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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
MONTANA ITEMS.

The population of MissoGla is in
CT Teasing so rapidly that suitable resi-
dences for all who wish to settle there
cannot be secured.
Missoula and Bitter Root Traction
company is the name of the new or
ganization behind the proposed cleo
trio line from Hamilton to Missoula.
Peter Johnson, proprietor of the
White House saloon at Butte, pleaded
guilty to gambling in the district
court recently and was fined 5000.
Sixteen freight cars were ditched on
the Northern Pacific recently at Tu-
rah station, east of Missoula. Cause
unknown. No one was injured. Pas
senger traffic is held up.
The Bitter Root Fruit Growers as
ISOLATION, which covers all The Bitter
Root valley and part of NIissoula coun-
ty, has been incorporated under the
laws of the state and over 200 shares
at $40 each, have already been sold.
The object of the organization will be
to supervise the packing of the apples
Hon. W. B. Harlan, the well-known
fruit grower who lives at Como, states
that indications for large fruit crop
the coming season are good. While
1t cannot be told at this time if the
fruit trees were injured by the cold
weather in the winter, it is the gen.
eral impression in the upper valley
that they were not damaged.
The differences between the news
paper publishers and the members of
the typographical union have been
definitely settled at Butte by the print
ers voting to return to work at the
publishers terms. The four daily
newspapers affected, the Butte Miner
the Anaconda Standard, the Butte In
ter-Mountain and the Butte Evening
News, which have been in a state of
suspension since February 10, will
resume.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
IDAHO NEWS.

There is talk Of booster club at
Wallace.
The heavy rains have raised the
creek so high that the Kendrick peo-
pie are afraid of flood.
A booster club has been launched
at Lewiston, their slogan open Niver
to the Sea-" has been chosen.
Keen S. Morrow of Boise has secured
the Rhodes scholarship. He is stu
dent of the University of Moscow, Ida
no.
A team owned by Stephen Roberts
was drowned in Lawyers creek, near
Nez Perez while attempting to ford
the stream.
A log owners association has been
organized in Occur d'Alene City for
the purpose of protecting the interests
of the log owners on Lake Occur
d'Alene.
Occur d'Alene will have in use with
in the next few days it's first direc-
tory. 1t states the population exceeds
5000 people.
A huge landslide large enough to
dam the Clearwater river occurred
at Ahsakha, carrying away 500 feet
Of the Northern Pacific roadbed.
Professor Arthur Sears of Idaho
Falls has been elected to the city
sCperintendency of the Moscow
schools, at salary of $500 per year
While attempting to cross Lawyers
creek, which runs down Lawyers can
yon, Steve Roberts lost a team Of fine
horses, his buggy and came very neal
d. owning.
Jacob Shafer of Lewiston is prepar
ing to build one of the largest winer
les in the state on his grape farm or
the Clearwater river, to the east OF
Lewiston. Mr.. Shafer has about &c
acres under cultivation.
Men are now at work upon the o
R. & N. and Northern Pacific join
terminals within the city limits al
Lewiston and the Riparia extension
of the o. r. & N. across the river
under. the new bridge, says a report
from that city.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Big STRIKE LIKELY
RAILWAY employees VOTE TO
TAKE such ACTION.
Railways Must Make Concessions
Within 10 Days-12 Per Cent Raise
in Salary and g Hour Day for Train
men-5o,ooo Men InVoIved-Firemen
NAV Also Get Into the Fight.

Unrest among railway employees OF
the west which will crystalline into a
monster strike unless the railroads
rake substantial concessions within
tbe next 10 days was manifested at
meeting in Chicago Saturday of the
strike committees of the Order Of Rail.
way Conductors and the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen.
Representatives from locals, includ-
ing the switchmen, flagmen, conduc-
tors, brakemen and yardmen of AZ big
roads and their connections, met in
secret session at a hotel and the order
of the meeting was expressions of the
belief that strike can only be avert
ed by the railroads granting the de-
mands. Every system west of Chica-
go is affected. The men demand II
per cent increase and an agreement
for nine hour day for trainmen and a
10 hour day for all other employees in
the unions.
Reports from every local show q
practically unanimous vote to strike
unless the concessions are made. The
roads under fire employ $4,000 mem
bers of the two orders. Labor leaders
declare refusal to grant the demands
will also precipitate q fight between
the roads and the firemen, 10000 in
number, who are only holding back
demands for a Is per cent increase and
an eight hour day so the differences
between the roads and their trainmen
may be adjusted. If the trainmen
strike, they say, they are pledged the
support of the firemen.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
TAFT LEAVES FOR THE IsTHMUs
If Engineers Approve, Lock Canal
Will Be Favored.

