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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26
w. M. SCHILLER
w. L. Brown
A. L. CREELMAN
p. GIBSON
j. v. BAKER
JOHN AIcHLMAYR
ROBERT NUGENT
f. s. WIMER

The vote at the primaries was
much lighter than two years ago
only % votes being cast. The del,
egates elected seem to be acceptable
to everybody and will without
doubt do justice to Cottonwood and
the west side of the prairie when
they meet at Grangeyille to nomi.
nate the county ticket.
The following are the delegates
elected Monday in the Ferdinand,
Greencreek and KeuterVille pre-
cincts as near as we have been able
to learn:
FERDINAND.
Bernard Gerding, Charles Staal,
Fred Mertes, NJ. F. Fuchs, Frank
Bieker.
GREENCREEK.
Anton NuxoiI, John Sonnen, Ed
ward Drees, Barney Stubbers, La
fayette Rhoades.
KEUTERvILLE.
Jacob Mathiesen, August Schro-
der, John Maugg, Hubert Hattrup,
Joseph Hellissen.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26
DELEGATES CHOSEN.
Nine Elected to attend the Convention
on September 3.

Democratic primaries were held
Monday afternoon at the school
house for the purpose of electing
nine delegates to attend the county
convention at Grangeville on Sep
tember 8 and the following nersons
were declared elected:
FRED SIMON
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26
Concerning
Electric Road
Accurate Data on Wealth Of Coantry
and Cost Of Construction.
ENGINEER WILEY's pEpopT
Valuable Detail information regarding
the Road, Tonnage, Cost. Etc.

The professional report Of Engi
neer Wiley on ali the physical data
concerning the Lewiston 4 South
eastern electric railway, which
President Spofford is now present
ing to fLanciers in tie east with
encouraging prospects of prompt
fiotation OF the enterprise, is re-
plete with valuable and instructive
information on the country to be
served by the line. The purpose
Of the company is stated to be to
give an outlet through the Lewis
ton gateway for the products OF
Nez Perce and Idaho counties,
comprising all that country within
the watersheds of the Clearwater,
Snake, and Salmon rivers, and
their great belts Of grain, livestock,
hay, timber, fruit and mineral
lands.
The route of the road touches the
following postoffices: Lewiston to
Waha, 25 miles, Forest 46 miles,
Morrow SO miles. Westlake 55
miles, Cottonwood 6S miles, Den,
yer 75 miles, Grangeville 83 miles.
The road branches at Westlake to
llo IL miles, Dublin Is miles, Nez
perce 26 miles. The present sur
veyed routes to the same destina
tion are via Northern Pacific to
Sites "a miles. via grade to
Grangeyille q miles, total 95
miles; the o. r. & N. survey up
Clearwater, Little and Big canyons,
via Mohler, Cottonwood and Den
yer to Grangeville 10l.5 miles,
The topography of the country is
such that the steam rail lines must
go to the north and east of the
country to be served while the
electric route penetrates its heart
along the natural slope toward
Lewiston.
The agricultural area thus enter
ed comprises Tammany 42,204
acres, Craig mountain $1,000 acres,
Nez Perce prairie 140,040 acres
(which the report says is probably
the most productive non-irrigated
tract known), Camas prairie 202,-
240 acres, total agricultural area
4O0,484 acres, besides 94,720 acres
Craig mountains timber made till
able as fast as cleared
OF this acreage % per cent is in
hay, average yield 1.82 tons per
acre; 81 per cent in wheat, average
yield 1904 bushels per acre; 13
per cent in oats, average 81 .03
bushels per acre; s per cent fax,
average 1903 bushels; % per cent
barley, average 45.43 bushels. OF
the entire acreage AZ 08 per cent
has not been seeded.
The average present haul by
wagon on this agricultural helt to
tramways is 1908 miles and the
average cost of such haul S. per
ton. The average distance to the
electric road would be 3.02 miles,
costing 65 cents per ton.
The 4,720 acres Craig mountain
timber tract is estimated to contain
950,000,000 feet OF timber which
reduced one.third for wasteage and
chipping one-half the remaining
product during period of twenty
years would give the rad an an
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26

