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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18

The Del Rio property has been
recognized for several years as
one of the promising mines at
the Hump and during the early
days of the camp stock in the
prospect sold as high as ten
cents share. The property al
ready has a tunnel 500 feet long
on it and work to the value of
$4,000 has been done on the
mine. The ore is a gold bearing
quartz that looks pretty rich and
the stockholders believe they
will encounter rich body of ore
when the tunnel is run in an
other hundred feet, as it will
then be directly below the out
cropping of the ledge on the sur
face some 325 feet above the
the tunnel level. Paying ore
has been encountered for quite a
distance along the tunnel already
completed and the company
thinks when the tunnel is driven
another hundred feet and an air
shaft opened enough rich ore
will be in sight to justify the
erection of a mill on the proper
ty.
The company will probably
sell enough. stock in the mine
to raise money with which to
complete the tunnel, after which
it is believed no trouble will be
had to make the mine pay for
future development itself.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18
Dupont Powder Works Blow Up

The town of Fontanet, Indiana,
a city of a thousand people, was
entirely wiped out Tuesday
morning by the explosion of the
Dupont Powder Works. The ex-
plosion came without warning
and seven of the big mills blew
up with terrific force within a
few minutes of each other.
Practically every building in the
town of Fontanet was annihilat-
ed and for miles in the country
on every side buildings were torn
down by the concussion which
was felt fully 200 miles away.
About 35 employees at work in
the plant were killed and fully
500 people in the town and at
the mill were seriously injured
by the explosion.
In the surrounding country
several school houses were shak-
en- down over the heads of the
school children and while scores
of them were injured none were
killed by the falling buildings.
After the explosion the ruins
caught fire and many persons
caught in the debris were burn
ed to death before they could be
rescued. Over 1000 kegs of
powder were in the magazine
when it blew up and this explo-
sion is what did the heaviest
damage. The loss to the powder
works alone will reach over
$3.50, 900 while it is impossible to
estimate the other damage done.
The wounded are all in hos
pitfalls and it will be some days
before the list of fatalities from
the accident can be fully de-
termined.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18

Our fall and winter line of
goods is now in and we can save
you money on all your needs for
the cold weather. Trade with
us and you will not be disap-
pointed as our prices are right
and goods the best. A. H. Nau
& Co., Ferdinand, Idaho.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18
Idaho Co. Made Good Showing

Visitors returning from the
Lewiston fair state that the ex-
hibits there from Idaho county
great interest and came
near to earring off the prize.
The grain and fruits shown from
this county took practically all
the prizes in their class and had
the exhibits been more generally
collected and covered a wider
variety there is no doubt but
that Idaho county would have
carried off the reward for the
best county exhibit. AS it was
it opened the eyes of all the fan
visitors and if the matter is
taken up in time another year
and worked out properly this
county will be able to show the
lower country products such as
il will have hard time to equal.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18
/" Head Office to Cottonwood.

f. Fuchs and George Ter
!. went to Nezperce Tuesday
sena the annual meeting
II. SSecuon of officers of the Del
ninlng & Milling Co., which
= group of seven promising
IN the Hump district
'sast Of Grangeville. AT
n.r meeting Tuesday w. L.
"Crth y was elected presi-
a..1 GEORGE Terhaar, vice
is' .a9 M. F. Fuchs, secre-
uu treasurer, and A. F.
general manager. It
I,so ~ decided to move the
os,ns lse OF the company from
,De ,,I 70 Cottonwood and the
viii be made within the
Ssa .'y days, or as soon as
i bssSary legal formalities
SOne through with.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18
VoIlmer Co. Has
An Immense Crop
With Combined Harvester Cuts
and Threshes 10000 Bushels of
Grain from ZOO Acres of Cam
as Prairie Soil.