Secretary Taft and his party have
left Washington. The secretary of
war has important missions to per-
form at the points to be visited, chief
of which are an inspection of the
canal affairs and matters pertaining
to the political features of Cuba and
Porto Rico.
In addition to Secretary Taft the
party includes Senator Kittredge of
South Dakota, Representative De
Almond of Missouri and Richard Reid
Rogers, general counsel of the 18TH
milan canal commission. Mr.. Rogers
will remain at the isthmus.
Three engineers were invited by
Secretary Taft to inspect the pits of
the proposed Gatun dam, the keys to
the lock canal project. If the engi-
neers hold the same view as that ex-
pressed by Chief Engineer Stevens in
regard to the feasibility of the site
1t will result in a decision for all time
in favor Of the lock type of canal.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Rapid Work on Typewriter.

Miss Rose L. Fritz, two times win
ner of the national championship type.
writing contest, at Chicago won the
championship for the third time, win
ming permanently the silver cup offer-
ed and breaking the worlds record
for copying dictations from shorthand
notes. The record she established last
night was 2445 words in 80 minutes
This is 200 words better than her last
record, which was made a year ago at
the contest held at Madisan Square
garden, New York.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Will Complete Project.

Millionaires, with ample money at
hand to complete the Ok Bow project,
install new electric plants throughout
eastern Oregon and Idaho and build
electric railways, if necessary, have
taken hold of the Snake river power
project, the Electric Power company
Of Boise, Idaho, and most of the cleo
trio companies of this section and
have practically completed their con-
solidation, says Baker City, Ore, re-
port.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
He GOT HIS JUST DUES.
Russian Count Killed by Jealous Hus'
hand

band.
Goldfield, Nev.-Constantine Pohhor-
ski, a Russian Pole and an alleged
member of the royal family, was killed
at the Ajax restaurant, in the heart
of Goldfield's tenderlOin, by j. G.
Hines, a miner from Nome, Alaska.
The killing was most dramatic. The
count and a fashionably dressed wom-
an were sitting in the restaurant
when Hines entered. Walking directly
up to the count he drew a revolver
and fired five shots into the Russians
body, all of which took effect. The
count fell lifeless and the woman
tainted. AS calmly as if he were
about to revel at banquet table,
Hines laid his gun on the table and
mounted a chair. Listen, friends, r"
he said. 81 have been tracing this
man for months. l have come 1000
miles to kill him. He is dead at your
feet Men, this woman who was with
him is my wife. This man seduced
her and ruined my life. l have ven
geance and am willing to take my
medicine like a gentleman"
Pohhorski formerly lived in Seat
tie. He went to Nome two years ago
and has been buying real estate and
mining property in this district lately.
Mrs. Hines formerly lived in San
Francisco.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
CALIFORNIA FLOODS BAD.
No Relief From Serious Situation Is
in Sluht.

No Relief From Serious Situation Is
in Sight.
Sacramento, Cal, March 26.-Re-
ports from the down river islands were
discouraging. The situation was pro-
nounced as most desperate. Two feet
OF water was flowing through
streets of IsletOn and CORTLAND repre-
sented that it was feared the Pierson
district would be gone BEFORE morning.
Communication was cut off with Free
port and Walnut Grove, and it is
thought that there is a change for the
worse all the way from Freeport to
Sherman island. Everywhere the farm
ers are fighting against the highest
water ever known, and the prospect is
for the complete inundation of the
island country.
It will be many days before traffic
to Portland can be resumed, as there
is bridge out above Redding, ant
several washouts.
Part Of Stockton Under Water.
Stockton, Cal, March G6.-As 6
result of heavy rains in the mountains
the last two days, Stockton was visit
ed by another flood this morning.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Mln Stolen in the Nan.