II you want papers drawn that will
stand the test call upon Geo. W. Coutts
at Cottonwood. His law practice is
rapidly increasing. He is making farm
loans on best of terms, writes insurance
on farm and city property, and is now
listing farms for sale in eastern journals.
Collections forced to speedy settlement.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26

nual traffic of 10000, 900 feet Be-
sides this area Of $50 square miles
timber and $50 square miles agri-
culture, there would be more dis
tant area of 1900 square miles
tributary to Grangeville to draw
from. Besides the productions
hauled out it is estimated there
would be 25, 900 tons hauled in an
nually for consumption. Excluding
the termini at Lewiston Clarkston
and Grangeville and their tribnta-
Try local population the road would
serve i4,600 people along it's route
in belt seven miles wide.
The power is to be derived from
the South fork of the Clearwater,
FIVE miles southeast Of Grangeville,
where all the water rights TO the
entire stream have been located or
purchased. This stream carries a
low water flow of 272 second feet
and food discharge of 1900. a
dam raises the river level 25 feet
and pipe line 5 feet in sdiameter
carries off the entire low water
flow, delivering a head Of 146 feet.
A horse power Of 1000 is developed
from four twin turbines equipped
with four 750 kilowat generators.
The system is the alternating
current single phase Westinghouse.
The current of 2200 voltage al
the power house is stepped up to
1000 volts and sent out over No
/ | copper wire. On its journey il
passes through l9 transformer sta
1 tions six miles apart and thence
fed out to 10000 trolleys at 200C
volts to the trolley. The train
equipment is four 800 h. p. passen
ger motors, weighing 45 tons each
and five 300 h. p.6 freight motors
weighing IS tons each that will
haul 305 tons on the maximum
grade at 10 miles per hour. Th'
train service will be three paesen
ger and fiye freight trains per day
each way. the former covering 24
miles per hour between termini
and the latter covering II miles
going east ard 104 miles goins
west.
The time between Lewiston anC
\ Grangeville would be 3 hours q
minutes.
The cost Of the road with TRACK
will be $14,3S1 per mile, electrical
development $10l.17 per kilowat
transmission line double circui
| 81 ,855 per mile, single circuit ST.
200 per mile, trolley line 81 1881
per mile, rolling stock, including
72 freight cars and temporary
steam equipment 1921, 600, tota
cost per mile $22, ,129 or approx
mately 80, 100000.
| Viewed from strictly business
standpoint this observation il
made: There are 5O0,00 acres o
land tributary to the proposed
road. If this land was increased
iii value only $40 an acre it i,
noted the immediate increased
wealth to the people in the section
covered will be $4,000 600, whereal
the cost of the road is but $4,000,
600. In fact viewed from any
standpoint the results of the detail
investigation made present the
project as one that must appeal tc
the most conservative capital
Wednesdays Tribune.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26
News Around
The Stale
Items Of interest Reproduced for the
Benefit Of our Readers.
A sTopY OF THE WEEK
A few Incidents that have occurred in
the State since our last Issue.

!. i.
In an explosion at the Morning
mine at Mullan Monday one miner
was killed and three wounded, one
fatally
The discovery Of aluminium in
the clay being used at the Culdesac
brick yard has caused much ex-
citement at that place.
Joseph Portz, prominent saloon
keeper at Uniontown, was held up
by three men Saturday night after
leaving his saloon and relieved Of
gold watch and $3.50. He was
taken from town to the railroad
track and after being searched was
gagged and locked up in a box car.
He was later released by the mar
shal. The hold-ups have not yet
been located.
A. II. Galbralth, OF Spokane, the
breeder of fine horses, has sent
man to Europe to buy 20 Of the
finest horses in the market to be
sent to Spokane in time to enter.
the horse show, which will be held
in connection with the Spokane in
4
terstate fair from October 3 to 8.
Mr.. Galbtaith is determined to
! have the best there is in his line.
The agent is purchasing Shires,
Clydes, Percherons, Belgians, Suf-
folks and coach horses.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26


