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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
PoL1TENEss IN WASHINGTON.
A City of LeiSurely Ways and Proud
Yet Courteous Manners.

A City of LeiSurely Ways and Proud
Yet Courteous Manners.
Washington is bounded on the east
by the Capitol and on the west by the
White House. Between them flows a
restless stream of sigftseers There
may be other districts Of the national
capital worth seeing, but only a Wash
ingtonian knows it. The tourist has
time and strength only TO hit the high
places.
In New York there are probably as
many tourists as in Washington. but
with this difference, the New Yorker
does not mind mixing with the tourist
class. In fact, If the tourist have
money and a fondness for Broadway
and contiguous resorts, the New Yorker
is more than willing, so Mr.. Tourist
energies his Identity with the New
York push. " WashlngtOnians never
let you forget you are a tourist. Resi-
dent women slightly raise their skirts
with an Undesirable yet eloquent air
when they happen to rub elbows with
a mere tourist Of the same sex In a
hotel or department store elevator. A
.vashingtonian looks straight ahead at
nothing; the tourist is known by the
angle at which she crooks her neck
Resident Washington is divided into
three distinct sets-old families, people
with money and people without money.
Those without money work hard to
keep up appearances with those who
have money. Those with money work
hard to secure social recognition from
the old families. The old families are
Indifferent equally to those with money
and those without. The hardest-work
ed class Of all are those who, having
accepted public office and removed
their lares and penates to the national
capital, find that the salary will not
pay for the game. You know their
women folk by the fact that they wear
ready-made gowns. Your real Wash
ingtonian considers the wearing of fac
tory-made garments equivalent to sink
ing to the lowest sartorial depths.
Washingtonians do not hurry home
from work. If you are anybody at all
in Washington you must be leisurely.
Only as a tourist do you hurry, and
after a conductor has held you at arms
length when you are too hasty in
boarding or leaving car you begin
to slow down, too. There is no rush
hour in Washington, and there are cars
enough to go around. Likewise you can
cross the street at any point along the
block without danger Of being run
down, yelled at or told to "step lively"
Politeness seems really common in
Washington, and courtesy possible even
in ten-dollar-a-week clerks. Drop into
real estate office. The young man
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
OREGON soUIBs.

Bert Allen, George Dunbar and
BLACK" Davis have been arrested at
The Dalles, charged with the robbery
of Harlow brothers store and the post
office at Troutdale, Ore, two months
ago. Eight hundred dollars was taken
from the safe in the post Office after
it had been dynamited.
A southbound Southern Pacific pas
senger train went into the ditch two
miles south of Irving Sunday. The
dead: Frank Boulter, two unknown
boys who were riding the blind bag
gage. Fatally injured: Engineer Jack
Nichols. Several passengers were
bruised, but none seriously hurt.
Despite the assurance of w. S. Love,
the Portland druggist, who was robbed
recently, that Thomas Perkins, a clerk
recently discharged, could not have
committed the crime, the police ar.
rested him and have obtained a con
fession. Because Perkins is only II
years old he will not be prosecuted by
the police authorities, but instead will
be turned over the United States Off
Gals, who know no distinction where
post office robbery is concerned.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
MURAT HALsTEAD.

WOrId-FamOus Journalist Dies in
Cincinnati.
One of the leaders in American jour-
naitsm for over half century and a
man widely known as a magazine and
editorial writer died in Cincinnati re-
Gently when Murat Halstead passed
away. He was one of the most noted
writer's of the last half of the nine
teenth century and one of the strong
est tributes to his incisiveness as a
writer was in 1880, when his nominal
tion by President Harrison to be Amer
lean minister to Germany was reject
ed by the United States Senate because
of articles he had published charging
corruption to some members of that
body. In the Civil War Mr.. Halstead
personally reported many battles, be-
ing rated as war correspondent OF
the first class. Later in the Franco
German war and also in the Spanish
American war he added to his reputa-
ton in that line.
For fifty years he attended and re-
ported all Republican national conven-
lions, and in 1860 he was the only
newspaper man who reported all the
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Tried tho Enect Of a TitIe.

