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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
Will Change The Location.

VIM. Hilton, construction man.
ager for the Balfour-Guthrie
grain company, arrived in the
city late last week with crew of
about fifteen carpenters to COM
mence work on the warehouse to
be erected at this point. After
viewing the proposed location for
the house and seeing how poor it
was Mr.. Hilton took the matter
up with his company by phone
and succeeded in having the
work called off temporarily until
it can be determined whether a
more advantageous location can
be secured. The carpenters
returned to Steunenberg to erect
the warehouse at that point and
by the time they complete the
work there the difficulty over the
location at this point will no
doubt be adjusted.
The location given this COM
pany was just in front of the
Creelman residence, and, besides
damaging that property materi.
ally, the warehouse would have
to be put up on piers about ter
feet high to get it level with the
cars, making the location very
undesirable all around.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
HAIL DOES VAST DAMAGE
Severe Storm Struck the Prairie Last Tuesday and Annhat
ed Thousands of Acres of Fine Grain
MANY BIG CROPS A TOTAL LOSS
Storm Covers Strip from Three to Five Miles Wide and
Twenty Miles Long Doing Untold Damage

Without doubt the most
destructive hail storm that eve r
struck Idaho county visit ed
Camas Prairie Tuesday after
noon and as a result of its visit
hundreds of acres of the finest
quality of grain now lies fiat on
the ground-a total loss to the
farmers who labored so long and
faithfully to produce it.
The storm was the result of
over a week of exceptionally
warm weather. Early Tuesday
afternoon the storm clouds be-
gun to gather at some point in
the Salmon river country and
about 8 o'clock broke in fury
across the prairie. Swinging
over and around Moughmer point
south of Keuterville, the main
part of the storm followed up
Rocky canyon for a short dis
tance and then broke across the
country in northeasterly direc-
ton over Denver and toward the
Clearwater country. The heavy
clouds swung low to the earth
and seemed to almost lap up
everything with which they came
in contact. Hail stones from the
size of a bean to the size of a
mans fist bombarded the earth
from the clouds and annihilated
every vestige of vegetation in
the path of the storm. Waving
fields of W wheat, barley and oats
were battered flat to the ground,
trees were stripped of their fruit
and foliage, chickens and ducks
were killed, windows were
broken, roofs of buildings were
demolished and people and
animals caught ont in the open
were badly bruised up by the
heavy hail stones which covered
the ground to a depth of several
inches at different places.
The storm took a strip from
three to five miles wide through
the heart of the prairie and not
a particle of grain is left stand
ing in the visited section. The
storm was most severe toward
the center and many places on
the outskirts of the storm escap-
ed with only a slight damage
from the hail. In the main path
of the storm, however, covering
a strip about three miles wide,
hardly a thing is left to tell that
fine fields of grain once grew
there.
Following are some of the
farmers who suffered severe
damage from the storm in the
country south and east of this
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
Win Write Up Our Country.

Harvey Gott and w. ]. Jordan,
general agent of the Northern
Pacific railway at Lewiston, were
in the city Tuesday in company
with Mr.. Wheeler, of Portland.
The latter gentleman has charge
of the advertising work of the
western states for the Northern
Pacific and is visiting this
country taking scenic views and
acquiring information for use
in future magazine articles des-
cribing the various sections Of
the west and especially those
districts served by the Northern
Pacific railroad.
The party was travelling in Mr..
Colts automobile and went on tc
Grangeville the same afternoon.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
Republican Primaries Held.

The republican voters of Cot
tonwood held a primary meeting
Monday afternoon at the Odd
Fellow hall for the purpose of
electing delegates to attend the
two county conventions.
The delegates elected to attend
the White Bird convention on
July 25th, where delegates to the
state convention will be elected,
were: Mrs. E. B. Craig, Mrs.
Severns, Mrs. R. H. Deardorff,
Mrs. Alice Dixon, DIR. Truitt, 1.
M. Julian, S. R. Libbey, J. E.
Smith, Geo. A. Pease, S. Gold.
stone, S. ]. Peterson, R. H.
Deardorff, ]. L. Eckert, w. R.
Dixon and G. F. Mckinney.
Those elected to attend the
county convention at Grange.
vile on September 18th were
]. L. Eckert, S. R. Libbey, DR.
Truitt, l. M. Julian, G. F. Nc
Kinney, S. Goldstone, Mrs
Craig, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Dear
dorff, Oscar Moberg, ]. o. Short
w. L. Farnsworth, S. ]
Peterson, A. ]. Robinson and ].
T. Hale.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
Indians Get The Cream.

