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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
WESTERN WASHINGTON HAS NO
RAILROAD CONNECTION. 4"
Great Destruction of Property-Many
Persons Driven From Their Homes
During the Night-Several Towns
Suffer Great Losses-Water Subsid.
ing in Walla WaIIa Valley.

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 5.-There was
nothing doing on the Northern Pacific
Sunday.
To sum up the difficulties, the North
ern Pacific is now struggling with,
there are five washouts on the main
line between Castle Rock and Kelso.
There are innumerable slides all the
way from Cosmopolis to the terminus
on the Grays Harbor branch. The Au-
burn cutoff is under water for one
mile Nearly mile of track is gone
in one place on Green river. Five or
six other and minor washouts are re-
ported between Lester and Palmer.
The big washout at Martin is followed
by a succession of washouts and land
slides all the way to Ellensburg.
The South Bend branch is under wa
ter and covered with slides from Will
lapa to the terminus.
The Great Northern is in exactly a
like predicament with the Northern
Pacific. The first effects of the chinook
were to again carry away the bridge
at Meadows creek. Trains were then
directed over the Northern Pacific, but
before they could be dispatched east
the Northern Pacific was blocked as
stated.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
His Friend Geoffrey.

The following story, told by the
Washington Post, leads us to wonder
which to condemn first, the boaster or
his critics. 1t concerns a certain man
who has a large collection of auto
graphs.
Indeed, the envy and sometimes the
skepticism of his friends have been ex-
cited by the number of successful auth
ors who have set down familiar and
fattering inscriptions in his books.
Some carpers have even gone so far as
to hint darkly at similarity of hand
writing throughout the collection.
He recently purchased a rare edition
Of Chaucer, and one evening, when q
party was gathered at his house, the
precious book was passed from hand %
hand. Its owner lost sight of it; bus
the next morning he found it lying on
his library table.
On the fiy-leaf was inscribed:
ITO Jack, from his old friend ana
schoolmate, 'Geof. Chaucer."
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
OREGON NOTES.

The largest business eyer done was
transacted at Portland last year.
The public schools and all private
schools of Pendleton have been closed,
owing to the existence of scarlet fever,
The Multnomah Amateur Athletic
club football eleven won a recent game
from the Reliance club OF Oakland,
Cal, BY a score. OFFS to 0.
One fourth of all the wheat and
flour exported from Oregon, Washing,
ton and Idaho for the first half of the
current cereal year has been shipped
to Africa and Australia.
Nine hours will hereafter be consid-
cred working day in all the iron
works of Portland, but the employees
wages will still be the same as they
were at 10 hours.
Three hundred engineers, boilermak-
ers, switchmen and yardmasters on
the Oregon lines of the Southern Pa
cific railroad have received an in
crease in wages ranging from to 10
per cent.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
IDAHO.

Governor Morrison has announced
that he has appointed John Hardy of
Boise as his private secretary.
With score of "a points out of a
possible rs, R. G. Christopher won the
silver cup trophy at the holiday shoot
of the Wallace Rifle club.
U. L. Clardy, principal teacher at the
Nez Perce Industrial school at Lap.
Wal, Idaho, has been transferred to
the Indian school at Sisseton, S. D.
County Auditor Stookey reports that
ITO marriage licenses were issued dur.
ing the year 1902. During the same
time % divorces were granted by the
district court.
The Glenn's Ferry Fand & Irrigation
company is making good progress
with its big undertaking to build a
canal which will irrigate $4,000 acres
OF arid land.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09


during the past years
Announcement is as that the
sheepmen of Idaho will NM strong
effort at the coming session. the leg
islature to get an amendment TO the
present two mile limit law.
A deal has been made by which the
state of Idaho secures the title to a
large body of land near the TwisM soS.
on Snake river, in southern dad
der the provisions of the Carey act.T
Another large transaction was made
at Emmetts last week. when Andrew
Little bought all of Robert Aikman's
sheep and several hundred acres of
land in Canyon and Boise counties,
with all the appurtenances to the
same
A farmers association has been
formed in the vicinity of Cameron
about IL miles east of Kendrick. The
association has just received full ar
tesian well boring outfit, with which il
will endeavor to secure flowing WE'LL
The boring outfit has capacity of SOC
feet.
A movement is on foot to petition
the legislature at Tie coming session
to make radical changes in the reve
nue. laws of the state, and to practi
cally adopt the Washington state law
particularly that portion which per
mits of county and state taxes beina
paid as in Washington, in two pay
ments without mourning delinquency
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
MONTANA ITEMS.

