Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-07
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-Stories Rehashed from
our Exchanges.

portions are raging in the Occur
d'Alene forest reserve and
threaten to spread into Montana.
The thermometer registered
108 degrees at Lewiston last
Friday, This registration has
been equalled only twice IN the
last eight years.
Grasshoppers are said to be
doing considerable damage in
the Lewiston valley and have
already destroyed about one
tenth of Robert Schleicher's
grape crop east of Lewiston,
George A. Pettibone, the
Western Federation official who
was tried in Boise for completely
in the Steunenberg murder,
died Monday at Denver after
having been operated on for
cancer.
A shipment Of 100000 young
trout arrived late last week at
Lewiston from the state fish
hatchery in Lincoln county. The
fish were planted in the various
streams of this part of the state
Immediately after their arrival.
Last Saturday Bales & Jones
shipped out of this terminal
eighteen carloads of fat cattle
for the Seattle market, one car
of calves in the lot. This means
500 head of cattle, not a dimini-
tive bunch by any means.-
Sites Sentinel.
The open season for shooting
grouse is from August Is to De-
cember l. No more than II to
r be killed by any one person in
| any one day. Partridge, pleas
: ant, prairie chicken and turtle
dove, September l to December
l l. Snipe, plover, duck and
t geese, September Is to January
l.
1 u. S. Marshals Sam Cone and
Joseph Mattuly visited Sites late
last week and arrested Ed. Lane
, and Tude Stonebraker on charges
of introducing liquor on the
{ reservation. Fifteen hundred
! bottles of Gold Foam" a liquiC
d closely resembling beer but sale
Il to be Notwithstanding, were
) seized and destroyed.
! It is said smallpox is no longe
h to be considered a fatal disease
v but is to be regarded as one il
q which 499 out of 500 victims will
Il recover. During the past sil
: months 23,544 cases of thi
disease were reported to tn
> Marine Hospital and Publ
! Health service at Washington
Out of this large number only 5
died.
Charles Spaulding, the minin
man who shot and killed O. L
Benson at Florence last week i
:, a quarrel over a gambling debt
- - was given a preliminary hearing
= last Friday at Grangeville befor
y Judge Vineyard and acquitted
= :; Spaulding claimed he shot i
- - self defense and several ey
- ~ witnesses Of the shooting sub
~ ~ stantiated his statement.
re The postofice department ha
err issued an order shutting tn
or notorious newspaper, Appeal t
is Reason" from the mails. Pro
re Tossing to be socialistic, tn
re publication has devoted its enel
st gies to crying down our form {
I'd government and it's utterance
er have been opposed to law an
a order. If the order holds goo
ot Appeal readers in the future wi
lp get their paper by express.
e, To date close to seventy-f1
or binders have been sold tn
by season by our implement dealer
all being of the Mccormick ar
. Deering makes. No heade
cd have been sold. A few push
his binders have been put out. II
rst days of big harvesting outfits
1is the Genesee valley are past.
by few years ago the man who hi
tly cut his grain with a bind
found it difficult to secure