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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
HOLE IN HEART is sEwEo UP
New York Man Survives Operation
and Attack of Pneumonia.

New York Man Survives Operation
and Attack of Pneumonia.
New York, Dec. 24-After surviv-
ing an operation in which four stitches
were taken in his heart, William
Johnson developed pleuraI pneumonia
at Roosevelt hospital and is now again
conValescing. Johnson was taken to
the hospital suffering from an injury
which was at once diagnosed as a stab
wound of the heart.
An incisiOn was made in his side.
three of his ribs were cut through.
forming a trapdoor with the cartilage
attaching the ribs to the breastbOne
acting as hinge. The trap was low
cred and it was found that the diagno-
sis was correct and that there was a
half inch slit in the pericardium. This
was carefully sewed and the trap
door was replaced.
The next morning Johnson COM
planned of pains in the lungs and pneu-
monia rapidly developed. The doctors,
proud of the heart operation, fought
for the mans life and although at one
time death seemed certain, it is now
announced that Johnson is on the road
to recovery and will surely survive.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
SHE is AN HEIREss.
Miss Whaley, Who Fled With Rev
Cooke

Cooke
New York, Dec. 23.-Floretta
Whaley, the II year old girl who
eloped on April 80 last from Hemp-
stead, L. l., with her guardian, the
Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, pastor of St
Georges Episcopal church, has been
declared heiress to $5377. This is a
part of the fortune left by her father
M. Whaley, who died about a wear
ago.
Now the question in Hampstead and
surrounding towns is, "Will Floretta
Whaley return to claim the inheri-
tance?"
Mrs. Cooke is at present in New
Haven. 1t is understood that she will
not institute divorce suit, preferring
to cause her husband to suffer tbe
shame attendant upon his actions
rather than to give him his freedom
Although the gossips have it that
the girl is near Hampstead, no one at
tempts to fathom the mystery of where
the unfrocked, disgraced clergyman is
There are rumors, however. that Cooke
mas been found by the authorities and
that the latter are biding their time
before taking him back to Hempsted
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Live Stock Association.

Auxiliaries in every county and dis
trict in the state, with a view to in
creasing interest as well as building
up the membership of the Washington
Live Stock association, were decided
upon at the CLOSING session of the
two days meeting of the stockmen
in Spokane recently.
In the resolutions offered by the
committee composed of DR.. S. B. Mel
son of Pullman, e. F. Benson of Pros
ser and o. d. Gibson of Walla Walla,
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
was Endorsed and it was recommended
that the management appoint ]. L.
Smith of Spokane as superintendent.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year are: A. J. Splawn, North Yakima,
reelected; E. F. Benson, vice presi-
dent Prosser; F. M. Rothrock, Spo-
kane, treasurer, and F. H. Choke, Spo-
kane, secretary.
Unless the dates conflict the asso-
citation will meet in Spokane December
Is and 16, 1908.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Mining in chesam camn

Shipments from the Butcher Bow
will be resumed as soon as the CRANKY
smelter is started up again.
The force of the Opal mine is to be
increased as soon as the new winter
quarters for the men are completed.
An improvement of the ore in the
drift from the upper tunnel on the
Bluffton is noticeable as the drift
progresses.
The Oversight mine, on Belcher
mountain, will probably be in the list
of shippers early next summer.
The machinery of the Copper Key
compressor plant is nearly in place
and no doubt that by Christmas it will
be in fine working condition.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
PORTLAND HAS A PRIZE HEN
Chickens and Eggs Galore From This
Bird

Portland, Ore.-W. J. Carly of 8O7
Cleveland avenue. this city, claims
the prize hen of the Pacific coast if
not the United States.
The hen in question is a Plymouth
Rock of medium size. but marvel of
industry. Mr.. Carly says:
Since May 5 last Biddy has reared
two broods of chickens, one of - and
the other of z, Between the wean-
ing of the first brood and the hatch
ing of the second she laid "a eggs,
and the other day she laid a double
yolked egg, her average being two
eggs within 10 minutes.
Since the weaving of her second
brood this year, % days ago, Biddy has
laid an egg every day, and in the last
10 days a double-yolked egg every
day"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Unwrftten Law HoIds Good

