davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
GOV. MEAD CALLS FOR THANKS
State of Washington Particularly
Qualified to Observe Thanksgiving

State of Washington Particularly
Qualified to Observe Thanksgiving.
Olympia, Wash.-Governo Mead has
issued the following proclamation: GA
beautiful and enrolling custom, made
sacred by the usage many years, pro-
vides an occasion for universal offering
of thanks to the giver of all good. In
this richly endowed portion of our
country the march of progress has
been uninterrupted, and the common
wealth of Washington has been advanc-
ing steadily to a position Of unrivaled
prosperity. In this kind of opportunity,
where honest toll and earnest endeavor
to go unrequited, it is well that we, at
this season, should pause in our indi-
vidual exertions for material better
ment and consider the many blessings
that have been conferred upon us.
Now, therefore, l, Albert Mead,
governor of the state of Washington,
in conformity with the proclamation of
the president of the United States, do
hereby designate and set apart Thurs
day, the goth day of November, A. D.
1908, as Thanksgiving day and do
recommend that it be observed gener.
ally in fitting manner throughout the
state"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
POINTING THE BONE.

Queer Superstition of the Native
Blacks OF Australia.
The native blacks Of Australia are
stepped In superstition. A black fellow
will on no account go near the spot
where another black has been buried.
He has a deep rooted aversion to one
particular bird-the wagtail- because,
he says, him all day talk, talk along
a white Teller, tellum all about black
feller," and no opportunity Is lost Of
killing these little birds.
Many tribes ''bury" their dead By
sticking them up into the forks Of trees
and there leaving them till the flesh
has either dropped or been taken, leay-
ing the bones clean. These bones are
then taken down, the larger ones burie0
and the smallest handed round as keep
sakes to those nearly related to the de-
ceased. Should one black fellow wish
the death Of rival or enemy he points
the bone at him. This means that he
takes one of his late relations bones
from his Oily bag and points It, In the
presence Of witnesses, at the man he
wishes to get rid Of, all the time pour-
ing forth threats and curses.
Strange as 1t may seem, the one
pointed at will often languish and even4
tually die, perhaps IN a month, perhaps
in a year, for no sooner Is the bone
pointed than he makes up his mind to
die, and there is no saving him.-Lon.
don Standard.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20

Hon. Lyman J. Gage, ex-Secretary of
the Treasury, is business college grad
uate who began his career as book
keeper. He says of business colleges
that they "are technical schools and
approximate life much closer than the
universities, training youth so that
he may step directly from school
into a paying position. Their growing
recognition is one of the most hopeful
signs of the times.' Mr.. Judson p.
Wilson is the founder of the pioneer
business school of the Pacific North
west. Mr.. Wilson, speaking of the
struggle for success in commercial life,
and how important it is that a young
man or woman should be fully equipped
for the struggle, said: "The best
equipment-in fact, the only one that
can be depended upon absolutely, is
the right kind or an education" Mr..
Wilson g institution, "Wilson IS Mod
ern Business College, Seattle, has is
sued a handsome booklet Interestingly
telling of the growth of the school,
and its methods. The book is sent free
to any young man or woman interested
in business training.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
FOUND HUSBAND BY CHANCE
Her Son Saw Ad in Paper and Trace
Father to Asylum.


A search lasting the greater part of
10 years and extending from one end
of the country to the other, ended a
few days ago when Professor Mark w.
Harrington, once chief of the United
States weather bureau, and one Of tho
best known scientific men in America,
was found, a hopeless lunatic, in the
New Jersey asylum for the insane at
Morris Plains. Until last Monday a
week Professor Harrington was regis
tered as John Doe, No. g..
Picked up in park in Trenton is
months ago, unable to give his name
and with no papers on his person to
disclose his identity, Professor Har-
rington was sent to Morris Plains.
There he might have remained for the
rest of his life had not his son, Ray.
mond Harrington, grown to manhood
since his fathers disappearance, and
now travelling through the west col
Letting curios for Columbia univer
sity, read in western newspaper three
weeks ago description of the mys
terious patient in the Morris Plains
asylum.
Young Harrington's suspicious were
aroused and he communicated with hi
mother, who lives at 521 West On,
Hundred and Fifty-frst street. Mrs
Harrington, after long and wearyinl
search, did not put much faith in tn
hope of her son that the mysteriou
asylum patient was her husband. T.
satisfy the young man she decided
however, to visit Morris Plains. Whel
''John Doe No. 8" was led into he
presence, she identified him as he
long missing husband.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20