Mrs. William A. Clark, Jr., of Butte,
died last week.
A bar association has been organ
lied in Missoula.
Edward w. Knight, who had lived il,
Helena since boyhood, died recently.
Mediums Montana wool is selling for
20 cents in the grease on the Boston
market.
The state auditor has issued war
rants for bounty claims to the amount
of $4,000.
The report of the death of Phil
Shennon will be heard with regret by
many Montana friends.
The State Association of County AS
SCISSORS will open it's annual session at
Helena on january Is.
Operators employed by the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company, in
Butte, have formed a union.
The Great Falls & Canada railroad
has gone out of existence, being for
mally transferred to the Great North
ern.
The store card agreement between
IuO DuoInS5S Au0u VI f10l0ud anu JHS
Retail Clerks local No684, has gone
into effect.
The supreme court has granted a
new trial in the case of Thomas Tighe,
who was convicted in Broadwater
county for the murder of Paul Kock.
The expansion of the telephone SER
vice in Montana during the last eight
months indicates a remarkable in
crease in the general business of the
state.
One man killed, two others seriously
injured and twenty four freight cars
ditched and damaged briefly sums up
the story of a wreck that occurred on
the Northern Pacific railroad at Sch
ulder's spur last week.
The value of the Deef output in Mon
tana during the past year was in ex-
cess of $10,OOO,O00 and during that
same time more than 100000 head of
cattle were shipped out of the state.
The number of horses shipped out of
the state during 1902 is given by the
report as nearly $4,000.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
HER PECULIAR EXCELLENCE.
Jane Austen Deft at Work Done viii
Her Hands.

Miss Jane Austen, the English nov
elist, whose work is valued to-day mor
than when 1t first appeared, in writing
to her sister in 1898, remarks, my
mother desires me to tell you that am
a very good housekeeper, which | have.
no reluctance in doing, because really
think it my peculiar excellence, and for
this reason: always take care to pro-
vide such things as please my own ap
petite, which I consider as the chief
merit in housekeeping" In her life Of
Jane Austen. Constance Hill quotes
from Austen Leigh, who declares that
Miss Austen was successful in every
thing that she attempted with her fng
ers.
Her needlework was exquisite. Wa
have seen a muslin scarf embrOidered
by her in satin-stitch, and have held IN
our hands tiny housewife of fairylike
proportions, which Jane worked at the
age Of sixteen as a gift for friend. II
consists of narrow strip of flowered
silk, embroidered at the back, which
measures four inches by one and a
quarter, and is furnished with minikin
needles and fine thread. At one end
there is tiny pocket, containing some
verses in diminutive handwriting with
the date, "Jany, 1892"
Austen Leigh writes: "None of us
could throw spilikins in so perfect a
circle, or take them off with so steady
a hand. Her performances with the cup
and ball were marvellous. She has been
known to catch the ball q hundred
times in succession"
She did not give up the activities and
pleasures of everyday life in order to
write of the pleasures of other people,
and AUNT Jane" was the delight of q
large circle of nephews and nieces.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

The Bryan & Sewall company's prop.
erty, situated on Copper hill, over a
mile west of Republic, was jumped
New Years morning by a party of men
under circumstances that may create
no little sensation.
From all accounts Kettle River Wn.
Is to have a smelter next year and
James Breen is to be the man to erect
it. This statement is made by e. c..
Wood OF Boston, consulting engineer
for number of Companies, operating
in western states.
At Buffalo Hump, Idaho, the Jumbo
Mining company has struck the ledge
in the lower tunnel and has driven 100
feet on the ledge. 1t has full face
of very rich ore. about 10 feet wide
that averages $40. It is still 400 feet
to run to reach point under the rich
payshoot in the upper tunnel.
John Dawson, an aged miner was
blown to atoms at the King & Queen
mine in the Occur d'Alene district
while thawing dynamite recently. Daw-
son had gone from the shaft to thaw
several sticks and in a few minutes his
companions heard the explosion. Com
ing to the surface they found the
cabin wreck and Dawson, dismember-
ed. many feet away.
The mining industry of the Occur
d'Alenes may be divided into three de-
partments: ~ The extraction of ore
from the ground, or actual mining:
CD the concentration of milling, which
at every property in the district, with
two exceptions, includes transporta-
ton of several miles from mine to
mill; and 60 the shipment and sale
of the concentrated ore.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
Spokane Market Report.

