Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-07-17

able to 'out-root" anything on the
prairies, unless it be Tolo razor back.
A baby girl arrived yesterday to glad
den the home of A. Il. Lee.
John H. Glaza met with the farmers
at Ferdinand Wednesday evening and
perfected an organization Of the Farm
er's Cooperative Fire Insurance Co.
AS soon as the necessary number of
signers is secured the company will be
ready to transact business. Mr.. Glaza
was elected general sgent and will call
on the farmers and explain the princi-
Piles of the organization. The company
intends doing business in this state
only.
At meeting Of the village board
Wednesday night contract was let to
John Aichlmayr for the erection of a
village Jail to replace the one recently
burned. The new Jail viii be built on
the vacant lot opposite the Cottonwood
House and will be 16 feet square and 8
feet high. 1t will contain two cells
with iron doors and an anteroom and
will cost 1918. 1t will be about twice
the size Of the old Jail and the contract
calls for its completion by August 18th.
The members of the Grangeyille ball
team must have INDUCED in an awful
pipe dream on their way home last
Sunday to judge by the report of the
game handed in to their home papers.
They say we had an imported battery
and two OF Lewiston's best players.
Wouldn't that jar you? The only men
in the game that could be called Lewis
ton men were Johnny Wilkes and Boss
Brown and they both played in the
Grangeville team. The only imported
man on the Cottonwood professional
team was Gilbreth and as Crawford has
quit catching it was necessary to get q
catcher in order to have game. Of
course the ground was bad 1t always
is when YOU lose, but just the same
Cottonwood has the best ball ground on
the prairie by long odds. As to the big
bet, the only one that can he located
was for 500 and it was on condition
that about half the Cottonwood team be
barred from playing.
Col. Allen Miller, the noted attorney
was over from Grangeville Monday anC
made us pleasant call. In company
with US he made careful search Of oul
I file for 1899 to see whether notice haC
ever been published in this county
warning settlers off the land recently
surveyed and thrown open for settle
ment in the Salmon and. Snake rive
country. When this land was with
drawn from entry in March, 1899, tn,
law required that due notice thereof b,
published in q paper nearest the land
Diligent search through the Free Pres
files and our own failed to show any
such notice having been published ant
on this failure will hinge great man,
contests to be brought to test the au
thority of the state in reserving for it
self numbers of valuable farms in tina
section which were settled on years ag'
and extensively improved, and which
are now very valuable. In its recen
selection the state reserved for itsel
some 90, 900 acres Of land situated prin
cipally on Doumecq and Joseph plain
and along the Salmon river. Much o
this land was settled on years ago ant
has been cultivated in perfect goo,
faith with the expectation on the par
of the settlers of proving up on it a
soon as it was thrown open. for entry
Most of it has been cultivated and i'm
proved and now comprises valuabl
grain and fruit ranches and homes 70
hundreds Of people. Had the settler
been aware that their homes were ap
to be taken by the state at some futur
time they would never have settle
there and it is hard to imagine thei
CONSERVATION now when they find tina
their years of toll may prove fruitless
The failure to publish the notice of tn
withdrawal of the land may prove {
great Importance to the settlers and
is to be hoped that they will succeed i
having their homes restored to them
The state is clearly acting in good fait
and the failure to publish the motto
warning squatters off the land has evi
IDENTIFY never been noticed until Gale
IN by the nresent dificnltv.