unchanged; steady; blue
stem, 5936c; club, 5S15c.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
ON TEXAS GRIDIRON.
Serious Fight Arises and Play
ers Badly Beaten Up.

Mckinney Tex, Oct 2s.-Rennells and
Mansfield of Sherman and Weeden Frank
lin and Guy Rambo of Mckinney were
seriously injured Bond, Davenport.
Graves, Harris Lanier and Wilson of Nc
Kinney, and Mclean, Evans, Oxford
Lean, Harvey, Gregg and Ehrhart of
Sherman were badly beaten and bruised
in a football game in Mckinney Friday
afternoon
The team from Sherman met Y. NJ. c.
A team of Mckinney. In the kickoff
Sherman had an easy walk over. McKin-
ney put on heavier men, and fight came
up. Others took a hand, and within few
minutes at least 40 men were engaged.
The city marshal and several others in
terfered and finally stopped the row.
Rennells, Mansfield, Rambo and Frank
lin were left unconscious on the ground.
They were taken to the hospital, where
Rennells is yet in serious condition.
Thirty-one men are now under arrest
awaiting trial.
A second fight came up at the police
station, but was checked before anyone
was hurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
SPREADING OUT.
Former Topeka Man Buys q Big
Wichita Store.

Cash Henderson says the Wichita
Beacon sold his large dry goods estab-
lishment on North Main street to Rora-
baugh & Co., retail dry goods dealers.
who own large stores at Emporia and
Hutchinson. The deal was made short
ly after IL o'clock and the whole trans
action did not consume more than five
minutes
The stock is sold at the selling price,
dollar for dollar, and Mr.. Henderson
stated this morning that he estimated
it would amount probably to between
$50 900 and $4,000
Speaking of the transaction the EN-
poria Gazette says:
Five years ago A. o. Rorabaugh. a
young business man from Topeka, came
to Emporia and brought a small dry
goods stock with him. He attended to
business, made it point to spend less
than he made every day in the year.
people wanted He chose his next years
stock with that in view. When he sold
that out at decent profit, he bought a
larger stock; he got the second floor of
his building. Then he added depart
ment and kept advertising and saving.
He moved into store as large again
as his first store and now fills base
Not long ago he bought a store at
Hutchinson and yesterday he bought
the we'll known Cash Henderson store
at Wichita. He is today one of the
largest dealers in retail dry goods in the
west and all because he studies his
trade, saves his money, buys carefully
and advertises wisely. He has spent
came here and that is fairly good sum
for a country advertiser in a country
town. He will tell you that he has got
every penny of it back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
NEW EMERY COMBINE.
Output of Combined Companies Will
Be 10 900 Tons.

New York, Oct. 26.-Particulars in re-
gard to the Ashland Emery and Corun-
dunn company, recently incorporated UNI
der the laws of New Jersey with cap
ital of $3,000,0 900 have just been made
public The Emery companies taken
over by the consolidated company are
the following: Ashland mills Emery
mond Mill Emery company of Phila-
delphia; Jackskon Mills Emery COM
pany of Easton, Pa; Walpole Emery
mills of South Walpole, Mass; Hamp-
den Emery mills of Chester, Mass, and
the Lavant Emery company.
1t is stated that the output of the COM
pany is something like 1900 tons of
crushed imported emery ore per annum,
5000 tons of native ore and 1000 tons of
corundum. The company owns emery
mines in Chester, Mass, and Peekslxill
on the Hudson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
GOOD REASON WHY.

CF'rom the Boston Journal.1
The old man had returned to the
home of his boyhood for the first time
in ten years or more, and, as on the
last occasion, he had written land wife"
after his name on the hotel register. OF
course the keeper of the hotel was glad
to see him, and grasped him warmly by
the hand.
Amt grown a day older than when
you was here last" he said.
MOP" said the old man, half in
quiringly.
mot day" returned the tavern
keeper, emphatica1ly. Your wife seems
to have changed more-n you-'
"Yes?"
ooh, yes; leastways she does to me.
Looks thinner than when you was here
last"
'Indeed?"
'sYes She amt near so f1eshy as she
was, accordin' to my recollection
Seems like she's taller, too. an her hair
don't look just the same to me, an
an -
And" put in the old man, softly,
'she's not the same wife, you know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
NO END OF CRITICISM
the Conduct of the South
African War.