Notwithstanding, 2@3c Id; po-
tatoes, $4,000 per cwt; small Try on
ions. sc lib; green onions, punches,
SC; celery. 5@10c punch; green toma-
toes, 75c box; cucumbers, 5@1Oc;
beets, 2 lunches SC; turnips, in bulk,
1@2c lb; carrots, 1h@2c Id; summer
squash, 5@10c each; Hubbard squash,
10@15c each; pumpkins, 5@1Oc; par
ships, 2 punches for Sc; caulifower,
10@15c head.
Fruits-Lemons, soc per doz; plums,
10c basket, bulk, &c Id; apples, 3@4c
Id; 60c@$1.25 box; prunes, 15c bas-
ket; grapes, zoe Id $4,000 basket;
bananas, 25@30c doz; winter pears, SC
Id, $1.25@$1.50 box: crabapples, 2@3c
lb; cranberries, 12R@15 qt; ounces,
4 lbs for 25c; pineapples, SOC each; or
anges, 100000 box.
Eggs-Local, guaranteed fresh, 40c
per doz; eastern, 3O@35c per doz.
Poultry-Chickens, dressed, 15@16c;
squads, 15c each; spring chickens, 40c
@60c; ducks, 1Sc lib; geese, 16c lb; tur-
keys, 2O@25c.
Dairy products-Creamery butter,
35@40c per lb; country butter, 25@30c
per Id; oleomargarine, 35@40c per role
cheese, 2O@25c.
Meats-Beef, porterhouse steak, 1Sc
@20c; sirloin steak, 16@18c; round
steak, 121ac; shoulder steak, 10@12hc
No. 1 prime roast, 15@16c; common
roast, 10@121ac; boiling beef, S@1Oc;
leg of mutton, 1914 @15c; chops, 15c
@18c; pork roast, 121s@15c; chops,
15c; salt, 15c; sausage. 10@12kc; veal
SC; calves liver, 15c; eastern ham,
16c; breakfast bacon, 1Sc; lard, 10 lb
pail. S1.35.
Fish-Salmon, 121ac per lb; hall
but, 10@12hc; herring, 1O@12hc.
Grain and Feed-Timothy hay, soc
per cwt, $14 per ton; grain hay, Csc
per cwt, $12 per ton; alfalfa, 75c per
cwt, $13 per ton; chicken feed, SLIPS
per cwt, $23 per ton; rye, seed, $1.25
per cwt; bran soc per cwt; bran and
shorts, CSC per cwt; shorts, 81 per
cwt; rolled barley, $1.25 per cwt; corn,
$3.50 per cwt; timothy seed, SC per lb,
81 per cwt; alfalfa, 15c per lib, $13 per
cwt; clover 15c per lb, $3.50 per cwt;
lawn mixture, blue grass and white
clover, 25c per ID; red top, tic per lb.
$14 per cwt; English rye grass, 12c
per lb, $3.50 per cwt; orchard grass,
16c per lb, $14 per cwt.
Coal oil-Bulk oil, 35c per gal:
pearl, $2,SO@3.OO per case, $3.50 per
can; Eocene, $1.65 per can.
Flour-Wholesale, $3.75@$4 per Dbl;
retail, fancy patents, $1.15; standard
brands, $1.10; lowest grade, 81.
Sugar-Cane, Sc per 1OOlb sack, IA
lbs for 81.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Poultry and Chickens, roost-
ers, 10@11c; hens, 12Rc per live
weight; young chickens, $3@4.5O per
loz; turkeys, live weight, lac per lb,
dressed, Ice; eggs, fresh, 10000
loz; ducks, live weight, lie lib.
getables-Potatoes, 45@5Oc per
'wt; onions, 81 per cwt. q
Live stock-Beef, live steers, 81
0$4.25; dressed, 7k@SAc; cows, Sc,
dressed, &c; mutton, ewes, "a per
,wt, dressed, 7k@Sc; veal dressed,
'@11c; hogs, live, SIC, dressed, TIC
08c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
MINES AND MINING news
MANY, OF THE MINES IN THE
NORTHWEST PROGRESSING.
Items of Interest of Miscellaneous
Nature Gathered During the
Week-New Districts brousne
the Front-Many Mining Aeeioe"ss
and Personals.

