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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaII Trade Is Good.
IDAHO NEWS.

The government has flied suit in the
circuit court at Boise to set aside 215
patents, involving 10000 acres of tim
Der in Boise county, against the Bar
Der Lumber company. The property
is worth over million dollars. Fraud
is alleged in securing the title to the
lands.
Occur d'Alene City has ceased to be
a village and is now a city of the
second class.
The secretary of the treasury has
purchased site for the new public
building at Lewiston. The property
was owned by r. Schleicher and is 10
Gated at the southwest corner of
Twelfth and F streets. Price $4,000.
Verna Smith, young man of 20,
was drowned at the Dinsmore saw
mill, near Moscow, recently. He was
engaged in the drive on the pond at
the mill and slipped between the logs
and drowned before help reached him.
His parents reside at Independence,
Ore.
The state land sale for Latah county
Saturday was largely attended. About
60 tracts were sold. The price ranged
from $40 to $26 per acre. The Pot
latch and the Monarch Lumber CON-
panies were the heaviest purchasers.
The sale netted the county about
$4,000.
Frank s. Dietrich, recently appointed
to succeed James H. Beatty, judge of
the circuit court of the district of
Idaho, took the oath of office Satur-
day and entered upon the discharge of
his duties
June q is the date which has been
for the big open air initiation
of the Woodmen Of the World to be
held on one of the mountains near
Wardner.
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
cific railroad is planning a local train
between Spokane and Missoula, to
make a daylight run between those
points.
The Wallace Times has been incor-
porated for 100000.
The supreme court has appointed |.
w. Hart as clerk.
A cold snap visited Boise Saturday
and caused some minor damage to the
fruit. The record at Boise was go.
Both sides are ready for the open
ing of the trial of Haywood, Western |
Federation of Miners official
Gwynn Fuller, a rancher living near
Emmett became insane Friday and |
burned down his own building. He
was placed in iail
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

| The annual horse show which was
held in Dayton Saturday was one of
the most successful ever held. Near
ly every farmer in the county was in
town with his family.
Mrs. Elizabeth (NefD Walters, who
died at her home near Kettle Falls re-
Gently, was one of the pioneer women
Of Stevens county.
A fire recently destroyed the resi-
dence of Thomas Powell of Cumber-
land, Wash, a small coal mining
town on the Buckley line of the North
ern Pacific railway. The names of
the dead are Thomas Powell and
wife, and Thomas Mcdonald, all re-
ported to have been burned to a
crisp
Fire completely destroyed the plant
of the Seattle Daily Star Saturday
night, consuming the building, a one
stroy frame structure, in which the
plant was located. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, covered only by &c.
900 insurance.
G. F. Christfanson, Spokane, has
been honored by being awarded the
Royal Humane society medal and GER
tifcate. The Canadian branch of that
order has voted the medal to the Spo-
kane boy for saving the life of C. E.
Berglund in the Kettle river last July.
Mary Ann Cashmere, an Indian wo-
man, was killed recently on an Indian
ranch near Marcus by an Indian named
Saul LOWE.
After spending fully an hour kneel-
ing in prayer, Bridget McDermott
pressed her lips to a vial of poison,
reeled and fell dying in the new
Church of the Immaculate Conception
in Seattle.
Dan Evans, one Of the men injured
in the Great Northern wreck near Orc
vile, died at the hospital. A brake
man named Jerry Foley was caught
between two cars on the Great North
ern near Curlew and was killed in
stantly.
The state board of finance has select
ed the following financial institutions
as repositories for state funds under
the law passed at the last session of
the legislature: The Old National
bank of Spokane, Traders National
bank of Spokane, Colfax National
bank OF Colfax, Baker-Boyer National
bank of Walla Walla, Washington
State bank of Ellensburg, First Ma
tional bank of Bellingham, Bank of
Commerce Of Seattle, Union Savings
& Trust of Seattle, Dexter, Horton &
Co. of Seattle, Fidelity Trust of Ia
coma, Capital National bank of Olym.
pia, Security State bank of Chehalis.
The rate of interest to be paid on
average daily balances by all the de-
positories is to be 2 per cent, as fixed
by law.
A. R. Moore, veteran of the civil
war and an old resident of Walla Wal
la, died recently.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
MONTANA ITEMS.