New York-Unless the registered
mail stolen from a pouch on the La
sayoie is recovered it may mean the
loss OF part of an estate valued at
Sl.OO0,00O to the benefclaries of a
viii sent to France for probate. The
viii was drawn by the late Charles
hubens, a Frenchman by birth, but
who came to America, where he
emassed q fortune.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Lost Boy Found.

Washington-Third Assistant Sec
rotary Of State Wilson received a
cablegran from the American consul
at Portsmouth, England, saying the
authorities there have a boy who an
swers the description of Horace Mar
win, kidnapped recently from Kilt.
shamrock, Del.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
More Indictments Promised.

San Francisco, Cal, March 25.-
The coming week promises to be as
productive as the past one in sensa-
lions relative to the investigation Of
municipal corruption that is being
prosecuted by the grand jury.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Public Ownership on Large Scale.

U1IN O"HSTsHIP on Large oVaIs'
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alder
ia, Canada, are working out plans for
government ownership of telephones
end telegraphs and for municipal own
ership Of street cars, light, power and
water plants. So great are the
amounts Of money involved in con-
templated purchases of private plants
that conservative bankers are alarmed
at the prospect.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
WILL TAKE CHARGE APRIL
GoethaIs to Succeed Stevens on the
Canal Work.

Canal Work.
Secretary Taft has announced that
Lieutenant Colonel Cocktails would
succeed Mr.. Stevens as chairman of
the isthmian canal commission and en-
gmeer in charge of the canal work
on April 1. When Colonel Goethals
becomes chairman by promotion from
the grade of commissioner, there will
be a vacancy in the commission
which will be filled by the appoint
ment of former Senator Joseph B,
blackburn of Kentucky.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Frederick prlseolI Is Dead.

Frederick DriscoIl, commissioner of
the American Newspaper Publishers
association, and widely known as a
newspaper man, died in Chicago after
brief illness.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Earl of Llverpool DEAD.

London.-Cecil George Saville Fol
jamie, earl OF Liverpool, is dead. He
was born in 1916.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
OREGON SOLIDS

On April 1 the recently enacted Ore
gon sheep law will go into effect and
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
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The Washington times., 1907-03-03
FOREIGN RUGBY TEAM
TO PLAY IN FRISCO
Pennsylvania Probably Only Eastern
Institution That Will Play Antipo-
deans-wnl Meet Canadians.

NEW YORK. March 2.-The English
rugby game Of football viii receive a
big impetus THIS fall. when team OF
representative players Of the Queens
land Rugby Football Union Of Australia
will probably come to this country and
play against teams Of colleges and ath-
letic organizations
The American agent OF the Austria
Iiau team is az present in San Francisco
He has been notified that the Stanford
University team will arrange a game
with the Anupodeans, and efforts will be
made 10 arrange games at st. Louis,
Chicago. Montreal, Ottawa. Quebec,
Burtalo. New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston. The sport is fiourisbing In Can
ada, and the majority OF the matches
Will be played thers.
It is proposed 10 play three test games
with an all-American Rugby team COM
posed OF men from Stanford, the Uni
versity OF California, and the University
OF Nevada, the three colleges In the
limited States where the British game
is placed in the list OF major sports. IL
is hoDed that the Australian team VIII
play matches against teams from 1ale,
Princeton, Cornell, Harvard. and Penn
svlvanIa and by giving a demonStra-
ton of the sport, induce some of the
real leaders in intercollegiate sport &c
adopt Rugby.
AT present the only university in the
East that has a Rugby team that aspires
to become a college institution is Penn
svtvania. and that team is composed
sol1iy of students from Australia anC
New Zealand An effort will be made tC
play a game with Pennsylvania In New
York TO help the Asport. and the Antipo
deans will also meet a team from all
New York in this city
The Washington times., 1907-03-03