w. B. Sans, allotting agent
for the Indian reservation, was
in town Wednesday, having
come in from near Lowell, where
his party of surveyors is at work.
He states that up to Tuesday
night 130 allotments had been
made and the work is going
ahead smoothly and satisfactorily
to all concerned. There will be
about 80 allottments in the Lowell
valley, and that part of the work
will be completed in about ten
days. The Indian allottments
will take up all the agricultural
land in the valley, and fifteen
or sixteen pasture and timber
claims besides. The latter are
all contiguous to the lands select
ed by the red men, and in a num-
ber of instances are fenced in
with their farms.
The Lowell valley embraces an
area of about 20 square miles of
territory, or 1880 acres. 1t
contains some of the most pro-
ductive farms on the reservation,
on which are raised splendid
crops of wheat, oats, sugar beets
and potatoes. There is also a
considerable area of timber and
grazing land. 1t is traversed
throughout its length by the
Wallace branch of 0. R. & N.
railway, which has it's western
terminus at Tekoa, and on this
are situated the important ship
ing stations of Lowell and Tilma
within the limits of the valley.
The last Indian allotment will
be in the northwest part of the
reservation, and that portion OF
the work cannot be reached be-
fore November. -Tekoa Blade.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
AN IMPORTANT
STORE CHANGE
GoIdstone and Severns s. Fuchs
Stores Consolidate and are the
Property of the Cottonwood
Mercantile Co., Ltd.

One of the most important
business deals that has taken
place in Cottonwood for several
years occurred here Wednesday
when a number of our business
men formed a stock company to
be known as the Cottonwood
Mercantile Co., Ltd, and took
over the Goldstone and Severns
& Fuchs stocks of general mer-
chandise.
The company was capitalized
for 500, 900 and the greater por-
tion of this amount has already
been paid in. The stockholders
are Stuart Severns, M. F. Fuchs,
J. N. Byram, S. Goldstone, Geo.
Stuber, DR.. ]. w. Turner, Fred
Mertes, and Elmer Michael.
The officers of the company
are ]. w. Turner, president;
Nelson Byram, vice president;
M. F. Fuchs, secretary and
treasurer; Stuart Severns, man
ager. The above stockholders,
with Fred Mertes, form the
board of directors of the COM
pany.
The new company closed a
lease for the entire Goldstone
store building for a period of
three years at rental of $75
per month and as soon as the
two stocks of goods are invoiced
they will be combined in this
building. The new owners be-
gun work yesterday invoicing
the stocks and it is thought this
work can be completed and the
new store put in shape to open
to the public next Monday.
Messrs. Severns and Byram,
with perhaps one or two assist
ants, will have charge of the
new store and Mr.. Goldstone
and Mr.. Creelman will in a few
weeks retire from the active
business life they have led here
for the past number of years.
The former will probably not
re-engage in business but will re-
tire to private life and do nothing
more arduous than look after the
many interests he has at Cotton
wood and other points. Having
been engaged in the mercantile
business here continuously foI
the past fifteen years he feels
that he is entitled to a rest and
will now proceed to take it. Mr..
Creelman has not yet decided
what he will do but may later
engage in some line of business
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17