Ogden, Utah, Dec. 22.-Because the
evidence showed that improper rela-
IONS had existed between his wife and
the victim of his wrath, F. c. Walker
was found not guilty of the murder of
Dr. Earl S. Beers. The jury took but
two ballots. Walker and Beers had
desperate struggle in the rear of an
electrical store last September. and
Beers was so injured that he died a
few hours afterward.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
PARTNERS OF KING LEOPOLD
Ryan and Rockefeller, Jr., Ozone" by
Monarch.

mOHdTCus
New York, Dec. 24.-That Thomas
Fortune Ryan, though an equal part
ner is only King LeopOld's catspaw in
the Congo, is asserted in a signed ar
ticle in the American.
1T is true" says the American,
that Ryan, with young Rockefeller
and others, holds a concession of i'm
mense value. But he does not con-
troll it.
when Leopold failed to draw Ital-
ian capital and labor to Africa he
looked to Wall street as his only sal
walton. l don't know how much money
the Ryan crowd gave, but it was an
enormous amount | do know, how
ever, that with the money the old king
began purchasing more shares. He
had his agent find out just how much
stock he would need to have an equal
interest with the Ryan crowd Then
he acquired all the shares he needed.
His next move was to force them
into an agreement that for every
American or European employed by
Ryan there must be a Belgian en-
ployed by the king. He then had the
advantage of Ryan in every possible
way.
mot only did the king insure fat
profit to himself from the American
syndicate, but he fixed himself so he
appears only as a shareholder in the
syndicate. The territory he gave over
to Ryan can not be intertered with by
Belgium or any other nation; it has
the protection of the stars and
stripes"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Local Option for Alaska,

The spirit of home rule is embodied
in measure introduced by Delegate
Gale in the house. The bill proposes.
though not in so many words, to es.
tablish local option throughout Alaska
by providing that no liquor license be
granted in any Alaska city unless it is
favored by majority of inhabitants.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
In a Fist Fiuht

The spirit of rivalry that for five
years has alternately smoldered and
blazed between John Sharp Williams
OF Mississippi, leader of the minority
and David De Almond of Missouri
eliminated in fist fight recently ON
the hoor of the house of representa-
tiYes.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Mrs. Bradley in salt IL.

HaVlng sold sufficient books to Sc
cure transportation west, Mrs. Annie
bradley is now in Salt Lake with her
family to enter civil action to secure
part OF the late Senator Browns es-
tate. Brown left property worth abont
100000 to his son Max and daughter
Alice. 'oi
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Boy Sends Power bv wir.,..s

worcester, Mass, Dec. 24.-Harrv
M. Grout, 10 year old Spencer bow.
mas gone Marconi one better and has
succeeded in operating electric lights
and motors by electromagnetic waves
at distances of 900 feet and more
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
Prominent Woman Dead.

Mrs. Theodore Weld Birney. foun-
der and honorary president of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers, died at
her home in Chevy Chase, near Wash
ngton, d. c., recently.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
BILLIONS IN THE 1907 CROPS
Wheat Brings More Than A Half
Billlon-Stupendous Sums From
American Farms.

Washington, Dec 23.-The total
value of the farm crops for 1907 GOV,
cred in today's census crop reports
was SS,4O4 ,OOOO 900, an increase of $47S,-
100000 over 1906. The farm value on
December 1 of four chief grain crops
follows:
Corn, $3.50, 446,OOO; winter wheat
$36l,211OOO; spring wheat, $19S, 22O,-
600; oats. 1884, SOS, 900.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27

It Is easier TO tell the truth than
to ten a lie. particularly a plausible
Ne.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27

Talk happiness. People get tired of
hearing your woes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11

A matinee girl from Chicago looked
up from long and painful study OF
one Of Clyde Fitch's autographed sen
timents into that authors face.
"Mr. Fitch" she began mournfully
81 know why you have not married"
'"Tell me. 1 would like to know"
Certainly. 1t must have happened
this way: You wrote a proposal OF
marriage to a beautiful leading wo
man in one of your companies. You
should have proposed in person. But
you wrote. She couldn't read your
writing and thought it was a dismiss
al from the company. She drowned
herself, and you are still unmarried"
The dramatic author thoughtfully
rolled cigarette.
cit is as good q reason as 1 know
he responded.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
BIGGEST of All Animals.