trees as the native ones disappear.
Eleven million larches, oaks, spruees,
Douglas FRS and eucalyptus have already
been planted, and vast numbers Of seed
lings are coming In all the time ThR
reason for replacing the native trees
with species from the United States
Europe and Australia Is that those Of
New Zealand are too slow OF growth
although some of them produce excel
lent timber. The lmplantations thrive
everywhere
The older countries having been
stripped Of their forests, IA many cases
to the danger-polnt, search Is now be-
ing made for valuable woods IN newer
lands. Among these Is Brazil, which
is known to possess enormous wealth
of this kind. Already the great Bra-
LILLIAN forests are beginning TO feed the
sawmills which are rapidly being erect
ed. 1t has been remarked that not
wlthstanding the vast Increase in the
use of metal all over the world, the
demand for wood is still growing Many
of the forests of Brazil are yet SO far
from the railroads that they remain
in comparative safety, but others ara
feeling the ak. An increasing quantity
of timber finds It's way from the IN
terlor to Rio de Janeiro, where It is
used for packing-boxes, match manu-
facture, and many other purposes, and
] note of alarm is sounded by thoas
who have learned what 1t means 10
strip country of its forest resources
without providing for their renewal.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
kslD2a, Science
NM KNO
s, : sse.sEllVentiOfl
~~4ooooo~~o

By a recently patented movable mold,
well organized force of 'laborers can
lay feet Of cement sidewalk per min
ute.
A practically permanent paint, a
rich brown in color, is made by grind
Ing the bones of mummies with btu
men.
Although iron ore is found in almost
every State and territory in the Union,
it is mined profitably in only twenty
nine.
A Pittsburg firm is making special
ty of glass grave "stones," which show
portraits of the deceased blown in the
front.
Contracts have been awarded for al
most 10000 tons of dynamite for use
on the Panama canal within the next
twelve months.
The Island of Formosa exported
4,121 $3.50 pounds of camphor last year,
of which 1,635,30o pounds came to the
United States.
A patent has been granted to an at
tachment to a rocking chair to operate
fan to cool the occupant while sway
ing to and fro.
The United States produced $500
long tons Of manganese last year, wortl
1914 1853, more than any previous veal
except 1902 and 1905.
Over $225,OOO has been subscribed Il
the Koch endowment to be applied to {
crusade against tuberculosis. under thu
direction of DR.. Koch.
A company is being formed at ST
Louis with 100000 capital to oper
ate line of steel barges between tina
city and New Orleans.
A Philadelphia foundry makes spe
cialty Of breaking up old steel cannon
and remelting the metal for more thar
half a hundred purposes.
A compressed air buffer has beer
patented for locomotives which, 1t Il
claimed, will prevent serious wrecl
In the event of a collision.
Wax obtained by boiling crude ozo
cerite, obtained from the bituminouI
shales of central Poland and Hungary
Is used for candles by the peasants.
The result Of observations of double
stars made from 1889 to 1907 at tn,
observatory at Cambridge, England
soon will be published in book form.
More than 100000 Holsters wer,
propagated and set free by the flsl
commission last year, with the result
that the price was cut almost in half
A Russian inventor has brought t
the United States a motor boat whicl
he claims will make a speed of thirty
one miles an hour with 12-horse powe
engine.
More rapid changes in animal an,
vegetable life, says Science, are takinl
place in New Zealand than almost any
where else In the world. The nativ
Polynesian race is disappearing befor
the European; the native wild animal
amount to little in contest with I'm
ported species. many Of which now ru
wild; the streams are full OF Amer
can and European trout. which attai
an enormous size: and even the forest
are to be replaced by planting forelg
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20

or legal separation from her present
husband. In fact, one of her letters
implies that the prince is willing to
demand such separation in order to
defeat Count Boni de Castellane's eff
forts to recover the children. The
princess declares herself to be in a
"distracted condition" owing to an ap-
parent probability that Count Boni
finally will succeed unless her second
marriage, because of which he demands
the children, is annulled through di-
voree or a separation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
Dinerent Oplniena.

