Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-05
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-StOries Rehashed from
our Exchanges.

for street paving there in future.
The question of using wood or
brick has been under discussion
for some time and was finally
decided in favor of the first
named material.
Frank Moreto, a woodchopper
of Huetter, recently committed
to the OrOfino asylum, escaped
last week and rejoined his family
at Occur d'Alene after walking
200 miles over mountain roads in
five days. He has been released.
During his commitment the
county provided for his destitute
family. -Rathdrum Tribune.
There are more state banks in
Idaho than ever before at this
time, three new institutions hav-
ing been commissioned following
the recent financial stringency,
making total of 116. The Bank
of Spirit Lake, Kootenai county;
Filler State bank of Filler, Twin
Falls, and the Bank of Eagle
have opened for, business since
last December.
A case is being tried this week
at Vollmer over the recent burn
ing of the Mcbride saloon build
ing at that place. 1t is reported
the Ewing brothers have confess
ed to burning the building and
an attempt is being made to
locate the persons responsible
for their actions as the boys
were drunk when they are said
to have fired the building. The
trial is being conducted behind
closed doors.
The Kettenbach Grain Co. of
Lewiston has sold its warehouses
and business to the Kerr-Gifford
company of Portland and Seattle.
The company has fourteen ware
houses along the Clearwater and
Culdesac lines and the new COM
pany will erect several new
houses along the new line be-
tween Culdesac and Grangeville.
The growth of their banking
business is given as the reason
for selling by the Kettenbach
people.
The Socialist convention of
Nez Perce county opened Tues
day at Orofno. Quite a demon
stration occurred before the con-
vention opened owing to the
action of the Socialists in deco
rating their hall with red bunt-
ing and red flags. The demands
of the citizens finally prevailed
and the red flags were removed
and the stars and stripes put in
their place while a large Ameri-
can flag was floated from the top
of the convention hall.
The biggest mortgage ever
recorded in Bear Lake county,
or probably in the state of Idaho,
is now on file in the county re-
corder's Office at Paris, Idaho,
10, 100000 (ten million) dollars.
1t contains 2100 words and covers
43 pages and the recorders fees
amount to $4,000. This mort
gage is from the Telluride
Power Co. to the Citizens Saw
ing and Trust Company, at
Cleveland, Ohio. A deed in
connection with the deal covers
13 pages of pamphlet and the
recorders fees on that amount
$14.O0. The deed is from L. L.
Num- to the Telluride Power
Co. Paris Post.
Mr.. Herbert A. Casson tells
about the new American farmer.
He makes him out a pretty big
man. He says if he were to &c
out of business this year he can
clean up 3d. millions of dollars
and he would have to sell his
farm on credit, for there is not
enough money in the whole
world to pay him his price. He
declares that the American
farmer earns enough every
seventeen days to buy out Stan
dard Oil and enough every fifty
days to wipe Carnegie and the
steel trust off the industrial map,
and thinks ordinary trusts are
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