Charlie Blackburn has been on the
sick list all week with some sort of
stomach trouble.
A. F. Parker, the Grangeyille real es-
tate man and candidate for presidential
elector on the democratic ticket, spent
two days on this side OF the prairie this
week with a company of eastern land
buyers. He reports having sold 400
acres of land near Grangeville. for $50
per acre to an eastern client and has
just closed deal for the $50 acres be-
longing to the b. F. Morris estate west
of Denver, the purchaser being Craig l.
Spencer, who owns the old Holt ranch
north of town.
We have been requested to announce
that meeting will be held Monday
evening ior the purpose of organizing
brass band here. The matter was dis
cussed several weeks ago and it was
finally decided to circulate paper and
SET how much money could be secured
toward purchasing instruments. Since
that time nothing has been done and
the meeting is called TO see if interest
cannot be sufficiently revived to carry
the organization through. All persons
interested in having band are request
ed to attend the meeting.
DIR. Turner was called out to the
Kaufman home near Greencreek yes
terday afternoon to attend the l1-year
old son OF Joseph Kaufman who had
been accidentally shot. 1t seems Mr..
KAUFMAN, the wounded boy and a
younger son were getting load of hay
from their other ranch and had along a
% rifle. After the hay was loaded the
smaller boy went to hand the gun to his
brother when it struck the hay rack and
was discharged. The bullet passed
through the fieshy part Of the right
arm below the elbow and entered the
right breast near the nipple at an angle
lodging near the collar bone. DIR. Tur-
ner dressed the wound and had the boy
brought to town last evening when he
was put under the X-ray and the bullet
located, after which it was extracted.
The boy is now resting quite easy and
unless complications set in will soon be
none the worse for his accident.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
COTTON ON RAMPAGE
New York Market Reaches II Cents
For May and July--Hights
in % Years.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New York. Feb Speculation In
the cotton market carried May and
July cotton options above II cents a
pound on the local market today. fo'
10 FIRST time in 20 years
Cotton has not passed II cents o
pound in New York since 1875, when
Il went TO l7h Il touched 1875 cents
in 1874. 2l3s in 1878, and 222s in lS72.
when the crop, as against 4.3i7000
bales in the previous season. turned
ont only 2.794.090 The highest price
Of war times. when the south was
blockaded. was $40 per pound in
1861
The rise on today's market was
scored in spite Of heavier receipts and
failure Of southern spot markets (save
New Orleang. 10 advance. There
was the same Wild and oveFburdened
market here as on saturday Brokers
despairea Of executing their orders ac.
cording to bookings. There was in.
tense confusion and an enormous
amount of trading
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
CROFT AS A WITNESS
In the Postal Fraud Trial He Tells
How the Fastener Was Made
Successful
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Washington d. c., Feb. Samuel
A. Croft. inventor Of a street letter
box fastener. the contracts for furn.
lshing of which are alleged to have
ben improperly obtained, today took
the stand in the postal trials and
told how ne conceived the i.lea of
getting up the device. and efforts
made by him to find some one beside
his brother to take an active part n
placing IT,
The fastener had been adopted and
an order from Washington post Of
iice paid for before Loren2, in 1895.
proposed to work up a sentiment in
favor of it. among the postmasters
Of the country. The witness declared
ne never spoke a word to Maehen
about the fastener other than to adj
nit in response TO a question put
by Machen at a public test, that II
fitted too lightly. Up to that time. he
said he never had heard Of Lorenz.
and after making the agreement with
him. the witness said he never saw
him again until last summer. nine
years afterwards.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02

and asked that the ting be sent fol
them When Captain Spence was con
suited he advised that an attempt to
pass through the heavy ice in the
Mississippi would prove disastrous
and might result in the loss Of the
boat. consequently the owner refused
TO send the boat at any price
Last night the powerful little craft
was meored at the head Of the wharf
boat. where her steel hull afforded
protection to that boat from the
pounding Of the heavy ice Captain
Spence was on duty at the wheel
house where. amid the rocking Of his
tug and the crushing and grinding of
ice he viewed the sea Of floating white
as il sparkled in the moonlight
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
BRIDE LOST IN SNOW
After Being Dressed for Her Wedding
Girl Loses Her Way and Is Not
Found Till Morning.

Malada, Idaho. Feb clad in her
bridal dress. Miss Mildred Hunsacker
wandered all night In the snow while
A young man who was TO be her hus-
band waited with the relatives and
wedding guests for her appearance
The bride was dressed for the cere-
mony by her aunt who lives half
mile from the Huusaker home. Miss
Hunsaker started 10 return nome. TAX
ing a path across the open country.
A snow storm came up. and she lost
her way George Bryan. her fiance.
and friends began searching fer tho
girl Mt midnight. but did not find her
until o'clock in the morning The
wedding took place immediately. al
though the bride was nearly dead
from The cold
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
MRS. MAVERICK YET
A PRISONER OR FREE?
THE QUESTION NOT CLEAR TO
LONDON NEWSPAPERS.
Each Paper Advances Different Sug.
gestions and None are Sure
Where She is Located.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press,
I London Feb Tho whereabouts
of Mrs. Maybrick are yarosuly an.
nounced in the newspapers as Corn
wall Holloway Prison, at sea bound
for the United States, etc, The
Chronicle, which is under the same
ownership as Lloyds Weawly News.
paper the journal that on Sunday
published the story Of Mrs Maybrick's 5
release, declares the statement that
she has sailed for the United States
untrue, and adds that she is still in
England and that certain conditions
attached to her liberation impel her
to exercise great discretion in her
attitude towards the public, and for
a time at least. it will only be pos
sible for her to acknowledge througat
the press her gratitude for the efforts
of her sympathizers in obtaining her
release,
The News says the whereabouts of
the institution in which Mrs May.
brick is recuperating is kept pro.
found secret because she is sliIl in
the custody Of the authorities
"ln fact the papers says, Mrs.
Maybrlck and her custodians are con.
cealing their identity and this is
nocessitated TO permit her being priyi
legged to walk abroad with her female
wardens. 1t is said after period OF
rest she will return to either Wokng
or Holloway prison to receive her
formal discharge on special license y
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02

