Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-08-15
STATE NEWS

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accept the presidency of the Idaho
State University.
| Moscow, Aug. 1.-THE republic
an convention today passed reso
lutions instructing the delegates t.
the state convention for Burton L
French for congress and &c. Steel.
for district judge.
/ Washington, D. G. Aug. lie
| I. Macarthur, former superintend
emit of the Sisseton (Soutb Dakota
Indian school, will succeed G. T
Stranahan at the Lapwai school
He will assume the position as soor
as he qualities and his bond is ao
cepted.
Boise, Aug. 12.-Last Friday al
Mormon basin, Malheur county
Oregon, at settlement occupied by
Chinese placer miners, outlaws sci
fire to the houses occupied by the
Chinese and relieved them of theil
treasure. There were twenty-five
houses burned.
Lewiston, Aug. as. o. Tanna
hill ,4of 40, reports that the fax
crop of the Cold Springs country
of which lilo is the trading point
is the best of any year since the
settlements of the reservation coun-
try, many fields averaging twenty
bushels or more an acre.
The frame work on the new mill
was raised this week and grade
work on the mill ditch as far as the
east side of town completed. A
part OF the lumber is now on the
ground for the fume and every
thing is moving along as rapidly
as possible. --Culdesac Register.
Last week Is votes cast at Wei
ser against the issuing of $4,000
bonds to establish an electric light
and water system in that town,
The fifteen guilty parties were lost
in the wave of progress and will
perhaps never again be heard of in
the wide awake town of south Ida
no. Work on installing the plants
will probably be begun in Seeptem
Der. The Signal states that as a
direct result of the improvements
at least seven new brick buildings
will be added to the town.
Moscow, Aug. 9.--M. J. Shields
now haa two threshing machines at
work in his 800 acre tall meadow
oat grass field and expects to get a
crop of 200 pounds of grass seed
per acre. Mr.. Shields also has 1000
acres OF bromus inermus, English
blue grass, orchard grass and other
long root grasses suitable for dry
lands. The oat grass now being
threshed, it is stated, will make ex-
cellent hay, and the meadow land
after the crop has been removed
will be used to pasture 1000 head
Of sheep.
Boise, Aug. 12.-The friends of
Hunt won in the democratic prim-
aries today, defeating Attorney
General Martin in the latter's own
county The governor will have
absolute control of the Ada county
delegation to the Pocatello oonven-
ton September 4th. The election
was the most holly contested in
the history of the county, not sx-
Guiding legal elections. 1t was a
fight from the minute the polls
opened until they closed. Both
sides regarded the result as of the
highest Importance as affecting
the interests Of two leading demo-
cratic candidates for governor.
The Pierce brothers have been
making some coal discoveries one
and one half miles from Kamiah,
on the east side of the Clearwater
river. They have found coal on
three different quarter sections. In
the drift on their place their are
eight or ten different veins, from a
quarter of an inch to four inches in
thickness. The veins pitch down.
ward. The coal is between black
slate, in sandstone formation.
One other location is in yellow
sand stone, one mile from Kamiah.
A blacksmith tried it in his forge.
It burned freely and he did some
fine welding with it.
A new bank will be established
here on August 18th. Thomas
Brewer while here this week stated
that his bank, the Genease Ex-
change Bank, would establish a
branch institution here on the
above date. The new dual time
lock will be shipped at once from
Canton, Ohio, and will arrive in
time to be placed in the bank on
the date Of opening. The new in.
stitution will have temporary quar-
ters in the building now occupied