Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-04-06


j, The loss of the administration or
main building Of the Idaho state
university, which was completely de-
stroyed by ire Friday has cast a gloom
over the entire state.
After being out 20 hours the jury
in the case Of the state against Sam
uel L. Mcfarland, a Lewiston attorney
charged with embezzlement, failed to
agree and was discharged.
On June % hundreds Of Christian
Endeavorers from all parts Of north
Idaho and Washington will gather in
Lewiston for the biennial convention
of the Washington-Nort Idaho Chris
tian Endeavor union, which will con-
tinue until July /.
Considerable excitement has been
caused by the announcement OF
Stephen Carver. a banker Of Chinook,
Mont, that he is DESTROYS Of building
railroad from Lewiston through
Charleston to Asotin, and then to Ane-
tone, in Asotin county, distance of 80
miles.
During the latter part of April,
Professor H. r. French of the agri-
cultural college and experiment station
will ship 200 head Of Angora goats
from Oregon to Moscow to stock his
goat farm six miles north.
By the rules governing the triangu-
lar debate league, consisting of the
Universities Of Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington, Idaho wins the championship.
hero, but homeless and penniless,
is G. Hallowell a railroad employee
whose home near the o. R. & N.
roundhouse was totally destroyed by
fire. Residence and furniture were
valued at $4,000; no insurance. The
father risked his life to save his three
children, whom he carried out in his
arms. On his last trip a burning raf-
ter fell and struck him on the shoulder
Police Chief Pat McGovern of Occur
d'Alene has received another check
for 5000 for faithful duty. This time
the check comes from the United
States government for capturing
Portland Whitney" the Wallace post
office thief, convicted about eight
months ago. Whitney was sentenced
to IA years Imprisonment.
Henry Henenkrat, accompanied by his
sons Alfred and Arthur, the three be
ing trappers at Kingston, recently took
to Wallace two handsome mountain
lion hides, for the killing of which
beasts the county paid them a bounty
of SIS for each animal. The lions
were of about the same size, approx
mately six feet from tip to tip, and
both were entrapped and killed two
, miles northeast from Kingston.
} MONTANA s0UIRBs.
I A. B. Keith, ST., recently editor of
l the Butte Miner and one of the pro-
minent newspaper men of the north.
/. west, died at Butte recently of heart
g failure, aged So.
q Jasper Lebo was sentenced to one
l year in the penitentiary at Kalispell
having pleaded guilty to illegally
a registering for the city election.
Scott Winnett a wealthy ranchman
a residing near Columbia Falls, was
killed recently in a runaway.
+ Howard E. Babcock, a well known
: Helena merchant, died last week al
Lake Geneva, Wis, aged 40 years. He
q was a native of Monmouth, ILL.,, and
:. came to Helena 20 years ago from
|. Denver
G The Right Rev. John Patrick Car
roll, bishop of the diocese, Helena, has
n made the announcement from the pull
r pit of the cathedral that Peter Larson
+ of Helena had made donation of $25
K 900 toward the construction of a new
;. cathedral on a $4,000 site donated by
Colonel Thomas Cruise, the banker anC
h mining man of Helena. The bishop
a also stated that a resident of a state
a other than Montana had made a. gift
n of $35, 900 toward the erection of a pa
rochial school on the same block. 9th
h er contributions aggregating $1,000
7 were announced, making the total gift
100000
n It has been repeatedly stated by
q those in authority that the new line
. from Great Falls to Billings will no
enter Great Falls via Rainbow; there
v fore, the surveyors now working
around Rainbow may be doing so mere
a ly for their own amusement.
Court at Lewiston has been adjourn
! ed until the 23rd of April. owing tt
\ the postponement of several cases and
n the settlement of others.
T bill has been passed granting thu
: Capital City Improvement company o
- Helena, the right to construct a dan
e across the Missouri river in Montana.
OREGON ITEMS.