The statement has been made in
Missoula by one we'll versed with
Northern Pacific affairs that the North
ern Pacific will dig a three-mile tun,
mel through the Helena hill.
The interstate debate held in Mis-
soula Friday night between teams rep
resenting the Washington State col
lege and the University of Montana
was won by the Washington team after
cGe of the most spirited contests of its
kind ever heard in this city. Force.
tul and convincing arguments were
made by both sides. There were three
judges, one of whom decided in favor
Of Montana. The subject of the de-
bate was Resolved, That cities in the
United States Of 5000 inhabitants and
over should own and operate their own
street railways" Washington took
the affirmative and Montana the neg.
alive.
Burt Kincher a cowboy sutton for
the hand of the 14-year-old daughter
of B. F. Moulton. one of the best
known stockmen in central Montana,
was instantly killed Sunday morning
during a duel with Moulton at the
latter's ranch, where Kincher had
come determined, he said, to get the
girl or shoot it out with the old man.
At the special school election held
in Rathdrum the proposition of issu-
ing $4,000 bonds for a new brick
schoolhOuse carried.
Twenty thousand acres of timber
land in the vicinity of Spirit lake has
heen bought by the Panhandle Lumber
company, of which F. A. Blackwell is
president and G. P. Lindsey manager.
from the Rogers Lumber company for
$750,00O. The tract is contiguous and
lines on the west shore of the lake.
The line of the Washington & Idaho
railroad, which Mr.. Blackwell is build
ing, will run through the tract.
Four men held up the Radeleich sa-
loon at Butte recently. After stealing
$42 they each took drink and left the
pay for the whisky on the bar.
A new society of cattlemen will be |
formed in Montana by seceders from
the Montana Stock Growers associa-
ton, who claim unfairness in the re
cent convention at Miles City,
Should the report that slot machines
are being operated in Butte prove
true, there is trouble in store for
some one and perhaps several, as the
anti-gamRling law passed at the re-
cent session of the legislature pro-
vides for the removal of all civil Of
hcials in whose bailiwick operations
are carried on, as well as the imposi-
lion of heavy fines.
Railway Commissioner A. H. Nor
ley states that if the Spokane jobbers
win their case against the railroads
cow before the interstate commerce
commission, the same issue raised by
he business men of Spokane will be
by the Montana railway com
mission on behalf of Butte.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
CAN BAR UNIFORM.
Rhode Island Court Says It Is No Bet
ter than Any Other Clothing.

Rhode Island Court Says It Is No Bet
ter than Any other Clothing.
Providence, r. I.-Chief Yeoman
Fred'J. Buenzle, who was barred from
a dance hall in Newport because, as
ne claimed, he was wearing the uni.
form of the navy, can recover at law
only the price of his admission ticket.
according to a decision handed down
by William H. Sweetland, chief presid-
ing officer Of the Rhode Island super
Tor court.
The decision says the legal rights of
a man wearing the United States uni
form are not different from those of
any we'll behaved person who possesses
ticket of admission to any place of
amusement.
Judge Sweetland rules that Buen-
zle, excluded because he was wearing
naval uniform, is in no different po-
sition legally from one who is exclud-
ed because he is not in evening dress
or for any other reason, though 1t may
have been but the within of the de-
PENDANT.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
oLNEY cAusTIc ABOUT PANAMA
New Monroe Doctrine In Santo Do
mlnqo Annoys Him.

