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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-24
John Proctor Is No More.

Word was received here early
this week of the death of John
Proctor at his home in San Fran
cisco on November 1st, aged
about 83 years. The deceased
had been in poor health for the
past couple years and his death
was due principally to the effects
of old age.
In the death of Mr.. Proctor
our city can feel that it has in
deed lost a good friend. Having
owned the principal part of the
Cottonwood townsite for the
past number of years, he was
always ready and willing to do
his share in advancing the best
interests of the town and COM
munity. When the o. R. & N.
railroad survey was made through
Cottonwood some 20 years ago
Mr.. Proctor gave the company a
free right of way through his en-
tire property. BY reason of the
road not being constructed this
land later reverted to the original
owner. Later he offered a free
right of way to the electric line,
and when the Northern Pacific
built through here about three
years ago he gave that company
a free right of way through his
land. This gift alone amounted
to 16 town lots valued at $500,
to say nothing of the strip of
ground 300 feet wide through
the new Proctor addition from
Broadway to Cottonwood creek,
which would amount to several
hundred dollars more. Mr..
Proctor also invested $1,000 in
stock in the new water company
when he was last in our city and
this stock still stands to his
credit on the company's books.
Not being a resident of our
city Mr.. Proctor could not be ex-
pected to take as great an inter
est in affairs here as a local citi-
zen might, but he always had
the welfare of our town at heart
and by his death Cottonwood has
indeed lost a good and influential
friend. Peace be to his ashes.
L. LIE Quime was in town Sun
day from Lewiston in the inter
ests of the Continental Oil Co.
A. P. Mundt, Herman Arp and
H. Lage were in town last
Thursday from Winona on bust
ness.
Joe Schober started cutting ice
on his pond near the brewery
and will soon have a good supply
stored away for next summers
use. He is using an ice plow tt
cut the ice with and can harvest
a crop much more rapidly thar
when it has to be sawed out.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-24
SURVEYING FOR
THE LINK"
Surveyors at Work on Salmon
River are Running a Line South
to Connect with p. s |. N. Road
Near Meadows.

Surveys for what is thought
by many to be the connecting
link in the north and south Idaho
road are now in progress on the
Little Salmon river. A crew of
surveyors presumably of the Gill
more & Pittsburg organization is
engaged in running a line from
the main Salmon river up the
Little Salmon which it is thought
will join the P. & l. N. whose
present terminus is at the head
of that stream near Meadows in
Washington county.
: News of this preliminary sur
vey was brought to the city by
CLANCY Wallace, of the state
land department, who has just
returned from ten days trip in
the Salmon river country. Mr..
Wallace further says that the
Gilmore & Pittsburg has three
other crews in the Salmon river
field, one on the Salmon below
Whitebird, one on Skookumchuck
creek and the other on Chapman
and Whitebird creeks. It is
evident from this report that the
Gilmore & Pittsburg company
not only intends to run a main
line down the Salmon and Snake
rivers but to tap Camas Prairie
and Council and Weiser valleys
as well. The recent announce
ment that the P. & l. N. had
passed into the hands of the
Rubber trust to be held for other
interests and that an extension
for the new year was being plan
ned is practically confirmed by
the activities now apparent on
Salmon river which connects its
future with the same interests
that are backing, the Gilmore &
Pittsburg. Lewiston Teller.
Jacob Matthiesen was a acounty
seat visitor Wednesday.
Sherman Garfield, of Joseph,
passed through town late last
week enroute to Charleston to
visit his father.
The weather has been hover
ing pretty close to zero most
nights this week but is bright
and clear during the day. The
roads are frozen hard and are
getting smooth again, making
travelling a far less painful oper-
alton.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-24
Was A Good Play.

