Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-07-25

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everyone who can will be out after them.
The yield this year is said to be above
the average.
- I. Hale has added to the equip
ment of his livery stable 21s.horse-
/ power gasoline engine. 1t will be used
for pumping water, grinding feed and
various other purposes,
A large portion of the hay cut in the
Greencreek country tn is year is beard
less barley. The farmers all say it is
the best grain hay, both for yielding
| and nutritive purposes.
Arthur Woodring has the contract to
erect the addition to the Cottonwood
public school, his bid OF 1870 being the
lowest offered, Work will be commence
ed on the building next Monday.
Today is the day Of the big fight for
the worlds heavy weight championship
between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons, 1t
is safe to say that large fortunes will be
won and lost in the betting ring.
At the close of the democratic and re-
| publican county conventions to be held
in Grangeville. the citizens of Grange
vile will tender banquet to the dele
gates of EACH of the conventions re-
spectiYely.
| The democratic county convention
will be held at Grangeyille on August
10Th instead of Goth, as stated in our
last issue. The convention will convene
at 10 O'Clock a. NJ, and county officers
and delegates to the state convention
will be nominated.
Louis Bnshy and A. r. Bird have
purchased Bradford's s mill and are saw.
Ing lumber to beat the band. They are
deserving men and we hope they will
enjoy the patronage they are Justly en-
titled to, We know that the good repu.
tation OF the mill will be kept up,
John Aichlmayr this week purchased
OF VIM, PAUL the 160-acre ranch lying
just east of Mr.. AichImayr'sf farm, the
consideration being $4,000. Mr.. Aichl-
rie soil and is investing now and await
ing the raise, which is bound to come.
A. B. Rookie is in receipt of letter
from Cal Gwyn, who left here few
months since to hunt location in Ore
gon. Cal is at present near Eddyville,
about fifty miles west of Corvallis, and
near the coast. He says that country is
rough and brushy and he is not very
favorably impressed with it.
WANTED YOUNG MEN from Ida.
no County at once to prepare for Posi-
tions in the Government Service-Rail-
way Mail Clerks, Letter Carriers, Gus
tom House and Departmental Clerks,
etc. Apply to
Interstate Cores. Inst,
Cedar Rapids, la.
Ed Bradford is talking about going to
Vineland to live Oh his property there.
No one would like to see Mr., Bradford
leave us. He has made friends with
every man who ever dealt with him and
his public spiritedness is matter of
general comment. Mrs. Bradford, also,
would be missed by large circle of
friends,
j, H. Smiley is seriously ill with par
tial paralysis. He has lost his power of
speech and the use OF his left side. 1t
is said that Mr.. Smiley has been affected
in the same manner before and has re-
covered. Wednesday night his daugh-
ter, of Wallace, and brother-in-law, Mr..
Sisson. merchant of Hope, arrived.
Another of his daughters will arrive
here Monday from skaguay, Alaska.
Republican primaries were held here
last Saturday and the following dele
gates were elected to attend the county
convention which will be held here to-
morrow: John Peterson, I. M. Julian,
Robt. Deardorff, S. r. Libbey and Jos.
Rustemeyer. Alternates: B. W. Max
ey, w. w. Blackburn, J. M. Wolbert.
L. F. Manwaring and VIM. Brust. The
convention tomorrow will be for the
purpose of nominating delegates to the |
state convention, to be held at Boise on
August Goth.
Two gentlemen, Messrs. Ashbrook
and Hubbard, were in the city Wednes-
day, enroute to the lower country from
Thunder mountain. Both men say that
Thunder is good country, but hard |
place for poor man to- do anything. |
They say that most of the kicking and /
knocking comes from people who never /
reach Thunder and great deal more !
from people who expected to find gold
lying around in Jumps, SO that it /.
could .be gathered up without much ef- /
fort. These fellows were disappointed
of course, and when their cash ran out
they came back to civilization with a |
hard luck story, warning people to keep |
away from the place, as they would have. |
to work and undergo a lot of privations
for what they got. The two men men. /
toned before state that all bona fide 1
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