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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
RETAIL DEALERS TO MEET.
Annual Meeting of All in Inland En-
pire to Gather at Spokane Feb
ruary 8 to IL.

Five hundred members of the Inland
Empire Retail Dealers association in
Washington and Idaho and visitors
from various parts of the Pacific north
west and California are expected at the
annual meeting of the organization in
Masonic Temple, Spokane, February 9
to IL, during the week of the Pure Food
Show at the Washington state armory,
February to 10.
Philip Carbary, secretary treasurer of
the association, announces also that in
addition to the items on the formal pro-
gram there will be talks on the con
servation of natural resources, the par
cells post problem, good roads, irrigation,
forestry, home building, deep water
ways, the development of inland water
ways and the development of home in
dustries.
There will also be meeting of the
Inland Empire Retail Dealers Mutual
Fire Insurance association the morning
of February 9, when J. G. Driscoll of
Reardan, Wash, president of the or
ganization, will deliver the annual ad-
dress.
FThis association will place itself on
record as heartily favoring the efforts
of the board of control, headed by r.
Insinger, in making extensive arrange
ments for the 18th National Irrigation
Congress to meet in Spokane, August
9 to A. said Mr.. Carbary. "We be-
lieve that this congress will be the
means of demonstrating to the people
of the west the Importance of irriga-
ton and allied interests, also that it
will show to the visitors from the mid
die western, eastern and southern states
the economic value of this vast devel-
opment.
"We are also keenly interested in the
encouragement of home industries and
all matters tending to the improvement
of business and conditions generally.
We are heartily in favor of the Pure
Food Show, which gives promise of be-
ing among the best the northwest has
ever seen.
"We have a strong program and we
have been assured of large delegations
from various parts of Washington and
Idaho. It may be that we shall extend
our jurisdiction at the annual meeting,
but, of course, that is a matter to be de-
cided upon by the members them
| selyes'
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Robbed and Held over Fire.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Tramps to whom
he applied for food robbed Mark Jor-
heb, a Slavonian laborer, and then held
him on fire with the intention OF
burning him to death recently, accord
ing to his story After taking his
purse, containing about $50, they threw
him on his back into their camp fire
They held him while the flames bis
tered his back. Then they suddenly
dashed away.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
CARUso "CAME THROUGH. Z"
Noted Tenor Singer Denies Any Mar
rage.

11dSGs
New York, Jan. 3O.-"A strange
woman; marvellous woman! I am
much relieved that she has gone," said
Enrico Caruso today when he learned
that his lively inamorata, Nine. Ida La
Giachetti, had skipped jauntily out of
New York en- route for Italy, Just as
she had skipped in two days previ-
ously.
Last summer La Giachetti deserted
the tenor in Italy and eloped with his
chauffeur ard some 100000 in Jewels
Two days ago she came to New York
with another man known as her
travelling companion" pounded on
Caruso's door and demanded that he
"fulfll some of his obligations.
"She was never my wife. I have
never been married." he said. "She
is remarkable woman" He would
not say how much, if anything, it cost
him to "fulfll his obligations.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Prices Paid at spokane to PRODUCERS.

Timothy hay, SIG ton; grain hay, $14
ton; alfalfa, SIS ton; oats, $1.55 cwt
feed wheat, $40 cwt; milling wheat
$1.6S@17O cwt; whole barley, $1.35
cwt; whole corn, old $3.50 cwt; new
$1.45 cwt.
Hides-Green, &c lb; green bulls, SC
lb; green calf, 1Oc ID; green kips, 7C
lb; green salt kips, Sc lb; green salt
bulls, &c lb; green salt hides, Sc lbi
dry butchered hides, good, 15c ID; dry
country hides, good, lac lb; wool, S@
12c lb; shearlings, 35@5Oc lb; city
butchers steers, so lbs and up, SC lb;
wool, rough, S@12c lb; long wool pelts
S@1Oc lb.
Livestock-Steers, live weight, Az
ID; cows, live weight, 3h@4c lb
sheep, live weight, $4,000 lb; hogs
live weight, 615@7c lb; veal, rough
and heavy, 3@41ac Ib.
Poultry-Live hens, HOBO .lb
dressed hens, 12@12hc lb; live roos
tiers, 1Oc lb; spring chickens, dressed
14@15c lb; turkeys, live, 10000 lb
dressed, 21@24c lb; geese, 2O@22c lb
ducks, live, 15c lb; dressed, 1sc lb.
Ranch Eggs-Case, $12, case count
$11.90, loss off.
Butter-Good ranch, zoe; butter fat
3612c lb; Davis butter, 35c lb.
Wheat Market.
Davenport, Wash.-Bluestem, Gle
club, 78c.
Walla Walla-Bluestem, 91@92c
club, S1@S2c f. o. b. cars.
Tacoma.-Milling bluestem, $1O5
export bluestem, csc; club, 9Oc; red
8Sc.
Portland.-Track prices: Cash, 94c
bluestem, $1.O6; turkey red, csc; re-
Russian, 90c; valley, csc.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Explained at Last.