Four miners were probably fatally
Injured and a number OF others pau
Meurned and cut by falling coal N an
EXP sion of mine dust in the chicago
mine at Auburn, ILL.,, recenIly.
hundred and fifty men were IN lhe
mine at the time, but all except IA OF
Is, who were caught in the entry zooo
feet from the surface, succeeded III
reaching the surface. The ser
iously injured axe: Samuel Rucke66
Roy Rucker, Edwsrd, rRR9HH fl;SssF ~; sa a,
Unidentified man. The explosion i
said to have 'tSen caused by shot.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

The gold production of Cripple
Creek district, six miles square, in
1902, is estimated at $24, 5O8,311.
The production of the Leadville
field (Colo.) show total valuation
of the product for 1902 is $9,46S, 544.
The rush for claims in the Unita
CWyo.) oil fields continues. So far
as known there has been no bloodshed,
but numerous shots have been ex-
changed.
1t is reasonable to expect that the
Occur d'Alene district will be able to
maintain its present, and perhaps an
increased, output for many years to
come.
A we'll defined movement is under
way among brokers for the reopening
of the Spokane mining exchange. OF
the 30 members of the exchange IA
have signed petition.
The Standard Mining company, oper-
ating at Wallace. Idaho, has ordered
the latest improved electric pumps.
The machinery will be working May 1.
The estimated cost is $4,000.
James Hutchinson, formerly mana.
ger of the Trade Dollar mines at Sill
yer City, Idaho, died recently, having
been stricken with apoplexy. Mr..
Hutchinson was sixty-five years of
age.
Since the rich body of ore has been
uncovered in the Cracker-Oregon mine
at Bourne, Oregon there has been
active development work in other near
by properties. A large body of ore
is being blocked out in the Golconda
mine since the recent strikes.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

During last week the CRANKY smelter
treated 10,115 tons of ore. The total
treated to date is 591,121 tons.
Grand Forks advices state that
an eastern syndicate. comprised OF
Toronto capitalists has acquired a
large interest in the British Column
bia Coal company, limited, owners of
North Fork coal fields.
By vote of 245 to 101 the employ
es Of the LIE Roi mine decided to adopt
the proposal to cease work on alter.
nate Sundays. Heretofore the mine
was operated every day in the month
but the management agreed to BIZ
monthly shutdowns if the men de-
sired the move.
The Office statistics of the Kettle
River mining division for the year 1902
are: Free miners certificates, TAI !;
free miners special, 4; locations, min
eral, 1924; locations, placer, IL; certi-
ficates of work, S07; abandonments, g.;
certificates of improvements, so; con-
veyances, 235; placer leases, g..
December 81, 1902 closed year that
has witnessed marked advances in
the mining industry of Rossland camp.
Of the big mines in the Rossland camp
the LIE Roi is the only one that has had
a continuous year of activity. The
mine distributed $463, 5000 in wages
to its Rossland employees and $780,
1881 to it's employees in the smelter
at Northport. The War Eagle and
Centre Star mines at Rossland, which
are essentially Canadian companies,
have entered into a new era of activ-
ity during the year, after having sus-
pended shipments for more than half
of the twelvemonth.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

LATE NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week-The
Outlook Is Good In Every Section
MANY Accidents and Personal
Happenings.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

North Yakima is suffering from a
derth of COAL
Mayor Croxron has closed public
gambling in Bennington
The State Bank of Wilson Creek has
succeeded the Bank of Wilson Creek.
The Bank of Krupp is now fully es-
tablished in its new building at Krupp.
The death rate of Spokane for 1902
was only 9.5 per thousand of popu-
lation.
Another scheme is on foot to induce
the Yakima farmer to go into the bust
ness of raising sugar beets. This time
it is a sugar beet syrup factory.
Robert, the twelve year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Gilyer of Chattaroy,
died recently from the effects of poi
soning from eating canned corn.
Sold twice within eight months,
once for $500, the next time for $4,000,
I is the record of Sam Powers, 'the pac-
ing wonder" of Spokane, with record
Of 2:11.
The death senetnce imposed upon A.
p. Vance, who was co have been hang
ed January 8, has been committed to
life Imprisonment by Governor Nc
Bride.
The options on coast Touring mill
plants given six months ago and which
were to have expired on January 1,
have been renewed for a period of 80
days.
The Consolidated Lumber company
expects to have it's new band sawmill |
at Elk, in operation by January Is, |
which will cut $4,000 feet of lumber in |
10 hours.
A bill has been drafted for presenta- |
ing the licensing Of saloons within a |
radius Of one mile Of any naval reser-
walton in this state.
E. M. Burch of Colfax died recently |
of paralysis after an illness of several |
weeks. Mr.. Burch was a pioneer of |
Whitman county and was one of the
best known citizens. -
Three hundred cavalry animals are
to be supplied the Ninth (colored) |
troops stationed at Walla Walla. The
animals will be furnished by contract,
for which sealed bids are now adver-
tised.
Superintendent F. w. Gilbert at Spo-
kane, of the Idaho division of the
Northern Pacific will succeed Mr.. Horn
as assistant general superintendent of
the Northern Pacific. Mr.. Gilbert will
be succeeded by Mr.. Beamer his chief
clerk.
The tremendous growth of Spokane
business during the year is indicated
by the fact that the real estate trans
fers have doubled since 1901 and the
bank clearings have increased by al
most $SO,000,000.
: "A snowslide, which buried the track
for distance of 800 feet 80 feet deep,
and quantity of water from the noun
tain side struck the Madison bridge on
the Great Northern for the third time
within 10 days and carried away five
spans at bridge 399 occurred last week,
a short distance east of Madison.
No more land contests over claims
in the Walla Walla land Office dis
trict will be heard before United
States land commissioners, a new rul-
ing having gone into effect yesterday
which provides for hearing all cases
before the land Office receiver and reg
lister in Walla Walla. This regulation
is far reaching and important in eff
feet.
TX
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
Where the Intellect Resides.