uftAS0 FNlIiOJo
Washington-Critical reviews of re-
cent developments in international af-
fairs were INDUCED in at the speech
making session Of the American So
ciety of International Law, which con-
cluded its first annual meeting here.
Richard Olney was perhaps the most
caustic in his review of the policy
of the United States regarding Santo
Domingo and the acquiring of the
Panama zone without compensation
to Colombia.
John w. Foster announced as a fact
that President Roosevelt had proposed
to some of the leading nations of the
world that 1--WE at least make a limita-
ton on the size of vessels of war that
shall be built in the future" Mr.. Eos.
ter called attention to Russias chang
ed attitude on disarmament, which she
said she favored at The Hague con-
ference but opposes now. Representa-
tive Richard Bartholdt spoke of the
necessity for making THE Hague con-
ference permanent" and added that
the United States, with the impetus
toward peach which President Roose-
welt had achieved, could accomplish
this recult by united demand at the
next Hague conference.
Secretary Straus of the department
of commerce and labor, who presided
at the meeting, opened the discussion
with an expression of the hope that
should the forthcoming Hague con-
ference fail to prescribe a limitation
as to armament, that it would issue
a mandate that any neutral nation
supplying a warning nation with money
should be adjudged guilty of a hostile
act
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
Says Its Huuhss and BRYAN.

Colonel Henry Watterson, editor of
the Louisville Courier-Journal, has ar
rived here from Europe. where he has
made an extended visit.
Colonel Watterson says that Will
liam ]. Bryan seemed to be the only
man in the running for the democratic
nomination for president.
He does not believe President
Roosevelt wants a third term for him.
self The president recently stated
that if the convention nominated him
and adjourned it would have to recon.
vene, as he would never accept an
other nomination. Colonel Watterson
Is willing to take him at his word.
Colonel Watterson declared that
Governor Hughes was a force to be
reckoned with in republican politics.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
AWFUL FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
Nearly Twenty Million Persons Are
in Need of Food.

weary twenty Mlllion persons Are
in Need of Food.
Writing from the Russian famine
district, DR.. Kennard, sent by the So
ciety of Friends to investigate condi-
tons, draws an appalling picture of the
suffering. He says:
This is the worst famine Russia
has known. No less than 10000 900
people cannot live without aid to see
another harvest, and l may say that
this figure has not only been approved
by the zemstvo organization, but also
by the government itself The date Of
the harvest will vary with the latitude
and the famine stricken region is
spread over such a wide area Give
times the size of F'rance) that more
than 10 degrees of latitude are in
volved. This means that in direct
proportion from south to north the
harvest will be from June to % (new
style).
Funds will be needed to the end
of July to feed all these millions, and
then the harvest will bring relief;
but there are many hundreds of thou
sands to whom the harvest will not
bring relief, for they have neither
land nor cattle"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
OREGON souIRs

Spinal meningitis has become more
to be feared at Portland than at any
time during the winter
The Athena public school will close
April rs for want of attendance. The
case is peculiar in some respects. The
higher grades have diminished gradual.
ly until only six pupils remain.
Work has been stopped on the
Elgin-Joseph extension of the Harri-
man system, in obedience, it is said, to
orders from New York, due to the
Hartman policy of retrenchment.
Articles of Incorporation Of the
Grande Ronde Valley Fruit company
have been filed with the county clerk
at lie Grande. The capital stock of
the company is 100000 The com.
pany owns 4SO acres of fruit land, sit
uated on the side hill FIVE miles north
of La Grande.
A report from Portland states that
1t is almost an open secret that Spo-
Kane and the Inland Empire has won
the rate fight before the commission.
After being pinioned in the cab of
his engine and under the waters of the
Cmatilla river for a week, the body
of George McPhartridge, the fireman
on the i'll fated train which was wreck.
ed near Cayuse, Ore, the morning of
April 10, has been recovered.
Isaac Finland, the miner who was
hit In the head at the Indian mine re-
Gently by the blacksmith, Nat Hall.
died in the hospital at Baker CITY.
The crime was committed In Union
county. No inquest was held. Hall
IS out on $4,000 bail. Union county
will prosecute. #..
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26