The sulphur bottom-or blue whale, as
it is better called by the Norwegians-
is not only the largest living animal
but the largest that has ever lived,
reaching a length of eighty feet OF
very rarely little more. Whales grow
much larger than this in books and
newspapers, but in actual life not one
in a dozen even of this species attains
a length of eighty feet. The popular
idea of whale is that it is a clumsy
animal, but, as shown by models, II
has the graceful lines of yacht. The
total weight of whale is about sixty
tons, and unusually large and fat indi'
viduals must reach at least sixty-fve
tons. The largest animal of the past
so far discovered is the great Dinosaur
brontosaurus, and this big reptile
weighed about thirty-eight tons.-3IU-
scum News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
Trottinq Mare Dorothy Dombey.

After being sold to a Berlin horseman
for $4,000 by her former English own
er, e. A. Robinson, the little gray
trottirS mare Dorothy Dombey has
just closed a campaign of fifteen con-
tests, in which her best time was equal
to 2:14a, though she took first money
seven times and second money five
times and showed in the money three
times for a gross result of $4,3O5 in
stakes. Her average time was no bet
ter than 2:19, which is rated a star
trotting performance in Germany.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
Football Notes.

The University of Pennsylvania foot
bail players have a $4,000 clubhouse
on Franklin field, and Mike Murphy
allows them many privileges not usual
~ held to be consistent for men in
training.
Houser, the Indians wonderful kick
er and fullback, is one of the Chey-
enne tribe and went to Carlisle from
Oklahoma. His age is twenty-one
height five feet eleven inches, and he
weighs III pounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
Arnv-Nauu Game.

A football team that is good enOug'
to hold Yale to a to score is some
thing of team; so is one that permits
Harvard to gain only a single touch
down, and that one the result of n
fluke, all of which indicates that the
Army Navy game on Franklin field,
Philadelphia, this year ought to be a
hummer.
Last years sensational triumph Of
Annapolis, after years Of defeat, re-
moved the popular impression that the
greater age of the cadets gave them
an advantage that deprived the mid
dies Of hopes OF victory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
Although well known to scandina-

Although well known to Scandina-
VANS, Carlsson's fame has not ex-
tended outside the bordering waters of
the far north peninsula There he has
sailed race after race for cups given
by prominent yachtsmen of Stock
holm, and he has been successful in
most of them. The boats, however
were small. What he would be able to
do with ninety footer is difficult to
say. No doubt he would make her
foot fast but whether he would be
able to- handle cup size yacht the
way Barr and Wringe have done is a
question.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
The Painter Man.

Mark Twain at a dinner at New
York once talked about the troubles OF
housekeepers at the painting season
He said, "If you are a housekeeper,. ]
don't need to tell you that when a
painter has taken up the parlor carpet
removed the furniture from the dining
room, leaned two ladders against the
hall mantel and stacked a half dozen
variegated cans of paint on the side.
board it means he is now ready to
paint the outside shutters and the back
fencpo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
Carlson, Swedish Yacht Race Star.

In view Of the probability Of Sweden
challenging for the Americas cup
yachtsmen here are much interested
in the man selected to take the helm
of the challenger. IN most cases of the
kind the boat and her designer have
been considered first, but this time it
seems TO be a case Of getting some
thing for John Carlson to sail. He
was chosen to command the cup hunt
er before even the size of the boat was
decided unOn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
The Chance.

''You don't love me as you used to, y
declared the termagant wife. Before
we were married you considered me
absolutely perfect
Yes" Interrupted the downtrodden
husband, "but now you're perfectly alb.
solute. "-Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
The One Room House.

