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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
OREGON.

The Walla Walla band will play fol
the LIE Grande celebration July 4.
The state board has sold the right OF
way at the Cascades, which was bought
by the state for the transfer road for
$500. 1t cost the state over $4,000.
Albert Tozier of Portland was elected
president of National Educational AS
ISOLATION. The next convention will be
held at Hot Springs, Ark.
Johnston Bros, who own large farms
near Dufur, have shipped the first COM
bined harvester into Wasco county, to
be used on their ranches.
John Kelly. well known repub.
lican politician and collector of Gus
toms at Portland during Hayes ad-
ministration, died at his home in
Eugene recently, aged SO.
M. A. Moody reports having sold in
"a hours over 100000 pounds of choice
woods, chiefly from the Antelope dis
trict, at IL cents a pound. This exceeds
any price paid for wool in any market
in eastern Oregon this year.
s. A. Heilner of Baker City sold all
his wool which he bought last year and
this, over 500 sacks, or about lie. 600
pounds, at figure which averaged 91s
cents per pound. This is said to be
the largest single sale of wool ever
made in eastern Oregon.
OF the $1,000 needed for the big Pen
dleton Fourth of July celebration prom
inent business men have already sub
scribed $1.147.50. The town is plan
ming for great time, in which day and
night parades, athletic events and
many special features will be intro
duced
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Cobb crossed the
Cascade mountains by the Santiam
route about ten days ago. They found
snow for ten miles and 1t averaged
about five feet deep. At times they had
IL horses hitched to one wagon. 1t
took them four days to cross the sum-
NIT. They tried the Mckenzie route
but failed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
ed him, whereupon Eden shot him.
Crake was formerly a partner OF Hi
Henry, the minstrel.
WASHINGTON.

Flag day was observed by Spokane.
Sumner is to have second cream
cry.
The May enrolment of the public
schools in Whatcom was 1904.
There are 10000, 900 feet of surplus
logs on hand at Grays harbor.
The heaviest rainfall in 10 years has
been recorded in the Yakima valley.
Peter Keech, who lives four miles
south of Wilbur, has 10 acres of onions
and 20 acres of potatoes.
The new shingle mill at Centralia is
cutting 100000 shingles daily and this
will be still further increased soon.
The fourteenth annual picnic cele
brating the founding of Elberton, was
held in the park at Elberton June 81
20 and %.
The Prosser flour mills have bought
a new Sc inch wheel for their mill, and
will furnish power for the electric light
company.
Purses aggregating $4,000 have been
hung up by the board of trustees of the
Snohomish County Agricultural Asso.
citation for its spring meeting in Ever.
EFT.
The report for May of Captain L. H.
Coons, deputy collector of customs for
the port of Everett shows the follow
ing: Value of imported merchandise,
$4,000; value of exported merchan-
disc, $1S,754; ESTIMATED duties, $12,820.
Reports come to North Yakima of a
serious shooting ARRAY near Bickleton
in the eastern end of Yakima comfy.
1t is said that William McGraft and
Jake Prahl Engaged in an alteration
and Prahl was seriously wounded by
q pistol shot.
In anticipation of the rush of travel
into Concunnully part of Okanogan
county. the Okanogan Steamboat COM
pany has purchased a new passenger
boat at a cost of $4,000. The boat will
be put in regular service in the early
spring and make regular trips up the
river as far as Riverside.
Judge Miller of Colfax has granted
the motion of Prosecuting Attorney
Neergaard and offered Sheriff Mackay
to return william Clifford to the peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla to serve out
the remainder of his sentence of three
years for stealing barley, and then to
begin serving his sentence of one year.
The arrival Of Frank Royce from
Dayton recently to enter his imprison-
nent for 20 years in the penitentiary,
freshens in the minds of the people
the details of his crime. 1t calls up
also a curious coincidence not general
ly known. Frank Royce shot his grand
father near Dixie, February 8, 1900.
Thirty years before Frank Royce's
father was shot and killed by sheep
1erder within half a mile of where the
son killed the grandfather.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
MONTANA.