"The late DR.. Morgan Dix" said q
clergyman of New York, had droll
way of tightening grave subjects with
little humorous asides. Once heard
him addressing graduating class at
medical school. He began in this
way:
Psychologists tell us, gentlemen,
that the older man grows the smaller
his brain becomes. This explains why
the old man knows nothing and the
young one everything"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Favor California Measure.

Sacramento, Cal.-The assembly ju-
dietary committee, to which was re-
ferred A. M. Drew's anti-alien land
bill prohibiting all aliens from holding
land, but eliminating the clause object
ed to by President Roosevelt as dis
eliminating against the Japanese, re-
ported the measure favorably on Tues
day.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05

live" The guests joined in singing
to the tune of "The Banks of the
Wabash:
"oh the cocktails they are Growing in
the morning
And the buttermilk is flowing through
the hay.
They are waiting the return of Fair.
banks
On the banks of the Wabash. far
away"
During the evening the first line
sung in clear tenor directed atten.
ton to the president of the United
States. 1t was song about ''Roose.
welt, Good Dutch Name" It told how
the president made the air blue with
the message he wrote to congress, how
he was bound to have something tc
say about everything on the face Of
the earth and then concluded with the
observation that "there never was a
man named Roosevelt that did not
make ID good PRESIDENT
A number of members appeared as
the presidents country life commits
sion. Some startling discoveries were
made by these frockcoated, college-de
gree-plastered gentlemen. They found
that the principal ingredient of milk is
water; that ancient eggs are sold to
city folk as strictly fresh, and that
openwork plumbing is confused in the
rural mind with openwork shirt
waists.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Klaw and Changers
"BEN-HUR"
To Fill February II, IS, 10 and 20, at
the Spokane Theater Sno1kana

To Fill February II, IS, 10 and 20, at
the Spokane Theater, Spokane.
Towering triumphantly as the most
massive and picturesque as well as the
most impressive dramatic spectacle in
the history of the world, "Ben-Hur' y
will seek new honors at the Spokane
theater, Spokane, Wash, on Wednesday
evening, February II, where it will
remain for an engagement of four
evenings, together with special mat
inee performance, on Saturday, Feb
ruary 20.
OF all the spectacular productions of
modern times none has been credited
with so long run of prosperity as this
great and popular dramatic spectacle
Ben Hur" is today crowned with a
record of more than $500 performances
in America and 200 in London, in a
little over nine years, and has been
seen by more than seven millions PEG.
pie. The success of the play is cred.
tied to the religious sentiment that
prevails in the theme, making it par.
ticularly attractive to the non-theater.
goer, who as a rule avoids the play.
house owing to religious scruples.
In order to take care of out of-town
patrons for "Ben-Hur" the Spokane
theater management will fill mail or.
ders in accordance with date of their
receipt, when accompanied by remit
lance. The scale of prices will range
from so cents to 5000. Seats will &c
on sale Monday, February Is.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05

Dispatches concerning market quota
lions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Flour-Firm.
Wheat-No. 2 spring, $1.Os@1.1O;
No. 3, $1.O3@1.O9 IL; No. red,
$1.O6 1-2@1O7.
Corn-No. 2, 60 1-s@6O 1-2c; No. 2
yellow, 60 1-2@61c.
Oats-No. white, 5O@52c.
Rye-No. 2, 76c.
Barley-Good feeding, COO; fair to
choice mailing, 61@64c.
Flaxseed = No. northwestern,
81. go IA.
Timothy seed-Prime, $9.sO@3.s5.
Clover-COntract grades, 1915,
Short ribs, sides-Loose, $S.37 100
SIS.
Mess pork-Per bbl, $17@17.12 1-2.
Lard-Per 100 lbs, $3.50.
Short clear sides-Boxed, $s.87 100
9.12 1-2.
Cattle-Best, steady; others weak.
Beeves, $4.2O@7.2O; Texans, $420@5;
westerns, $3.9O@5.6O; stockers and
feeders, $3.25@4.5O; cows and heifers,
$1.s5@5.6O; calves, $5.5O@8.
Hogs-Market Sc lower. Light, $3.50
@615; mixed, $5.75@6.4O; heavy, $3.50
@64O; rough, $5.sO@5.95; good to
choice, $5,95@6.40; pigs, $4.60@5.5o;
bulk of sales, $6@6.3O.
Sheep-Market weak to 10c lower.
Natives, $3.4O@5.75; westerns, $4,000
SIS; yearlings, $5,9O@7; lambs, ma,
tives, $5.5O@7.75; lambs, westerns
$5.5O@7.75.
San Francisco.
Wheat-Shippinf $1.7O@175; mill
ing, SLIP 1-2@1.75. Barley-Feed, $1.4C
! @1.43 "a; brewing, $1.45@1.47 1-2
Oats-Red, $1.65@2.1O; white, $1.70@
1876; black, $2.25@2.6O.
Millstuffs-Bran $2S.5O@3O.oO; mid
dlings, 500. 5O@35.5O.
Hay-Wheat, $19@23; wheat ant
oats, $1s@22; alfalfa, $15@1S.50
stock, $13@16; straw, per bale, 500
s5c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Canadian Road Shops Resume.

