Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-02-17


Multnomah county is likely to be-
the first county In the northwest to
adopt the Bertillon system Of identi-
flying criminals.
At Portland Amelia Sirianni, q
young italian woman. was shot and
killed by Joseph Fiorebello, one OF her
countrymen. He made his escape.
Two masked men went into Glisan
street saloon at Portland and with
revolvers leveled lined up eight visi-
tors, relieving them Of $50. The rob-
bers made their escape.
Contracts have been let for the cree
tion Of wings which will. double the
original floor space of the transporta-
ton, machinery and electrical build
ings at the Lewis and Clark fair.
H. G.. Brown, who broke his parole
in Oregon, was arrested in Tacoma.
Brown was sentenced about a month
ago to five years for holding up a sa-
loon, but he was paroled on his prom
Use to leave for Australia.
IDAHO soUIRss.
The Idaho soldiers home is to be
investigated by a committee from the
state legislature.
Harrison is soon to have one Of the
best water works systems for town
of its size in the state.
Senator Hepburn has recommended
Joseph Pinkham of Boise to succeed
Smith d. Woolley as assayer at the
Boise assay office.
The Idaho legislature has repealed
the river improvement franchise law,
which has been on the statute books
of the state for many years.
R. H. Barton, postmaster at Mos
COW, has been removed from Office
]. r. Collins has been recommended to
succeed to the vacancy.
The United States Office at Boise
will not receive more deposits until
the successor to Woolley, as assayeI
in charge, shall have qualified
Shoshone is one Of the first coun
ties in the state to make use of the
state reform school, which was recent
ly opened at ST. Anthony, Fremont
county.
According to the report of the ap
praisers of the estate Of Barry N
billiard, who committed suicide al
Lakeview last fall his property in Ida
no is valued at $43,S75.
Word has been received from Reno
New, that Jesse Beauchamp, or Beach
am, an employe of various mines o
the Occur d'Alene district for severa
years, committed suicide there.
A bad condition of affairs has beef
discovered in the Lewiston city tal
collectors books, as a result of whicl
titles to hundreds Of pieces of land il
this city are clouded.
The frozen body of William Sauls
berry, the miner who was MISSING
from Borax, was found about one mil
from the camp. The man had got los
during the recent blizzard.
The California group, a silver-lea
producer near Wallace, has been sol
to the Heinz Silver & Lead Mimi
company, Pittsburg corporation. TIL
price is not public, but is supposed t
be about 100000.
hSAASuJ d A4eAAOJ heSS WIN etAOIAAS
of his legal battles against the En-
pire State-Idaho company in the SkoC
KUN case, which involves the SkoC
KUN mine at Wardner and would 81
: cure about 100000 for which he hold
judgments.
The temperature at an early hou
Sunday morning recorded IS degree
. /
traitors still remain closed, which ha
forced some of the mines to close, tn
reserve ore bins being filed. The
will not resume operations until tn
cold weather has abated. The coldes
weather reported in the Coeu
d'Alene section was 40 degrees belo'
: zero at the Hercules mine.