4 very modern architect predicts the
house of one large room, a small cleo
trio kitchen attached and an enormous
inclosed porch with facilities for out
door sleeping. Whether housekeepers
In general viii care for his scheme or
not is a question, but it is undoubtedly
true that the comparatively small kitch-
en-, the big porch and the generous Iiv-
ing room have come to stay.-House
Beautiful.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11

ONE WAY OF EXECUTING THE FORWARD
PASS.
pass. The throw is surer, more accu-
rate and less apt to be blocked when
two hands are used.
Another method is the end over end
pass. The fingers lap considerably over
the end of the ball in order to secure a
firm grasp.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
CircumstantiaI Evidence.

Mrs. Coburgger-It isn't right to
charge Freddie with taking that mon
ey out Of your pocket. Why don't you
accuse me? burgger-Because Il
wasn't all taken.-Harper's Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-11
The SPORTING WORLD
The Forward Pass,

Probably the chief topic among foot.
ball experts this year is the forward
pass and its variations. 1t is one Of
the elements of the new gridiron game
that makes the play more open and
less dangerous.
In the accompanying cut is shown a
correct way to make a short forward
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-17
May n Man whip His wirc:

Editor of Tho Times-D Dispatch:
Sir,--l havo been waiting'to see II any
ono would condemn the recent extra
ordinary decision of a Richmond judge,
by which the crime Of wife beating"
has been permitted and indorsed, and
am glad to see that at least ono Vir-
ginia paper has shown it's disapproval
When l first read the Item / thought
it must be negro and his wife that
We're referred to- and bad enough that
would have been for the inferior race.
But no, the decision affects the Anglo
Saxon, the white man, with all his
proud heritage Of Christian civilization.
And this in the twentieth century! This
in Virginia, the abode Of chivalry, as
we had always fondly supposed! And
the case Is thus stated: A man may
innict upon his wife the disgrace and
insult Of a. blow. If she has given
him what is vulgarly called q tongue
lashing" The tongue Is the woman's
weapon" and poor, weak man, having
no tongue, must defend himself in
the matrimonial fracas with his fist,
We arc told that woman has more
nuency In the lower forms Of speech
than man, and now because the man is
slower and duller In tho art Of scold-
Ing, he Is to revenge himself for this
inequality by recourse to the argu-
ment of the brute--personal violerce
And this decision goes forth through
the press to ali parts of the land
setting precedent for any rlfIiar
who may find At TO suit his case, he
lpf course, being the sole Judge.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-17
QUACIk NOsTRUMs.

1T is predicted" says our Washing
ton correspondent that the present
telegraph strike will have the effect
Of encouraging those people who be-
lieve the government should own all
public utilities as we'll as the purely
socinlistc class. which contends for
government ownership Of practically
all sources of supply of necessities, or
"near-neceSsities," of daily life.
But would government ownership Of
the telegraph lines prevent the opera
tors from striking? If the government
owned all the wires and employed all
the operators, and the operators should
shorter hours, what would the govern
ment do? IT would have to yield to
the demand, or see the operators walk
out. True, II might issue court injunc-
lions restraining the men from strik-
ing, or an imperial decree commanding
them TO remain mt their posts. And
1t might back up It's iniunctions and
DEGREES with Federal troops. But
while that may be done in Russia, il
would hardly be tolerated in free
America,
All such remedies as our CORE
! spondent refers to are us aunck nos
trums. Our system has its defects. but
socialism is remedy for nothing. II
| we cannot solve our railroad problems
| our corporation problems, our. labo,
,1f.,,a
to government ownership and opera
ton we are incapable of self-govern-
ment, and should surrender our indi-
yidual liberty and elect a car to ruiz
over us.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-17
Norton. 81.

