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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Electric Train Struck FREIGHT.

Chicago, Nov. 17.-One man was
killed and a dozen men, women and
children more or less seriously in
jured in collision between q
Western avenue electric train and 9
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy freight
train at the Eighteenth street cross
ing.
The motor and trailer, which made
up the electric train, were crowded
with passengers and it seems a mira
Gle that so many escaped instant
death.
The dead Hugh Curran, passenger
on the streetcar.
A mistake of. the fiagman at the
crossing was responsible for the &C
cident
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Steel Trust Bank Roll.

New York, Nov. 15.-At the mon
meeting of the United States Stes%
poration directors today Compn~
Hilbert submitted the following y
parative statement of conditions. M
Cash on hand November ! VI
$63,961,973; November 1, lSOz' I"
7S4,966. !.
Cash assets October 1. lsUl' r.
S42,9S4; October 1, 1902, $22,6ss''ssS%s az,
Current liabilities October !, y, y,
$77,693.371; October /, 1902, s00'i''
Asst. =,
Increase in net current asses y
$4,000.
Earnings September and oe' ~,
1901, $21, 478,5S5; September anu "
Der, 1902, $24,1SO,946. -.
Orders entered since last ~
meeting, $934,050 tons; snipm's
S31, 431 tons. :,
Unified orders on hand NoseI'
1, 1901, 2,SS1,592 tons; NoyemDs'
1902, 4,96S,0 tons.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
four NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Outlook 10 Good in Every Section
Many Accidents and Personal
Happenings.
IDAHO eLEANINGs.

The Wallace Gun club is preparing
for a turkey shoot on Thanksgiving
day.
The cash receipts in the Lewiston
land office during the month of Octo-
Der reached $33,96S.66.
Since the rains have commenced the
stages between Sites and Grangeville
have established winter schedule.
AS a result of the recent elections
in Idaho county, the county seat will
be removed from Mt. Idaho to Grange
Vile.
The fall shipment of live stock from
Camas prairie has begun, and already
several thousand head of hogs have
been shipped.
A consignment of about $500 sheep
was sent out recently from Umatilla
county to Idaho for feeding purposes.
Idaho sheepmen named Mcdonald &
Minger are the buyers.
The newly arrived furniture for the
postoffice at Lewiston has been in
stalled. The postoffice was moved
Sunday. 1t is not yet known when the
free delivery system will be inaugu-
rated.
The Northern Pacific engineers
have completed the work of laying out
the new yard tracks at Sites, and it
is expected that the work on the
depot, freight house and stock sheds
will begun at once.
The supreme court has denied the
writ Of habeas corpus in the case OF
Will Rowland This in effect holds
the present gambling law effective
against men who play the gambling
games and against them.
The jury brought in a verdict Of
guilty in the case of Charles Mackey
and j. Archie Mcleod, the men who
resisted arrest last July while at
tempting to haul a wagon load of
liquor onto the Nez Perez Indian res.
ervation.
report for October shows warrants to
the amount of $11 ,792.07 had been paid
off during the month. The amount
RENTED to the state was $61.96, and
to Wallace and Wardner 1856. Cash
on hand is 2,405.8S.
Regular boat service has been es
tablished between Lewiston and Ri
paria. 1t will have daily arrival ex-
cept on Saturday and daily departure
except on Friday. Three million bush
els of grain are reported on the river
bank now awaiting shipment
Van w. Hasbrouck, secretary of the
Lewiston Interstate Fair association
in his report of the finances of this
years fair, stated that the receipts
Of the fair were sufficiently large tc
permit of the payment of nearly $4,000
back debts, besides allowing the ex
penditures of nearly $4,000 for better
ments.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
A Branch to Coast.

President Mellen states that it is
the intention of the Northern Pacific
to build, in the near future, an extern
sion along the north bank of the Co
lumbia river to the coast. Another
branch contemplated for the ensuing
year, and which is now being survey
ed, will extend from the Columbia
river to Yakima, crossing the Cas-
cades by way of the Cispus pass,
which has an elevation of $500 feet.
This line will open up a large area
of land that has been hitherto I'M
settled because of lack of transpor-
tation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
WAslIIaGToN.

