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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06

Mrs. Robert Van Wyck, wife of an
ex-mayor of New York, is initiating
Paris society into the teachings of
vandantic philosophy so familiar to
New Workers, but unknown to the
Partisan smart set.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06

Gipsies of Granada, Spain, are re-
markable among their race, for they
are cave jewellers, living in recesses
followed out of hillside not far
from the city.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
Billiards Bite All Britain.

London, March 2. Scotland and
narts of England and Wales have e&-
perienced two days of the most w1ntry
weather in many years.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
HARRY AND WIFE QUIT
Rumor Has 1t That the Thaws Have
Separated.

The romance Of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
and Harry Thaw is over. All pretense
is dropped. Evelyn has moved from
the Park avenue house where she has
been staying since the first trial. This
means that she will go to Europe at
once.
1t is positively stated that her al
lowance will be $4,000 per year. She
will not return to the United States.
She will never attempt to see Harry
Thaw again. For two weeks she has
not gone to Matteawan.
On the occasion of her last visit
Harry and Evelyn quarreled violently
1t is reported that shortly after reach.
ing Europe divorce proceedings will
be instituted for annulment of the
marriage. Mrs. Thaw will not contest
in consideration Of the annuity.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
SPOKANE
Wholesale Produce Prices.

Vegetables-Cabbage, $1.25 cwt;
beets, $1@1.25 cwt; rutabagas, SIG
125; carrots, $1@1.25; white turnips,
81; parsnips, $1.25@1.5O cwt; cauli-
flower, 50 dozen heads; onions, $500
3.75; sweet potatoes, $4,000 cwt;
potatoes, 75@85c cwt; Hubbard
squash, $75c@$1 doz; pumpkins, 75cQ
81 doz; parsley, 15c dozen lunches;
celery, $4,000 doz lunches; pineap-
pies, S2.75@3; Italian grapes, $3.50
Dbl; bananas, $2.75. .3.75 bunch; cram
berries, $12@125O Dbl; winter pears,
$1.25 box; lemons, $4@4.50 case; cook
ing apples, 81 box; fancy eating, Sips
OILS box; comb honey, 1915 case;
oranges. navels, $2.75@3 case; grape
fruit, $3.50@3.75 case; cocoanuts, soc
0$1 doz; lettuce, dollhouse, Acc lb;
lettuce, coast, SOC Id; garlic, 10c Id;
popcorn, &C Id; Florida tomatoes, 81
basket.
Butter and Eggs-Eggs, eastern
storage, $3.50; local ranch, guaranteed
fresh, 50; first class local creamery
butter, 36c Id; Jersey Belle creamery,
SAC lib; butter fat, 341sc Id; Columbia
creamery, soc lb; cheese, full cream
N. Y, twins, 16@17c lb; full cream
Wisconsin twins, 16@17c Id; lin.
burger, 20c lb; cream brick. zoe. lb;
Swiss, 10000 ID.
Flour-First patent, IS Dbl; second
patent, $4.75 Dbl
Seed-Red clover, $3.50; choice
S165O; Kentucky bluegrass, $3.50
cwt; timothy, $3.50; white clover, SIS;
alfalfa, $40.
Wholesale Prices.
Beef-Steers, dressed, 6A07c lbi
COW beef, 5@514c lib; mutton, dressed
12hc Id; pork, &c Id; hams, heavy
11Ac lb; light, 12c Id; bacon, 15c Id
lard, lie; dry salt extras, $11 cwt
dry salt backs, $3.50 cwt; veal, 9h'
lb; smoked salmon, Chinook, 16c lib
white spring, 121Ac.
Timothy hay, SIS ton; grain hay
SIS ton ;alfalfa, SIS ton; oats, $1.4
cwt; feed, wheat, $1.40 cwt; rolle'
barley, $1.40 cwt; whole corn, SIT
cwt; chopped corn, $1.S5 cwt; bran
$21 ton; bran and shorts, $22; re-
shorts, $24 ton; white shorts, $25 ton
straw, SO ton.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Live stock-Steers, 81 cwt; COWS,
cwt; sheep, $4.5O05 cwt; hogs, $50
$50 cwt; calves, Sc cwt.
Poultry-Live hens, lie Id; dresse
hens, 12k@141zc Id; ducks, live, IL
Id; turkeys, live, TIC Id; dressed, %
lb; geese, live, lie lib; dressed, loo II
Hides-Green, beef, &c lb; dry sal
ed cured, 6@6hc ID; dry flint, 1Oc
calfskins, green, &c; dry, 12c; dr.
sheep pelts, 10c; kip, &c.
Timothy hay, SIG ton; grain ha,
$13 ton; alfalfa, $13 ton; oats, $I.2
cwt; feed, wheat, $1.25 cwt; millin
wheat, 6S@7Oc cwt; whole barle,
$1.1O cwt; whole corn, old, $3.50 cwt
new, $1.45 cwt
Northwestern Wheat.
Portland.-Club, SIC; blustem, 84C
J valley, SIC; red, SOC.
, Tacoma, Wash.-ORe cent highe
Prices paid by exporters: BluesteI
SAC; club, SIC; red, SOC.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
Fireworks and General Enjoyment.
Payroll an Enormous One.