81 see a man intends to let a rattle.
snake bite him and depend on prayer
for a cure. call that faith"
81 call 1t cruelty to animals unless
somebody's going to pray for the snake
after it's bitten such fool as that
Philadelphia Ledger.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20

Wheat-United States east of Rock
les, increased 96s,OOO bu.; Canada, in
creased $4,000 bu.; total United States
and Canada, increased 1,492,0O0 Blu.
Afoat Tor and in Europe, increased
400, 900 Blu.
Total American and European sup
ply increased 1,s92,00O bu.
Corn-United States and Canada, de-
creased $4,000 blu.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
SPOKANE THEATER, SPOKANE.
Fine Plays Are Dated for the Month Of
November.

Manager Charles Muehlman of the
Spokane theater announces the follow
ing list of attractions for November,
among them being several plays which
have not been in the west before, and
which win be seen in Spokane for the
first time:
November 20 and 21--'The Lion and
the Mouse.''
November % and 23-Dustin Farnum
in "The Squaw Man."
November 25 and 20" Arizona. q"
November 20 and 3O-Henry W. Saw
age g "The Devil"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20

tions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Chicago.
Flour-Market firm.
Wheat-No. spring, $105@1.07;, No.
3, 97c@$1.O6; No. red, $1.O3 1-2@
1.O4 1-2.
Corn-No. ?, 63 $4,000 1-4c; No. 2
yellow, &c 4-4066 3-4c.
Oats-No. white, 52@55 lie; No. 3
white, 5O@52c.
Rye-No. 2, 73c.
Barley-Good feeding, GOOGLE; fair
to choice mailing, 64@66c.
Flaxseed = No. 1 northwestern,
$1.37 1-2.
Timothy seed-Prime, 1885.
Clover-Contract grades, 5000.
Short ribs, sides-Loose, $8.37 lao
s.s71-2.
Mess pork-Per Dbl, $14.6s 100
14.75.
Lard-Per 100 lbs, 1925.
Short clear sides-Boxed, $s.75@9.0O.
Cattle-Market steady to strong.
Beeves, $3.4O07.40; Texans, $4,000
$4.70; westerns, $3.25@4.6O; stockers
and feeders, $2.65@4.6O; cows and
heifers, $1.65@5.40; calves, $5.50@7.75.
Hogs-Market to 1Oc higher. Light,
$5.25@5.9o; mixed, $5.4O@615; rough,
$5.4O@5.6O; good to choice heavy, $500
@6.2O; pigs, $4@5.2O; bulk of sales,
$5.75@6.0O.
Sheep-Market steady. Natives, $3.50
046O; western, $2.5O@4.6O; yearlings,
$4.2O@5.OO; lambs, $3.75@6.oO; western,
$375@6.OO.
San Francisco.
Wheat-Shipping, $1.62 1-2@1.67 ~;
milling, $1.67 1-2@1.72 12. Barley
reed, SLAB 3-4@1.45; brewing, $1.47 IL
@1.521-2. Oats-Red, $1.5O@2.O0;
white, $1.6o@175; black, $2.25@2.4O.
Millstuffs- 29.5o@31.OO; mid
dlings, $50. 50@35.5O.
Hay-Wheat, $1s.OO@22.OO; wheat
and oats. $17OO@21.OO; alfalfa, $11.0C
015.OO; stock, $13.o0@15.OO; straw, pei
bale, 55@85c.
Wool-Spring Humb. and Mend, 100
19c; Nevada, 9@12c; eastern Oregon
s@13c; valley Oregon, IL 1905 lie
mountain, 407 lie; South Plains and
s. j., 1909 1-2c.
New York.
Flour-Market steady but quiet.
Wheat = Spot, easy; No. 2 red
$1.13 1-S elevator and Glib So f. o. b
afoat; No. hard winter, $1.13 Is f. o
b. afoat.
Petroleum and hops-Steady.
Hides-Firm. Bogota, 10000.
Wool-Quiet.
Sugar-Raw, steady; fair refining
$3.44; centrifugal, 90 test, 1894; mo
lasses sugar, 1921.
Refned-Unsettled, No. 6, $40; No
7, $4.35; No. 8, $40; No. 9, $4.25
No. 10, $4.15; No. IL, $40; No. IL
$4.15; No. 10, 81; No. IA, 1926; con
PETITIONERS A, $3.50; mould A, $5.15
cut loaf, $3.50; crushed, $3.50; pow
dered, $500; graduated, $3.50; cubes
$5.O5.
Coffee-ouiet. Rio No. 7, 1-2c; San
tos No. 4, lie.
Mild-Dull; Cordova, 9 1-4@12 Lee.
Bar silver, soc; Mexican dollars, 45c
! The tin market was weak and lowe
at $3O.OO@3O.40.
Copper was quiet and unchanged, wit
lake quoted at $14.5O@14.62 IL, cleo
trolytic at $14.37 1-2@14.50 and eastinI
, at $14.12 1-2014.37 1-2.
, Lead was quiet and unchanged a
: $4.37 1-2@4.4O.
, Spelter was quiet and unchanged a
, $5.00@5.50.
The iron market was frmer.
; Available Grain Supplies.
Special cable and telegraphic con
munication received by Bradstreet
this week show the following change
: in available supplies as compared wit
previous account:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
One Year for Divorce.

