Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-17
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-Stories Rehashed from
our Exchanges.

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degrees at Lewiston Sunday and
IA degrees was the lowest regis
tered there for "a hours.
A new 30-passenger Concord
stage coach is being used on the
Idaho Stage company's line at
Meadows. 1t is one of the finest
vehicles of the kind in use in the
west.
C. B. Irwin recently sold HOO
head of yearling sheep and &c.
600 pounds of wool at Weiser.
The sale netted Mr.. Irwin over
$4,000. He still has $500 head Of
ewes and yearlings.
In order to suppress future
rowdyism the citizens of Elk
City last week appointed a
justice of the peace, hired a
night watch, and subscribed $13C
with which to build a town Jail.
Harvesting operations COM
menced late last week on Lewis
ton prairie and are now in full
blast there. Barley is yielding
fifty bushels per acre and the
wheat will also produce a good
crop.
In accordance with an order of
the forestry department the
name of the Priest River national
forest has been changed to
Kanisku, the Indian name fol
Priest Lake, meaning " Paradise
Lake. I"
George N. lift, formerly of Poe.
atello, has been promoted from
consul at Annaberg, Germany,
to the position of consul at War.
saw, Russia. The new position
carries an increase of about $4,000
year in salary.
j. R. Lowry, sheepherder,
was arrested at Lewiston on a
charge of robbing G. W. May
of Orofno, of $3.50 late last week
The two men where drinking
during the evening when the
robbery occurred. Lowry con-
fessed the theft when arrested
and returned part of the money
he had stolen.
A 2-year child over near Troy
swallowed a d inch hat pir
recently and was operated OF
last week to remove the danger.
Gus instrument. The pin haC
worked out through the stomach
and protruded several inches
being held by the head. An
operation was necessary to re-
move the pin and the child is
now as well as ever.
The residence of Father Dwyel
and Father Reese at Nampa was
destroyed by fire on the morning
of July Sd which resulted from ;
skyrocket which was fired the
evening before and fell on thu
roof where it smouldered fol
several, hours before starting
the blaze. A valuable library
said to be one of the best in the
state, was destroyed with tn,
building.
Ed. Cassens, formerly of thiI
place, who escaped from Nez
perce recently just in time II
evade the u. S. detective force
was arrested in a hotel at Lewis
ton Tuesday morning just il
time to prevent his ascape from
the city. He had been conduct
ing an establishment at Nez
perce and had a quantity o
liquor on hand when the detect
ives made their raid.
Thomas Craig, a hotel keepe
at Vollmer, was arrested Sunda!
on a charge of introducing liquor
on the reservation. Deputy U
S. marshals made the arres
after a trip across Craig noun
tain from Lewiston at night
Craig built a fine hotel at Voll
mer last summer and put in ;
fine bar when saloons were run
ming on the reservation. Late
he tried to move his saloon +
Lewiston but was refused
license there. Quite a quantit,
of beer was found in his hote
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