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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
MONTANA NorEs.

A large herd of cattle in the Benton
Lake district, reported to be in a
starving condition, is the subject of an
investigation now in progress by the
state humane officers. The animals
are said to be wandering about the
country without either food or water,
the grass having been either all eaten
or trampled into the ground. Fences
in the vicinity prevent the cattle get
ting to the river for water. 1t is said
that If something is not done imme-
dately the cattle will perish.
Ferdinand Franklin, the third and
last victim of the fatal accident at
the Belmont mine, at Butte. was found
at the bottom of the mine shaft.
In so days the Great Northern rail-
way will abandon 100 miles of its pres
ent main line in Montana in favor of a
new route, covering the same distance,
which strikes north from Columbia
Falls to a junction with the Fernie,
B. c., branch at Rexford, thence back
again over the Fernie branch to the
main line at Jennings.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

building complete copper smelling
plant for the Turk Mining company,
whose properties are located in the
Cedar canyon. Is miles north of Da-
venport, Wash. 1t is a Blanchard fur
mace. radically different from those
used in the ordinary practice of cop
per smelling.
The Buckhorn mine at the head OF
Moyie creek, Yak district, northern
Idaho. which is owned in Spokane, is
being equipped with a 10 stamp mill.
]. T. Harrington Of the Cedar Can.
yon district, Wash, has been in Spo.
kane for few days on business con.
nected with mining claims he Is devei
oping in that district.
The dredge working in Stanley ba
sin. Idaho. is working day and night
with profitable results. One bucket OF
concentrates from one of the blanket
tables yielded 16 ounces of gold.
Machinery for six drill compressed
air plant is being put in place at the
Plat mine, Rock Creek district, east
ern Oregon.
1t is reported that there Is a nine
foot face of $40 ore in the Glasgo tun
mel of the Highland mine, in the Stump
ter (Ore.), district.
John Mcleod and Thomas Sullivan
have taken contract to run 100 foot
extension of the tunnel on the Ameri
cane mine, near Mullan
Idaho.
What is considered very import
ant strike was recently made in the
Great Western group, between the Her
cules and the Snowstorm, near Burke
Idaho.
Thomas Hales has secured bond OF
the Deep Creek gold property, located
16 miles from Iron Mountain. Mont
The mine is equipped with 20. staml
mill and has been a good producer. I
Sunnyside is new town in thu
Thunder Mountain (Idaho) country. |
is at the point where the Belle com
pany's mill is being built, and store
a restaurant and saloon have beef
opened.
The Callahan group, at Sunset
Occur d'Alene, has been bonded TO
two years to Boston capitalists 10
about $4,000. The transaction wa
contaminated by DR.. H. ]. Reed an
Mayor Rossi. Nine men are drivin
cfosscut tunnel.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

The Enterprise Electric Light com
pany, whose power house was burned
down, has sold the remaining property
to E. J. Forsythe. Mr. Forsythe will
install new plant as soon as pos.
sible.
The Dekum building in Portland, pur-
chased by Charles Sweeny of Spokane
for sS50,000, is one of the finest cor
ners in the Oregon metropolis.
There is an agitation in Oregon at
the present time for the immediate
construction of the proposed portage
railroad from above The Dalles to Ce-
lilo.
The postmaster general has an.
nounced the appointment of G. NJ Rich
ey as postmaster at La Grande.
while B. ]. Kelly, a cleaner in a
Portland automobile livery, was at
work on an automobile the gasoline
tank suddenly exploded. Kelly was
blown 40 feet and skinned alive from
his head to his knees. He lived for
four hours.
DIR. j. T. McNally, who is now in
Rome, and who was commissioned by
Archbishop Alexander Christie Of Ore
gon City to petition the Holy See to
have the Vatican exhibit at the st.
Louis exposition removed to Portland
during the Lewis and Clark fair next
year, has written to Director General
W. H. Goode that the invitation was
presented to the papal secretary OF
state, who cordially accepted it and
assured DR.. mclSally that the Holy See
would have appropriate representation
at the Portland fair.
A large per cent Of Pendleton's car
penters and joiners are out of employ
ment owing to the falling off of build
ing.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
MONTANA NOTES.