W. l. Long, manager of the
farm interests of the Vollmer-
Clearwater Co. on Camas Prairie,
was in Cottonwood Monday on
business from Ferdinand and
gave the CHRONICLE some inter
esting figures regarding the i'm
mense crop Of grain harvested
by his company in this section
this year.
Mr.. Longs company had in
crop this year on Camas Prairie
some 1900 acres of land and
from this a total of 60, 600 bushels
of grain has been harvested.
The yield from every field was
enormous and the way the grain
poured out from the combin-
ed harvester was astounding. The
barley yielded an average of 60
bushels per acre throughout the
entire acreage sown while the
wheat went As bushels, oats Is
bushels and flax 18 bushels per
cre. All of the grain was of
he finest quality and the wheat,
aid Mr.. Long, averages 139
pounds to the sack.
Practically all of this grain was
ut and threshed with a combin-
ID harvester with the aid of five
nen and about 80 head of horses.
The machine was among the first
II its kind to be used on the
raHie, and while tried as an ex-
eriment, has been found so
satisfactory that Mr.. Long said
second machine would be used
v him next year to aid in har-
esting his grain.
With the use of the compined
srvester Mr.. Long said he
ould cut, thresh and put the
rain in the sack at a cost of
bout $1.50 per acre while under
be other method the same work
| Ot about $3.50 an acre, thus
PaVng clear profit of So an
/ cre When it is considered that
evil farm from 1900 to 1000
GreS year it will be readily
zen that this profit is not one
be easily overlooked. While
ecombined machine might not
Y on the average small farm it
undoubtedly just the thing on
Y large one and is proving
ore popular every year. Be
! deS threshing the grain it
sonns it through a cleaning
II wee and takes out all the for
gnsubstance, thus filling the
Shs with perfectly clean grain
ale the refuse seed, such as
oats, cookie, ect., is run into
Ks at a different spout and moi
0Ted to scatter broadcast over
s elnd.
while the above figures may
y large to some they can bt
Sanuated at any time anC
90 further to show thai
-las Prairie is one of the finest
ang districts in the world.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18

A bed of kaolin, a fine white
clay used in making china and |
proclaim, has been found near
Idaho Falls.
B. C. Dowdy, an orchardist
just out side the Moscow city
limits, sold his crop of winter
apples from IA acres to Kansas
buyer for 1900.
Mathew Wolf, a young Indian,
was found de ad in a barn at
Culdesac Tuesday afternoon,
having evidently died from the
effects of a protracted spree.
Walker Davis is reported to
have sold his entire band of
sheep on Salmon river to Holt &
Rhoades and Bracket Bros.
The ewes brought SIS a head and
the lambs So.
1t is reported that an army of
small boys and some men made
good wages at Lewiston after
the fair by working the sawdust
along the street and picking up
coins that had been dropped
by fair visitors.
Eight hundred and forty
seven tons of beets were crushed
for sugar making purposes at
the Nampa sugar factory one
day last week. This is an in
crease of 1O1 tons over the work
of any previous day.
It is reported that George
Smith and Hans Gilbertson, who
have been employed on the Free
Press at GrangevilIe for some
time, have ordered a newspaper
and job plant and will start an
anti-Ailshie republican paper at
Grangeville early in December.
Both oil and gas were struck
at the oil we'll being bored at
Payette by the Oregon Oil and
Gas company at a depth of 400
feet. Gas is pouring out of the
well in a steady flow, although
at times it is stronger than at
others. The company intends
to go down farther.
The prune packing season has
about closed, and approximately
400 carloads of the famous fruit
of Idaho have been shipped from
the Boise section to the Eastern
markets, aside from the many
small orders for choice varieties
which have been filled and ship
ped to all parts of the world.
White Brothers & Crum, the
Lewiston fruit dealers, have
purchased of Ben E. Kelly the
former Bishop fruit farm on
lower Snake river, the price
paid being 100000. The farm
contains $40 acres of land, 80
acres being in fruit. Two years
ago Kelly purchased the place
for $19, 800 and he cleared SIS, 900
from it this year from the fruit
sold.
A dispatch from Spokane
states that Jack Simpkins, whose
body was reported to have been
found recently near Pierce City,
was recently seen in that city by a
newspaper man who talked with
him for some time and found him
in good health and spirits. AS
he was also recently reported
seen in Alaska and sevearl other
places it is possible all reports
are myths.
Clarence DeFord, of Grange
vile, was shot in the hand with
a % rifle Monday and badly IN
iured. He was out with a hunt
| ing party and was riding IN a
wagon, when a couple OF the
bovs who had been walking
ahead stopped to ride, and in
getting into the rig the gun car
ried by one Of them was dist
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18
News Around
The Stale

Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-StOries Rehashed from
our ExChaugs.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18

Read the Sims-McKinney Co.
ad. It will interest you.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18

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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-18

charged and the bullet tore
through the DeFord boys hand.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
Won BUELOW'Sl APPEAL.
SOCIALISM 4TT4CKED.
German ChancellOr~OutLines the Coz
ernmentS Position.