Billings is to have $4,000 school
house.
/ George Patrick and wife are visiting
in Big Timber after an absence OF
three years. They are now located at
Skagway, Alaska, and are prospecting.
The question as to whether it is forg.
cry to reproduce coupons from a news
paper In a voting contest will probably
be decided in case that has just arts
en- at Butte.
Governor Toole has appointed Mrs.
Ella Knowles Haskell delegate to the
fourth annual session of the Interna-
tional Mining congress, which meets
at Boise, Idaho. July 20 to 25.
Range conditions this spring in Fer
gus county are more favorable than
they have been since the spring of 1888
and the farmers and ranchers wear a
broad smile over the good prospects for
bountiful crops of every description.
Eastern Montana newspapers report
the purchase of quite number of
horses in that section by an agent of
the British government. The animals
averaged Is hands in height. 900 to
1000 pounds in weight and sold at about
$40 per head.
The headgate of the new Harlem
canal has been opened and the largest
irrigating system in Choteau county
has become reality after the expendi-
ture of about $4,000 and nearly TO-
years of hard work by the ranchers
who own it. says the River Press.
The following changes in salaries
of Montana postmasters have been
announced by the department, to take
effect July Il Increases Anaconda.
$250C to $4,000; Billings, $4,000 to
$4,000; Boulder, $1,000 to $1,000; Boze-
man. $4,000 to $4,000; Fort Benton.
$500 to $1,000; Glendive, $14OO to
$500. Decreased-Belt $1400 to $1,000. |
L. A. Witt of Billings was recently
sentenced to state prison for 25syears,
he having been convicted of kidnapping
three year old girl last May. Witt |
attempted to ravish the child in box |
car and so great was the indignation |
OF the citizens, to prevent a lynching, |
his preliminary trial was held in the
jail corridor Upon his release he may
be tried for attempted assault, the pen
atty for which is eight years. Hence /
the kidnapping charge was placed ahead.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
A sIsirmish with De,vet.

+ London, June l7.-Lord Kitchener re-.
ports to the war office from Pretoria as
follows:
During the march from Vredo. General
Elnotts column engaged Dewet near
heits, June 9. After severe fighting thew
captured II loaded wagons, As prisoners
5s rifles, 10000 rounds of ammunition ana
4ooo cattle. The Beers left II killed and
three wounded. Our casualties were three
oincers. and IL men killed and one officer
and "a men wounded"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
Army Frauds.

San Francisco, June l3.-General Shat
ter and Colonel Maus, inspector general of
the department of California, and the fed
eral grand jury are investigating the
many reports of fraud committed in the
commissary branch of the army service in
this city. That the reports seem to be
based on something more substantial han
idle rumor is evidenced by the disclosures
following the arrest of Louis Abram &
Son, dealers in second hand clothing. The
extent of the alleged frauds has not been
determined, and there is diversity of
opinion ON the subject.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
Metal Report.

New New York-Metal quotations:
Silver, 1890.
Silver certificates. Soc.
Lake copper, SIT.
Casting copper, $16.621a.
Tin. $2S.30028.5O.
Lead, s4.371a.
Spelter. $3.9504.0O.
Domestic iron, $9.50@1O.25.
san Francisco.-Bar silver, 59%e:
Mexican dollars. 491s@5Oc.
London.-Bar silver, 81 7-16d; con.
per toy Is Sd; spelter, f17 los; lead,
f12 IS.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
AIeedo Won suburban.

New York, June l7-Before crowd Of
zo,ooo persons, on one of the most dis.
agreeable days the Suburban has ever been
run, Alcedo came home winner in b,t
Two flfths OF second more than when
"a made the record IL years aeo
Inc crowd eheered wildly, for there was
a hot tip on him, and he won easily
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
Double Tragedy.

New York, June ia man named
Meinhope, said to be butcher, shot at a
young woman known as Miss Mary Bolte
IN the Bronx and then sent two bullets
INTO his own head. The woman died sew.
erai hours later and Meinhope is in a hos
pitai dying. Miss Bolte is said to have
come here from Los Angeles, and Mein-
nope before being taken to the hospital
said she was his wife
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21

Colonies Infant and Guivara. repre-
sentatives of General Cables, have.
signed the name of their general to the
agreement to surrender. Under the
terms of this agreement Cables is to
assemble his men at Santa Cruz, La
guna province, as quickly as possible.
and there surrender himself and com.
mand to the American authorities.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21

OF Great Britain also doubled In the
Victorian era, but that Of Ireland de.
clined from 6,sO1 900 to 1921 to 1856
600 in 1901. The mean annual death.
rate has been steadily declining since
1851. The birth rate has declined with
still greater rapidly.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21

The secretary bird of the London
Zoo has been cinematographed while
In the act of selling, killing and carry
ing OF rat.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
Prices Paid i'm spoxane.