The law of the range. will be brought
into play if a band of outlaws that
have been operating in northern Wyo-
ming and on the Montana border for
several mouths is captured. A large
posse has started from Pinedale to
give the bandits batrle in the Big Horn
mountains, where they have a rem
devious.
AS result of the confession of
George F.. Hammond, the train robber
who participated in the holdup OF inc
North Coast Limited train on the Nor
thern Pacific road near Bearmouth on
June 16, another cache of the robbers
has been located.
M. B. Greenwood, president of the
Daily Bank & Trust company of Ana
conda, has issued a call to the various
bankers of Montana to meet in Helena
in October and organize state bank
ers' association.
William Phipps, an employe on the
Smith ranch near Boulder, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed about
10 miles south of the city. Mr.. Phipps
when the storm came I'D. The bolt
also killed both horses.
Water is scarce in the northern part
of the state. Trains are delayed be-
cause tanks can not be filed. Many
cattle are perishing. There is no wa
ter left in the natural courses.
The sheep census Of the state. &C.
cording to figures turned in by the
county assessors of the state, gives a
total of 4,031. 533. The total valuation
of these animals is placed at IS, 191 ,64S.
The body of 16 year old Charles
Slusher, who was drowned in the Mis-
souri, river. was recovered by fellow en-
ployes of the boys father at the Bos-
ton & Montana smelter at Great Falls.
One hundred and fifty smeltermen pro-
vided themselves with ropes and went
to the scene Of the drowning.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
DEALERS CAN BUY NO MEAT.
Serious Situation for 5iackIisted Ship
Owners.

OWUStSs
The procuring of meat supplies, even
at the high prices asked, has become
a serious question with many retail
dealers of Chicago. A BLACKLIST has
been put in circulation by the strikers,
bearing the names of retailers who
have purchased meat from the packers,
and the men listed are finding it diff
ficult to get supplies from the indepen-
dent packers. The system of picket
ing in force has made it almost inn
possible for them to buy of the big
companies. The independent pack
ers" have been warned that the pen
atty for selling meat to the listed re-
tailers will be the calling out of their
own butchers. Several retailers whose
business has been tied up have stated
that unless conditions improve by Mon
day next they will go into the courts
and ask an injunction against the
strike leaders who are responsible for
the blacklist.
Several big markets on the west and
south sides of the city have been fore
ed to close.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
JAPANESE ARMIES ACTIVE
ALMOST COMPLETED CIRCLE
AROUND RUSSIAN GENERAL.
II ls Certain General Kuropatkin Must
Fight or Withdraw His Whole Army
Northward-severe Fighting Near
Port Arthur--AmmunItI Is neport
ed to BE Short at Fortress.

St. Petersburg. Aug. Although
public attention has been distracted
from the events of the war during the
past week first, because OF the fear
of international complications. and.
second, because Of the assassination OF
Minister of the Interior Won Plehve, the
situation Is regarded as critical
The enveloping movement OF three
Japanese armies, of Generals Kurokl.
Nodzu and Oku around General kuro-
patkin's position, appears to be almost
complete, and the extended line of the
Japanese seems to be the only draw
back to concerted action.
It is realized here that the Russian
general must now either fight or with
draw the whole army northward. He
is being closeiy pressed at haicheng.
General Kuroli's northern column
makes it extremely dangerous to re-
main there, but. while holding the posi-
ton, to give battle, the Japanese,
whose advance is necessarily always
slow and careful, might push through
anu cut his railway communications 10
LiaOyang.
While nothing is definitely known,
there are some unofficial indications
that matters are maturing rapidly
either for battle or for retreat
For instance, the refusal to accept fur
ther press kilograms at Haicheng is
shown by the fact that one of Lie cor
respondents of the Associated Press
had to ride through to Mukden to file
an account Of the Tatchekiao fight.
This might be construed either that
preparations are making for retire
ment, or that the wires are very
crowded, incident to a concentration
at Haicheng or Liaoyang.
A few days are expected to deter
mine which course General Kuropat-
kin has elected to pursue.
Some Hopes for Port Arthur.
There is no inclination here to
doubt that there may have been pretty
severe fighting at the outer positions
of Port Arthur, possibly accompanied
by a bombardment from the sea, but 1t
is not believed that the Japanese are
yet ready to storm the fortress. Rear
ADMIRAL Withoeft, in command Of the
naval forces at Port Arthur, is relied
upon to put to sea If the condition OF
the fortress becomes desperate. While
no definite information Is oDtainable,
the report that the fortress is short OF
ammunition is considered by the pub
4 lie as the most disquieting feature Of
the situation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
British Columbia Notes.