Ned Johnson, IS years old of Pull
man. has mysteriously disappeared.
A petition has been presented for n
franchise to construct and operate an
electric railway between Odessa and
Washtucna.
A Centralia special says: H. H.
Martin, the newly elected represents
tive from Lewis county, died in San
Francisco last week.
The project to erect wooden mill
at Spokane is taking more tangible
shape and the promoters of the plan
feel confident that it will go through.
The biggest fish ever taken in Puget
sound was brought to Seattle recently
by a crew of Greek fishermen. 1t
weighs 600 pounds and is nine feet
long.
Many transfers of ranch property
have been made in Okanogan county
this fall at prices ranging from $500
to $4,000 for 100 acres and improve
ments.
The annual teachers institute for
Whitman county will be held in Col
fax December Is to 10 inclusive. All
teachers in the county are required
by law to attend this institute.
A number of colored men of Spo-
kane have organized the Spokane Co
operative league, a branch Of the ma
tional organization, having for its OBJ
ject the advancement of the colored
race.
1t is reported that there is an I'M
usual amount of sickness in Colfax,
especially among children. Scarlet
fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and
pneumonia are the prevailing dis
eases.
The John Brown farm. IA miles
south of Sprague, has been sold to c.
L. eileen and e. e. Dent of Spokane
for $22,500. The farm consists of 1920
acres and is located in what is known
as the Gresham wheat belt.
Following quickly on a sensational
raid made last week by Sheriff Doust
wherein for the first time in IL years
every gambling house in Spokane was
closed but one, each of the offending
institutions got busy the next day, re-
stored their layouts and resumed ope-
rations.
Five hundred cattle will be shipped
about the end of the month to the big
Adams county ranch belonging to the
Walla Walla Live Stock company.
This will make 800 head on the ranch,
300 having been bought with the
range last February, when the deal
was made
Rain continues throughout the Pa
louise country and business is unusu-
ally dull in consequence, as the roads
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Cleveland Saloons Closed.

Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 1.-THE five
police captains who are to be retired
on January 1 by order of Director
Dunn were showing how to close sa-
looms in this city Sunday. Thirty ar
rests were made up to midnight, an
unusually large number. A policeman
was stationed at the entrance to every
prominent downtown saloon and no
one was admitted.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21

are in such bad condition that travel
by team is difficult and disagreeable.
The country is thoroughly soaked, but
the rain continues and farm work is at
standstill.
The body of George Shaw, who was
drowned in the Columbia river near
San Poll last summer, has been dis
covered by an Indian about 10 miles
below where the drowning occurred.
The Identification of the body is posi-
tive. Another body was found some
time ago and was buried by his rela'
tives on the superstition that it was
Shaw
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
TRADE REPORT.

Bradstreet's report on trade last
week says: Trade, industry and trans
portation continue active, despite the
drawbacks caused by warm weather,
scarcity of fuel and car and motive
power shortage. Activity with job
bers has, owing e to the advanced
stage of the season, been transferred
from regular staple lines to holiday
goods. These latter are in exception
ally active demand, the outlook being
that distribution far in excess Of any
previous year will be realized. More
than usual activity is, however, noted
in spring goods, which are being or
dered more freely than in average
years. This is taken to indicate wide.
spread confidence in prosperous condi.
lions next year.
Collections, except where affected
by weather conditions, remain ex.
ceptionally good. Wheat, including
flour, exports for the week ending
November 10, aggregate 4,44O,16O
bushels. Business failures in the
United States number 205.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Has a Bad Record.

Rome, Nov. 1.-THE ministry of
the interior has established the iden.
tlty OF the assailant of King Leopold
his name is Gennerro Rubino, and he
is described in their records az an
advanced socialist. He was condemn.
ed to long term of imprisonment
ror stealing at Milan in 1890, but he
enected his escape to England, where
he is supposed to have imbibed his
anarchistic principles.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Smelt $500 Tons

fossland' B. c., Nov. 1S.-Jay p
GraVes' who went through to Grand
FORKS from Spokane says that with
us new plant in position the CRANKY
mines at Phoenix can produce 5000
IONS Tor extensions to the smelting
TpaAs 70 meet the increased output.
me company will probably construct
TWO furnaces next summer and four
more In 1904. making the AVERAGE
aggregate agea smelling capacity about
$500 tons daily. "Oou'
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Cholera Cases in Manila.