The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Us.
Milligan was killed at his home in
Waitsburg recently by falling under
the wheels of loaded wheat wagon.
Irene Sherrod, the little girl of Wal
la Walla, who was suffering from a
continued case of hiccoughs' has been
cured by the application of an electric
battery.
Joseph Locati, years old, died at
st. Mary's hospital, Walla Walla, re-
Gently from alcoholic poisoning.
Complying with the strange wish of
the deceased, six woman pallbearers
officiated at the funeral of the late
Mrs. Abigail Shearer at Oakville re-
Gently.
Whitman County Notes.
Colfax is again confronted with the
water question, the supply at Elberton
showing signs of diminishing.
After the second of June, when the
new fee bill goes into effect, marriage
licenses will be SO instead of SIS, as at
present.
Lybecker's ferry at Wawawai went
out recently, and Mr.. Lybecker mar
rowly escaped drowning. The boat
and cable were saved.
The poll tax collector is abroad in
the land and all "eligibles" are being
rounded up by Marshal Birchard and
requested to pay the necessary 50 or
work in person or by substitute on the
town streets.
Cars for wheat shipments are being
furnished more literally by the rail-
roads traversing the Palouse country
and heavy shipments of grain are be-
ing made to the Coast.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Thirteen inches of snow fell in Den
yer Saturday.
Six inches of snow fell at Pueblo.
The Drovers' and Farmers bank of
Seymore, Iowa, has closed it's doors
and is in the hands of state bank re.
ceiver.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Farmers & Merchants bank at Blk
bee, |. T., securing several thousand
dollars, and escaped
The heirs of the late Father Marcello
Massanrenti have brought suit against
the pope at Rome for a portion of the
dead mans estate.
The news of the arrest of Enrico
Alamo in New York has caused a SEN
sation at Naples, Italy, where he was
looked upon as a demigod
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the lumber conditions in the Can
adam west, reported at Ottawa Fri
day that a combine existed in the lum-
Der business and that the price was ex-
cessive.
The locked out longshoreman at
Hamburg have voted to resume work.
This decision denotes a complete vic
tory for the shipping companies.
Mrs. Aggie Myers has been delivered
to the Missouri penitentiary officials
to serve life sentence for the muir
der of her husband at Kansas City.
Kingston-Great loss and much suf-
fering is being caused by the drought
which hud 6o 4rT e
some time.
Cologue-According to the Berlin
correspondent Of the Frankfurter
Zeitung, the retirement from public
life of Chancellor Prince Won Buelow
is imminent. 1t will be purely on the
ground of ill health.
Lima, Peru-The volcano Puyehm
in the province of Valdivia, Chile, is
yet in active eruption and new craters
have developed and opened.
Count Won Schwerin, former council
or of the German embassy at Vienna,
has been appointed German minister
to the republics of Central America
Gunnison, Col, land Office has been
recently abolished and the register
and receiver ordered to transfer the
archives to the Montrose, Col, office.
An awful condition of affairs exists
on the Canadian Pacific road on ac-
count of the coal miners strike in the
Crows Nest Pass mines and Alberta.
Thomas Venners, who was promi-
nent in the iron business for many
years and at one time was associated
with Henry Bessemer, is dead at his
home in Brooklyn. He was 81 years
old, Mr.. Venners for years was man
ager of the Keystone mill in Pittsburg.
He was the first man to manufacture
steel rails in the United States.
William Constantine, a wealthy
butcher, was fined $4,000 and sentenced
to serve one year in the penitentiary
IN the superior court of Seattle for as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm by Kidding his son in law, Jesse
Hall, with bullets last October, on ac-
count of an alleged abuse Of his daugt-
er by the victina,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
GossIp Drove Hlm to sulolda-

Brandon, Wis, April 24-Because
neighbors said he had ''nigger blood"
in his veins, John H. Shepard is be-
l1eved to have drowned himself. He is
native of the Kentucky bluegrass
region" and came with his wife and
four babies, from Davenport, Oklaho-
ma, recently, and was starving. Peo-
Ile did not take kindly to him and
finally he disappeared. His hat was
found floating on Mud lake.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
CHINESE IN DISTRESS.
Conditions Reported From Four Fam
inc Stricken Centers.