Berlin. Jan. 2.-ChEnceilor Won Bulow to-day
disclosed the motives and aims of the govern
ment in dissolving the Reichstag in a vigorous
election manifesto in the form of a letter to
Lieutenant General Liebert, chairman of
the managing committee ,of the Empire League,
formed to combat the Social Democrats The
Chancellor explained that he had double pur-
pose in appealing to the country namely to
free the government from dependence on the
Clerical party and to strengthen the Liberal
groups in the Rechstag so that they in COM
bination with the Conservatives, might sue.
cessfuy oppose the growth and destructive
power Of Socialism, and reactionary Clericalsrn
referring to the Socialist danger. the Chancel-
lor said
Not only are itst communistic dreams of the
future hostile to civilization but so are it's
means for realizing them by brute force ANY
tendency toward reaction to be found anywhere
IN Germany is due to the Socialists under1nn-
ing The popular conceptions of authority, prop
erty, religion and the Fatherland The sword
of Bonaparte followed Robespierre-the sirnn,e
citizen who became mad drunk with the doc~
Irlnes OF liberty. equality and fraternity.
Communists.
Repelling the intimatiCsl of the Clerical marty,
that the government nseditated plans against
the freedom of the Church. the Chancellor said
that in many Catholic countries the Catholi,
Church was not. so well treated as in Germany
No Representatives of the federated governr1ents
thought Of interfering with religious equality
before the law or with freedom of conscience or
contemplated the exercise of pressure against
the Catholic faith Every statement to the con-
trary was simply am attempt TO religion as
a means TO further 'the interests OF "a political
group.
The Chancellor then announced that his po-
lE,An,
honor and prosperity of the nation against the
Social Democrats, Pdes. Guelfsi and Centrists -
Prince Btow added thaa he named the
Social Democrats first because every defeat OF
the Social Democracy means reducing their
blind presumption and strengthening confidence
in the steady progress of Germanys internal
development"
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
CHARGES AGAINST REACTIoNIsTs.
More Plots of League of Russian People
Reported Discovered.

St Petersburg. Jan. 2.-The revelations of the
secret committee Of the Constitutional Demo-
Gratis in regard TO the murder OF former Deputy
Hertzenstein. were published by the "Rech" to-
day. The League OF the Russian People, which
is held responsible for the crime, has among its
leaders DR.. DubrOvin, president of the Union Of
the Russian People, and Count KOnOvitsin. head
of the organization known as the True Russian
People: Count Apraxine and one of the Princes
Volkonsky Il is one Of the legalized political
parties which is preparing to take an active part
II the coming elections
Additional evidence has been obtained tracing
10 the same reactionary organization a plot TO
murder Joseph Hessec, Editor of the ''Rech, .
and N. Milukof. leader of tie Constitutional
Democrats. No arrests have yet been made. but
Investigations Of the charges have begun.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
BIG RUSSIAN BUDGET
REVENUES INCREASING
Need of Subservient Parliament
Bond Issue IN Germanu.

St Petersburg, Jan. 2-The preliminary budget
estimates prepared by the Ministry of Finance
for the first six months of 1907. beginning Janu-
airy il, provide 523415o00 for regular expendi-
lures an increase of SIS s9G OO0, or 81 per cent.
compared with the expenditures for the same
period of 1906. The greater part of tho increase
will be absorbed in the payment of the interest
on the big loan of 1906, which increased ne total
interest charges from S11 O9S. 600 to s94 73O 600
The second largest item is an increase Of &c.
$4,000 in the budget of the Ministry of Finance
raising the total TO 800 435 900 for that depart
nlent. chiefly to provide for the increased manu-
facture of spirits. to the steadily increasing
consumption
Other important items in the budget are Se5-
O95 600 for the War Ministry. S76,01s 900 for the
navy. S11S670000 for railroads. s33, $50 600 for
the Ministry OF the Interior. $13094 900 for the
Ministry of Justice. and $11O4OOOO for educa-
ton.
The estimates fer the extraordinary expendi-
lures. including large sums which are to be de-
voted TO army reform, education and possibly to
naval construction, have not yet been published.
The new estimates do not contemplate a def
icit in the budget of 1906. which foresaw deficit
Of S79,0o0o0o. but this and the increased provis-
:on for famine relief and other purposes during
the year are covered by an increase in the reve-
nues over the estimates, which up to November
i reached s102, 100000 and was steadily grow
ing
The government, as announced. expects to re-
tire all its outstanding short term obligations
this month, but will issue about 100000 anew
in Germany.
The constitutionality of the increase of s1S,-
5s6 600 in the estimates for 1907 is attacked by
the press because the new Fundamental law
provides that the regular budgets must be ap-
proved by parliament and that the provisional
budgets issued in the interim between the
sessions of parliament cannot exceed proper
tionally those of the preceding budget. The gov
ernment holds however. that the increase in
the interest charges is unavoidable and hopes
that parliament when it is convoked will ap-
prove the other items.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03