London, Oct 26.-There is no end of
criticism current regarding the gov
ernment's conduct of the war in South
Africa, but it emanates chiefly from
those whom Mr. Chamberlain in his
speech last night characterized as his
candid friends"
The outcry does not appear to
strengthen in the slightest the chances
of the Liberal party.
r. G. Lehman, who has just re-
signed the editorship of the Daily News,
in an article in this weeks Speaker
admits that he sees no hope for LIB
forward a strong, definite policy in re-
gard to South Africa. To do this he
confeSses would mean the loss to the
party of some of its most prominent
supporters, but he maintains that even
this is better than the present i'm
potency.
One of the striking signs of discon
tent within the circles additionally gov
ernmental is found in the fact that the
Cambridge union has passed resoIu-
ton to- the effect that the government
alone is responsible for the prolc
ton of the war.
composed mainly of those, who are re-
lated to or acquainted with the ruling
classes and who have hitherto. warmly
policy. A reversal Of feeling in such a
great university as Cambridge means.
Rumors are rife regarding cabinet
It was persistentIy said that Sir Michael
Hicks Beach, the chancellor of the ex-
beriain have never been cordial was de
termined to step out and Mr.. Hamburg,
it was said, was to succeed him. Inquiries
made by a representative of the Associ-
that Sir Michael will remain in office,
though not very willingly and i, that 1i.a no
n n q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
A FAMILY ROW.
Joseph e. Sullivan, of Brockton,
Mass. Is Dying

Brockton, Mass, Oct. 26-J. E. Sullivan
of this city is dying from a bullet
wound said TO have been inflicted by
his brother-in-law. Charles w. Morse.
q New York decorator. The shooting
took place last night, and is said to be
due to the fact that Sullivan was Civ
ing shelter to Mrs. Morse. who came
here with her child some weeks ago. re-
fusing to live longer with her husband.
Morse has been arrested. 1t is said
he had threatened to kill Mrs. Morse
and all her friends. The police say he
was intoxicated when found after the
shooting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
A CASE OF 1T.
Many More Like it i'm Topeka.

The following case Is but one of many
similar occurring daily in Topeka 1t is
an easy matter to verify its correctness
Surely you cannot ask for better proof
than such conclusive evidence:
Mrs. A. Won Wolf. of 2024 Buchanan
street, says: 'I overtaxed myself and
brought on severe backache. At first I
paid little attention to it, thinking it
would pass away in few days, but in
stead it grew worse. When / exerted
myself or caught a slight cold I was
sure to suffer from severe pains in my
back, especially at night when my rest
was much disturbed. I finally became
so bad I could scarcely attend to my
work. Coming to the conclusion that
the trouble originated in my kidneys, L
procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills
at Rowley & Shows drug store and
commenced their treatment They act
ed like magic. A few doses benefited
me and before I had taken all the pills
in one box the pain in my back disap-
peared-"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole
agents for the United States
Remember the name, Deans. and take
no substitute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
tives announcing the fact TO the reader

tives announcing the fact TO the reader.
His men and women-aI of mature
years-are beings of flesh and blood, of
action, sometimes impulsive, often cold
as steel, yet nevertheless true to the life
that is. His work is sure. The author
confesses that the complaint that they
end unhappily may be filed against the
tales. To which the affiant answereth:
Life often ends unhappily. They are
intended to be as moral as life-these
stories, but no more so. end If they
teach anything probably it is what pol
itics and business and physical and IN
tenectual life teach: that it pays to
speak the truth, to be brave, to be kind.
to be helpful
(Strategems and Spells; Stories of
Love and Politics, by William Allen
White. Published by Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons, New York City. $3.50.