The play, MRS Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch," which was pre-
sented Saturday evening at the
Odd Fellow hall by the students
of the local high school, drew a
full house and was highly enjoy
ed by all who witnessed it. The
various characters were we'll
represented by the different
students and the manner in
which the play was carried
through reflects much credit on
the students and also on Prof.
and Mrs. Kabler who so success
fully trained them.
The musical numbers were
also highly appreciated and all
present left feeling that they
had been given the worth of
their money in the evening en-
tertainment.
About fifty dollars was made
from the play which will be used
to pay for the school organ and
for pictures with which to deco
rate the school rooms.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-24

The ten state banks of Latah
county have a surplus of SAG, $50
according to the report of the
state bank examiner, and the
Genesee News claims that $685.
900 of this is in the two Genesee
institutions.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10

to prevent as far as possible a repeti-
ton of the destruction of the large
number of elk which took place in Ere
mont county last winter.
Jones Long, a rancher six miles from
Standpoint, across Lake Pend d'Oreille,
was drowned recently while on his way
home in a rowboat. 1t tipped and
filed.
Burke and Murray will be the scene
this year of the Labor day celebra-
ton.
Oscar Erickson, lumberjack, died
recently at the Kennedy camp, near
Enaville, on the north fork of the
Occur d 'Alene river, as the result of in.
iuries sustained by tree falling on
him
Two burglaries in Lewiston within
one week establishes new record at
the police department and leads to the
belief that old operators are at work
and further depredations may be ex
pected.
William Crisp's home at Hope was
burned to the ground recently and
everything in the house was lost. The
damage was 5000 and no insurance.
Joseph Garitano, a saloon man OF
Mullan, charged with shooting at Ed
Houle, millman, has been released Oh
$1,000 bail and his preliminary hearing
set for July 10.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
DRY FARMING CONVERTS ARID
WASTES INTO FERTILE FARMS

The Dry Farming Congress is now
organized, with some persisteney and
determination to be heard from in the
matter of urging its claims upon the
attention of the public. The faith
that the promoters and operators of
this association have in their claims
of dry farming methods, well carried
out, cannot be questioned, says the
editor of the Twentieth Century Farm
err. The experiences and results of
careful and persistent work in crop
growing efforts are the evidence that
is offered in testimony of the feast
bility of dry farming methods and dry
farming as an industry.
The Fourth Dry Farming Congress
will hold its meeting at Billings, Mon
tana, October &c, 27 and %, 1909. This
will not only be an institute for dry
farming farmers and dry farming in
structors and teachers, but it will be
an exposition of dry farming products
such as this or no other country has
ever witnessed.
The Dry Farming Congress will be
a good place to visit next October, in
view of getting dry farming informa-
ton and dry farms on which to put in
into practice. The Dry Farming Con-
gress announces that there are 200,
100000 acres of arabic land awaiting
development by the dry farming meth
ods..
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
IDAHO ITEMs.

Shot through the back and with the
bullet in his right lung, little Bert, 6
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Dillinger of Midtown, ran into the
house Saturday afternoon and died be-
fore his mother could reach him. The
two little boys, Johnnie, aged IL, and
Bert, 6, were playing in the yard at
their home, the older cleaning a %
caliber rifle, while the smaller one was
shooting frecrackers.
Although the Lewiston country has
suffered no crop failure since 1898, the
conditions this year are even more
favorable than usual and the estimated
yield for the county is placed by vari.
Gus estimaters at from 100000 to TO-
5000 bushels.
Governor James II. Brady announces
that an effort will be made by the state
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
WESTON FINISHES HIS WALK.
Clear From New York to San Francisc
in Less Than 100 Days.

Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
pedestrian, has finished his 1000 mile
walk from New York to San Fran
cisco, arriving at the latter place July
s. This makes his total number of
walking days 90, counting July s., and
makes him beat his time limit estab-
lished just one day. When he started
he said he would cross the continent
in 100 days.
The veteran put careful estimate
on his own ability and nurtured his
strength by frequent long rests. Had
he taken a chance with his constitu-
ton, as he would were he younger,
he probably could have beaten this
time many days.
Figuring it any way, it is a phe-
nomenal performance for man of II
years. OF course, Weston has been a
pedestrian all his life.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
British Use Liberian Lands.

The American commission which has
investigated the affairs of the black
republic, Liberia, has prepared a report
that Great Britain has encroached on
and occupied 800 square miles of Lii
berian territory, according to a cable
gram from Free Town, Sierra Leone.
Assurances were given the commission
by British authorities, however, that
the English occupation of the disputed
territory would cease on the proper
diplomatic representation by this coun-
try
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
HENEY IN AUTO ACCIDENT.
Big Automobile Overturns Near Castle
rock-One Man Is In
jured.

