Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-05-16

nave been considered something
great, but nowadays it is becoming
quite common, Genesee News.
Lewiston, May 11.-Mr. Carbe-
nier, miner, found the dead body
Of a man floating in an eddy of
Snake river about Is miles above
Asotin Saturday. The body was
recovered and an inquest was held.
The body was badly decomposed.
Following is a description Of the
dead man; FIVE feet six or seven
inches in height, fair complexion,
weight about 146. He wore gray
corduroy pants, black cotton socks,
congress shoes and three shirts.
Orotino, May 12.-7Miss Winnie
Booth, the 19-year old daughter Of
Rev. G. M. Booth, of Moscow, and
DR.. ], F. Leadbrooke, a prominent
physician Of that place, committed
suicide here today. The couple
had taken morphine and were
found today in q room in the Noble
hotel. They were lying side by
side on the bed when discovered,
and the girl was dead. DIR. Lead
brooke was in an unconscious state
and he remained in that condition
until he passed away at 8 O'Clock
this afternoon.
A company has been organized
at Juliaetta to build and operate a
cannery at that point. The site
has been selected and the lumber
ordered. The building will be
about 4Qx100 and it is calculated
will employ about 100 hands and
it il hoped it will be ready for oc-
by July 1st so as to can
this seasons crop Of fruit and vege-
tables, The men who are princi-
pally interested in the enterprise
are F. r. Roberts, Ct. M. Robertson
and G. Binner. They have incor-
porated under the laws Of the state,
-~Kendrick Gazette.
George Mpx Mox, the Nez Perce
Indian who has been confined in
the county jail for several months,
was taken to Moscow yesterday by
lity Marshal Schuldt and arraign-
ID in the federal court on the
charge of introducing liquor on the
reservation. He pleaded guilty to-
the charge and sentence will be
passed on him the present week.
Mox Mox was a member of the
party who succeeded in breaking
Jail last fall with several other
prisoners and he eluded arrest for
several weeks. Later be surren-
Tered to the officers.
The highest price on record here
IN Camas prairie is now being
oaid for fat hogs. The price is
$40 per 100 pounds here at
9rangeville, for immediate deliv-
Try, and it is still going up. When
he price reached 1925 three or
our months ago, and then took
lump of almost cent pound, it
vas feared that it could not come
Up again. But it has done 90, and
llready passed the old high mark.
The price Of wheat for feeding is
oartly responsible for the raise,
hough it is due partly also to the
carcity Of hogs all over the coun-
The Tribune last evening re-
eived a dispatch from ]. M. |
'earce, the Lenore merchant, an
louneing that the body OF a dead
nan had been found in the river
i point two miles below Lenore. |
The dispatch states that the body |
8 probably that of ]. w. Twohey, |
Who was drowned in the North |
FORK of the Clearwater April 10. |
Lwohey, whose home is in Spo-
Jane, lost his life near Big Island |
s the result of raft having been
wrecked at that point. He had
'een cruising timber in the North |
FORK country and was returning to
lewiston in company with E. H.
Srault and A. S. Warlick, when
he accident occurred.
The receipts for the Lewiston
and office for April exceed those of
ny previous month in the history
T the Office. There were fifty cash
ntries, embracing 1878 acres of
imber land, which sold for $19,-
90, and $50 acres of Communication
nd excess entries, which realized
1,160. With fees and commits
ions amounting to $1S77, the total
sceipts for the month we're $22,-
81. There were As homestead
roofs made during the month,
nbracing 6723 acres, and II home
,ead entries, embracing 1O,102
ores. This latter item illustrates
ow rapidly the unappropriated
Inds of the district are being Sc
lred. The Lewiston land district
nbraces Nez Perez, Idaho and
atah counties and a part of sho-
zone.