How to play more and to think of play
less is one great question Of the day,
and IL IS not assisted for the schoOlmas-
ter By the spectacle Of $1,000 five-shilling
pieces going in a day to pay some two
cozen professors Of football who get
beaten by the first Colonial team that
challenges
THE schOoImaster's task Is still less
assisted by the daily press devOting
many columns to the science Of the
professors game even after IL has been
proved often enough that pluck ind
brute force are better than science. and
that football is best played without TAX
Ing thought fer the morrow II we
want spectacles to rival our theatcrs.
the science OF games is to Be encourage
perhaps. But the science has driven
men Of the wCrld TO take to new games
fer relaxation. Golf, cycling, and mo-
roring are things 10 do distinctly not
amusementS 10 watch. They are none
OF them half as good as games and ex-
ercise as cricket and football, out Of
which science and professionalism have
driven all who cannot find time TO think
OF them and do nothing else.
There is surely no good reason why
the best games for men should become
the exclusive business of a few profess
sors who drive better citizens out Of
them. but there is every reason why
Englishmen should be allowed to select
their own amusements."
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
INTEREST IN RACING
ON COAST INCREASING

NEW YORK. March 2--The virtual
w!ping out Of racing in the Middle West
and Southern States appears likely TO
be followed by increased activity In the
sport along the Pacific coast.
Tennessee. Missouri, Arkansas. and
Illinois are some of the former racing
centers which have declared against
racing, leaving onlyS Kentucky, or the
New York and Canadian tracks. open
to horsemen during =he summer months.
Kentucky may be confined 10 short
meetings IL pending legislation goes
th rough.
rs a result of limited opportunities
for ordinary performers on this side OF
the Rockies, many OF the owners now
racing at Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. who have heretofore figured
prominently at Middle Western meet
ings, have announced their intention of
remaining on the Pacific coast, with
the idea of participating In the Seattle
meeting. Racing in Seattle was sig
ually successful last summer, and the
outlook for the coming season in that
city IS very bright.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Navy Yard.
BuTeSu.

so that they may be free for the two
weeks OF the tournament. which begins
March l. 1t is regarded as certain that
both VIII compete They are proteges
Of the former amateur champion. Mar
tin Mullen. of Cleveland. who in the
initial class A tournament held at the
I[nickerbOcker Athletic Club. defeated
both Wilson P. FOss and Wyman Nc
Creery.
In many ways the interest in the com
ing championship. the seventh annual
meeting TO be held under the auspices
Of the present governing body in the
game. centers about the young player,
calvin Demarest He Is the Willie
Hoppe among amateurs, and mas Yet
two years on the sunny side OF his ma
1orfty Demarest IS the hope of the
Westerners and has been carefully
coached for the tournament
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
ENTRIES IN FOR
BILLIARD TOURNEY
List Includes Nations Best Experts
From All the larger
Cities.

NEW YORK. March 2.-Entries have
been made for the amateur billiard
championship. Eight men have an
nounced their desire TO take a chance
In the tournament at the Liederkranz
Club in this city. The entry represents
= high standard, and is thoroughly
representative OF all sections OF the
country.
The list includes Calvin Damarest and
Charles +. COnklin. both of the Chi
CagO Athletic Club, Chicago; Frank J.
Dreher and Edward Heiens. both of
Cleveland, Mortimer 5. Rolls. Belmont
Cricket Club. Philadelphia; Edward w
Gardner, Acquackanonk Club. PassatC,
-. j; J. Ferdinand Poggenburg. LAedor-
lSrahz Club. New York, and Dr. l. L.
Mial, New York.
Twc OF the entries are provisional. as
both OF the Cleveland entrants. Frank
J. Dreher and Edward Helens. find IL
necessary to make arrangements in
connection with their. business interests
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
aDRUNKn IN FRENCH.

The French have some interesting
SMILES of their own corresponding to
our drunk as a lord" or drunk as a
wheelbarrow. The most generally rec
ogniZed one in the case of ''ivre," the
less extreme and less vulgar word for
drunk" is "ivre CONNIE une soupe"-
''soupe" meaning the piece of bread
eaten with soup as well as the soup #
self, and a "bouillon" soaked piece of
bread offering a natural sinsile for sat
uration. When the less delicate soul
is used instead of "ivre," the French
man may speak OF being as drunk as an
ass. COW, Swiss. or a thrush. The
illusion in tho last case is the fondness
OF thrushes lOr grapes which are said
at vintage time to make them unsteady
in their fight,-London Chronicle.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Sailors Increase Lead
In Departmental League
Navy Has Won All of It's Battles in Past Two
Weeks -ODonneII Creeps Up One Point
in individual Averages on Bowsher.
Treasury Coming Strong

