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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
four NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-cuIilngs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon--Numerou Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
IDAHO souiRs.

Arrangements are being made for
the immediate construction of tele-
phone line to st. Maries and st. Joe.
reaching all points tributary to these
| places.
C. B. HURT, executive commissioner
of Idaho at the worlds fair, says that
the installation of the exhibits at st.
Louis is proceeding satisfactorily. The
agricultural display is now practically
completed and the mining and horti-
cultural are well under way and will
be completed before the opening of the
exposition.
Boise.-Two men were badly injured
on the Twin Falls irrigation works by
an explosion of giant powder. They
were loading hole when the acct
dent occurred. George Hickey will
probably lose botn eyes and may lose
both hands. Fred Walker was not
seriously injured, though he sustained
many cuts.
The Vollmer-C Clearwater Grain com
Kendrick to almost it's full capacity
and contemplates the placing of more
-four machinery. The mill at present
is turning out 200 barrels Q day, prac
tically all of which is shipped to Ia
coma and San Francisco for transship
ment to China, Japan and the Philip
f1pines.
Among the applications for con
tinuance of liquor license for the
ensuing year in Shoshone county is
the firm of Duck Lee of Pierce City
Cinnamon, who have been running q
saloon there for the past six or seven
years.
Work has been begun on Weiser's
sewer system.
Violations of the game laws with
reference to deer are of frequent oc
currence in the Clark Fork neighbor.
hood.
]. Flood Walker, the Boise architect
who designed the Idaho building at the
Worlds Fair, reports that the finish
ing touches were given the interior OF
the structure last week.
The Rathdrum baseball team has
been reorganized.
The body of Thomas Murphy, who
was a locomotive engineer on the
Great Northern, was found lying on
the bank of the Kootenai river, two
miles east of Crossport
Congressman French made his maid
Ken speech in the house when he spoke
in favor of the repeal of the script law
absolutely.
While racing at full speed on Lake
Occur d'Alene, the steamer Georgia
Cakes plunged into the steamer
Idaho and fatal wreck was narrowly
averted, last Saturday afternoon, when
the two rival boats. each laden with
passengers, were pulling out of Harri-
son, Idaho, on their daily race to Occur
d'Alene City.
The Northern Pacific train did not
reach here. The track is washed out
about two miles below Culdesac. The
washout is about 60 feet in width.
The organizers of the Genesee mi
litia company have secured so mem
bers. Most of the members are under
25 years of age and include the best
young men of the city.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
TRADE REPORT.

Commercial conditions have improv-
ed somewhat during the past week, al
though there is still much to be de-
sired. Dispatches from the south are
encouraging. At the east more sea-
sonable weather prevailed, yet spring
trade is still below normal. The best
news of the week was the settlement
of many labor controversies. or at
least resumption of work pending arbi-
tration. Manufacturing news is still
confusing. Notable Improvement in
the iron and steel industries is Offset
by less favorable news regarding the
textile and footwear trade. Agricul-
tural work progresses rapidly under
better than average conditions. 1t is
good sign that the month opened
with prices of commodities less infiat-
ed. Less activity in western hides
markets was not accompanied by a
weakness; on the contrary, limited Of
Iermgs by packers gave increased
strength to all varieties except native
steers OF recent sailing.
Failures numbered 235 in the Unit.
ed States.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15