Castlerock, Wash, July 5.-The big
automobile in which Francis j. Heney,
Fred w. Mulkey, former United States
senator from Oregon; DR.. s. o. Beas
ley and Detective John Mccarthy are
travelling to the A.-Y.-P. fair, was over
turned near here and one of the mem
bers of the party seriously injured, ac-
cording to report.
Mr.. IIeney walked from the scene of
the accident into Castlerock, and re-
turned with two doctors. The reports
of the accident are meager. Mrs. He
ney was not with the party, having
stayed over in Portland with the inten
ton of going from there to Seattle by
train.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
FOURTH OF JULY ACCIDENTS.
Number of Persons Injured and Fires
Started.

Started
Two serious accidents are reported
at Dayton, Wash, as the result of the
Fourth of July celebration. Roy May,
son of Grant May, a prominent Tu-
kanon farmer, was badly burned and
lacerated.
Miss Marion Ward was attempting to
alight from an omnibus at Mountain
Home when the horses became fright
ened and broke her ankle.
At Boomers Ferry, Idaho, R. McPher-
son left the fair grounds with load
of passengers and, in an attempt to
chat the rainstorm, as he was going
down the hill into town, the kingbolt
broke, letting the front trucks loose
from the wagon and throwing the pas
sengers down an embankment 80 feet.
At Walla Walla Les Mathews, man
of middle age, had one hand injured
by holding a cannon cracker in it
while fumbling for a match, thinking
the fuse had gone out. 1t is thought
he will lose his hand. Three fires and
one small boy hurt is the record.
L ne tNo uduS hOcioy ~aSOu o oiu 4, "
William Skenck, were drowned in a
canal near North Yakima. Skenck is
storekeeper on the north fork of the
Cowiche river.
The best business block in Nampa,
Idaho, was destroyed July 4, including
two hotels and several mercantile es-
Establishments. The loss is estimated at
100000, with insurance at half that
amount.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
GRAIN LOOKS FINE.
Recent Rains Prove Sure Saver of
Crops.


Crops.
Rain, falling generally throughout
the northern Idaho and eastern Wash
ington grain belts, coming just in the
nick of time, has made certain the al
ready promised record crop for the
Inland Empire. Following hot sum
mer days, which had rapidly been
forcing both fall and spring grain to-
ward maturity, the added moisture
came at a time when danger of burn
ing was imminent. This is no longer
feared.
The fall grain was already beyond
danger of drouth, but the spring grain
in some sections is still green and
under the blazing sun was fast taking
on dry, yellow appearance. The
value of the rain can not be estimated
in dollars, for in places it meant the
whole difference between bumper
crop or none.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
OREGON SQUIBS.

Joe Goska of Portland lost two fin
gers Friday as the result of an accident
with a toy cannon. The cannon ex-
ploded and tore off most of his fingers,
and it was necessary to amputate.
In an automobile accident near Tri-
angle lake, 25 miles west of Eugene,
in the mountains, recently, Mrs. Al
Kuykendall, wife of a Eugene druggist,
suffered a broken leg, and Mrs. d. A.
Paine, wife of DIR. Paine, owner and
driver of the machine, was seriously
hurt.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
GOT BUSY AT OLYMPIA.
Legislature Spends S117,9s4 in Busy
Eight Days-Legislator Have Insti.
tuted Impeachment Charges. Organ
ICED Senate and Set Trial Date
Eight Bills Are Passed.

The legislature during the eight days
it has been in session has instituted
impeachment charges against Insurance
Commissioner Schively, organized the
senate into a court for the trial of
these charges, summoned the defendant
and set the date for his trial, passed
eight bills and appropriated from the
general fund $117,9s4.
Practically all of these appropri-
ations have to do with defraying the
expenses of the session, the trial and
continuing the investigation.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
MONTANA NOTES,