place, being only few of the
many residing in the stricken
district: VIM. Moughmer and
H. Uptmor, living south of
Keuterville, had their crops
badly damaged. Lewis Asker
lost all of his crop, which
amounted to several hundred
acres. A. ]. Carlson, VIM.
Hanley, Jos. Scherer and Simon
Bros. lost fine crops on their
farms. Theo. Toennis lost 24O
acres of fall grain grown on
rented land. R. S. Curless lost
a fine crop. South of Denver
Wilbur Bryant lost his entire
crop of several hundred acres
which lay directly in the path
of the storm. VIM. Haarmann,
north of Denver, lost about ten
bushels to the acre of his crop.
Bales & Jones lost the larger
part of their fine crops east of
Denver and north of Grangeville,
and besides these, many others
were stricken whose names we
have been unable to learn.
At Denver every window light
on the west side of the houses
was broken and hardly a roof
remains in the town but what
will have to be repaired.
Men caught on the road un-
hitched their teams and took
shelter under the wagons while
in most cases the horses pulled
loose and ran away. Several
instances are reported where
men had their heads cut from
the falling chunks of ice.
The roar of the storm could be
heard for miles and from a
distance it looked simply apal-
ling. A strong wind and some
rain accompanied the storm and
in the sections not struck by the
hail a heavy and welcome rain
fell.
1t is impossible to estimate the
damage done by the hail but that
it will reach into the thousands
of dollars is certain. Practically
all of the grain grown in a strip
three miles wide and twenty
miles long was utterly destroyed.
The farmers in the effected
district are certainly hard hit
and will not recover from their
loss for a couple years at the
earliest.
Hail storms of small dimension
have visited this section before
but none of such a destructive
nature as the present one and it
is hoped a repetition does not
occur for many years.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
Another nice rain visited this
section Wednesday afternoon.

Another nice rain visited this
section Wednesday afternoon.
Sunday services at the M. E.
church on the hill as follows;
Sunday school 10 a. m. Preach
ing 11:15 a. m. and 8. p. m.
Young peoples meeting Z p. m.
A cordial invitation to all who will
come. GEO. A. PEAsE, pastor.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Lancaster
were in the city Wednesday from
their home on Salmon river,
having just delivered a nice
bunch of beef cattle to Bales &
Jones for which they received
SIS. 80 per cwt. While here Ed
had his subscription set aheaC
another year.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17

Henry Uhlenkott and Judge
Stearns returned Wednesday
from business trip to the coun-
ty seat.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17

Mr.. Richards, the Grangeville
tailor, and Paul Bailor, the under
taker, were in the city Wednes-
day from the county seat.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
for himself.

for himself.
The combination of the two
stores will no doubt result ad-
vantageously for all concerned
and Cottonwood will now be
supplied with three big stores,
we'll filled with goods and having
ample capital with which to do a
f1ourishing business.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17

Read the new ads. of o. E.
Van Dorm and Sims-McKinney
Co. this week.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17

Win Eller intends opening 2
restaurant in the former Dixon
saloon building early next week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30
Thaekeray and tho cabman.

Thackeray loved to relate jokes on
himself. and one he especially enjoyed
was about Reading hackman. The
author was unacquainted with the
town, and the moment he emerged
from the railway station he told n
hackney coachman to drive him to the
nearest hotel. The driver closed the
door tremendously. mounted his box.
and they started. In half minute the
cab was at standstill. and Thackeray
saw the cabman at the door. bowling
to him to come out. He did so without
q word and found that he was at the
portico of the station hotel. which he
had failed to see was not a dozen yards
off.
But he handed the man a shilling
and was entering the hotel, rather
pleased with his own sang froid. when
he was amazed to see the cabman tax
ing off his coat and offering to flight
him for the other sixpence" 1t ap-
pears that on that day resolution of
the Reading town council had come
into operation empowering hackney
coachmen to charge 10 pence for any
distance within the township. This
was it's first fruits! 1t is unnecessary
to add that the cabman got his money
and Thackeray good story to tell al
the clubs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30
A Cabinet of Young Men.

In the reconstruction of the liberal
cabinet of Great Britain, following the
death of Sir Henry Campbel-Banner-
man, five members of the administra.
ton retired, of an average age of G5
years, and five members averaging SO
years succeeded them. The average
age of the 45 men forming the gov
eminent is under SO years.
But averages convey little idea of 4
cabinet which contains such extremes
as Lord Ripon. who is 80, and Sir
Henry Fowler. 49,; and on the other
hand Lord Lucas, 80; Mr.. Acland, "a );
Mr.. Masterman, So, and Mr.. Churchill
SO. Besides Mr.. Asquith himself, who
is 55, but is looked upon as q young
man, the strongest members of the
cabinet are Sir Edward Grey and Mr.
Lloyd-George, 46 ara As respectively
John Morley is to become a lord at
SO. John Burns is 40, Lord Crewe so
Mr. McKenna As, Balfour, leader OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30
the opposition, is 50. He became pre-.