Winnipeg, Mantle railways have
given orders to start the Canadian
Northern and Canadian Pacific shops
Immediately with increased staff, pre-
paratory to the biggest railroad year in
western Canada Is history.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Wind Moves Arkansas Church.

Hot Springs, Ark.-The Third Bap-
fist church was lifted from its founda-
ton Saturday by the heavy wind and
carried one block to the Central ave-
nue. entrance of the Oaklawn race
track.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
RED CROSS MONEY FOR ORPHANS
American Society Sends $225,ooo for
Earthquake Sufferers.

The American National Red Cross So
ciety last Saturday cabled to Ambas
sador Griscom at Rome $225,000, which
he will present to Queen Helena fol
the purpose of establishing an agricul
tural colony in Calabria or Sicily fol
the orphans in the italian earthquake
disaster. In all the Red Cross society
has spent $S41, 74O in behalf of the
earthquake sufferers. For the purpose
of shipping lumber for houses for the
earthquake sufferers the Red Cross has
given 100000 to the navy department
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Far Fields Are Greener.

A boy always brags of what he win
do when he's man.
And when he becomes a man he al
ways boasts of what he did when be
was a boy.-Pick-M e-UD
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
FLEET AT GIBRALTER
WAS GREETED aY SHIPS OF
ALL NATIONS.
Flags and Band Playing by Men of Diff
ferent Country's Navies Made Recep-
ton Great Display-vice Admiral
Goodrich Overlooked Formalities and
Visited Admiral Sperry First.

Gibraltar, Spain, Feb. 1.-The first
division of the United States Atlantic
fleet, composed of the Connecticut, Yer
mont, Kansas and Minnesota, under
command of Rear Admiral Sperry, ar
rived here Sunday from Villefranche
Two barbette ships, the Albemarle
and the Albion, and the four ships of
the second squadron cruisers, just re-
turned from South American waters;
the Russian battleships Tsarevitch and
Slava and the protected cruisers
Bogatyr and Oleg; the French gunboat
Casino and the Dutch gunboat Helm
adal, lying inside the breakwaters with
sides manned, flags displayed and bands
playing, greeted the Americans as each
in turn entered and was berthed. The
American battleships responded with
music, the band on the Connecticut
playing the national anthem of each
country. AS they passed the jackies
aboard the Russian warships uncovered
and stood with barred heads while the
American bands rendered Good Save
the Czar''
Vice Admiral Sir James E. c. Good
rich, the admiral commanding the naval
establishment at Gibraltar, although
Rear Admiral Sperry's senior in rank,
did not wait for the latter IS visit but
Immediately boarded the Connecticut to
extend his greetings. The senior of
ficers of. the warships followed suit and
later Rear Admiral Sperry returned the
calls, going first to Admiralty house to
repay Vice Admiral Goodrich's cour-
tesy.
At shutdown the Georgia and Nebras-
ka, under command of Rear Admiral
Wainwright, arrived from Tangier.
Five golfers and the Yankton are al
ready here.
Besides entertainments for the men
to be arranged for the different crews
such as athletics, dinners and parties
ashore and afoat for the officers, the
functions will include a dinner to be
given by the military governor, General
Sir Frederick Forester Walker, which
will be followed by ball at the as
sembly rooms, arranged by Richard L.
Sprague, the American consul.
There will also be a big gymnastic
tournament at which the American Of
ficers are expected to participate as
competitors.
The former sultan of Morocco, Abdul
Aziz, passed the night on board the
Georgia. 1t was the first time he was
ever aboard warship and his childish
delight was amusing. The working OF
the guns was explained to him through
Interpreters.
Reception at Hampton Roads.
The arrangement for the reception tc
the fleet on its return to Hampton roads
has been completed. 1t practically re
| rnnfs tho rrncrrnrn, rnhor, L. IL.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
'Possum Fine, Gables Taft.