Montana IS gambling lid is evidently
to remain on tight. John Radmolovich
was convicted at Butte on charge
of gambling and fined and sentenced
to Jail for 80 days. He gave notice of
appeal, but bail was refused by the dis
trict court. He applied to the supreme
court for an order admitting him to
bail pending appeal, but this was de-
MED by Chief Justice Brantly. Rad
molovich is a prominent member of
the Butte foreign colony.
Former Governor Hauser has return
ed from New York, where he has been
in conference with eastern stockholders
and investors in water power plants
near Helena. He makes the announce
ment that the Hauser lake dam will
not only be repaired, but that work on
a third dam will begin so soon as the
river goes down sufficiently to permit
operations. He likewise says that the
Prickly Pear valley, below Helena, will
be irrigated, retaining 10000 acres,
and further, that funds have been Sc
cured for the construction of the Butte
& Helena electric line, the power be-
ing supplied from the Hauser lake
dam. This means a total expenditure
of several million dollars. Former Sen
ator Clark and the members of the
Abram Hewitt family are among the
heavier stockholders in the enterprise.
'Here IS to you" With these words
Ethel Larue of Belgrade stood before
her father and friend Saturday eve
ming and swallowed dose of strych-
hour. She was II years of age and
especially well known throughout the
Gallatin valley, having been born and
raised near Belgrade.
The Blackfoot Indians held big
celebration at Browning this week.
There are already 1000 Indians in the
camp and 200 tents have been erected
there. There are about 200 more ex-
pected. Horse racing and Indian dan
cling were the main features of the
celebration.
A small sized wreck ACQUIRED in the
Short Line yards in Dillon the other
day. A hobo jumped into the cab of
INV VI eAO heAHOA Oh6AhOo oaaAh5 WV
absence of the engineer, pulled open the
throttle, jumped out and disappeared
in nearby willows, and let the locomo-
tive go. Before it could be stopped it
had been run off the track by derail.
The hobo was not captured.
Mr.. R. H. Jones of Spokane, who is
member of the firm of Bales & Jones
of Grangeville, Idaho, reputed to be
one of the largest cattle outfits in
Idaho, recently purchased the d. d.
Walker estate near Wisdom, Mont, at a
cost of $4,000. The ranch includes
1000 acres of land, claimed to be the
best hay raising land in the state.
Sadie, Elsie and John Mueller, minor
members of the family of John Muel-
Ter, well known ranchman near Hell
ena, were drowned in the Missouri
river Friday. The girls first fell in and
the boy followed in an attempt to save
their lives. The bodies have not been
recovered.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
Mr.. Bryce Uses Pen.

Ambassador Bryce, representative of
England at Washington, dislikes die
tating to stenographer more than
any other member of the diplomatic
corps Mr.. Bryce writes most of his
letters by hand and then summons a
typewriter to have them "typed. "
His habit of using his pen was in
stalled before the day of the type
writer, and Mr.. Bryce has held aloof
from the enticements of the typewriter.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
news OF THE WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PART OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The Fourth of July's toll of death in
Kansas City began when Mrs. Thelma
A. Hogan, 26 years old, died of lock-
jaw, the result of the discharge of a
toy pistol.
The Ell Monte hotel at Los Gatos,
Cal, was destroyed by fire recently.
The guests saved most of their valu-
ables. The loss was $4,000.
Triest, Austria-The Radelcky, the
new 15,000-ton battleship of the Aus
tria-Hungarian navy, was successfully
launched here Wednesday.
John M. Linden, pastor of the First
Baptist church in Oregon City, Ore,
it is announced, will probably join
Chilly" Sunday in his evangelistic
work.
Attorney General Jefferson d. Nc
earn, who successfully prosecuted the
Coopers for the murder of Senator +.
w. Carmack, announced his candidacy
for governor of Tennessee.
Lumbermen and forestry officials will
discuss various important matters at a
special meeting, called for the morning
of August IL, in connection with the
seventeenth session of the National IT.
rigation congress in Spokane, August 9
to IA.
1t is said that Count Johann Heinrich
Won Bernstortf, German ambassador at
Washington, is now on the list of pos
sibilities as successor to Prince Won
Buelow as chancellor of the empire.
jackson, Tenn.-The case of eight
night riders, six of whom were under
the death sentence, charged with the
murder of Captain Quentin Rankin at
Walnut Log, on Reelfoot lake, October
20 last, were reversed by the supreme
court and were remanded for new trials
Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould, who
was granted decree of separation from
Howard Gould, has presented to various
courthouse attendants who extended
courtesies to her, valuable presents.
In spite of the internal political sit
uation, Emperor William has decided to
take his customary summer cruise in
northern waters.
The senate has amended the maxi
mum and minimum provision of the
tariff bill so as to require notice of 9C
days for the imposition of the maximum
rate after the minimum rate has beer
in force.
Amos 7. Wilder, the newly appointed
American consul at Shanghai, is home
on furlough. The consulate and the
American court of Shanghai are work
ing together tremendously.
President Taft has nominated FREQ
III. Abbott of Nebraska to be assistant
commissioner of Indian affairs.
The condition of Representativ,
Francis w. Cushman of Washington
who is critically i'll with pneumonia il
Roosevelt hospital, New York city, il
reported to be much improved.
Death sentences were pronounced a
Boston recently on five Chinese con
victed of shooting four members of tn,
On Leon tong, in the tong conflict il
Chinatown in August. 1907.
Ambassador and Mrs. Hill gave
July Fourth reception at their resi-
dence in Berlin Saturday to the mem
bers of the American colony.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
KETCHEL GETS DECISION.
After Twenty Rounds of Fast Fighting
Papke.

