Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-12-11
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Mason. belonging to the lodge at
Occur d'Aiene.
Bheer-Nah, the Oldest Indian on the
Occur d'Alene reservation is dead.
A post of veterans of the Spanish
American war was organized recently
at Boise at a meeting of Philippine
volunteers.
Charles o. Broxon, editor of the Po-
catello Advance; is charged with Grim
inal libel The complaint is sworn to
by Charles Poppleton, sergeant Of po-
lice. His bond was fixed at 5000.
Lewis Bond. riverman, was drawn
ed by falling off boat in the st. Joe
river recently. He was rowing down
stream with lady in the boat. He
slipped and fell overheard. He was
Frank Leuch, a Northern Pacific
brakeman, fell 80 feet In q caboose
into the creek from a trestle near
Granite recently, and escaped with a
lacerated leg and arm and a scalp
wound.
Material is being assembled for the
new power station to be erected by
the Washington Water Power COM
pany at Post Falls. The new station
is to be equal in power capacity to the
Spokane plant.
State Auditor T. Turner will wait
until the supreme court acts before he
Will pay the bounty on beet sugar. He
says the power of the state legislature
to authorize payment of bounties must
be shown first.
Senator Hepburn has presented to
the proper committee Joint memo
rial of the governor of Idaho and the
state legislature. praying for a sufi-
cient appropriation to improve the
Pend d'Oreille river between Albany
falls and the mouth of Priest river.
One of the largest timber sales re-
corded in Shoshone county in many
months was that of Fred A. Blackwell
and wife to the Wisconsin Log & Lum-
Der company and others. A half in
terest In all the timber on sundry
tracts of land in township AZ north,
range east was transferred for &c.
540.76.
The 2 year old child of family
named Giles was burned to death Sum
day. The little one was playing near
the fire. The mother left the room
and the baby secured piece of pa
per and lighted it at the fire. The
baby's clothing caught fire and the
child also inhaled smoke. The baby
died in few minutes.
Thomas d. Parsons has filed deeds
for two farms which he bought re-
Gently. One, Of $50 acres, was pur-
chased from the First National bank
of Moscow, consideration being $4,000,
and is located about five miles west of
kendrick. The other was 200 acres,
purchased from Joseph HI. Riley of
Moscow, and is located three miles
north of Moscow, consideration $84OO.
William Gam, one of the three men
now in Jail at Mountain Home on the
charge of having set fire to the Stock
ton hotel at Glens Ferry in which a
life was lost, has confessed. His con-
fession duplicates O'Neill, one of the
other men in Jail, on the charge. Gam
declares Red" Hooks, the third mem
Der of the trio, to be innocent of any
part in the affair. He says 1t was
partly from motives of revenge and
partly for purposes Of robbery.
Moscow, Idaho.-The state land
board has fixed December 20 as the
date for the sale of a number of val.
liable tracts of school land In Latah
county. The sale will occur at the
courthouse, the different tracts being
Knocked down to the highest bidder.
The total amount to be sold is some
thing over 5000 acres. the appraised
valuation being from $40 to $50 an
acre, and in number of cases, where
lands have been held under lease, the
purchaser will be called on to pay the
value of improvements on the lands.
L. j. McGinness was recently bound
over at Boise to the district court on
a charge Of manslaughter for the kill.
ing OF G. A. Packenham. His bond
was fixed at $4,000. On November rs
McGinness and two companions, all
of whom were somewhat intoxicated.
were driving up the Highland valley
road and passed Packenham, who was
on his way to the X-ray tunnel, of
which he was superintendent. McGin-
ness discharged his rifle when some
300 yards away and the ball struck
Packenham, the latter dying.
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