will not build railroad track. equipment, enlarge
and simplify terminals nor transform incompe-
tent operating officials into flrstclass railroad
but IL might stimulate energize, and. In some
cases revoutionize the methods of delinquent rail-
roads that they would render the service which
they were created to render This is the theory OF
reciprocal demurrage. But that Of itself 1t will
enable the railroad to render adequate service is
not demonstrated by experience
The need for additional legislation reach the
of the trouble Is shown by the closing para
graph of the report wherein 1t Is said:
If the Interstate Commerce Commission is to be
vested with power to make rules under which rail-
roads shall be required upon penalty. TO furnish
cars to shippers, this commission should also be
empowered to make rules under which free inter-
change of shall be effected or to require rail-
roads engaging In interstate commerce to make
such rules for their protection and provide for
their enforcement.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
GYPSY KING WITH AN EVIL EYE"
Tribes Petition President to Deport Him, Al
leging Extortion and Fraud.
LBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

Memphis. Jan. 2-More than two hundred gypsies
spending the winter in Memphis. and representing
the leading tribes OF America. sent message TO
President Roosevelt tonight. begging him protect
them from one Reosotcho a Romany. who says he
king of the worlds gypses and has power of life
and death them Reosotcho Is said to be
torting money from tribes all America through
his alleged ''evil eye" and the chiefs trembie be-
fore him Leaders OF the local encampment ask
the President have Reoslotcho deported. alleg-
ing that he gained admission to the United States
through false representations.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
DOES NOT WANT HILL TO BE SENATOR.
Governor of Michigan, While III, Issues
Statement of Accusation.

Detroit. Jan. 2.-Follotving a report to-day
from Lansing. that combination had been
effected between Arthur Hill. of Saginaw. ons
of the four Republican candidates for election
by the State Legislature as United States Sem
ator, and State Railroad Commissioner T. W.
Atwood one of the prominent Republican lead.
ers OF the state, Governor Fred NJ. Warner who
is sick In bed at his home in Pennington. to-day
issued signed statement declaring that he is
now unalterably opposed to the election OF Mr..
Sill The Governor, in his statement, says in
part
For some time there have been rumors. some
CT which at least deserve careful investigation
before they dismissed. that there have been
improper methods used in advancing his cam
didacy.
have heard more Of these rumors from Mr.
Atwood than from any other person. L believe
that the people OF this state would, If given an
oDportunfty unite with me in my desire to
rebuke such alleged methods.
I exceedingly regret my inability 10 be at the
Capitol tonight. If I could be there and there
should be any danger of Mr. Hills election
under the circumstances. / should plead with
every member Of the Legislature 10 at least
delay the matter for one week for further con-
sideration and above all that the members
might talk the matter over with their cOnstitu-
ents. No honest man would suffer by such ad-
tournament, and no others need any protection
at the hands of the Republican party
The Republican caucus for the selection Of
candidate for United States Senator was held
tonight. and adjourned for one week without
balIoting
Lansing Mich, Jan. 2.-Arthur Hill. of Sag
inaw. when shown Governor Warmers state
ment declared that he had never used any i'm
proper methods TO secure votes. and called upon
the legislators and people OF the state TO defend
him against such imputatiOn-
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
@YaNks" AND nREss" TO MEET IN PEACE.