Poultry and eggs Chickens, old.9@
l0c per ID, live weight; ducks, "a per
doz; geese, dressed, lie per lb; tur
keys, live, 10@12c; dressed 12@1sc:
eggs, fresh, $4.25 per case.
Vegetabies-Potatoe $1.25 per cwt;
onions. $50 per cwt.
Live stock-Beef, live steers. 416c;
dressed, SC; live cows. S1Sc; dressed.
TIC; veal calves, dressed, 7@9c; NUT
ton, ewes, Sc; wethers, S1sc; hogs, live,
$4.75Q5 per cwt; dressed, 81 per cwt.
Sheepskins- Shearlings, 10c each;
short wool pelts. SO@50c: medium
wool. 50@75c; long wool. 75c@$1.
Hides-Green hides and calf skins,
5@6c per lb; dry hides, butcher, 100
lie per lb.
The local mills pay the following
prices for grain. delivered: Club wheat,
441sc bulk. 1910 sacked; bluestem, 47c
bulk, 4sc sacked; red. 4Sc bulk, 44c
sacked.
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Wheat.

Portland.-walla walla. 5s@6oc.
Tacoma.-Quiet and steady. Blue
stem, e116c; club. 5s1ac.
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The Washington bee., 1901-09-07
KNOWN IN OTHER LANDS.

The new prime minister of Japan,
Viscount Katsura, distinguished him
self in the Chinese war by winning
one of the greatest fights, the battle
of Kangwasai.
The duke of Cornwall, though born
and bred in England, speaks the lam
guage with as decidedly German an
accent as does his mother, while the
king burrs his RS very oddly.
NJ. Paul Revolt, the new governor
of Algeria, is As years of age and is
brother of the late George Revolt,
the explorer of the Somali country.
Originally he was a journalist.
Lord Dufferin, who has recently
completed his seventy-ffth year, once
referred to himself, on account of the
numerous offices he has held, as
'maid-of-all-Work to British governs
ments."
In a lawsuit now pending in Scot
land to determine whether the late
Sir w. Cunliffe Brooks, a millionaire
banker, was doniciled in England or
Scotland, a lawyer testified that in
the last few years Sir William has
made 200 wills.
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07

Just pass on, and IN see what in
tarnatiOn has become of 'em!"
The conductor scowled, as all con.
ductors with proper appreciation Of
their positions do under like circum-
stances. But he went forward, and the
fine-looking old gentleman continued
his fruitless search. He gave it up
after about IS minutes, and leaned
back in his seat looking mad.
Then the conductor returned and
bore down upon him.
'Your ticket, sir!"
It was said in an ominous tone, and
with an ominOus flicking of the con.
ductor's punch.
Haven't got any ticket, dang it,"
growled the well-groomed old gentle
man. Lost it, guess. But here's
my card" and the old gentleman hand
ed the conductor his pasteboard, which
set forth the fact that he was the first
vice president of the road.
Now, right at this point in the narra-
tive, if the writer were to let the truth
get away from him and follow the in
evitable rule in such cases made and
provided, he would have the conductor
remark grouchily to the old gentle
man that, card or no card, vice presi-
dent or no vice president. he'd have to
show something emitting him to a
ride on the line, or be put off at the
next station. Then the writer would
have gone on TO narrate how the old
gentleman was filed with admiration
over the conductors strong sense of
duty. and how he coughed up his fare
IN good money, and how, two days
later, the conductor found himself an
pointed division superintendent.
However,
"Oh, very we'll, sir" said the con-
ductor, bowing and scraping profuseIy
as he turned the card over in his hand.
Don't mention it. Thanks. The
pleasures mine. Of course, you prob
ably dropped the pass somewhere.
But it's all right. Are Won comfort
able, sir? Is the porte prope.
care of you? Aher dav for
LIdfGllHS, SIT
"Uh-huh," nras.
1ueAt OF f the
window
''Pm g. -. .esfv with
the old du &c .-... next N Uho
he was" M red The conductor n
as he PASSED to the next car.
And if, according 10 all of these
stories the conductor had got real gay 7
and conscientious with the ruddy-
faced old gentleman, there'd have been
a hard winter ahead for him and his
young ones, and no mistake.
It's too bad, concludes the Wash
lngton Star, that all truthful stories
haven't got endings like the stories in
she books "FOr . Good Boy"
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07
WILD RIDE ON BULL.
Thrilling Adventure of Mrs. Mac
Elroy at Asbury Park.
CIung to the Frenzied Animal In Furi-
Gus Mile Dash Across the Fields
and Finally Escaped In
injured.