Manila, Nov. 1S.-The number OF
cholera cases is increasing in this city
and the spread of the disease is cauis
ing some alarm. There are on an av
erage 30 cases daily. The Runston re
serve hospital, the casual camp al
Santa Mesa and Bilibid prison are now
included among the places infected
Should the water supply become in
fected a general epidemic is consid
cred inevitable.
The reports from the provinces show
a decrease in the number of cases.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
OREGON NOTES.

Archibald Bryant and his wife,
Bertha, of Portland, quarreled recent
ly, in the course of which the couple
threw carbolic acid at each other.
They are both burned about the face,
the husband being more severely
burned than his wife.
S. A. Loomis of Tillamook was
hurled over 80 feet to his death over
a steep precipice at the crossing on
the Southern Pacific company's rail
road on the Siskiyou mountains re.
Gently. He was coming to Ashland
from California in a wagon and four
horse team, and while attempting to
cross the railroad track near Siski
you station was met by a passing
train. The horses, becoming fright
ened at the engine, got beyond the
drivers control and backed over the
steep precipice.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
COLOMBIAN REvoLuTIoNls1s
TACK QUA SHIP.

Panama, Nov. 1.-THE first
can casualties as a result q. "A,
luton, has occurred. The Co,ons
Meet captured boat having Il 4
correspondence showing the 4.
aDouus OF two revolutionary sebos,s
loaded with provisions. The &C.
ment warships headed for III N
and on arriving there the H.
(formelly the Jessie Banningl
ned by an American crew, Comma
by Captain Marmaduke, lowerea !,
boats with armed men, but !, n
schooners were aground thev v,I.I
until high tide to attack them
In the meanwhile the reyoutia.
were discovered in ambush elos
the beach, and when the Boea'|
boats pulled ahead the second tins N
rebels opened ire on them. klllus n
Shlp'S armoro-, 4,lNnArd Kane Of MI
ington, ana wounding George W,S|
VINO was snot through the legs
seaman named Clarke and Lieute,,
Vasquez were also wounded. but \
seriously.
The Bogota and Chucuito then M
ed fire on the enemy and killed MI
man in sight. One shot fired Il
group of ten rebels who were M.
actively engaged in shooting at h
boats crews killed every one Of ths
Gunner Cross of the Bogota thi,l
that from 40 to 80 rebels were kIs
One of the schooners, the Helvas
loaded with rice, was captured 4
the first shot at the second schOn
set her on fire and she was complies
destroyed with her cargo.
The body of Kane will be bun
here with military honors.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Uncle SANS Trick.

In the quietest possible manner al
with every precaution to secure 81
,crecy, the United States has encroaA
ed upon Canadian territory to u
northeast of Cape Fox, and sppR
priated to itself thousands Of squSa
miles of land lying within the bn
daries of British Columbia to A
westward of Portland canal.
Large stone huts, termed hcuA
of refuge for Mariners" have ba
erected comparatively recently on th
western shores of Portland, and from
the headquarters of the canal line
has been surveyed along the ncIl
tain ridges and across the divides 4
northwesterly direction toward u
Iskoot river, where it joins the y
kline.
In brief, such is the all impOrn
and sensational information whichH
just been brought to light throughu
haphazard wanderings of some CAP
dian prospectors through the tenn
tory in question.
This line from Portland canal rul'
northwesterly for a short distance an
then turns nearly due west, IMAM
connecting with the Iskoot river
its confluence with the Stikine. =
that point there is to be found an o.
post, supposedly erected by the haa
son Bay company, and by running n'
line there. it is apparently the cAl
of the American government thai y
post in question was placed In POI
ton by the Russians. The survey u
is distinctly marked by squafeu al
cut granite monuments.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
School Teacher Suicides.