Conditions Reported From Four Fam
inc Stricken centers.
Shanghai, April 19.-The following
are extracts from reports just re-
ceived of conditions in four famine
centers:
Yaowan-The famine is growing
worse. Children in great numbers are
dying.
suchien-Almost out of supplies.
Need large amounts Immediately to
continue relief commenced. %
Singldangpu-Many dying. Must de-
crease relief work unless larger ship
ments Of supplies are received.
Lukiawetz-The whole country is in
the deepest distress. Refugees who
went south hoping to find relief are
returning empty handed. There are
professions of people with wheelbar-
rows, transporting their doors, tables,
beds and cupboards to market to be
sold for almost nothing Hundreds OF
men and women are seen in the fields,
scratching out roots and scanty blades
Of grass. Hundreds of trees have been
stripped of their bark from the roots
to the tips of the highest branches
for use as food. The majority of the
population are living on wild roots,
etc, which is causing disease.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
United Workmsn ousted.

Columbus, ohio-The Ancient Order
o. United Workmen was ousted from
the state upon the petition of the at
torney general, which ordered that the
society should do no more business in
OHIO as a fraternal insurance concern.
It's affairs in Ohio were ordered placed
IN the hands Of a receiver.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
coNeREssMEN OFF TO HAWAII

On the Invitation Of the Legislature
Of the Territory.
The congressional party to visit Ha-
wall on the invitation of the territor-
tal legislature will assemble at Chi
cago on April 26. The members will
go to San Francisco end will sail on
the transport Buford April 80. The
Buf0rd is going tc Shanghai with fam.
Inc relief supplies for the Chinese and
the war department has permitted the
members Of congress to be taken out
On her as far as Hone ulu.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
Broken Heart KlIIs captaIn.

Genoa, April 23.-Captain rlog
the commander Of the NaViss =.
Italia line steamer Siero, which y, n
on the rocks of Hormigus n
Spain, last August and as q ~
which 300 persons were droWns1
here today of a broken heart
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
railroad EmpIoys stevena-

John F. Stevens, formerly chief en-
gineer and chairman of the Isthmiap
canal commission, is to be employed
by one OF the large eastern railroad
companies to make physical valuation
of its property.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
Suicide Of Insane PatIsnI

Oakland, Cal, April 2s.-El lssl
Wilcox, a graduate Of the IN =
of California, class Of 1904, anu
Dr.. w. ]. Wilcox, nromins.,
land physician, committed SUI
drinking three ounces Of carp0'
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
Find Body Of kennedv.

A body supposed to be that of Peter
]. Kennedy, a well-known theatrical
manager, who disappeared in Deem
Der last, was found in the water of
South Brooklyn, ny
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
Blow Safe and Steal Diamonds

Salt Lake City, Utah, April %
Diamonds valued at from $4,000 to
$4,000 and $3.50 in cash are the loot
secured by burglars who blew the
safe Of John Daynes & Sons. Jewellers
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
cubans Are PRAYING for Rain

Havana, April 22.-Prayers for rain
were offered in churches throughout
the island Sunday. No rain has fallen
in six months. The country is parched
many cattle are dying and fires are
devastating various forests.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
Busch Takes Trim

ST. Louis, April 2S.-Adolphus
Busch, the brewer, has left for New
York, where he will embark May IA
for Europe.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26

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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
For Their Relief.

A contribution of $4,000 was re-
ceived one day this week from the
Christian Herald of New York by the
American National Red Cross to be
applied to the relief of the famine
sufferers in China. The amount, to-
gether with $4,000 received by the Red
Cross from contributors throughout
the country, was cabled to China. This
remittance makes 1920, 900 in money
that has been forwarded from this
country for Chinese famine relief.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-26
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