It is reported that rich gold strike
has been made in the Broken Hill and
the Combine claims in the Lardeau
district.
Zinc ore is being shipped from the
Idaho mine in the SLOGAN country to
KANSAS.
Continued favorable reports come
from the Velyet-P Portland mine and
mil at Rossland. The showing in the
Portland mine is described as improv-
ing rapidly, and the unwatering of the
Velvet has commenced.
The reserves of LIE Roi ore at the
Northport smelter will be exhausted
on or about August 10. 1t is expected
that two furnaces will go dark, and
that two will be kept running on the
high grade product now being mined,
but no authoritative statement is forth
coming.
The Jumbo mine of Rossland has
established a new record for shipments
last week, $50 tons having been ship
will increase it's output to 100 tons
dally.
Scores of Rosslanders visited the
Cliff mine during the past week, and
the consensus of opinion is strongly ia.
vorable. Special interest attaches to
the operations because of the introduc
ton of quarrying methods.
An IL inch streak of white carbon
ate ore was struck in the old Rice
mine in the SLOGAN district Monday
which assays 100 ounces of silver.
Shipments from the low grade mines
of the Boundary district are AGAR
creeping up in volume, the CRANKY
smelter having blown in as sixth fur
mace last week, making the full bat
terry now in operation.
CRANKY smelter treated 1888 tons
of ore during the last week, making g
total of 341,4 Ala tons this year to date
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
Mining Notes.

John A. rinch, millionaire mining
man, who for nearly three months has
been fighting an attack of nervous
prostration,. is slowly recovering at his
magnificent new country home, Hay
denlochen, on the shores of Hayden
lake, Idaho. His condition is still Sc
rious.
Baker city, Ore.-The Virtue is plac-
ing in position an engine with pumping
capaciCy of --vy gallons per minute
and a hoist for sinking 1000 feet. De-
velopment work is being continued.
Sumpter, Ore.-Considerable i'm
provement is going on at the Column
bia mine, Cracker creek district. The
mnI is to be oyerhauled and additional
machinery installed. Other outside
buildings will be erected and every ar
rangement made for a larger output
at Lne mine.
Simon Luke. an employee of the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan mine at Wardner,
Idaho, was badly injured recently by
fallng through one of the floors and
being injured in the back and head,
hurting his spine and otherwise bruis-
ing his body.
j. o. MacAuley arrived in Spokane
yesterday from the Buffalo Hump coun-
try, Idaho. Mining is very active
there" said he, land think the pres
ent season will be the most prosperous
one in the history of the camp"
IL is reported that four .lousand,
three hundred and nineteen cards have
been issued to miners of the Cripple
Creek district by the Mineowners' as
ISOLATION, and 800 applications are still
on file. OF the total number issued
more than 2100 have been in exchange
for cards surrendered by former mem
bers of the Western Federation of Mi
ners, who have renowned allegiance
to the organization. Never have more
than $500 miners been employed in the
Cripple Creek mines at one time, and
then only when all the larger mines
were working a night shift, and at no
time has the federation membership
been much in excess of 5000.
A carload of assorted high grade
ore and about 100 tons of milling ore
will be shipped to the Sumpter, Ore.
smelter from the Listen lake as soon
as transportation arrangements are
completed.
A machine company of Spokane is
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
MINING NENS|
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Their Owners Are Developing Many
Properties In Idaho, Montana and
oreson--MInes Of British Columbia
Are Busy--Many Accidents and Per
sonal Events.

1t will undoubtedly surprise many to
learn that copper was discovered,
smelted and wrought into useful i'm
plements long before man had learned
the art of smelling iron. In Asia Mi
nor, the cradle of the Caucasion race.
many weapons, useful instruments and
ornaments of bronze, made of copper
and tin. have been found in buried cit
les thousands of years old. In the le-
gendary accounts of primitive races,
which were orally handed down from
generation to generation, it is plainly
shown that gold. siiver and copper
were known and used centuries before
iron; the former for ornaments, the
latter for utensils and weapons.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
FINE GIFT FOR KING EDWARD.

