Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-04-12
. STATE NEWS /.

According to the Statesman
strong flow of natural gas has been
discovered near Boise.
Two carloads Of mining machin-
cry, including an engine and boiler
and stamp mill are now at Stuart
awaiting transportation to the Dix,
lie Queen mine at Dixie. = Area.
Bert Byram left Monday with u
pack horses for Bridgeport to pack
the sawmiil outfit and some placer
pipe to the Fisher placer mines 10.
Gated about twenty miles above
there. Sites Register.
The Lewiston land office reports
the following business for March:
Seventy-nine homestead filings, rs
cash entries, 10 final homestead
proofs, 5 coal declaratory state
ments, 8 mineral entries and
mineral application.
DIR. S. E. Bibby, w. W. Brown,
George X. Reed, James Edwards
and George D. Smith were elected
| trustees for the ensuing year at the
Grangeville city election last Tues
day. Only one ticket was in the
field and the election was a very
quiet affair.
Washington, April S.--The fol
lowing Idaho postmaster was APP
pointed today: Russell, Clearwater
county NJ. f. Winslow, vice Mil
ton Mitchell, resigned.
/ John H. Taylor, of Mt. Idaho,
has been granted an increase Of
pension to $50 a month.
Burton L. French, who repre-
sented Lataff county in the Idaho
legislature the past two sessions,
has received word from the depart
ment Of political science of the
| University of Chicago of his ap.
| pointnent to one of the FIVE schol,
arships in that department for the
year 1902.
! The Little Giant Co. at Warren
that started off last fall with such
a flourish is now thing of the
past. Everything has shut down
and the miners haven't been paid
for several months and the super-
intendent says there is nothing to
pay with. Such Encouragement
reflects on the reputation Of the
camp. Weiser Signal.
Adiutant General Weaver il
busy making preparations to orga
nize six more companies of militia
in this state. AS there are six al
ready the organization of the new
companies will make full regi
ment. Each company is to have
an average of 90 members. HI
will organize a company at Boise
Weiser, Pocatello, Paris, Lewiston
and Grangeville. He will also or
ganize regimental band at Boise
Caldwell News.
Tekoa, WASH, April S.--Ther,
is intense excitement here over the
discovery of rich placer diggings
on Santa creek, about twenty-five
miles east of here in Idaho. Mer
left here at all hours last night t.
stake claims. Others are rushing
in from Pennington and othe
points in the Palouse. Tysonl
Brothers are said to have taken GU
1908 in coarse gold from a piece o
ground DO by 10 feet, The new
camp is on the divide between tn,
old Hoodoo district and the Coeu
! d'Alenes.
The following mining propert,
has changed hands during the pas
week w. l.. Kimmel to Dennis Val
Buren,, ] interest III the Klondikt
and Ben Franklin placers, soutl
fork of Clearwater; Frank IRWIN t.
Mary B. Fizer. / interest in tn
Oregon and Waverly quartz claim
, Warrens district; Edmund 0. Pop
to the Planet Gold Mining com
pany, the Mars, Jupiter and Venu
quartz claims; E. p. Williams to J
7. Wells, ! interest," in the Derh,
quartz claim, Simpson district
Banner Gold Mining Co. to Mrs
} M. S, Elmendorf, 16 interest il
) the Esmerelda, Florence district
5 Ezra Baird to George X Reed, al
interest in the Imogene quart
r claim, Newsome district, and / in
t terest in the Ontario quartz claim
> Dixie district. Mail.
Genese-, April S--Cohsiderabl
excitement prevails on the Littl
Potlatch, seven miles east of Gene
: see, over the sudden Disappearance
of Mr.. and Mrs Martin from tn
J Mel Lowell house, in which the,
lived since last fall. All sorts o
predictions are made. The coupl
came here from Oregon with liv
: stock and household goods and al
was leftoat the I,oveil place. Bve
T. to the lady's dresses and hat wer
left Mt the house. The peopie acte
: nt1aerlv. did mt mix In sociptV an