Arena, San Francisco, July 5.-Stan-
ley Ketchel of Michigan is still the
worlds middleweight champion. In
desperate, grueling battle, during
which the champion was constantly on
the aggressive, he was awarded the
decision over Billy Papke of Illinois
at the end of the goth round-the
scheduled number.
Ketchel claimed to have broken his
right hand in the sixth round and this
assertion subsequently was verified.
His left thumb was dislocated.
The decision of the referee was
greeted with mixture of cheers and
boots.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10

The New York World prints spe-
cial cable dispatch from Vienna to the
effect that E. H. Hartman, the railroad
king, is suffering from slight paraly-
sis of the lower limbs. Mr.. Hartman
is at Semmering, Austria.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
Killed by Tramp.

J. c. Christie, a farmer living near
Rudolph, South Dakota, his wife, his
daughter, Mildred, age IS years, and
John T. Roynane, a farm hand, were
murdered recently by a tramp whose
name is not known. 1t is supposed that
the murders was the result of an at
tempt to secure large sum of money
supposed to have been in the Christie
home.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
Taft Wins Point.

Washington, July 5.-The corpora
ton tax amendment suggested by Pres
ident Taft, drawn by Attorney General
Wickersham and presented to the sen
ate by Chairman Aldrich of the com
mittee on finance, is an integral part OF
the tariff bill as that bill now stands
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
COBALT, ONTARIO, BURNED.
Thousands Are Homeless and Supplies
Needed

Cobalt, Ont, July 5.-Prompt meas
ures have been taken for the relief of
the 1000 persons made homeless by the
fire that swept the northern part of the
town Saturday. One hundred tents
and 800 blankets furnished by the pro-
vincial government are en- route in
charge of relief corps.
Seventyfve buildings were de-
stroyed and the loss is estimated at
from $350,000 to 100000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
Frank @. Selee Is Dead

Denver, Col, July 5.-Frank G.
Selee, for 10 years manager of the
Boston National league baseball club
and later manager of the Chicago Ma
tionals, died here tonight at the Ellzs'
home for consumptives.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
Panic in Store.

Detroit, July 5.-One child is dying
and 20 women were severely injured
Saturday when a cry of "fire" caused
panic in Kresges' 10-cent store at
Woodward avenue and State street
while the place was jammed with peo-
pie.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10
Kills wife at Mothers Home.

Omaha, Neb., July 6.-Frank L. Hen
ny, driver for the G. M. Dietz Lumber
company, shot and killed his wife, Mrs.
Maud Henry, at the home of her moth
er, Mrs. Inez Nickle. They had quar-
relied and were not living together.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10

The religion that cannot live in bust.
ness has no business to live.
Lives Pre- TO be measured by their
outgoings, not by their income.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-10

HOWARD e. BURTON. Assayer and
Chemist, Leadville, Colo. Specimen prices:
Gold, silver. lead. s1.o0: gold. silver. 75c;
gold, Doc; zinc or copper 81. Mailing en-
velopes and full price list sent on sppIicn-
ton. Control and umpire work solicited.
References: Carbonate National Bank