When going full blast the Anal
gamated payroll runs from $1,000,000
to $1,50O,000 monthly. The Great Falls
smelters have been going full time, but
the Anaconda smelters have been
closed entirely, while in Butte of all
the Amalgamated properties, only the
Boston and Montana mines have been
operated.
The shutdown has never been COM
plete and was gradual, beginning last
October. Married men were provided
for, but in all only about 40 per cent
of the normal force could be employed
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
BUTTE Mines SIART
AMALGAMATED COMPANY RE-
sumo WORK In MONTANA.
Director Ryan Brings Good News to
People of Northumberland OF
Men GET Jobs in Mines and Shelters
Metal Market Shows Improvement
Millions for Monthly Salaries.

Butte, Mont, March 1.-Scenes I'M
paralleled in the history of Butte and
Anaconda Saturday followed the an
by Managing Director
John D. Ryan that orders had been
issued for the resumption Monday at
full capacity of all the mines and
smelters of the Amalgamated Copper
company, together with the varied
sawmills, coal mines and quarries
throughout the northwest, employing
an aggregate of 10000 persons.
Mr.. Ryan arrived at noon and in less
than Is minutes half hundred big
mine steam whistles were screeching
in terrific din.
In Anaconda, where the Washoe
smelters, the largest in the world, and
employing 5000 men, are the sole sup
port of the city of $4,000, the people
excitedly formed professions and, sing
ing loudly, paraded the streets. The
fire bells rang and big men, OVERCOME
with emotion, wiped their eyes. With
few exceptions the whole of the city
has practically been an army OF unem-
ployed waiting for the mines to start
and the enthusiasm of the happy peo
pie knew no bounds. Fires will be
| lighted in the smelters Monday.
Saloons in Butte, which have had nc
more than a handful of patrons for the
last five months, tonight are jammeC
to the doors with singing throngs o.
miners, who crowded the streets hur
raining, shaking hands with every
body they encountered.
Director Ryan, i'll a statement, say
that the schedule of wages prevailing
before the suspension will remain un
changed; that the metal market il
strengthening, and that the future i
bright
Better Demand for the Metal.
There has been a considerabl
change for the better in the marke
for metal, in this, that the sales TO
European shipments have been larg
within the last few weeks" continue
Mr.. Ryan, land there is no account
lation of copper unsold that is wort
considering"
) Fireworks and General Enjoyment
At night hundreds of Roman candle
J and skyrockets are being shot into tn
t sky at Anaconda in celebration of tn
resumption. Everybody is on tn
streets and the city presents a gal
+. occasion hard to picture. Flags al
f flying and songs can be heard on a
: sides.
, In Butte the theaters, which, sine
r the shutdown, were patronized
> hardly more than a handful of pc
pie during the last three months, al
so crowded that the throngs stretc
, far out into the street and the polio
6 are on the scene to prevent any crus
ing.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
Refuses to Pay Attorneys.