making invidious distinctions 1t may
be said that we have In our own expo
sition ono that Is unique IN many
ways, Of varied interest and educa-
tive. Tho location, fronting ono of
the finest harbors on the coast and with
all kinds of craft In plain view, Is
unexcelled. The buildings OF the expo
sition, colonial in architecture, and all
but few OF them permanent. give an
impression of dignity and solidity-and
welcome The State buildings, from
Kentucky's replica OF Boone's fort, built
of pine logs and set in pine grove,
to the palaces of homes built by Vlr-
ginia or New York, solid structures on
the water front, are filled with interest
to the visitor. Tho Negro Building.
placed In the negro reservation, Is a
credit to the race. The exhibits from
India, Japan, Austria. California, the
Middle West and especially the South
Atlantic slope, are fascinating. even to
one who has visited expositions before.
In such a wealth it is difficult to spec
|ify, but was especially impressed with
the West Virginia tower of coal, 160
feet high, 16 feet square at the base,
and trimmed with electric lights; two
solid blocks of coal, one weighing five
tons and the other six, In the Mines
and Metallurgy Building; the educa-
tional exhibit, Of public schools and
the higher institutions of learning, es-
pecially the exhibit OF Virginia, which
is itself worth a trip to the exposi-
ton; the exhibits made by the several
railroads of the South--the Chesapeake
and Ohio, Southern, Atlantic Coast Line,
Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk and West
ern. Norfolk and Southern and others
showing the attractions along these
arteries of trade; the all-steel Pullman;
tableaux, in the Negro Building. show
ing the development of the race from
savagery to the present. The govern
ment exhibits, as usual, are of high
order, the Fisheries Building being es-
pecially frequcnted. The Warpath,
brilliantly illuminated, is the popular
numerous side-trips may be taken at
small cost,
The prices, whatever may have been
stated, are reasonable, hotels and res
taurants suiting all purses being with
in convenient reach Here, as else
where, the visitor may spend just what
he chooses. The prices, on an average,
are but little. IL at all. higher than at
cafes of equal grade in Richmond or
Baltimore.
| Interested as all of us should be In
| the success of the first exposition ever
| held in Virginia, l trust that our peo-
| pie will not let slip this opportunity
lof seeing for themselves what James
own has to offer. To see Will be to
De convinced. j. GRAY McAILISTER.
| Winchester, Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

\ safety match factory In Canton is to be
established at an early date on the eastern
end of the new bund.
The United States has the largest foreign
population. Argentina. where twelve out of
every hundred are foreigners ranks second.
A paper published in France. devoted to
viticulture. estimates the worlds wine crop
a. 3775.O6o. 900 gallons, ninety five per cent.
of which Is made In Europe.
The viceroy Of Canton has sanctioned the
installation of wireless telcgraphy in the
various parts of the city. wireless tele-
graph school is to be opened,
The American sweet tooth during the past
yca consumed 6,5oo,Ooo,Oo0 pounds of
sugar. valued at $500. 900. This Is sew
| enty-six pounds per year for every resident
The corporation OF Richmond, an impor-
tant London suburb, the other day raised
the salary of its librarian to 1915 week
ami that Of the porter to 1926.
a disabled fireman of Constantinople does
| not necessarily leave the service after his
mishap. If his legs and voice arc still good
he may aspire to the position OF fire crier.
{, Morris Rosenfeld. the poet of the Ghetto
whose death was recently enormously report
! ed in Vienna. is now at a mountain resat in
New York State, and his wants are supplied
through n fund which has been raised by
tho people Of the East Side
General James II. Baker, Of Mankato,
MirE,. who was Commissioner OF Pensions
urder President Grant, Is visiting Washing
! ton for the first time in many years. and has
bSen entertained by a number Of veterans,
whose pension certificates he signed nearly
/ fcrty years ago
/ f Mrs Samuel r. Kltson, widow OF the
/ sculptor, has Just delivered to st. Charles
\ Borronieos Church, New Yo.k, a largo
marble statue of Christ, carved from her
husbands model. Mrs: liitson has opened
a studio In New York, and will continue her
husbands work In ecclesiastical! art from the
models left by him
Lord Elphinstone, who on July ~ cele-
Ibrated his thirty-elghth birthday, Is one OF
the eligible bachelors In the pecrage, He
/ Is n noted hunter of big game The Elphin-
I stores have held lands in the Lothians
/ since the fourteenth century, ana Carberry
/ Tcwer the family seat Is In Midlothian,
/ from when Stott's novel. "The Heart Of
/ Midlothian" takes Its title.