The new divorce law, increasing the
period of residence from six months
to one year, was carried on November
in South Dakota by vote of 2 to I,
according to unofficial figures just com
piled.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
SHOT TO KILL F. ]. HENEY
Great Lawyer Hit In
Head by Pistol
Bullet.
MURDERER HAD BEEN RELIEVED
FROM JURY WORK ON Ac-
COUNT OF RECORD.

The San Francisco bribery-graft
cases had a dramatic climax last Fri
day, when Assistant District Attorney
Francis J. Honey, who has been in
charge of the prosecution during it's
course of two years, was shot and seri-
ousIy woEnded in the crowded court
room by Morris Haas The shooting oc-
Cured during a brief recess in the
third trial OF Abraham Ruef ON the
charge of bribery, which is now in it's
eleventh week.
The would-be assassin was saloon
keeper, who was drawn upon the Jury
panel in the second trial of Ruef, and,
after having been temporarily passed
by both sides, was, exposed in dra-
matte manner by Mr.. Heney as an ex-
convict and discharged from the jury.
E Haas declared after the shooting that
Heney had ruined his life by this ex-
posture and that he had determined to
kill him for that reason.
Struck Crowd With Horror.
For "a moment everybody seemed
stunned and paralyzed The would be
assassin, whose revolver was within
a foot and half of Heney's head
when he pulled the trigger, stepped
back, his arms by his side, one hand
still clutching the smoking pistol, as
if hesitating what to do. In a frac
ton of second an impressive silence
followed the report, while the smoke
of the shooting leisurely foated away
Then followed dramatic scene. Some
one shouted "My Godl He has shot
Honey" Explanations of horror burst
from the crowd. Half of the spectators
evidently fearing further shooting
made a frantic rush for the doors.
Before the assassin could raise his
pistol again Foley and E. J. Wiskot
chill, a special policeman, were upoI
him, had thrown him to the floor ant
w,rested the weapon from his grasp.
AS the man who had fred the sho
stepped back from the assistant dis
trict attorney, with the weapon in hi
hand, he kept his eyes ON Heney, as i
to see how effective his aim had been
Mr.. Heney arose out OF his chair, pu
his hands to his head, the blood stream
ing through his fingers and reddenin!
the table in front of him, leaned over
moment, and was caught as he began
to fall
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
DIVORCE FOR DE sAeAN?
Mrs. Gould Says She viii Choose Chill
dren First.

London.-Letters have been shown
here written by Princess de Sagan, for
merly Miss Anna Gould, to a friend IN
London declaring as untrue the rumors
that her second marriage is unhappy.
She says, however, that if she must
choose between her children and the
prince she will keep the children. She
thinks this can be done by divorce
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20


Turkey that which
the Sultan taking drive Until the threat
faithful had dared
Yndz kiosk the Friday
grounds the palace BY thus showing himself freely his people Abdul
himself the
patient padihah asking
Hence the
bursts of perfectly sincere loyalty
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20

If women are talking machines, men
who sow wild oats should be claRsed 20
sewing machines
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
Heney Asked for His Wife.

He was laid on the floor. He then
said: "Send for my wife"
Mr.. Heney was perfectly composed,
the peculiar smile for which he is
known still lowering over his lips. Evi-
IDENTIFY he also believed that he was
fatally wounded. Turning his eyes to
Mr.. John O'Gara, his assistant in the
trial, he said:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
statement by Heney.