Announcement has been made Of the
engagement of Elihu Root to represent
the Northern Securities company in
its fight to prevent e. H. Hartman
from obtaining control Of the Northern
Pacific railroad, as the result Of a dis
tribution of the Northern Securities
assets.
Pleading guilty to using the mails to
further scheme by which newspapers
all over the country were swindled out
of large sum, John Dalton Of Chicago,
was fined 81, 500 by Judge Humphrey
in the United States circuit court.
L. Carsagni, San Francisco tailor,
killed a young woman who had for
some time been in his employ, and then
committed suicide. The cause Of the
double tragedy is unknown.
Three men were killed and one IA
tally injured in an explosion at the
Pintsch Gas comprising company's
plant, Washington, d. G. The dead
are: Joseph Cumberland, Stephen Hen.
son and a negro. Charles w. Grigs.
by will die.
Pass No. / to the worlds fair
grounds during the regular exposition
period was made out in the name OF
Theodore Roosevelt.
Jack Tennell, Charles Haskins and
Smiley Baxter. three saloonkeepers,
were drowned in Lake Manawa, Iowa.
The house has passed large num-
Der of bills, including the bill appro-
priating $4,000 in aid of the Lewis
and Clarke centennial exposition to be
held in Portland, Ore, in 1905, and the
Philippine shipping bill.
An immense irrigation scheme is
about to be inaugurated in Utah by
the government, according to the state
ment of E. w. Ross, supervising engi
neer of the district comprising Utah
and Idaho. Mr.. Ross today informed
the state commission that he had re
ceived instructions from Washington
to begin the preliminary work at once
The plan contemplated is to make a
reservoir of Utah lake. The cost will
be about 100000. 1t is estimated
that 100000 acres will be irrigated
adding $3O,0O0,0O0 to the land valua
ton of the state.
Charley Neary of Milwaukee was
given the decision over Jimmy Briggs
of Chelsea, Mass, after six rounds at
Milwaukee, Wis.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
ISABELLA OF SPAIN IS DEAD.
Grandmother Of the King Passes Ava,
In Paris.

Grandmother OF the King Passes Away
In Paris.
Paris. Queen Isabella of Spain,
grandmother of King Alfonso, died
here at 9:45 o'clock Saturday morning
of influenza, with complications. The
American embassy, which is opposite
the Palatta castle on the Avenue Kle-
Der, the late queens residence, was
early informed of the queens death,
and Ambassador Porter was among the
first to call and sign the palace regis
ter. The infantas Isabella, Eulalie and
Marie, daughters of the late queen,
were at the bedside when she died.
The queen had been afflicted with
the grip for two months, which grad1-
ally affected the lungs.
It is understood that King Alfonso
will not come to France for the flu
neral, as he did not come for the fu-
neral of his grandfather, King Francis,
who died in April, 1902.
The dead queen had been one Of the
conspicuous figures of Paris since she
left Spain. After her abdication in
1870 she continued to live with queenly
magnificence here, giving largely to
charity and religious works.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
j. j. HILL TALKS.
Says II Hartman Crowd Wins He
Will Sell Out.

Will Sell Out.
St. Paul, Minn.-James ]. Hill, pres
ident of the Northern Securities COM
pany, has returned to st. Paul from
New York. When asked regarding
the latest move of the Hartman in
terests in filing petition for leave to
intervene in the final adjustment of the
affairs of the Northern Securities COM
pany, Mr.. Hill said:
'"The Northern Securities is comply
ing with the decree of the supreme
court in the distribution of its stock.
Its plan of dissolution is made for the
sole purpose of meeting the require
ments and to see that every one is
treated with equity"
In case Hartman is successful in
his efforts to get control of the North
ern Pacific, what will be the policy of
the Great Northern?" was asked.
''If Hartman wins" he said. "and
also gets control of the Burlington,
there will be nothing left for us to do
but to sell and retire and leave the
people of the northwest to fight out
their own battles"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
Three Murders at Nome.

Seattle, Wash.-A special says Nome
advices of February II report three
murders there. The victims are Will
liam earle, Goldie Wilson and Immur-
luck, an Eskimo. earle shot the Will
son girl because Of his infatuation
and jealousy. He then shot himself.
At last reports the girl was not dead,
but in dying condition, with no prom
Use Of recovery. earle was a nephew
of Mrs. Annie Means. who left him
in charge Of her mining property and
real estate when she went outside last
fall. The native was shot by Nan
nick, his stepson, as the result of a
family quarrel of long standing. Nam
nick was arrested.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
Texas Tornado.

Houston, Texas.-The tornado which
passed near the town of Mexia killed
three persons and injured nine others,
three Of whom it is feared, fatally. The
dead are: John Ballard. Mrs. Ballard
four year old child of the Billiards..
The names of some of the injured are
not known. Those known to be in
jured are: George Parsons, Grace Liv-
ingston, Lemuel Hobby, Patrick Lu-
cey.
The Billiards. were killed outright.
Many houses were demolished, and
much damage was done to growing
crops.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
OREGON ITEMS.