Wilmington, y. c.. Jan 2-Invitations were sent
to-day TO Admiral George Dewey and Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans United States Navy. asking
them TO be present January 10 at the reunion Oh
the Blue and Gray the grounds OF the MEM
orahla engagement between the Confederate and
Federal forces at Fort Fisher, ~ G. Rear Ad-
Tnral Evans was wounded during the attack on
the fort. The invitation Is from the Fort -.
SURVIVORS Association.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
RRiTAIh's JAMESTOWN SQUADRON

London, Jan. 2-The admiraltys decision send
the first cruiser division to Hampton Roads for
the opening OF the jamestown Exposition will give
Great Britain exceptionally strong naval rep
resentation, as the division Is made up of six of
the best types of armOred cruisers, including the
Good Hope, Antrim, Argyle, Devonshre. Hamp-
shire and Roxburgh. Later the division will visit
other American ports.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
COTTON CARGO ON FIRE

Haiifax. Jan with her cargo on fire tho BRIT,
iSh steamer Chirngorm. bound from Galveston De-
9 ior Liverpool with cotton put into this
port to-day. Captain Gibson said thar the a. 80
discovered on Friday last. and as efforts to exttn
guish II were unavailing IT was decided 10 ru, ror
Halifax The holds sealed and when the
heated, 1e flames had not burst tbromsb Sb b =
on board l29o square bales and 700 round bales OF
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
MOVE AGAINST RAISULI.,
Troops Going to 4rziIa-Prisoners
Sent from Zindt.

Tangier. Jan. 2.-The Minister Of War Sidi
Mahomet Gabbas. has decided TO send six hun
dred men and a detachment. Of mountain artil-
lery Arzilla, the town in possession of RAJ
sun. Hearing OF this move. Raisui sent TO Ar
zilla all the prisoners who were confined in the
stronghold at Zinat, and'then ordered the gates
of the city to be closed against the troops of
the Sultan
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
COURT QUESTIONS INDIAN RULINGS.
Federal Body at Omaha Holds Invalid Regu-
lation Unauthorized by Congress.
BY Telegraph to The Tribune. I

Omaha. Jan. 2-The federal court issued decree
to-day which practically declares that the rules OF
the Interior Department for the government OF
Indians cannot be enforced unless authorized by
Congress The ruling will have the effect of revo-
lutionizing the present system of governing the
Indians. The decision was rendered In case
brought by Thomas Sloan against Grsen Rainbow.
from the reservation for infringement of depart
ment rule The court sustained Sloan because Con-
gress had not given the department specific insruc
ucra to make such ruling.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
la FoLLETTE's BROTHER ARRESTED.
Charge of Libel Against Editor in Conneo-
ton with Kaufman Case.
GBy Telegraph to The tribune ]

Mitchell. S. D., Jan. 2-W. T. La Toilette.
brother OF Senator La Toilette and editor Of
THE Mitchell Gazette was arrested here to-
night charged with criminal libel by Joseph
Kirby. a lawyer of Sioux Falls. La Toilette re-
Gently commented upon the arrest of Sioux
Falls editor on a charge of criminal libel made
by Kirby.
Both arrests are the result of bitter feeling
caused by the trial of Mrs. Moses Kaufman
for the murder OF a servant girl.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
COUNCIL OF BISHOPS CALLED.
French Prelates Summoned to Discuss Situa-
ton Of Church.

Paris, Jan. "A plenary council of French
bishops, 10 discuss the situation OF the Church
IN France, has been summoned TO meet on Janu-
ary u. at the Chateau de la Muette
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
BULGARIAN RAILWAY STRIKE.

Sofa. Jan. 2.-The employees OF the state rail
roads haye gone out strike because OF the re-
fusal Of their demands for increased wages. The
government has taken prompt measures to insure
tho continuance of traffic, and will military
locomotive drivers 20 this end
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
REMNANT OF A TURKISH FORCE.
One Thousand Out of Four Thousand Men
Return from Arabia.

Bushire, Persia, Jan "A thousand Turkish
soldiers the remnant Of about four thousand
Sent to the Nejd Peninsula two years ago to sup
press the Arab revolt, has returned TO Busreh.
Aslatic Turkey. in a deplorable condition. Over
two thousand Of their comrades died from dis
ease CT starvation. and TIE rest deserted
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
MINISTERS RESIGNS AS coNs,u

Washington. Jan. 2-Frederick McMasters. Amer
lean Consul at Zanzibar, has rendered his reslgna-
tion and plans to embark in private business He
assigns his reason for his resignation the I'm
possibility of properly conducting the consulate at
Zanzibar the $3.50 salary authorized by law
1t is said at the State Department that there are
charges pending against Mr.. McMasters.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-03
ALLEGED TRAIN RoBBER ARRESTED.
Prisoner Identified as Man Who Held Up Sea-
board Air Line Express.

Richmond, Va. Jan. "A man charged with
being the one who Sunday night held up and
robbed the passengers on a Seaboard Air Line
train at La Crosse. Va. was arrested here to-
night and fully identified by the conductor and
porter of that train.