the opposition, is 50. He became pre-
mier at 81.
Perhaps it could hardly be said that
this rule of the young is more than
|accident or coincidence, since in the
same government the late premier at
tanned the goal of an English public
career only at So, two years ago.
Our own smaller cabinet in Wash
ington averages 81 years of age. Sec
rotary Wilson at ~ is the only vet
eran. Mr.. Root at 63, with his alert
mind and slender figure. seems of
middle age. Mr. Taft is SO, Mr.. Cor
itelyou 45, Mr.. Garfield SO, Mr. Met
calf 81. Mr.. Bonaparte Sc, Mr.. Meyer
40, Mr.. Strauss 81. Mr.. Roosevelt
himself became president at 43. and
is now 40. If, after the English GUS
tom, number of minor officials were
| INCLUDED in the government such
promising lads as Herbert Knox
Smith, SO, and Beeknlan Winthrop, So,
would lower the average to about the
same as that which in the Asquith
ministry has caused so much com
ment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30

Elizabeth went back to her work. On
the floor the Rice & Bennett playful
still lay neglected. but now it caught
her attention, and she picked it up to
read, even as Tony had done with the
other, every word of the familiar an
nouncement.
She wondered if Jack would be 60
ing. If so, who would be in her place:
Mrs. Hardy did not care for the the
ater, and it was, not fair to expect
Jack to go alone. She smiled at her
jealous thoughts and at down reso-
lutely before her typewriter. but she
found that the thread Of the story
which had started so well was lost.
She could not force her mind to con-
centrate upon the adventures Of an
imaginary heroine. Her attention per-
sistently wandered to the playful on
the floor.
She could see the opera house with
out even shutting her eyes. The roller
skating craze had somewhat revived
its original glories. The common
wooden chairs were in place now only
when some theatrical performance
Rules and Regulations" tackled up On
the walls with Beacon Job Print III
large type beneath the phrase, 'By
order of the management" She could
hear the ragged strains OF the three
piece orchestra, and she knew that
Will Taber and Rem Blake would hus-
tie Importantly through the stage en-
trance. They were always the land
others on the programme. the army
In Under Two Flags" and<sA Cele
brated Case" the miners In 1.-THE Dan
ites.' etc. 1t was all SO vivid that
she seemed really to be there. With a
| choking laugh at her new emotions she
ripped the story from her typewriter
and slipped in a fresh sheet.
| John Hardy BlairsviIles
Please get seats for all next week. I
| am coming nome tomorrow.
ELIZABETH.
Then she gazed about the coy little
| fat. 1t would be very different In
| Blairsviile. and she knew that i'm send
| ing that message she had virtually an
| nounced her surrender, but she hum
| med a blithe little song as she put on
her hat and prepared to take the tele-
gram to the office. When she came TO
| the narrow hall she stopped and took
down the Italian poster and, with the
one from home, placed it In the drawer
of her desk.
1 You've carried your messages" she
| whispered to them as she smoothed
| the folds. "but l want to keep you
! for remembrance and warning. 70
Tony and me you meant home. I'm
more fortunate than Tony. for I'm go
/ ing home-tO Jack"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30

The janitors little girl murmured a
word of thanks-for the penny bestowed
upon her and scampered back down
stairs, while Elizabeth returned to the
parlor with the mail which the child
had just brought.
1t was comfortable little city apart
ment, and only the typewriter table in
one corner betrayed the fact that it
was a work as well as a play room.
Through an arch an absurdly small
dining room with the table laid for
one proclaimed 1t to be the home of q
bachelor girl, though Elizabeth Bel
knap's dainty femininity gave no sug-
gestion of spinsterhood either from
choice or circumstance.
The coffee percolator steamed on the
table unheeded while she ran through
her letters-a check for a story, two
manuscripts. a paper and thin. fat
package bearing foreign stamp.
Elizabeth frowned over one letter
smiled over another. patted the check
lovingly as she thrust it into the draw.
er of her tiny desk and ripped the GOV.
ering from the package. Out fell a
playbill. a glaring thing of red and
blue letters on yellow paper, bearing
the list of artists appearing at Ro
man music hall.
One of the names was marked with
an inky cross, and in defiance of postal
regulations Nell Stanwood had written
on the margin: do You remember we
saw her at the theater the night be
fore sailed? It's small world, after
ALL"
Elizabeth smiled at the remem
brance. Four other girls and herself
had given Nell going away part!
the night before the latter sailed tt
study in Italy. They had wound III
the evening at a vaudeville theater
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30