Grandma" Palmer celebrated hel
Goth birthday in La Grande last week
Portland.-William Mills, George
Willis and Hughes Carpenter, who
pleaded guilty to charges of raising
and altering postal money orders, were
sentenced to six years at hard labor
A quarter of a million pounds OF
wool has been bought by the Pendleton
securing mills from Yakima county
growers at from IL to 12h cents.
The sale of the bankrupt Wade es,
tate personal property was largely at
tended in Pendleton. All the per.
sonal property, excepting SO horses
were sold, and netted $21, 660.70.
Union county residents will have an
opportunity to vote on the proposed
relocation of the county seat at La
Grande at the coming general election
in June.
Bound hand and foot by his divorced
wife, John Porter, a CASTOR, Ore,
blacksmith, was turned over to the
constable to be taken to the county
Jail.
The passage of the bill appropriate
ing almost 100000 for the Lewis and
Clarke exposition by the house of rep
resentatives at Washington, carrying
with 1t, as it does, the Endorsement of
the United States government. which
is of far greater pecuniary benefit
than the amount of the appropriation,
makes a reality of the plans OF tne
citizens Of old Oregon to have a cele-
bration of international proportions,
commensurate with the Importance Of
the event it is intended to commem-
crate.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
Kaiser Drops In at vaIetta.

Valetta, Island of Malta.-The Ger
man imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with
Emperor William on board, has ar
rived and was met outside and escort
ed into the harbor by flotilia of Brit
ish torpedo boat destroyers.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
Desert land Laws to Stand.

Washington.-By vote of s to g..
the house committee on irrigation Of
arid lands defeated the bill to repeal
the desert land laws.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23

that it had any special bearing
on other combinations breathed
through his choicely worded
phrases. He was solicitous t) let
the people know that the govern
ment was not so elated over it's
victory that it would run
amuck." In substance he an
nOunced that the department
would be in no hurry to institute
proceedings in cases involving
similar principles. A more out
rageOus attitude in the face of so
significant a victory and the vista
that it opens for an enforcement
of the law against it's violators
could hardly be conceived. To
expect a sincere attempt to reach
the other combinations through
civil proceedings to be made BY
the department of which he is
the head would be to show one
self extremely credulous. And
as for criminal prosecution ema-
mating from that source, it is
clearly unthinkable.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23
MORE IMPROVEMENTS.
A Modern Opera House and Three
Story Brick Hotel to Be Erected.
Local Capital Backing It.

A modern opera house and no.
tel are practically assured for La
fayette. A company which will
be known as the improvement
Co., Ltd. is being organized with
local capital back of it, with a
capital stock of 500, 600, of which
$4,000. has already been sub
scribed. Affairs are being rap
idly put in shape for an early be-
ginning of the work.
The Opera house will be quite
a handsome building and will be
built exclusively for an opera
house. The hotel contemplated
is to be brick, three stories in
height and contain forty bed
rooms. :
The erection of these two build
ings is to satisfy a need created
by the rapid growth of the town.
The hotel facilities which in the
past have fairly met the require
ments, are now inadequate and
in the near future will be greatly
so. The new hotel is to meet the
demands that are fast developing,
not least among which is to
provide Accommodations for con
ventions which will naturally Sc
lect this town for their meeting
place owing to it's central and
advantageous location.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23

Southeeu Good Reeds Convention.
The Advertiser has received
the following letter, announcing
the holding of the Southern Good
Roads Convention and it's object:
New Orleans, March 5, 1904.
DEAR SIR
His Excelency, Hon. W. W. Heard,
Governor State Of Louisiana; Hon.
Paul Capdevielle, Mayor City OF New
Orleans; The National Good Roads
Association, The LOuisiana Good
Roads Association, The Commercial
Exchanges, City Of New Orleans; and
the New Orleans Progressive Union
respectfully announce the holding Of
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23
Royvil.e Notes.