New York, New. 1S.-Dread of being
summoned to answer to a charge of
roughly treating one of the children
of her class is supposed to have been
the cause of the suicide of Miss Celia
Ettleson, public school teacher, who
died today after drinking carbolic acid
Miss Ettleson, who was % years of
age, was the daughter of a Chicago
merchant.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
MAJOR HAYDEN is nsA,
Highest Officer Of Masonic q.
Washinuton *P

Highest Officer Of Masonic a.
Washington.
Seattle. Wash, NOV. IL
death OF Major James R. Ha,@
Masonic order loses its hiebas' NY
in washington. Major Hayd.
nearly 20 years SOVEREIGN g..
spector general for the suprem.'
Gil of the Ancient and Accom- s., y
fish Rite for this state and Az.
Major Hayden was also ! 81
of the Loyal Legion, and was Hwy Y
commander of the Grand Arm, 4.
Republic. For a long time he NJ = Y
cashier of the ePople's Sayin.s y
here. His sudden death was n T.
pneumonia, Major Hayden.s
son, Lieutenant John R. Hava,
5. A., is stationed, near Az I
cisco. =
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
To Be Rebuilt at once.
THREE ARE INJURED IN A WRECK
Great Northern Work Train Ditched
Near MohIer,

The Great Northern work train, car
rying a steam shovel, was wrecked
about o'clock in the evening between
Downs and Mohler, about 60 miles
west of Spokane. Three workmen were
seriously injured.
The cause of the wreck was bro
ken truck, which piled up six cars in
the ditch. About 300 feet of track
were torn up. Traffic was delayed sew
eral hours.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Fioht the Flour Trust.

San Francisco, Nov. 15.-After pl' ~
ing proceedings which smasneu A.
salt trust, United States Distris' "a,
torney Woodwork has gathereu ~
terial and forwarded it to Wasnin a.
which it Is expected will influences Nj
torney General Knox to order ii n.r,ar
ate suit against the so-called fas'-
Coast Flour trust.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
MONTANA ITEMS.

j. R. Reynolds, one of the pioneers
of Lewis and Clarke county, is dead.
John H. Essler, missing hotel keeper
at Belt, is reported to have gone to
Canada
A train of cattle, consisting of Is
cars, was shipped to Chicago from
Two Dot east last week.
Clark Moore, who was mistaken for
deer and shot, died two days later
from the effects of the wound. Cory
who shot him, is Frustrated with
grief.
A Jail break was averted in Butte
last week as sheriff's officers made a
search just in time. They found a
big hole cut in one of the cells. Files,
saws, acids, ETC., were also found.
At Fort Benton Joseph Proloux has
been sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for committing an assault
on Minnie Tresslar.
The case of ]. S. Keerl, who is being
held in Helena on the charge of muir
der, has been passed and will not
come up for trial until next spring.
Dudley Richard, who freighted be
tween Fort Benton in the early days
and who is known to every old-timer
throughout the state, died at the poor
farm recently.
Mrs. Joseph Either, wife of the pro
prietor of the Five Mile house neal
Butte, is lying at the point of death
through injuries received in the fire
which destroyed the hostelry recently
At the. recent meeting of the Ameri
can Bankers association at New Or
leans, George L. Ramsey, cashier o.
the Union Bank and Trust company
of Helena, was elected vice president
for Montana.
A petition has been forwarded tt
the war department asking permission
to tap Beaver creek for irrigating pur
poses above Fort Assinniboine The
ranchers on the lower part of the
creek have protested against tapping
the creek.
United States patents on about 50t
Northern Montana ranches have beer
received at the Great Falls land Office
The patents were received from Hell
ena, where they have been accumu
lating for years owing to the neglec
of the owners to call for them. Some
of the patents date back many years
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Death of Charles Fostrum.

Baker City, Ore, Nov 14.-Charles
Fostrum, an old time miner, known in
all the principal mining camps in Ore,
gon and California for the past so
years, was found dead in his room
He was 50 years of age. The coroner's
jury returned verdict of death from
heart failure.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Harlan Buckles HANGED.

Elizabeth, KY. Nov. 17.-Harlan
Buckles. who was sentenced to life
Imprisonment for the murder of Rob
'ert L. Reid, deputy marshal, was
hanged by mob. The mob consisted
of rs men, some of whom are sup
posed to have come from Larue coun,
ty. Buckles was taken to the court
house yard and hanged to a tree.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Hotel Fire,

Everett, Wash, Nov. 17.-Early
in the morning fire started in sleep
ing room of the Hoback hotel at In
dex. The hotel was destroyed and
James Kelly, a well known mining
man, persisted in the flames. The loss
is about $2500.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Perry Is Arrested.