California knights Templar viii Pre-
sent History.
The California Knights Templar are
a gift for King Edward in
appreciation Of the honor conferred up
on the Californians IN sending a per
sonal representative with the delega
ton Of highest officers of the great
priory of England and Wales to attend
the conclave at San Francisco. The
souvenir consists OF a volume Of the
history of the conclave, especially
bound and ornamented for the king.
The covers are of California silver,
handwrought. and golden knight in
full armor is embossed on the cover.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

The Great Belt is a wide channel
connecting the Baltic and the North
seas. 1t separates Fuenan, the second
largest of the Danish islands from Zea-
land, the largest of the Danish islands,
and the sound between Zealand and
north Sweden.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

Little Rodney--Papa, what is the diff
ference between, climate and Weathers
Mr.. Wayout (of Dismalhurst-on-the-
Blink)-Climate, my SON, is what a To-
cality has when you are buying home
there, and weather is what it has af-
terwards.-Puck.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

Japanese system of letters is called
Iroha, from the names Of the first three
letters. IT," no." and "ha," on pre-
cisely the same principle as that which
gives to our system the title alpha
bet"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

More than 300 native Puerto Rican
native teachers win take a summer
course at Harvard.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
NO MORE POLITICS FOR WI.
Former Chinese Minister to Lead a
Quiet Life.

Atlantic City, N. J.-Wu Ting Fang,
for some years the Chinese minister
at Washington, according to his son.
WI Chao Chu. has resigned the vice
presidency Of the foreign board at Pc
kin and is said to have permanently
retired from politics. WI Chao Chu
says his father has determined to lead
a quiet life. and has built himself a
country home near Shanghai.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
TO KEEP REPORTERS AWAY.
Mrs. Maybrick and Her Mother Ask
for Help.

Paris, July 30.-Baroness d'Roques
and her daughter, Mrs. Maybrick, com
plain bitterly Of the persistent efforts
of the press to obtain information con
corning their movements. which they
are determined not to give. Miss May
brick is i'll. and SO is not able to start
for America at present.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05

Missouri has farms below the Missis-
sippi river level.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-05
CRUISERS in GREAT BELT.
Traverse Channel of Russians Baltic
and North Seas.

Copenhagen, Aug. 1.-Two Russian
cruisers and two torpedo boats have
traversed the Great Belt, going north
ward.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-23
FOUR ASPHYXIATED.
Terrible Disaster Occurs in Gas
Company's Plant at
Dover, N. j.

New York, Nov. 1S.-Four men were
asphyxiated by gas at Dover, N. j.,
Thursday at the plant of the Dover,
Rockaway & Port Dram Gas company.
They constituted the entire working
force of the plant and were discovered
by George E. BunneIl, a former en-
ploye, who on visiting the plant found
it apparently deserted, with engines
running under a full head of steam and
scarcely any water in the boilers Bum
nell went through the works and found
the four men beneath the trap door in
the meter room, with the space under
the floor filled with gas from a broken
valve in the drip pipe. The men were
William Bulmer, IL years old, employed
as fireman.; Elias S. Chamberlain, the
engineer; Otto Edischum, a painter,
and man known only as Gustave, also a
painter Tho men lay together in a
heap. From their positions it is thought
that Bulmer went through the trap first
to fix the broken valve and was over
come by the gas, and in an effort to res
cue him Chamberlain, Eidschum and
Gustave followed and lost their lives.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-23
WOULD HONOR cocKRELl
President Roosevelt Tenders Respon-
sible Position to Senator
from Missouri.

Washington, Nov. 21.-The president
has offered Senator Cockrell, of Missouri,
the isthmian canal commissionership
made vacant by the resignation of Col.
Hecker, of Michigan, and has also told
him that if he feels that his health will
not permit him to take this place the
president desires to offer him position
on the interstate commerce commission.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 21.-Speaking
over the long distance telephone from
his home at Warrensburg Sunday even
ing, Senator Francis M. Cockrel1 de-
clined to say whether or not he had been
offered the isthmian canal commission
ership by President Roosevelt, or wheth.
er he would accept such an appointment
if rendered him. He would not, he said,
in any event, take any action until he
reached Washington, on November %.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-23
sToEssEL is CONFIDENT.
Says He Can Hold Port Arthur for
Months If Furnished MUM
tions and Stores.