Harry Thaw has refused to pay the
fee of the attorneys who defended him
in the second trial. He has also re-
fused to sanction a settlement of $15,-
900 per year on his wife, Evelyn.
ThaW bases his refusal to pay his
attorneys on grounds that he bar
gained with them for acquittal and not
on being sent to Matteawan.
my attorneys will not get one cent
from me until they get me out OF
here" he declared.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06

The Tyre bird of Australia is the
largest song bird. 1t is about the size
of an English pheasant
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06

The Japanese will never sleep with
their heads to the north, but their
dead are always buried that way.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
WESTERN RETAIL
LUMBERMEN'S
ASSOCIATION

Tacoma, Wash.-The next annual
convention of the Western Retail Lum-
bermen's association will meet at Spo-
kane next year.
The New Officers.
The nominating committee an
nounced it's selection of officers as
follows: George H. Merrill, Salt Lake
City, president; j. H. Dunlop, Cascade
Locks, vice president, and for direc-
tors, to hold Office three years, R. S.
Shaw, Boise; Joseph Kreigler, Odessa;
Theodore Nystrom, Salt Lake City.
Resolutions.
The report of the committee on reso-
lutions. consisting of ]. c. Weeter,
Pocatello, chairman; D. e. Swinehart,
Butte, and F. B. Bartlett, Lewiston,
Idaho, was listened to with much in
terest by the convention. The reso-
lutions deplore the proposition of can
collation. of orders and commend every
movement looking to larger spirit of
Cancellation; urge the adoption of the
Fulton amendment to senate bill 423
now before committee; heartily in.
dorsing the Alaska ukon-Pacific ex.
position and pledge the support of the
members; protest against the proposed
parcel post measure and favor reduc
ton of first-class postage from to !
cent per ounce, and ask that cement
manufacturers market their product
through retail dealers. The directors
reelected A. L. Porter of Spokane as
secretary-treasurer
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06

Nineteen women have been elected
to the Finnish parliament.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
Northwestern Wheat.

Portland.-Club, SIC; blustem, SAC;
valley, SIC; red, soc.
Tacoma, Wash.-ORe cent higher.
Prices paid by exporters: Bluestem,
SAC; club, SIC; red, SOC.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
New Depot Building at Fl Centre
 Track to Be Relaid.

Work was begun this week on the foundation of the new brick freight depot on the east side of the track at Fl Centro. Material is arriving also for the new passenger station, which will be the largest and best railroad building in the valley, but the necessity for freight accommoca- tion is the more urgent, and the freight depot will be built first.
 The Southern Pacific Is making pre- parations for running two overland trains on the line from Yuma through Mexican territory and Imperial Valley. The track is to be relaid with heavy rails, and the steel is being brought in from Yuma for distribution along the line.
 Two construction trains are busy below the border closing the gap in the Inter California line, which con meets with the main line at Pilot Knob. It is expected that the work will be completed this month.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04

Of the frame dwellings, five are un- finished. Of the brick buildings, nine are in process of construction. The list includes three hotels, two packing houses, ice plant, power house, steam laundry, creamery, machine shop, court house, opera house and lodging houses. Some of the brick blocks house two or more business concerns, but every thing covered by one roof is counted only as one building. Many of the structures classed as tent houses might be counted as frame dwellings, but where any part of the roof or wall is canvas, the structure is put in the tent-house list, although it is a per manent and substantial dwelling.
 The building census of five of the principal streets, running east and west, shows these figures:
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
TO CONDUCT oBsEoUIEs.
Judge Mckinley Retained by County
 Officers In Contest Case.

Imperial county officials, cited to show cause why they did not obey the command of the Tooley-street tailors to pull up stakes and transport the county seat to Imperial, have retained J. w. Mckinley, Esq, of Los Angeles, to assist the district attorney in pre- senting their answer to the District Court of Appeals on April 15. The district attorney is presumed to be in charge of the case for the county of- ficers, but he is too busy to go to Los Angeles at this time, and Judge Mo Kinley will appear in court for the re- spondents and conduct the obsequies of the still-born county seat contest with all due solemnity and sympathy for it's bereaved parents.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
THOUSAND PER CENT GROWTH
 IN HALF YEAR AT COUNTY SEAT
ingS in Fl Centro Gives Basis for Census Estimate Confirming School and PoStoffice Figures of Population.

hotels and the lodging houses shelter at least 200 more residents, not count ing transient roomers, making total of 1264. There are 160 children in the public school, and it has been found reasonbly accurate to base popu- lation figures upon the proportion of seven persons to each school pupil. On that basis, the census would be 1120 residents. More than 1000 per sons receive mail at the Fl Centro postoffice.
 From all of which it is obviously within reasonable probability to esti- mate the present population of Fl Gen. tro at 1250. Last August the popula- tion was 125. An increase of 1000 per cent in seven months is going some for the center of farming community, and the next seven months undoubted- ly will see as many more persons ad- ded to the population of the county seat. As cautious prophet, The Press census taker says El Centro will have 2500 inhabitants by next October. If he has another guess coming, he will make it 5000, and, as Pop Pearson would say, "let it go at that"
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04