Navy's commanding lead in the race
in the Departmental Bowling League
was still further increased during the
past two weeks. the Sailors winning all
Of their games
BOwsher continued his fast pace,
bowling the three sets at his former
average of 191, O'DOnnell. however,
creeping up one point closer 10 his team
mate for the leadership of the league.
Treasury broke up the tie with the
Government Printing Office for the
lead of the second division, and is
closely pressing the Interiors and Com
missioners for a berth in the first col
umn- Rice has taken the lead Of the
Interiors from Garrett
Following are the averages:
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
ATHLETICS in ENGLAND
APPEAR TO LACK SYSTEM
British Sporting Experts Beginning to Realize That atAmer-
can Successes Are Not All Accidents" and That
Something IS Wrong

LONDON, March 2-Spor is a serious
matter with Englishmen, and there is
one belief in connection with it that is
fixed with absolute frmness in the minds
Of the average inhabitant of the tight
little island"
TIL IS, that in all lines of sport the
Britou is first and the rest Of the world
nowhere. When such facts are met as
the many vain attempts to bring back
the Americas Cup. the success of the
American athletes at Athens, the splen-
did work OF American athletes in all
branches of athletics here, the success
full riding of American jockeys and the
like. they are looked upon by the aver
age Briton as more the result Of Yam
kee tricks" than of superior merit
British Are Waking Up.
1t is. however. coming to be realized
by observant sporting authorities that
there may be something wrong with
the British system of athletics. and
there is more or less discussion along
these lines.
A recent article in the London Illus
rated Sporting News is a case in point.
which may prove of interest to American
athletes 1t says:
Writing in the Daily Telegraph An
Old Blue points out that we are not a
nation of game players at all, but a
nation that pays professionals TO play
for it. We are conscious OF having made
that point in these columns before now,
and we are grateful for the confirmation
of our contemporary. II is something
/ that II should be acknowledged. though
late in the day. that this champion foot
| ball is not game but a business, and
cannot have the smallest good effect or
the national character.
Professionalism at Bottom.
! "Our contemporary points out that
| this professionalism in games actually
prevents the multitudes from playing
and. besides. that muscle was at dis.
count in South Africa just as II says
Xenophon found Olympian-crownec
heroes but little use as soldiers and
worse as captains. And that was at {
time when muscle was at a premium.
I'VE are quite sure that An Old Blue
Is correct. and that the tendency to pro
fessionalism in later life is equivalent
TO the setting up of champions in single
combat at a time when whole nations
are armed and every foreign man car
fight.
I'VE speak of professionalism in thu
broad sense. and do not confine it t
those who make money for their play
but apply It to all those much NOR,
numerous bands who play at anythin;
for any reason besides that Of the pur
enjoyment of the game at the time
We by no means assert that it is wronr
to play for other reasons; we are no
sure whether II does actual harm, bu
we are sure that the system of a few
champions representing a school il
games has a repressive effect on tn
many, and that it is not an ideal sys
TEN. The broad result OF our sehoo
system is. then, that our muscular edu
cation is specialized in the few, an,
the others are neglected
"One thing is very clear: there is n
good reason why, boys should be al
lowed to specialize In games whicl
make Of them less all-round sportsmen
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
''IN DAKOTA"

Horses wear snowshoes in Dakota in
winter. Thus equipped they trot lightly
over drifts wherein they would other
wise sink out OF sight
In many parts Of Dakota the snow
lies all winter long eight or ten feet
deep. But a crust forms on IL and with
snowshoeS men skim over il easily.
Lately their snowshod horses have also
SKINNED over It.
The equine snOwshoes are made OF
boards twenty inches long and fourteen
inches wide. An indentatiOn 10 fit the
foot Is branded on each board with a
hot horseshoe and the cOnrrivance is
fastened on to the hOof with an iron
clamp and q bolt.
After a day or two Of practice a Da-
kota horse becomes an expert snow
shOer.