The left lobe of the brain, governing
the right side of the body, is known
to be superior to the right lobe in its
influence upon the bodily functions.
DR.. Phelps, recent investigator, IN
sists that the left brain is also the
intellectual half. He has studied near
ly 300 cases Of brain injury and dis
ease and has found that the right side
may be severely injured without mar
terially affecting the thinking powers.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
Loaves of Bread SMALLER

Mexico City.-The recent advance
in the price of wheat caused bakers
here TO diminish the size of their
loaves while still charging the same
price, and this has worked hardship
on the poorer class.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
Strike in New York.

New York.-Through a strike of the
machine and iron riggers, work on
nearly all of the big buildings now in
course of construction in this city is
at standstill.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
Montana,

The large dredging plants operating
in Alder Gulch, Madison county, are
still at work producing gold from this
famous old gold channel.
The mining industry in Fergus
county is in far more prosperous con-
dition than it has ever heretofore been
and the prospects for the future are of
encouraging character.
A new strike of rich copper ore has
been made in the old Lexington mine,
an old silver property at Butte. A
big body has been found that runs 40
per cent copper.
Franklin Farrell has taken up his op-
ton on the Mcqueen placer, porti n
of the large tract of ground he re-
Gently acquired in the new copper dis
trict of Butte. 1t is understood that
he paid about 100000, and his new
corporation, the Pittsburg Mining COM
pany, will build a smelter on the
ground
The Miner creek and Ajax mines,
although separated by mountain
peaks, are only about three miles apart
and the lay of the rich groupings show
that they are in the same highly min
eralized district-a district that will
one day prove to rival in wealth the
richest districts in the northwest.
The Conrads, of Great Falls, have
secured control of about 900 acres of
valuable coal lands at Belt, Mont,
adjoining the properties of the Ana
conda company. The consideration is
said to be about $4,000. Mr.. Conrad
will operate the mines, which will fur
nish employment to several hundred
men.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

1sefrved any especi h good Is az
themselves. Their hansactions 4,
been condumned far afnd wide, beca,||
of the power which tseir success pIac|
in the hands Of few. They an II,
autocrats of the western railroad vo9
and their rule is absolute.
George Gould has figured to Some \
tent as Harriman's associate In the MI
fyingof southwestern systems, but no,I
that they have quarreled about ok
RADIO Fuel and Oil, for the conhol 4
which Hartman has been fighting il,
w. Gates, there may be a rupture
their relations In other interests.
Hartman is type Of the daring au|
successful Spectator. He opened Nj
Office in Wall street not many yesu'
ago. Ten years ago the financial word
knew nothing of him, but the broks
had nerve and ideas. He studied IN
western traffic systems. Stuyyessnf
Fish made his acquaintance and he
came interested In him. He took him
into the Illinois Central corporatisn
While developing the line he concelysl
the notion of gaining control Of the car.
rying trade Of the West. Hill and Nj.
gan Joined him and today the lthr.
men have control of nearly 50,O00a~
Of railroad beyond the Alleghanies. O
these lines Hartman has executive con
troll Of 1890 miles, his lines being til
Illinois Central, Chicago & Alton, unlqI
Pacific, Southern Pacific, Oregon. Ran
way & Navigation Company, and tl
Oregon Short Line. The earning q
pacity Of these lines is $S0,000OOO
year,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09
..A,nnoWN q FEw WARS

fo.Day Hartman SontroNs .o'
Miles OF Western Raiiroads.
Ills recent break with George ~
has served TO characterization to
ward al. Hartman, whose genius
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

When you get tired of work, you VIII
realize that you have reached the time
Of life when you have no place to pay
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

The Rock Island Railroad company
has started to build road to the Pa
cific.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-09

Electricity is the motive force en-
ployed on 1925 miles of rail in italy.