How fast is Fl Centro growing? How many buildings are there within the limits of the proposed city in corporation? What is the population :?
 These questions are asked every day by strangers and by residents, and the answers are only guesses. To ob- tain some definite data, The Press made an accurate count of structures of all sorts on the last day of March, 1908, and ascertained that there are 320 buildings and shelters, classified as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04

expedient for the mutual water com panies to undertake final settlement of all Salton Sea problems by bringing suits for condemnation of the basin for use as a stump for drainage from Imperial Valley.
 When the irrigation system shall have been improved and safeguarded by permanent cement structures at points of control, the settlers may take up the question of buying out the c. D. c. and operating the system for them selves. There is no doubt that the purchase could be made with long term bonds at a price which would return to the Southern Pacific the money expended on the system.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
NEW RIVER FLOOD
 WILL BE CUT OFF
IEVEE AT VOLCANO LAKE WILL
 TURN WATER SOUTH.
Southern Pacific Preparing to Con tinue Work In Colorado Delta For Protection of Irrigation System and It's Own Tracks at Salton Sea.

It is probable that the Southern Pa cific will go on with the building of protective works in the Colorado delta along the lines planned by the c. D.. Go. when the levee was constructed westerly from the Hind-Clarke dam at the lower heading. A ten-mile levee from the Black Butte across the New River outlet of Volcano Lake is re- quii ed to prevent the flood waters from flowing northward through New River to Salton Sea.
 The annual overflow fills Volcano Lake, and the lake discharges through the Hardy southward and New River northward. Should the June flood be heavy, the Abejos channel might cut back to the Colorado and let in great volume of water, and in that case New River would carry water enough to endanger the Hume of the west side canal and to raise Salton Sea and force the Southern Pacific to move it's tracks to higher ground. A levee at Black Butte would close New River and turn the flood south into the Hardy. The cost of building the levee is estimated at $50,O00.
 The advisability of building a levee at Black Butte became apparent some weeks ago, when the cutting back of the Abejos toward the Colorado was discovered, and it was suggested by officers of the c. D. Go. that the mutual water companies undertake the work. Similar suggestions have been made by the Southern Pacific, but 1t is mani fest that the water companies and valley settlers are not prepared to handle the project and should not be expected to take up the work of con- pleting the protective system below the border at this time. The immed- fate menace is to structures of the c. D. Go. and the track of the Southern Pacific near Salton Sea. The Southern Pacific is equipped to do the work, and it can add the cost to the price which it expects to get for the irrigation system from the settlers some day.
 The Southern Pacific appears to have concluded that it cannot induce the valley settlers to go down into Mexico and build levees for the pro- tection of its property this spring. General Manager Calvin and Engineer Carillo are going down to inspect the levee site and determine whether or not it Is necessary to build at once.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
ROOSEvELT'S PREDICTION
 NO IRIDESCENT DREAM
The President Said That Imperial Valley Land Would Be Worth At Least Five Hundred Dollars An Acre, and a Farm Near Fl Cenro Has Been Sold at That Price.

Choice agricultural land, unim- proved and not within city limits, has reached the $500 an acre mark by bona fide sale in Imperial Valley.
 President Roosevelt said a little more than a year ago that it would be worth eventually from $500 to $15OO an acre, the value being based upon productive capacity and returns. His lower figure has been realized.
 t Last July, w. R. Hoppin, of North ield, Minn., was tourist to the coast. He came into Imperial Valley to see what the country looked like, and 1t looked good enough to tempt him to invest in land. He bought tract of 12 acres, south of Fl Centro and out side the town limits, for $177O, and
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
SELLS HIS STOCK AND DROPS HIS SUIT AGAINST CALIFOR-
 MIA DEVELOPMENT co.
ONLY ONE OBSTACLE LEFT
When injunction Matter Is Settled, IT, rigation Improvement May Proceed In Imperial Valley, Free From Vexa- tious itigation-Extenson of Sys- tenn Made Possible.