Among the neighbors who annoyed
Carlyle none perhaps gave him so
much trouble as the boys who played
about near his house. They made no
secret of their dislike of the philoso-
pher and stood in dread Of his stick
when he went abroad. James Waylen,
who did great part of the research
for the Cromwell" and who was at
Carlyle's house almost daily, was one
morning standing on the doorstep of
the house in Cheyne row waiting to
be let in when one of these young
urchins came up to him In a deferen-
tial manner, and, touching his cap,
said: "Please, sir, would you ask Lord
Carlyle to give me my top? It's tum-
bled down his airey." During the morn
ing Carlyle and Waylen chuckled to-
gether over the conciliatory title which
the lad had created for his enemy.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28

varied political conventions of that
year. Some years ago he made an estl-
mate that for forty years he had av-
eraged writing more than 100000
words year, and since then his name
has appeared constantly in papers and
magazines at the he'd of innumerable
articles.
Mr.. Halstead was born in Butler
County, Ohio, in 1929, and was reared
on farm. AS a youth he went to
Cincinnati and Joined the staff of the
Commercial in 1853. A year later he
purchased an interest for $4,000 and In
1866 became head of the firm. In 1859
he attended and described for the Com
mercial the hanging of John Brown,
and was in the reporters gallery Mt
Washington through the stormy scenes
that followed. Later he edited the
Brooklyn Standard Union and since
then has been a special writer. Mr..
Halstead was married in 1857 to Miss
Mary Banks and had seven sons and
three daughters. Four of the sons be.
came successful journalists.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28

The Choctaws and Chickasavr

Together when history dawned upon
the continent, together when the white
man drove them past the Mississippi,
and together in the twilight of the
tribes, the Choctaws and the Chicka-
saws are passing into the body polite
and the citizenship of Oklahoma side by
side. These two tribes-now 20 per cent
of mixed blood, and nearly all as
capable set of citizens as their white
neighbOrs-can hardly be dealt with In
separate stories.
The Chickasaws and Choctaws, both
of Mobilian stock. lived in Mississippi
when De Soto marched across the land,
and the Chickasaws gave him some ter
rife battles. When the French rose
into power in Louisiana, the twin tribes
disagreed. The Choctaws fought for
the French and the Chickasaws boldly
withstood the invaders. Several French
expeditions were defeated, a number of
French officers were burned at the stake,
and the Chlckasaws, allied with the
Natchez, threatened New Orleans Only
assistance Of the Choctaws saved Lou
isiana.
In later years the tribes grew friend
ly again, refrained from trouble with
the whites, and even fought the Creek
and Seminole for the paieface intruder.
This did not save them from exile, and,
about seventy years ago, the two tribes
totaling about 10000, were taken to
Indian territory. There they fiourished
and grew rich, only to lose lands,
wealth and slaves during the Civil War.
Since that time they have climbed
steadily up again, and have intermixed
continually with the whites.
When the rolls were prepared for al
lotment last year, the Choctaws had
about 10000 full and miXed-blood men,
These rolls must have been gloriously
swelled somehow, for the State census
of Oklahoma shows only about 1900
Indians in the counties that once COM
posed the Choctaw and Chickasaw ma
lions. Nearly 10000 negroes and 2,20C
intermarried whites were also included
in the allotments. With the Chicka-
saws, and, it is said, retaining to the
last their sun worship and other
strange Aztec rites, live the remnant Of
the Natchez, perhaps 300 souls.
1t has been repeatedly asserted by
army officers who have served in both
Indian territory and the Philippines
that the language of the Igorrotes is
identical with that of the Mobilian In
dams, which would indicate that these
tribes came from the orient countless
ages gone by. There are many tribes
on the Pacific coast bearing the unmis
taxable stamp Of Chinese and japanese
extraction, and others which have Gus
toms, totems and tattooing method:
similar to the tribes of the Pacific
isles.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28