St Petersburg, Nov. 19.-Gen. Stoes-
Sci has telegraphed to Emperor Mich
olas that Port Arthur can hold out
until the Baltic squodron arrives in
March, on the condition that he is
supplied with munitions and stores.
st. Petersburg, Nov. IT. The message
Of Gen. Stoessel brought to Chefoo by
the torpedo boat destroyer Rastoropny
has not been given out, but 1t is under
stood that it contains no request for in
structions regarding the surrender OF
Port Arthur. 1t is intimated that the re-
port goes at considerable length into de-
tails OF the recent fierce land fighting,
but says that the interior line OF defense
remains intact. Cen Stoessel believes
he will be able to withstand the Japanese
assaults for some time to come The
blockade has been run by ship with a
cargo of war munitions, food and hos
pital supplies. Some warships in the
harbor have been damaged by shell fire,
but not seriously. Many guns have been
removed from the ships and mounted on
shore, where large drafts from the
crews are taking turns in aiding the gar
rison in its historic defense of the for
tress
Toxic, Nov. 21.-As result of tun-
nelfng by the Japanese, the Erlung-
shan and Sanshunshan forts, the prin-
cipal works of the Port Arthur defenses,
were blown up last Thursday at 2:3O
o'clock in the afternoon. It is stated the
explosion was severe one
Chefoo, Nov. 21.-Another attack on
Elise mountain is expected to occur No
yember "a according to Chinese who left
Dalny Saturday. The Chinese further
report that reenforcements for the Jap
anese continue to arrive For the past
ten days 1000 men have arrived daily.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-23
TRADE REVIEW.
Steady Improvement Is Shown in
Conditions in CONNER
cial Lines.

New York, Nov. 19.-R G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Business was retarded by the storms
which interrupted Geographic COM
munication, but the loss was quickly
recovered, and retail trade responded
to the lower temperature, while a
large jobbing distribution of holiday
goods occurred. Commercial reports
are encouraging, and, on the whole,
conditions steadily improve. Conf
dence is increasing, particularly in
the steel and textile industries, and
building operations are very vigorous
for the season, while mercantile coll
lections are more prompt. Farm sta
pies are slightly cheaper in response
to splendid dispatches from agricul-
tura centers.
Failures this week numbered 217
dn the United States against 249 last
year and ~ in Canada compared with
IL year ago."
Bradstreet's says: Reports from
the great basic industries are more
favorable and wholesale and jobbing
trade in holiday and spring goods
display a more confident tone In
terror buyers appear more willing to
stock up and are meeting with fair
success, despite the fact that unseas-
enable weather, activity in fall farm
work, and some holding back by farm
ers retards retail trade and collections
in the west and northwest. Cold
weather at the east and seasonable
conditions at the south induce better
reports as to final distribution from
those sections
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-23
Thrown Thirty Feet.

Walter Simms in driving to his farm
nine miles south of Crookston. his
team turned into the Northern Pacific
track and was struck by a freight
train going at full speed. The horses
SHE'D and cleared the engine, but the
wagon was struck in the center, and
reduced to slivers Simms was thrown
nearly fifty feet and was picked up by
Engineer Synder and Conductor Ander-
son for dead, but he revived. A slight
ly fractured skull which is not fatal
and an ugly wound over the right eye
requiring few stitches proved to be
the extent of his injuries.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-23
AUTO DRIVER MURDERED
Shot from Behind by Man Who Was
Riding with Him-Motive
Mystery.

Chicago, Nov. 21.-A murder mys-
terry, which had it's beginning Friday
night in the Auditorium hotel and it's
tragic climax early Saturday morning
near Lemont, has baffied police, deputy
sheriffs and special detectives. In a
lonely gulch on Archer road, three
miles south OF Lamont, William Bate.
a professional chauffeur and scion
Of wealthy family, was found
shot to death at five a. m. Saturday.
his hands still clutching the wheel OF
his automobile. A passenger who
rented the auto from Daniel Canary's
garage, No. 402 Wabash avenue. at 800
Friday night under the name of .sMr.
Dove, is still at large. Whoever the
slayer may have been, he placed re-
volver close to the back of the chauf-
feur's head and fired, the weapon being
held so near to the victim that his hair
was slnged. No motive for the murder
is known, and all theories are the merest
guesswork.