Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-08-16

| F.S. Winner was over to Granpeyille
sanday, returning the same day.
While there he was served with din
ner at the Model restaurant he will
! long remember, az such good things
rarely fall in bachelors way.
Assessor Overman. has begun the
rigid enforcement OF the collection of
| delinquent personal property taxes.
He has already made one or two seiz-
ures OF property in which case it cost
the owner not only the tax but also
mileage at twenty-five cents mile.
Goldstone has new cash register
that is beauty and the only one of its
kind in the country. It registers the
amount OF your purchase, the clerks
name and gives you a printed slip with
the amount of your purchase, the clerk .
mark and the date inscribed thereon.
Through some ones negligence the
| gate to Tom Hale's corral was left open
last Saturday night and all of Toms
livery stock escaped. The consequence
was that all who had rigs engaged for
Sunday were left afoot, as the horses
could not be found in time to be of any
use.
Goldstone has adopted a discount
system that will be very profitable for
his customers. With every cash pur-
chase the buyer is given printed re-
ceipt and when his purchases amount
to $25 he is given 81 present. This is
only another way of giving four per
| cent off fer cash.
Frank Clark, well known here, was
arrested at Stuart this week for selling
whiskey on the reservation. He will
fight the case, contending that he had
a government license and that his sa-
loon was on decided ground over which
Indian Agent Stranahan, who arrested
Clark. has no jurisdiction. Thirty gal
Ions of liquor were found in Clark's
possession. He was placed under bonds
and the report was current yesterday
that he had lett the country.
Our ever progressing merchant, w.
L. Brown, this week bought the fine
three story building formerly owned by
the Baptists and will move his stock of
goods, including large amount of new
stock, into it as soon as Link Manwar-
ing completes the grading and the car
penters finish the elegant two story
warehouse, which is to be fifty feet long
and will be built to the structure proper.
This will make q much be tier and more
commodious store than the one Mr..
Brown is now occupying. He deserves
a good trade-and gets it, too.
The man who delivers enlarged pic
lures had a lively experience last Tues
day evening. He had his team hitched
to post just on this side of the grave
yard when something frightened them,
they pulled ont the post and away they
went. They came through town ut
2:i0 gait and made straight for Warren
Potter's stable. One of the horses
wanted to go into one part of the stable
and the other wanted to go into an
other part, consequently the tongue
struck the partition and broke into
splinters; two spokes in one wheel were
also broken and the top was torn off.
1t seemed to onlookers as though en-
larged pictures of all the ancestors and
progeny of Cottonwood residenters
would be scattered all over the upper
end of town, but upon investigation it
was learned that there were no pictures
in the conveyance.
What might have resulted in a seri-
GUS accident occurred to John Peterson
and wife last Sunday. They had one of
Warren Potter's teams and were on
their way to visit with A. Jorgenson.
After they had driven past Mr.. Van
Tash's place a short distance Mr.. Peter
son noticed that one of the horses had
large nail in the frog of its foot. Leay-
ing his wife to hold the team he started
back to Van Tash's after pair of pin
GERS to extract the nail. During his abb
sence the horses became excited and
started to run. Mrs. Peterson jumped
out of the buggy and lit on the ground
between the wheels, one OF which ran
over her causing a slight injury, and
when John was returning with the pin
GERS he saw the team disappearing at
rapid gait. They ran down onto the
school section where the lines became
entangled in the wheels, throwing the
horses to the ground. When the re-
mains we're gathered up it was found
that the tongue of the buggy and sew
eral minor things had been broken but
no serious damage was done otherwise.