Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-05-12
IDAHO soUIRRs.

The council at Twin Falls has fixed
the license for saloons at $4,000 each
per year.
One of the new laws which went
into effect in Idaho May 4, provides
for juvenile court
From present indications at least
$5OO,O0O viii be spent for new build
ings or additions to old ones at Poca-
tello this season.
Monday morning at 1880 the cadets
Of the University Of Idaho left for
their annual encampment, which this
year will be held at Occur d'Alene.
James Wing, an employe Of the
Morning mine at Mullan, was killed
Sunday by falling down an ore chute.
How the accident occurred is not
known.
Horticultural Inspector J. r. Field
says that the prospect for a good
crop Of fruit in the Payette valley Of
Idaho has never been better than at
this time.
Drexel Van Arsdale, the IA year old
son of G. @. Van Arsdale, was drown
ed late Sunday afternoon two miles
below the mouth of the Clearwater
river. He was caught in a whirlpool
More large buildings viii be built
this year at Wallace than any year
since the fire Of 1890, which wiped out
the business section. The volume Of
the building indicates the prosperity
of the district.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine
at Wardner, Idaho, for the second
time this year has raised its monthly
dividend to $15O,OOO and distributed
that huge sum last Thursday among
it's stockholders. That makes total
dividends Of $525,OOO paid since Jan
uary 1, and $2.796,OOO to date.
Burglars entered the postofiee
building at Kellogg and rifed three
tills, securing between $50 and $40
The greater part Of the money be
longed to d. Price, who conducts q
store in the building The exact
amount of the postoflce loss is moi
known.
Nearly 5000 men are now employed
in the great producing mines Of the
Occur d'Alenes and in the prospects
of the various sections Of the district
It is doubtful if ever in the history
Of this silver-lead region there has al
one time been so great a number Of
men employed.
H. ]. Rice, former treasurer Of Sho
shone county, has returned from To
nopah and Goldfield, New, where he
and several other mining men from
the Occur d'Alenes spent three months
examining and prospecting the gold
fields. Mr.. Rice was greatly disap
pointed in the country and says thai
he is satisfied to remain in the COeul
d'Alenes, which far surpasses the Ne
vada mining district.
The first bounty on cougars, under
the new law, was paid at Rathdrun
to Patrick Fox Of Laclede, who
brought in large cougar hide and
was paid SIS by warrant on the cur
rent expense fund. The animal meas
ured almost nine feet from tip to tip
It was accidentally caught in a beal
trap, and is the first one that Mr.. Fo1
has seen in that neighborhood.
OF the several railroad projects il
the northwest, that which contem
plates a. line from Palouse, in Whit
man county, toward the east and intC
the timber belt of Idaho, is one o.
notable Importance According t.
present plans, it is to be only As miles
long, but it will tap an unusually ricl
country, and as a result Of its con
struction there, will probably be man
ufacturing and agricultural develop
ment fully as important as any that II
now tributary to any piece Of road O
equal length.
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