number of sales have been reported
at 81 f. o. b. The prairie crop is
marketed chiefly in Seattle.
With the big peach crop of the
Charleston valley ripening
rapidly, the growers are securing the
country for men and women to pick
and pack fruit.
The Nez Perez & Idaho Electric
Railway company has placed the order
for $4,000 red fir ties with a Coast
lumber company and the delivery of
the ties is to commence October 1.
Harry Hepburn, aged 20 years, a
railroad engineer of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad, was
struck by one of the company's trains
Sunday evening while walking across
a bridge at Lombard. He may survive.
Reports from the mountain sections,
where the Indians are spending the
summer in search of huckleberries,
state that the berry crop this year
is large, and that large quantities are
being dried by the Indians for winter
use.
Seven head of beef cattle were
struck by switch engine in the yards
at Wallace near the roundhouse dur
ing the night, and all were killed.
They were part of a consignment of
so head being delivered in the city for
Mahoney Brothers.
Acting Forest Supervisor Dorr
Skeels says that reports from the In,
dian reservation in the vicinity of St
Maries were to the effect that the
forest fire there is far from being sub.
dued, and is proving hard to handle
on account of the amount of dry brush
and fallen timber
There will be about he usual yield
of grain in the Moscow vicinity this
season, OF the crop that has been
threshed so far this fall the wheat
has averaged between 35 and DC
bushels, while it is estimated that the
oats will thresh 40 to so bushels. Not
much of the oat crop has been harvest
ed. 1t is thought that the opening
price of oats will reach about $105
per 100 pounds.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28

behind the counter not only informs
you how easily you could rent an apart
ment in the house occupied by Miss
Hagner, Mrs Roosevelt's social secre-
tary, but he advises you as to employ
ment agencies. And he stands up SO
long as you are in the Office In New
York, the would-be tenant, man or
woman, stands up-and the agent sits
down-with his feet on table If it is
good renting weather; and it is much
the same In other cities.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Amusements Galore.

AS amusements at the Spokane fair
this year between races a high class
vaudeville program will be given daily
in front of the grand stand. This
program will include some of the best
sensational acts on the stage Many
of them being brought directly from
fair circuits in the east.
The midway this year will be better
than ever before. The Parker shows
have been secured and will appear for
the first time in the west at the Spo-
kane fair.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
news OF The WORLD!
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events,

Former Governor Nathan Cakes
Murphy of Arizona is dead.
A fierce riot between striking cap
makers and strikebreakers took place
Saturday.
Sedley w. Percy, bellboy at the St.
Francis hotel in Frisco has fallen heir
to large fortune.
The Turkish ambassador at Berlin
and Vienna and the minister at Bel
grade have been recalled.
Congressman D. E. McKinlay of
California is in Vermont, where he
will deliver a number of speeches.
Fire in San Francisco Saturday
practically destroyed a building on
Sansome street valued at $4,000.
Forest fires on Vancouver island
are extending in every direction and
the latest reports indicate that the set
Elements are threatened.
Captain j. B. Watt of the Lusitania
has handed in his resignation to the
Cunard line officials, although it will
probably not be accepted until Octo-
Der.
Private George T. Ryan of the Coast
artillery, who shot and killed Private
William D. English, fleeing prisoner,
has been adjudged not guilty by a
courtmartial
A shake-up of the San Francisco
police force, including Chief Buggy, is
threatened as the result of serious
charges made against him and his men
by prominent Chinese merchants.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans has
been offered the Craftsmanship of the
Los Angeles Harbor Railroad com
pany, big corporation which will
practically control the harbor of Los
Angeles at San Pedro.
The freedom of the city of Dublin
has been conferred upon Richard
Croker. Among previous recipients Of
the honor were Isaac Butt, William
E. Gladstone, U. S. Grant, Charles
Stewart Parnell and John Dillon.
st. Peterburg.-Thep preparation fol
the celebration of Count Leo Tolstoi'f
eightieth birthday on September 9 are
strongly disapproved by the authori
ties and they are bringing pressure
to bear to check the celebration.
Specials from Minnesota, North Da
kota and northern Wisconsin tell of {
heavy frost and a large part of the
flax crop is reported injured. Hal
of the wheat is in shock, and the
rest is thought to be out of danger.
Francis B. LOOMS of Ohio, United
States commissioner to the world'
exposition, to be held in Japan il
1912, has gone to Japan to make pre-
liminary arrangements for the Ameri
can exhibits. He expects to return il
November.
The mistake of Mrs. Walter Starke.
of Groverport, Ohio, in using arsenic
instead of baking powder in preparing
pot pie caused the death of he
two young children recently. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Starkey are also in a serious
condition, but will recover.
According to an announcement mad,
few days ago new passenger rat,
will be in force to eastern points afte
September. Owing to the two-cen
rate, WHICH is used in many states,
has been found advisable to do ava,
with all second-class tickets at a re
duced rate.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Mineral Exhibit.