Sherman, Pa, has a woman visitor
who has ridden a mad bull bareback
She is still alive.
The heroine of this wild adventure
Is Mrs. Dora MacElroy, of Ashbury
fark' y. j., says the New York World.
Mrs. MacElroy is an experienced
horsewoman and has all her life been
accustomed to being with horses and
cattle.
Her relatives at Sherman have
fine herd of Jersey cattle-sIeek and
well groomed-and Mrs. MacElroy,
who is visiting there, has been in the
habit Of going down to the feeding
trough every night to watch the ami
mails at their meal
1t chanced that the cattle feed
from a huge trough beside a stout
fence.
To get the very best view of her
bovine friends, Mrs. MacElroy would
climb upon this fence to watch them
and pat their noses.
The old bull was looking particu-
larly gentle the other night, accord
ing to Mrs. MacElroy, and even
munched some grain from her hand.
As he stood there it occurred to her
that his broad back would make an
excellent seat.
The thought no sooner entered her
head than she shouted to her COM
panions to watch her, climbed to the
topmost rail of the fence and vaulted
lightly onto the bulls back.
The effect upon the bull was start
ling, to say the least. With a terrify-
ing below he reared on his hind legs,
shaking himself and snorting violent
ly, The terrified woman had pres
ence of mind enough to reach for
ward and clutch at the bulls horns.
An instant later the bull shot for
ward like a bullet. Involuntarily his
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07
FACTS FROM FRANCE.

Wine growers in France now send
sample bottles of wine by parcels
post to individuals.
A French company has organized a
new steamship line between Antwerp,
HaVre, Havana, Mexican ports and
New Orleans.
France holds the record as a user
of gold. She has coined $500 tons in
the last 40 years, against 1,4OO used
by the English mint.
Paris population according to the
census just taken is 2,714,O6s, an in
crease of 149, ,1O4 over the last census.
Paris is now over 100000 behind New
York.
The largest Mont de Piete, OF, as
we designate it, pawnshop, in the
world is probably that on the Boule-
ward Montmartre, Paris, which, il is
said, receives in pledge over 1000
v vqtches every day.
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07
WHOLE STORY TOLD.
It's Not According to Rule, But
Every Word of 1t True.
Conductor Didn't Get Gay with the
Old Gentleman Who Had Lost
His Pass and That Is why
=. He still Holds His Job.
"Tickets!"

"Tickets!"
There was something resolute and
commanding in the tone of the con-
ductor of the famous express train as
he uttered the word upon finging
open the door.
The broad-shouldered, firm-jawed.
veteran conductor of the line looked
so business-like that all of the passen-
gers in the crowded coach at once got
busy hunting up their tickets, and
when the conductor reached them
they all had their pasteboards ready.
All but one.
This one was a ruddy-faced, we'll
groomed, fine-looking old gentleman
with white side whiskers.
He fumbled in his wallet for his tick
ct, but it wasn't there. Then he began
a hurried search of his pockets. he
appeared to be unsuccessful.
''By ginger!" he was heard to NUT
ter. I'm almost certain that ]
brought those"
And then hs stood up and made q
systematic search of his pockets, turn
ing over old dog's-eared letters, for.
mal-looking papers and heavy-loo5ing
envelopes tied up with red tape.
But he didn't find what he was hunt
ing for.
Then he clawed his Gladstone bag
down from the rack above his head,
tugged at the lock and finally got it
open. He spent five minutes in turn
ing the contents of the bag topsy-tur-
w, perspiring all the time, and NUT
tering things that wouldn't go for a
minute in family newspaper that has
a large circle of young readers.
"Tickets!"
The broad.shouldered, firm-jawed,
veteran conductor of the line was tow
ering right over the well-groomed old
gentleman with the ruddy face and the
white side whiskers.
"Say, just wait a minute, will you?"
said the latter-not, indeed, with q
degree of meekness commensurate
with the occasion-to the Looming con-
ductor. 81 know that I put those
pesky passes somewhere, but they've
got away from me for the moment
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07
STRENGTHENING 1 SPECIALITY.