"T want to make dying statement.
I believe 1 am going to die. l was sit
ting at my table when I felt what L
though was a blow. I do not know
who shot me. 1 was doing nothing to
any one"
Ruef and his two attorneys, who
were out on the sidewalk, were startled
by the report and started for the court
room, but were forced down the steps
by the crowd rushing out
Heney Has Had Notable Life.
Francis Joseph Honey was born of
an Irish father and German mother
in Lima, New York, on st. Patrick 8
day, March II, 1859. He was taken by
his parents to San Francisco when he
was but years of age, and grew up a
street gamin, fighting his way up
through the youthful Outlawry.
He has had remarkable career IN
Arizona, California and Oregon. After
leaving the University of California he
studied law and later worked as COW,
bow and miner in various portions OF
the west. Finally he went TO Iuesohi
Ariz., where he was noted for his fear
less disposition. He was the only law
yer in Tucson who dared take the case
of Mrs. Handy, who was suing her nus
band, a prominent physician, for al
yorce. DR.. Handy had announced thai
he would shoot on sight any attorney
who took the case.
Heney Killed Man.
Heney became Mrs. Handy's lawyer
and was one day attacked by DR.. Han
dy, Heney's superior in size and
strength. In the struggle that ensuec
Heney drew a pistol and shot Handy
dead. He was exonerated by cor
oner's jury.
Later Heney came to San francisco
and practiced law. While well KNOW
here because of his aggressive methods
if was not until he had been appointed
special prosecutor in the Oregon lan'
fraud cases that he became natlona
character.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
SECRETARY METoALF RESIGNS

LII Heath Is Cause-NeWperry VIII
Succeed Him.
Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Met
calf has rendered his resignation to the
president, to take effect December /,
on account of i'll health.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Truman Newberry will be named as
Mr. Metcalf IS successor.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
OTHER MARKETS.

Dispatches concerning market quota
tions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-02-13
Educating the Boys.

NJ v Richards in Southern Farm Magazine
The farmer who is in q position to
send his boys to college to study for any
of the learned professions-medicine. law:
or what not-usnally considers that the
boys who stay at home to work on the
farm can find all the necessary education
they need in the common school. 1t is
now an accepted that fact in all depart
ments OF human effort the educated man
has decided advantage. There is no
occupation in which more new theories
and speculations and more problems are
constantly arising than on the farm.
Scientific farming today under the meth
DDS developed at the experiment stations
and by practical men every where is no
more kin to the old haphazard kind
than the wheelbarrow resembles the
modern locomotive. The farmer who
works without knowledge OF the laws
OF plant and animal growth and OF soil
fertility is like the sailor navigating the
seas without compass or rudder. He
merely sails before the breeze, but when
the storm comes and shoals appear his
vessel is wrecked.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-02-13
The Wages Of Sin.
Washington Herald.

Washington Herald.
"Mrs. Anna Bradley, who muir
dered Senator Brown and was ac-
Quilted by a jury of tenderhearted
men, in almost broken hearted be-
cause she is Stunned by decent men
and women, as she puts it. Are
none ofthose who reioiced at her ac-
quittal offering her sympathy and
comfort?'-Buffalo EEening Times.
No; not of the kind she evidently
craves-nor will they. This is the
mockery of the vengeance such as
hers; the gibe OF the "uuwritten law"
It must have warmed her heart at
times to read the pathetic things
about herself in the newspapers; it
must have almost, If not quite, con-
WINGED her that she was a woman
more sinned against than shining
much more. The tense public lntrest,
the applause of the hysterical and
the sentimental, must have brought
her great consolation throughout
her ordeal. But this sympathy, APP
parently so real, was all on the sur
face-perhaps not all, but very nearly
all. Little of it was abiding; only
the merest fraction lasting.
After all, there are often worse
punishments than the mere physical
discomfort q legal sentence involves
in criminal cases. The trusted bank
cashier who is sent to a United
States penitentiary for term OF
of M r. l.
lively nothing, SO far as mere living
| and breathing and having his being
| are concerned. IJ is the finger OF
scorn that he must forever thereafter
face that brings his very soul down
into the dust. 1t is the disgrace
of the thing; the knowledge that he
is q loathed object for the remainder
of his life-a thing too vilefor honest
men and women to associate with.
| There is always a right way to do
things in this world; likewise a wrong
way. Men and women III y choose
for themselves which way they will
proceed. The right way may appear
hardest, but it invariably leads to a
happier goal. Libraries are full Of
the works of honest and upright hui
man beings who have tried in count
less ages past to drive this thought
home to mankind. 1t was an eter
nal truth countless years ago; it is as
everlastingly the truth today Mar
may doubt it, but he alters it not
Better, a thousand times better, tc
choose the right way: It's an ole
story, but a true one.