Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-17

seye en- miles long. The cuts along the
uphill grade will be among the heav-
lest on the entire Northern Pacific
system.
At Burke. Della, aged years, daugh-
ter of Frank CaVaness, who fell into
wash boiler Of boiling water, died
from her scalds.
Wallace is literally surrounded by
forest fires, and daily for the last
week quantities Of valuable timber
throughout the district have gone up
In smoke. It is impossl.4e to estimate
the damage.
Mr., Corbin's Spokane & Interna-
tional railroad is now in Standpoint.
The Occur d'Alene chamber Of COM
merce has promised Swedish Luth-
Grams bonus Of $4,000 and 10 acres
for the location Of a 100000 col
lege.
John o. Peters, a prominent mer-
chant of Council, has been arrested on
charge of arson in the first degree.
The Umatilla county court has ap-
propriated $1,000 to the district fair
association to provide a county ex-
hibit at the fair September "a to 20.
This makes total Of $500 available.
OREGON NOTES.
That the expected unprecedented
hop crop of Oregon will fail to mate
rialize is the belief of conservative
hopmen. That it will fall below early
estimates, it is declared, is a certainty,
and that it may be even smaller than
that of last year is not wholly unex-
pected.
After being out about 20 minutes,
the jury in the case Of Cal D. Barnard,
charged by the government with per
jury, returned verdict Of guilty, in
the federal court at Portland, but rec
commended the defendant to the elem
ency of the court.
The city Of F'reewater voted against
the charter to authorize the sale of
Intoxicating liquors within the corpo-
rate limits and to empower the city
council to license saloons, by a deci-
sive vote OF 81 to II, recently.
MONTANA NEWS.
The racing at the Montana state fair
this year will be better than it has
been in the past, both in me number
OF even entries in the stake events and
the quality of the horses.
The Great Falls wool market has
closed business for the year.
| Lovers of the fistic art will hail with
delight the announcement that Mike
| (Twin) Sullivan, of Boston, and Jack
Dougherty, the speedy mitt singer
from Milwaukee, have been signed to
box in Butte Labor Day.
Arrangements for the county fair,
which will be held September 26, 81
and % in Anaconda are fast being
completed.
The plan for having Miles City and
Lewistown act together in giving their
street carnivals during the coming fall
meets with favor in both cities.
Gov. ToOle has granted full pardon
to Thomas Tighe, convicted in Broad
water county April 4, 1903, Of man
slaughter, and sentenced to a term Of
six years in the penitentiary. He had
year to serve.
A German count, travelling incog-
nito under the name of Albert Becker,
spent last Saturday in Butte.
A shocking accident occurred recent
ly at Spring Hill, Is miles north of
Bozeman. The infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Parker was playing
near large washing machine full Of
boiling water when she in some way
succeeded in pulling out the plug
which held the water, and before any
one could rescue her she was so badly
scalded that she died in a few hours.
The first Of the construction work in
enlarging the Boston & Montana smell
ter in Great Fails has been started.
An unusually hot spell prevailed in
Montana nearly all last week. Sunday
the government thermometer at Miles
City registered 1O6, and the one at
Havre 1902 degrees, these places being
the hottest in the state.
The body of Dave Grenneld, the rail-
road man who died at White Fish, was
taken to Plains for interment. He was
freight conductor on the Great
Northern, and was clearing up a wreck
when he sustained injuries which caus-
ed his death.
Mrs. William J. Evans, living five
miles east of Anaconda, is dead.
The twentieth annual session of the
Montana conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church is being held at Bill
lings this week.
At St. Hyacinthe Quebec, Canada,
recently, Mr.. Maillet, who died, was
one of Montana's first white settlers.
He came to what now is known as the |
Butter Root valley in 1855.