The farmers around here are
about three weeks ahead in their
blowing.
MI Harrison Theall went to
Lafayette Monday.
Mrs. Chas Young went to
Belleview plantation Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. o. H. Theriot was in
Lafayette Wednesday.
Frank Theriot returned from
Houston Monday.
Hon. O. Cade returned from
his inspection trip on the 7. p.
r. r.
Misses Alma and Ethel Shark
and Miss Katherine Cade, of
New Iberia, spent Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday with the Misses
Cade at Belleview. Harry
Smedes and Overton Cade also
spent Saturday and Sunday at
Belleview.
Miss Rose DeBlanc went to
Lafayette Saturday.
M
Elias David has charge of the
Young Hardware store.
Tom Cade went to Lafayette
Saturday.
Misses Martha and Marjorie
Cade went to Broussardville
Sunday.
A large crowd from here will
attend the meeting Of the Stock
Breeders Association in LAfa-
yette.
SCRIPro.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23
0UIs1ANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1904.

the Southern Good Roads Convention
in the city of New Orleans, Tulane
Hall, April 6 and I.
The object of the Convention is the
improvement of the roads generally
throughout the several States included
in the Convention; to arouse attention
in the much needed Improvement, with
a view Of securing the assistance OF
the State and National government;
the enactment and operation of laws
calculated to improve the county high
ways, and to firmly establish the agi-
tation and the cause in the minds OF
the people.
Delegates to the National Good
Roads Convention, which will hold
forth in st. Louis, May Is to q, in
elusive, will also be elected.
The vast Importance of the matters
at issue and the good to be accomp-
lished by the Southern Good Roads
Convention, fully justifies the CO.
operation of the officials and citizens
of the five states and should impel a
splendid attendance.
The rail lines entering New Orleans
and their connections have established
a very low round trip rate for the
Convention; a magnificent concession
to q worthy undertaking. The details
of the rate may be secured from
your local agent.
We cordially invite the County Com
missions, Police Juries, Mayoralities
and Commercial organizations to
send accredited delegates to the Con-
vention and urge immediate COM
pliance and action. Names of dele
gates should be sent h. NJ. Mayo,
Secretary New Orleans Progressive
Union, 81 Baronne Street, New Or
leans, La.
Again requesting that the selection
of delegates be not delayed and that
energetic efforts be at once made in
the interest of the Convention and of
the welfare of the several included in
this call, we have the honor to sub
scribe ourselves.
NJ. J. SANDERS, President.
III. NJ. MAYO, Secretary.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23
War In the East.

There is nothing new in the
war in the East. Japan has,
from the dispatches, been NOV
ing troops forward to the Yalu
river, and Russia has been con.
centrating her forces near
Hardin. No extensive move.
ments have occurred, owing to
the cold weather.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23
The Department of Justice and

the Trusts.
Times-D Democrat, March Is.
News comes from Washington
that the Democrats in both
branches of Congress are prepar-
ing to insist that the Department
of Justice go still deeper into the
investigation of the trusts and
take steps to set aside the numer-
Gus combinations in restraint of
trade that exist on every hand.
Congressman Williams. the mi
nority leader, who speaks with
authority for his side of the
house, is reported to have de-
clared for this program.
The decision of the Supreme
Court in the merger case has evil
IDENTIFY resulted in inspiring a
general belief that vigorous pros
ecution under the existing Fed
eral laws would result in putting
the trusts on the defensive.
Hitherto they have had things to
their own liking, protected by
the suppOsition that they were
beyond the scope of existing leg
i&lation. The immense influence
they have welded and still WELD
has also naturally impressed the
public with the idea that they
were hedged about with complete
inviolability. The attitude of the
Department of Justice, in whose
hands is placed the responsibility
ii such matters, has largely con-
firmed this belief. Supplied with
= half million of dollars for pur-
poses Of investigation and, if me-
cessary, Of prosecution, the small
amount Of $4,000 has been ex-
pended to date. Mastery mac
ltivity seems to be its program.
With evidence of the existence of
organisations in clear restraint of
trade seemingly in plenty, the
department has not found time
- look into the matter. But now
comes the merger decision, which
a@rms in unmistakable terms
The power Of Congress to deal
with just such cases and the suf-
6ciency Of the Legislation now in
he statutes to reach q typical
modern form of illegal combina-
tim. II undoubtedly affords q
1ogical'gr0und for pricking the
department from its inactivity and
1of calling on it It to discharge
|one Of the most important obliga-
|fjons resting on it
The Democrats will insist ON
lnction, and will be right in doing
-, hut that this insistence will
lh6ar fruit we are not prepared to
helieve. Election time is drawing
.p~ori1Oualy near and q pernicious
1c6yity might imperil the truce
which The friends Of President
Roosevelt are reported to have al
noody patched up with Wall
street The public service at
onch = season is . secondary con-
|1f6oration and the game Of poll
cs entirely obscures the de-
md Of public duty. But while
nunndsinference from these cir
nmstances leads to the conclu-
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23