Yesterday afternoon the dredge boat
Virginia of the IT, H. Halliday Sand
& Gravel company. which was moor
ed at the FOOT Of Eighth street broke
loose from the head lines and swung
half way around being held in place
by the remaining lines. In order To re
move the boat to place OF safety
the tug Theseus took her in tow and
started across the river She passed
safely through all the ice until within
short distance Of the Kentucky shore
when huge chunk struck the bow of
the sand dredge and sunk it before a
landing could be made The boat was
near the shore, however, and is under
only few feet OF water and will prob
ably be saved. Insurance to the
amount of $1,000 was carried in the
Il. II. Candee agency
During the afternoon three bargea
belonging to the combine broke loose
from their moorings near the Big -Four
incline and tloated down the river The
barges are valued nj about $500 each
as they were used in carrying imn and
lumber They may be captured by
rivermen below. providing they meet
no damage al Wicklfc where the
ice is said to he extremely danger
Gus on account of the narrowness of
the Mississippi and the volume of Ice
from both rivers meeting
During Sunday and yesterday seven
escaped harges from up the river were
captured by the tug Theseus. Three
were from Louisville, two from JEFF
srsonville and two from Joppa. Each
Of these harges are worth about si.500
and the cost OF capturing them is
about $50 each The value Of the
tug Theseus is placed in the neigh.
bor hood of s25,000 ana one can read
ny understand the risk involved in
sending her into the heavy ice
The Weber Dry Goods company,
yesterday had one Of their travelling
statesmen, s, II Brady, in Birds
Point where three or four prospective
customers. whom he desired to bring
70 Cairo IN order to show them full
and complete line of samples No Iron
Mountain or Cotton Belt trains were
running and there was no chance to
gat to Cairo from the Missouri side
so Mr.. Brady telephoned Mr.. Weber
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
IN THE SENATE.
Dietrich to be lnvestioated--M Morgan
On the Canai---NeW Treaty
Hat--Confirmati
BY the AssocIaten Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Feb. lin the
senate today Senator Dietrich, Of Ne.
braska, made q request for an investii
CATION in to the charges on which he
was tried recently, by the federal
court in his own state, and the SEN
ate granted his request The pres
ident protein appointed committee
consisting of Senator'S Hoar, Platt, Of
Connecticut, Spooner Cockrell and
pettus to take charge of the inquiry.
The remainder of the day was de-
voted to argument by Senator Nor
gan in support of the resolution in
troduced by Senator Stone directing
the senate committee ON foreign re.
lations to make an investigation into
the Panama revolutions Senator Nor
gan again criticised the conduct Of
Bnna Varsila in connection with
the revolution and spoke OF the treaty
as concession to the commercial
spirit OF the age.
He closed with the declaration that
the south would not support the
agreement at the expense OF the hon.
or OF the country.
In executive session td.ay tae sem
ate ratified the naturalization treaty
between the United States and Haiti
The treaty provides that citizens of
Haiti who may be naturalized in the
United States then return to Haiti
shall cease 10 be considered as citi-
Ezens of this country. after an absence
Eof five years A letter was read from
Secretary Hay, saying that the special
reason for the FIVE year provision,
was found in complaint from Haiti
that under existing conditions some
Haitians come to the United States
and remain long enough to become
naturalized, returning to their own
country to ferment trouble and then
take refuge under their American
citizenship.
Senator Foraker introduced bill
granting authority to the secretary
of the navy to restore to the naval
academy thre midshipmen dismissed
November 6 last. as the result Of the
hazing escapede
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02