! Boston, Nov. 1S.-A new move was
made in the slugger case by the is
suance Of a warrant charging George
L. o. Perry, the negro, with the MUIR
der Of Agnes McPhee in Somerville
on the night of October 8.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Female Raroos

In IN only two cases have baronetc;es
0 Oeen conferred ieno on women in England
Once In 1885 or the mother of Generoi
nome speelman; the other was
Charles I. i"ue so by
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
TO GOVERN LABOR BODIES

Plan Modelled After That of National
Congress.
Should a movement inaugurated by
the Colorado State Federation of La,
Dor be favorably received by labor fed
erations of other states, a national con,
vention of delegates from these Or
CARNATIONS will be called to meet in
Denver to consider and act upon the
plan of the Colorado federation, which
has for its object the adoption of a
system of government modelled after
the national government of this coun.
try.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
The People Nex+ noo

ION lom1m9y-My, but them folks that's
T Jobn INTO the next house is SWELL
TTO tommy ID do you know?
C SSys ping, pong instead of tick, tock.@
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21

A man named "R. Kane" has ba
mentioned in the press dispatches
being one of the crew OF the BoghI
1t was also asserted that Kain foul
under Dewey at the battle Of Mani
Gunner ]. Cross of the Bogota hll
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He Is al
II years of age.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
Wheat ReDorf,

Portland-Dull, steady; Walla Wal
Ia 6S@7Oc; bluestem, 72k@74c; val
ley, zoe.
Tacoma-Unchanged; bluestem, 74c;
club, 69c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21

The sugar on satan's pills may be
very sweet, but it is very thin.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-05
OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Review Of the Work Of the Army and
Ships from Defense Standpoint.

Ships from Defense Standpoint.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Sept. AIT noon
Major General Macarthur sent the follow
ing daily report to the adjutant general at
Washington:
Fort Rodman was attacked at s a. m
yesterday by the Brooklyn, Olympia, Puri-
tan, Mayfiower, Montgomery and Aileen.
except the Puritan were put out of acticn n.
A landing party was repulsed. Said ships
remained In the Vicinity Of Fort RoGman
island after the attack on Fort Wright,
where they remained until early this MORN
ing, when they were reported off Nara
gansett pier about four miles out at sea.
Three of the enemy's feet bomabrded Mon
tauk Point and landed ten boatloads of
marines about 8 o'clock this morning to
capture the signal station there. All
promptly reported and his movements COW
cred during past twenty-four hours
General Davis reported from Mont Pros
pect as follows: AT ITO p. m. to-day OBJ
servers at Mansfield discovered a fleet of
four battleships, Kearsarge, Indiana, Ala
bama, Massachusetts. in order named.
Range from Mansfield 200 yards. All forts
notified by LIS. Ships nearly obscured by
fog on which account range from Wright
could not be determined until 2:OS, when
mortars and twelve-inch guns were as
signed to Kearsarge Fog again prevented
accurate position finding until 2:30. when
mortars opened fire. Twelve-inch gun fol-
lowed with one salvo. Fleet turned and
sailed south until out of range. The COM
mander at Wright claims to have put the
Kearsarge out of action for this phase
Other forts notified. Information was that
fleet was sailing northeasterly course out
of range of Fort Wright. Fleet disap-
peared I'm fog at 2:35."
Official report has been made by the COM
mander at Fort Wright in regard to the
attack made on that fort by the battle
ships Massachusetts. Kearsarge. Alabama
and Indiana yesterday The report fol-
lows:
"Sir-Yesterday afternoon and night four
large vessels of the fleet were anchored
south of this post at range greater than
could be reached by the guns or mortars
The feet was picked up about BIS a. m
apparently at anchor in the same place
as yesterday afternoon. when the Alabama
was at 1898 yards and azimuth 336 from
fire commanders station here About AS
a. m. the fleet moved out to northeas 81
and turned westward. coming along south
| of Fishers island and well into shore
| Their masts and fighting tops were plainly
! seen through the saddle or gap north OF