With 31,414 members we have
only 8,168 subscribers to Our
Home" This paper costs only
so cents yearly and is positively
necessary to an intelligent SER
vice in Home Mission Work.
May we not get to work and see
that every member of the So
ciety, at least, gets the paper.
Our LAND FOR CHRIST.
This will never be accomplished
until we train in work and meth
DDS the children of to-day who
will make the church of to-mor-
row.
DECONESsES.
There have been 40 Deacon
ess' Institutions founded in the
United States in the last Is years,
80 of which are under the control
of the M. E. Church. In this
church there are now 400 Dea-
conesses.
Cry MISSIONS.
There are Is City Mission
Boards in our Methodist Church
South, affiliated with the Wo-
mans House Mission Society.
N
An Industrial school under the
auspices of the City Mission
Board of New Orleans has been
established during the year.
Mrs. w. W. Care, of New Or
leans, is President of the Board
and the report shows q total at
tendance of 664 scholars and %
teachers and 1887 raised during
the year for the work.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23

Up 60 0ato.
But Why do you have your hero
marry In the frst chapter?" they
asked.
Because" replied the author, ut
has always seemed absurd to me to
end . novel Just where Q mans trou.
bles really begin. That's where you
should begin the story"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-03-23

The Correct Term
There was . blankety blank expres-
sion on his face"
You mean . blank expression, don't
you?"
mo, ] don't / mean q blankety
blank expression. He looked as II be
wanted to swear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-09
BARRED FROM THE MAILS.
Fraud Order Issued Against the Metro
politan Mercantile Company. :

The Metropolitan Mercantile Company Of
San Francisco has been declared by the
Post Office Department lottery and a
fraud and an order deprivinE the COM
pany of the use of the mails has been is
sued by the assistant attorney general for
the Post Office Department.
The plan of this company was to offer
to give merchandise of the value of 5000
to all persons who should pay into the
company the sum of 81 a week for 100 con-
secutive weeks. Investors were told that
the money thus secured was invested in
real estate mortgages which frequently
paid 10 per cent on the investment. Con-
tracts matured in numerical order, and the
assistant attorney general in his review
of the case, said:
LAS 1t will require much more than the
money Of one investor to make the specified
payments to each previous investor it will
require an accession of newcomers, con-
stantly increasing at high progressive
rates, in order to make such payments,
and as 1t is obvious that this cannot be
done Indefinitely. the more successful the
business has been up to that time the more
widespread the loss. The business is there
fore lottery and a fraud"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-09
WILL SOON 90 TO BoGoTA.
Minister Russell Will Leave for the
Colombian Capital on the 27th.

Mr.. w. W. Russell. United States minis
ter to Colombia, who has been in this coun-
try ever since he relinquished the post Of
secretary of legation at Panama several
months ago, called upon Acting Secretary
Loomis at the State Department today to
discuss his mission to Colombia. Mr.. Rus
sell, though appointed several months ago
to be minister to Colombia, has never yet
occupied that post.
He has now arranged to sail from New
York on the 9th instant for Colon, whence
he will cross the isthmus to Panama and
take a steamer to Barranquilla. AT that
point he will trans-ship to a light-draft
river steamer and proceed up the Magda-
lena river to the head of navigation. Then
will follow a ride on msie back over the
mountains to Bogota, and altogether the
minister will be a month on his way to his
post.
Mr.. Snyder. United States charge at Bo-
gota has been maintaining friendly rela-
tions with the government there, and 1t is
expected that Mr.. Russell will be welcomed
when he takes VI, his residence at the CO.
lOmbian capital.