All kinds of implements ana
toilet articles for sale.
1894 4th Street Northwest.
Agency At TIE BEE Office.
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07

is a clerk in the employ of Z. A.
Cummings, Washington and Dear
born streets, and when he received
his weekly stipend Saturday after
noon he decided to have a frolic in
the Desplaines river at Fourteenth
street. McLain piled his clothes neat
ly beneath a sheltering tree. and there
and then, with one exulting, joyous
bound into the rivers arms he leaped.
When he came to the surface a stran-
ger was standing on the bank.
"Can you swim under water?" asked
the stranger.
"Sure," said McLain.
"Show me how you do it," said the
stranger. IN count while you are
under"
When McLain came TO the surface
the stranger was gone. He looked to
the bank where his clothes had been,
but no longer could he see the bright
CLINT of his garter buckle, and the
passionate gloss of his red hosiery
had faded away. So had his trou-
sers, which contained the weekly sti-
pend.
McLain heard the merry voices OF
the laborers as they trudged along
and he shouted for help. He shouted
nearly all the afternoon before he
found a man who would lend him a
pair of trousers and an old coat. The
police say that tramps lie in wait
along the river for just such oppor"
tunities.
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07

and the father tried to give Johnston
a sound thrashing, which he would
have accomplished only for the girls
interference. The father then ordered
the girl into the house, and the neigh
bors say punished her severely with a
strap.
Young Johnston, who had gone
home, heard of this, and, enlisting the
help of his brother, started toward the
Dempsey household. After entering
the house the girls father and the two
Johnston boys discussed the matter
warmly, and the lover declared he did
not care how much Dempsey beat him,
but he must not whipthe girl. Finally
the two brothers seized Dempsey and
carried him struggling to the harn,
securely bound him with ropes and
straps in a stall and then administered
to him the same kind of a beating with
straps that he was accused Of giving
his daughter.
Dempsey howled and danced with
pain, but finally begged for mercy and
promised not to touch his daughter
again or interfere with her love af-
fairs.
1t is stated thu Johnston boys and
Dempsey shook hands and made up
before separating, and he solemnly
promised not TO presssuts %hs beys
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07

rider chung to the slippery horns with
every muscle on the strain.
The top bars separating the barn
yard from the road were down and
the bull, as might be expected, chose
the direction of the road, toward
which he made a wild dash. The low
er bars were up, however. and as he
saw them he came to a sudden stop,
nearly throwing Mrs. MacElroy over
his head.
The frightened farmhands and
others who had seen the bull start
ran after him. The bull, catching
sight of them, once more hitting up
his head, cleared the lower bars at a
leap and started down the road at
terrifying speed, leaving those fol-
lowing far behind.
\ quarter of a mile was covered in
this way. when once more the bull
stopped suddenly and began to paw
the ground.
Mrs. MacElrOy was about to leap
from his back, when some distance
ahead a man suddenly turned into the
road driving a gig and wearing a
bright red shirt.
The color caught the eye of the
bull. He instantly ceased his paving
and once more started along the road
at terrific speed. The man saw his
danger and whipped his horse. The
bulls rider clung to her steed like a
jockey.
The awful race which followed last
ed for fully a mile. Mrs. MacElrOy
says that toward the end she felt her
strength fast going from her and
closed her eyes, expecting to be
hurled to the ground and perhaps to
her death at every plunge.
Fortunately the road at this point
ran up a steep hill, and in climbing
it the bull somewhat slackened his
pace. This probably saved Mrs. Mac
Elroy's life. The bull reached the
top only to see the red shirt disap-
pearing in the distance. In the face
of this disappointment the animal
turned quickly and started for home.
In turning he wrenched his rider sud
denly loose from her seat, throwing
her, by a fortunate accident, into a
clump of bushes.
When her friends reached her she
was in a dead faint. Physicians were
hastily summoned and she was car
ried home. Beyond a severe nervous
shock she had. strangely enough. suf-
fered no injuries.
The Washington bee., 1901-09-07
AVENGED BY LOVER.
Father Whips His Daughter and Is,
in Turn, Whipped by the GirIg
Best Young Man.

The Toledo CO., correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that
six miles west of there is hamlet
known as "Rattlesnake Corners"
where lives a farmer named Jacob
Dempsey, who has a pretty daughter
named Birdie, aged 10 years. Ayoung
farm hand named Nathan Johnston
won his way to the young girls heart.
The girls father objected to John
ston paying attention to his daughter
and so informed both.
The other evening he caught the two
lovers together near the girls home