TO steamboatmen IS great Relief from
this unprecedented delay Of river traf
&c is not get in sight and there ia
little telling when the welcome whistle
of the big packets and powerful tow.
boats may again be heard here
All floating property between Cairo
and Mound City is said to be in lm.
minent danger and nothing can be
done to relieve the situation. On The
Illinois side Of the river. the huge
chunks of ice have lodged against
barges and all floating property ard
they have frozen in a solid mass for
fifty or seventyfye feet ont in the
river. Should this heavy sheet OF ice
begin breaking from the bank which
is quite probable. il will sweep many
thousands Of dollars worth of property
down the rlser.
Watchmen have been stationed az
various points to lend what assistance
they can in event Of such a breaking
away Of the ice and Captain spence
Of the tug Theseus kept vigil al last
night and was ready to lend assistance
in recovering the valuabla property.
The light of the room made night
beautiful and from the wheel house
Of the Theseus and the great expanse
Of snow-covered ice was one vast float
ing feld OF white.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
RUIN IS FACING
RIVER PROPERTY
.+---
Thousands OF Dollars OF Prop.
erty May be Destroyed.
NAVIGATION SUSPENDED
HEROIC WORK DONE IN THE
CAIRO HARBoR BY
TUG TAEsEUS.

nchteonditions as have prevailed in
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers es-
pecially the former during the last
three days have not been seen here
for many years. the oldest steamboat
men declaring that the present flow OF
ice is greater than they ever before
witnessed III this port.
The sight Sunday at the bend Of
bauk to hank the giant cakes of ice
miles to sec. With the river fun from
were leaplng upon each other, fight.
and made a sight which, when consid-
ing as il were for room, while the
powerful current forced them onward,
cred from a riyermans point of view,
ed from a rivermans point of view,
gave too ample assurance of meal
culable destruction to river property
to appeal to his sense Of the beautiful
Much Of the ice Sunday was of i'm
mense thickness some Of the cakes be-
ing from ten TO Fifteen feet through,
and il looked as though Harriet
Beechcr Stoves Eliza" might not
have had such a dreadful experience
in crossing the river on The floating ice,
but no one seemed inclined 10 prove
the. pausibility of the story by show
ina exactly how ii was done.
Old riyermen say they cannot
remember when navigation has been
tied up for such a length OF time as
il has been this winter and the loss
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02

mian government had attempted 10
jockey with us and force payment
of a large sum of money He added.
There is power. and it is moving
In this civilized world. greater than
the little contemplate spirit Of the
Colombian senate, which insists that
a canal shall be bullt, ana woe to
the politician or newspaper man, or
college professor, that gets in the way
OF this mighty movement of a mighty
people to do a mighty thing"
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
DAVID OLIVER DEAD.

By Associated Peess
Chicago, Feb la cableeram re-
ceiyed from Capetown. South Africa
tonight. announces the death Of David
Oliver. one Of the oldest members oi
the Chicago board Of trade. For many
years Oliver was prominent in the
cereal business. operating the larg-
est oatmeal mill here.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
Senate Combinations.

Washington, d. c, Feb 1.-The
senate today confirmed NJ. c. Brown
as receiver of public money at Gun
nison, Colo; Abrame Van Camp, as
postmaster at Highmore, S. y.
The senate passed a bill permit
ting the building Of dam across the
Mississippi river at Sank Rapids,
Mnn.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
WON'T GET zEICLER
Governor Of New York Does Not Think
Proof Suffic ent in Case Of
Baking Powder Man.


Albany, y. Y. Feb 1.-Goyernor
Odell has decided to refuse to issue
a warrant for the extradition Of Wm
Zeigler of New York. wanted in Mis-
souri, on charge Of bribery in c0nec-
tion with the baking powder legisla-
ton in the legislature Of that state in
1901.
The governor bases his refusal upon
the opinion just submitted TO him by
Attorney General Gunnen who holds
that there Is not sufficient evidence to
show that Zeigler was in ST Louis in
April. 1901. when the crime is alleged
30 have been committed.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-02-02
HOW'S YOUR CoFFEEE4l
Highest Prices for Years Reached In
Coffee Exchange--Five Cent Rise
In Eight Months.
by Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
New York. Feb. 1.-The highest
PRICES Of the year and for several
years were reached In the coffee ex-
change today September future sold
at . li0c. an advance OF cents i
pound In less than two months. Last
summer coffee in this city sold at
about Sls cents pound. and in less
than eight months quotations have adj
yanced over 8 cents q pound.