names to be used in this connection.
Bryan has something like $50 dele
gates along to this, morning, or much
more than two-thirds of those already
chosen. He is likely to increase rath-
er than to diminish his margin in the
selections yet to take place. New
York and few others of the eastern
states may pose as antagonistic to
him. They will refuse to instruct
their delegates for him, -as New York
did. But they will not instruct them
for Johnson. Delaware committed its
delegates to Judge Gray, but Gray
says he will not accept the candidacy
LII it should be offered to him by the
convention. 1t will not be offered
Nor will any other person be a serious
competitor in Denver. Therefore, the
mildness of Roger C. Sulliyan,s eulogy
of Bryan at Springfield will have nc
adverse influence on Bryan in the con
vention. Illinois delegation will sup
port him on the only, ballot that. will
be necessary"
Quite significant is the following re
publican view expressed by the Globe
as to what attitude certain element
in the party will assume toward Bryan
after the latter's nomination:
Roger C. Sullivan may be just as
much of an enemy to Bryan in the
convention as Alton B. Parker will be
but he and his lIdnois followers will
vote for him on the only ballot which
will be necessary. Sullivan may, ant
probably, will, work against Bryan al
the polls.'S
This final cut is unfair to Sullivan
He has permitted Illinois to send {
Bryan delegation to Denver, and the
Springfield Register says, now ht
may permit the peop'e of the United
States to elect Bryan. He might ever
help in the good democratic work"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30
BRYAN On First Ballot.

The st. Louis obe-Democrat, one
of the leading republican papers in
the west, declares unqualifiedly that
Bryan will be master at Denver and
that he will be nominated on the first
ballot. The Globe says:
This has been rendered certain by
Illinois action. Some of his eXuberant
friends in Illinois say that the con-
vention at Springfield sold him out"
because the Endorsement was not quite
SO fulsome as they wanted. They are
astray. The selling out will be at
the polls, but there was nothing of
the kind in the convention. He gets
Illinois Sd votes at Denver, and he
gets more than that. He gets an as
surance that the whole. Mississippi
Bryan's democratic enemies in Illinois
put up the best fight they could, with
the hope of winning that state over
to the combination which New York
has started to defeat him in the con-
yention. Moreover, the conditions
were on their side to an extent which
will not be equaled in any of the wes-
tern states which are still to choose
delegates. Governor Johsnon, who is
the rallying point of Bryan's demo-
cratic foes. is we'll known in Illinois,
and is personally popular there. Those
persons could point to the ineongruity
OF the Sullivan-Bryan combine in the
state. Sullivan himself being a per-
sonal enemy of the Nebraskan, for
reasons which every Illinois democrat
remembers. 1t was easy enough for
them to point out that this unhoIy ALI
ance would aid in the disaster which
Bryan would encounter at the polls
Yet they failed in their attempt to
turn the delegation away from Bryan I"
AS to the Illinois delegations posi-
bilities at Denver, the Globe suggests
the following;
at is foolish for either his demo
cratic friends or enemies to say that
the Illinois delegation will be free to
vote for anybody they please after the
first ballot There will be only one
ballot. Bryan will be so far ahead of
all his rivals on that ballot that they
will be ashamed toriRve allowed their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-30

The federal Office holders will cut d
big swath in the republican national
convention, and those from the south
ern and western states seem to be able
to dominate the situation. This at
tempt to perpetuate power by using
the government patronage is danger
to free institutions, and Independent
republican voters are becoming indig,
nant.