By the purchase of the California Development Company stock of l.. M. Holt, leader various court proceed lngs instituted against the company, the big irrigation corporation has been relieved of embarrassing litigation and internal dissensions.
 The adjustment of the dispute be- tween certain of the stockholders, says the Los Angeles Times, apparent ly makes it possible for the company to carry out some of its contemplated improvements, for 1t means the dis missal of all pending Federal suits and appeals.
 If the concerns plans are carried out within the next few years, irri- gation will have been provided for thousands of acres of land now use less for agricultural purposes.
 Attorney B. A. Meserve, represent ing the development company, said that a deal had been closed whereby the company secures the ITO shares of stock hitherto standing in Holt's name, and that this meant the end of all litigation.
 The suit pending between the New Liverpool Salt Company and the Cali fornia company is the only obstacle to the immediate opening of an area of irrigation development. It is be- lieved, however, that the matter of the injunction will be finally settled satisfactorily, although the Federal Court found for the plaintiff in the suit recently decided.
 Only Technical Victory.
 Holt brought an action in the United States Circuit Court in 1906 against the development company to have a contract between it and the Southern Pacific adjudged void. Judge We'll born sustained the demurrer of the defendant and appeal was taken.
 The contract at issue was one where by the railroad was permitted to name three of the directors in consideration of loan of $2OO.OOO. made to aid the concern in its struggle to prevent the Colorado river from flooding the lands of the settlers in the Imperial Valley.
 Although the Circuit Court of Ap- peals reversed the decisions of the lower court its action was based en- tirely, it is said, on the assumed truth
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04

of the allegations in the bill of com plaint brought by Holt. Attorneys say that the demurrer of necessity ad- mitted as facts various allegations that could not be proven at the trial. Although the decision of the Appel late Court was hailed as sweeping victory for the complainant, it merely signified that the case should go to trial on it's merits.
 The writ of mandate issued by the Circuit Court of Appeals has been re- ceived by the Federal Court, but has never been formally filed. The agree ment between the contesting parties makes such action now unnecessary. A motion will be made soon to dis miss the original bill of complaint and attendant legal action.
 Litigation between the c. D. Go. and George Chaffey, a relic of the early days of reclamation of the desert, when promoters filled their private purses at the expense of settlers and workers, also is said to have been compromised by restitution of part of profits alleged to have been i'm properly diverted from the company.
 Salton Sea Problem.
 It now remains to bring the Salton Sea question to definite and final solution. The salt company obtained judgment against the c. D. Go. for nearly half a million dollars damages for destruction by flood of plant that Is believed to have been worth about ten per cent of that sum. The award is deemed extremely liberal, not to say excessive, even if 1t be considered as compensation for loss of business and prospective profits for many years to come. In addition to damages, the salt company secured an injunction on the theory that if the flow of water into Salton Sea were stopped, the sea would disappear and the works at Salton would be restored to use. Ac- tual facts and conditions do not fit the theory, however. The salt works are not only at the bottom of the sea, but undoubtedly are buried so deeply by deposited silt that If the water were evaporated nothing ever would be seen of the plant or the salt springs
 The salt company admittedly is us- ing the injunction only to force the c. D, Go. to pay the damages awarded instead of contesting the Judgment by appeal. The settlers of Imperial Val ley are relied upon to further that plan with their protests against the enforce ment of the injunction, and the con ditions are such that the settlers must protest for their own protection, even though they have no desire to aid the salt company in it's campaign and no purpose to embarass or coerce the c. D. Co.,
 Possible Solution.
 It is the desire of the settlers of Imperial Valley that the c. D. Go. be relieved of all it's endorsements and complications as soon as possible and left free to carry out its plans for betterment of the irrigation system. As a step toward that end, it may be
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
Olive Street.
Brighton Street.

A close approximate estimate of the number of persons living in El Centro can be made from the data given. There are 266 structures used ex- clusively as residences, and it is well within bounds to assume that the aver age number of occupants per building is four, making .1O64 iI all. The three
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04

went home.
 Last month MT. Hoppin returned to El Centro to see how things were go- ing, and when he was offered $500 for three acres of his tract he was satisfied with the advance and accept ed the offer. Then he looked about a little and concluded not to sell any more at that price. Things had been moving faster than he guessed. This week he sold the remaining nine acres for $45OO, which is the Roosevelt price of $500 an acre.
 Last Tuesday MT. Hoppin reinvested in Imperial Valley land. He bought tract of 40 acres. On Wednesday morning he left for his Minnesota home, intending to return in the fall and bring some of his neighbors along.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-04
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Things That Abide" will be the theme of the discourse next Sunday at II a. m. Evangelist Monahan will speak in the evening. Everybody wei come.
 SAMUEL I. WARD, Pastor.