Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-12-26
Call at Brown & Brust's for Christmas

Call at Brown & Brust's fer Christmas
goods.
New line Of boys clothing at Golds
stones.
j. M. Wolbert, Atty at Law, Notary
Public, Real estate Agent and Justice of
the Peace, Cottonwood, Idaho.
Highest cash price paid for spring
calves or young cows with calves. Call
on or write to SHAW & FEIeHBoR,
Westlake, Ida.
Mr,H, Burleigh, OF Kooskia, arrived in
town Saturday, with view of settling
and opening law office. Mr. Burleigh
has had sixteen years practice in Oregon
and Idaho, holding license to practice
before the Supreme Courts of both states
as well as license to practice inU, s. dis
trict and circuit courts, and is recognized
as one of the leading lawers of the dis
trict. When professional men of standing
and ability come among us to settle due
encouragement should be extended to
them by the business interests of the
community,
The Grangeville papers report big
discovery of gold and platinum at Cotton
woed. We have heard it reported that
Rob't Nugent and Gale Burge had made
such discovery in the creek bottom here
but we have failed to notice the excite
ment the Grangeville papers give us all
credit with possessing. The tact Las
been demonstrated before that there is
gold in this section but no one will lose
very many heads over the proposition
until it can be produced in paying
quantities, which we hope will ultimate
ly result from the recent discovery.
Lewiston, Idaho, Dec. 19.,-Theodore
Parks and John Mckay, who arrived
today from Buffalo Hump and will leave
in the morning for Spokane, report six
feet of snow in the Hump, and say that
more and more work is being done than
at any previous time within the past
two years. The big Buffalo is keeping
up its regular shipment Of $4,000 in
bullion every month and all the other
mills in camp are working steadily and
makeing their regular bullion shipments.
They confirm the report OF an enormous
ly rich strike on the Liberty Bell.
1t now develops that the supposed
Catholic priest we had here some time
ago has joined the Episcopalian church
at Spokane as minister of that faith
under the same name he carried here,
Rev. A. Miles Smyth. Furthermore 1t
is authentically reported that the young
woman who was passed off here as his
sister was his wife, from whom he had
once been divorced. He was arrested in
1895 at st. Joseph, Mo-, while priest
at that place, for seducing the sixteen
year old Maud Steidel, but the charge
could not be substantiated and Smyth
quit the church and married the girl.
His name at that time was Father Dom
mick Wagner. Later, Smyth says, the
church authorities prevailed upon him
to be divorced from his wife, upon the
promise that they were to pay her an
allowance of 500 per month and and re-
instatc him as priest at the Catholic
monastery of Gethsemane, Ohio. He
was there few months and was then
sent to Cottonwood under Bishop Glor-
ieaux. While here he received letter
from his former wife stating that she
was pennilsss and that the church au-
thorities had made her only two pay
nents and then quit. Smyth then sent
her money to come here, where she was
for several months as his stepsister and
housekeeper. Bishop Glorieaux finally
relieved him of his charge at this place
and the next we heard of him was the
above report, which Smyth himself gave
to the Spokesman Review. Smyth had
an excellent reputation for brilliancy
while here. The young womah has dis
appeared from Spokane and her where
abouts are known only to the Episcopa-
lian ministry of that place.