The liberal awards made in the min
in 1907 brought out a very creditable
exhibition and the same awards have
been made again this year in the hope
that an even better display may be
the result.
Freight will be paid on all ore sam
pies which are sent in billed to the
Spokane Interstate fair and which are
allowed to remain in the permanent
display at the fair grounds.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
IDAHO NOTES.

The Spokane & Inland railroad mas
about 100 men working on its ter
minal tracks, depot and grading at
Moscow.
A severe electrical storm visited the
aviston country at an early hour
saturday morning, but no serious
damage is reported. -.
A 6O-foot trestle just west OF Fos'
Falls on the Northern Pacific's Spo-
kane & Idaho branch was destroyed
nv fire recently.
The farmers of the Nez Perce
,,rairie are now engaged in the deIlV-
cry of the timothy hay CROP anu "
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Edison to Tackle Chemistry.

The news that Thomas A Edison
has retired from commercial investi-
cation and will devote much time to
purely scientific investigation, espe-
cially of chemistry, was received with
great interest by scientists of the
highest reputation in England and on
the continent.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
NAVY LOAN, 100000, 900.
Great Financial Project of British
Government.

Great Financial Project of British
Government.
The British government contem-
plates raising a large loan in view of
the growing naval competition abroad.
1t is stated that financiers of the
highest standing have undertaken to
find $5O0,OO0,0O0 on nominal terms to
meet the necessities of the fleet for
the next few years without disorgan-
izing the annual budgets or casting a
heavy burden upon the present gen.
GRAFTON.
Walter Johnson has been arrested in
Portland by Sheriff Hancock of Wash
ington county, on charge of having
killed Elmer Perdue in the mountains
back of Hillsboro, Ore. Johnson will
be taken to Hillsboro tomorrow morn
ing.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Better Arrangement.

''Your daughter can come to me for
her music lessons and can do her prac-
ticing at home"
I'D rather you'd give her her les
sons here at home and have her do her
practicing r+sA& your rooms."-Houston
Post.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Hermit Leaves $4,000.

st. Louisa little old iron box,
found Saturday under the head of the
battered cot in the abandoned boxcar,
which had been the home of Peter
Meyer, the Jerseyville hermit, who
was found dead Friday night, contain
ed nearly $4,000 in cash and securi-
ties.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Explained.

The Aged Angler-Oh, ay; the last
fish caught were a proper big 'un, an
no mistake.
The Inquiring Angler-Indeed? Why
didn't you have 1t stuffed?
The Aged Angler-Well, you see, I
weren't more nor a lad at the time
The Sketch.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
Hazen, New, Burned.

Reno New, Aug. 24.-The railroad
town of Hazen, 40 miles east of Reno
was destroyed by fire this afternoon.
The fire started in a sleeping room in
the rear of the postoffice. Loss,
$3.50. 900.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
waiting the Propitious moment.

"Say, Maria, I'm tired Of living shut
up in the back building. Can't you
open up the front nowY
"Oh, la, John, do wait till the papers
begin to give the list of the fashion
ables coming to town."-Baltimore
American
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28

People believe others to be such
hypocrites that often mans friends
will not believe he is sick until he
proves 1t By dEtnR.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-14
PRINTING ON TIN ONE OF
NEWEST INDUSTRIES.

Direct printing on tin has come to
be quite an industry within recent
years. In almost any grocery store an
example of the work can be seem, This
tin-printing is done from metal plates
of zinc or aluminium, but more COM
monty from stone blocks. 1t is conf
monty done in two or more colors; with
the use of only two colors the effect of
three may be produced by leaving a
part of the bright tin exposed. Many
boxes or cans are printed in three or
four, or half a dozen or even a still
greater number of colors. Each color
must be printed on the tin separately;
nobody has yet invented a multi-color
press for printing tin.-Philadelphia
Press.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-14
RENozYe MNn FROM leap

which is posed in the picture. That
fox was a beauty, for | got good money
for his pelt."
Lusinger knows every foot of the
marshland bordering on river and bay.
II guess I've tramped it long enough"
is the way he puts il. His experiences
have been many and varied during the
Yeas he has been a trapper. He knows
| every haunt and trick of the mink and
muskrats and has studied their habits
like a scientist.
Mink are the most foxiest animals
go up against declares Lusinger.
although books tell us they are easy
to trap. and they are harder to kill
than any cat with nine lives. And
shy. why they would give a little kid
speaking it's first piece at some enter
tainment pointers. And they're hard as
nails on the fight, too
Mud hens also fall to Lusinger and
his trusty gun, but such sport is only
q side show. for it's mink and musk
rats which interest him h most. He
has his special traps for each and
sets them all over the meadows.
The season for mink and rats is from
November / to April 1. Lusingcr does
not club the rats to death, but takes
them from the traps b~are-lIandcd,
sings them onto the ground and then
lets them lie there until he is ready to
dispatch them.
Its a great business, and / like it,
he says in telling of his experiences.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-14
For Years Charles Lusinger Has
Sought Out the Crafty
Marsh DWellerS.

~ OR nearly forty years, boy and
man, Charles Lusinger has
trapped over the salt meadows
bordering on the banks of the lower
Passaic and Newark Bay.
The willy mink and sociable muskrat
families have cause to remember this
veteran of the marshes, for through the
ssale of many a relatives pelt has he
added to his bank account. Expert in
the roofing line, Lusinger is by inclina-
sonal gain influence Lusinger in his
quest for pelts; he loves the work, hard
though it often is.
When he first started to tramp the
meadows with his traps he carried a
shotgun along, for wild duck and snipe
were plentiful. Now he seldom burdens
himself with a gun except in game sea-
sons. Mink are also scarce, but Lusin-
ger often bags one, as his record will
show, for during the past few years he
has caught 116. Muskrats, however, are
his game, 1855 having fallen into the
clutches of his traps in the same time
as the 116 ininks.
Il claim" declared Lusinger today,
that there isn't another man who has
caught as many mink and rats on the
meadows as L have. I can substantiate
this, for I have receipts to prove every
skin l ever disposed of and all the ami
mails from whom they were taken were
caught on the meadows. | got a fine fox
some years g and once a wise old owl,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-14
LOCOMOTIVES TURN THEMSELVES.

Gasoline engines and electric motors
have taken the place of manual labor
in the operation of changing the direc-
ton of a locomotive on a. turntable.
These mechanical powers have reduced
tho cost of operating a turntable by
hand from about SIS per twenty-four
hours to SIS for turning 400 locomotives,
Now a bright genius has thought OF
a method the expense of which is so
small that it can hardly be estimated.
1t consists of a compressed air motor
placed beneath the turntable and>oper-
pump on the locomotive being turned.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-14

I got on to tho cahary-colored car
charge, He was a young nan of 20,
with clean hands and a new uniform.
and he smiled graciously as he took my
fare. Ia the course Of a mile / saw
him help two old men, three old women
and half a dozen children of II car.
In addition, he gave out information
with a smile, transfers with a benevo-
leis; look, and had a care about start
ing the car too soon when a woman got
on. / had never seen the like before
in all my so years, and finally van
dercd out on the back platform and
said to him:
you are a bit different from other
conductors"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-14
.SEEINGo Is RELIEVING.

mouth train. who after much trouble,
has found him a comfortable s~eat)-
Thank you. guard. I'll see you at the
other end.
Guard-Beg pardon, sir. Would you
mind seeing me now, as I'm relieved
at Bristol!-Punch.