AS they departed a messenger boy
handed President Hall cablegram. 1t
read: "The possum am very, very
fne.-William H. Taft"
The message came from Panama and
served to introduce Major Alfred F.
Carter, a southern correspondent, who
sang his famous Watermelon and
Postum" song.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05

A young theologian named Fiddle
Refused to accept his degree;
"For," said he, tits enough to be
Fiddle,
Without being Fiddle D. D.. "
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Bookings at the Spokane.

February 7-"Devil's Auction"
February 1O-11-Daniel Sully in
"The Matchmaker.
February 12-14-"The Girl of the
Flower Ranch"
February 15-16-E. II. Sothern.
February $780, en-Hur."
February 21-23-" Brewster's Mil
ions.''
February 24-27-Lombardi Grand
Opera company.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Dan Sully.

Dan sully's new play, "The Match
maker" in which he will appear at
the Spokane theater February 10 and
IL, is comedy drama in three acts by
Jerrold Shepard.
The play was written expressly for
Mr.. Sully, and the character of Father
DAILY is said to fit him perfectly. 1t
is remarkable for its dramatic strength,
cleverness of construction and the rich
ness and abundance of its comedy, as
well as fidelity to nature of it's char
acter drawing.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
Reception at Hampton Roads.

The arrangement for the reception to
the feet on its return to Hampton roads
has been completed. 1t practically re-
peats the program when the fleets
started.
President Roosevelt on the Mayfower,
anchored between the horseshoe and
Lynnhaven bay, will review the feet
as it passes in at noon on February %.
Rear Admiral Sperry, the other com
manders and executive officers will then
go aboard the Mayfower to receive the
president greeting, after which the
president, in turn, will visit the flagship
of each division and meet the assembled
officers and six representative sailor
men selected from the division,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
OTHER MARKETS.

Dispatches concerning market quota
lions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Barbour County index., 1909-11-03

Pueblo Indians on the Rio Grande and from
them eastward to the Mississippi. Carried
northward by the Iroquois and Algonquins, it
was stopped only by climatic severity at the
latitude of the Great Lakes and the lower
area of the state of Maine Its culture ex
tended south through Guatemala and other
portions of Central America and even across
the Isthmus of Panama. thence it was carried
into the Andean regions and extended finally
as far south in Chile as the climate permitted
or as the Indian population desired. East of
the Andes the spread of maize by nature was
restricted by the dense forests of the Amazon
slope and by the lower altitude of that great
drainage basin, because Indian corn requires
for its growth definite climatic conditions
which this portion of South America does not
offer There is exact evidence that the
region of the River Platte now so wonderfully
productive of maize, was utilized by the ma
tive Indian tribes resident there prior to the
coming of the Spaniards
From America maize was first introduced
into Spain. Thence it spread throughout Eu-
rope and into Asia and Africa. In eastern Eu-
rope it unfortunately received the name of
Turkish wheat because of the erroneous no
tion prevailing that the (present) West Indies
being India everything introduced from there
must necessarily come through Turkey Other
confusing names imply indefinite origin
OF this kind, but the geographic prefix refers
simply to the commercial, not to the agricul-
tural source of the grain. The Portuguese
carried maize into Africa in the sixteenth CEN
tury and by them it gradually spread over
much of the continent. In this connection it
is interesting to note that the staple foods of
the wild inhabitants of the dark continent
maize, manioc or cassava and pineapple-haye
all been introduced through some such routes
of trade and commerce
Maize early reached India and Burmah 1t
grows there now everywhere among the hills
Barbour County index., 1909-11-03

ulSpldceO dS one Oh the ledQlnS IOOu I'll
products for mankind. Azznm
Maize will not grow in all climates, ~
however. 1t requires long summers with plenty
of sunlight, hot days and nights, with sum
cient but not too much rain. The range best
suited for the crop is from 45 to 60 degrees r.
OF mean temperature, but it will produce most
abundantly with maximum temperature or
about so degrees F. and a rainfall of from 80
to so inches. Frost kills the plant in all its
stages and it cannot flourish where the nights
are cold no matter how favorable the other
conditions. In the United States an elevation
of over 1000 feet seems too high for the COM
the farther south it is traced the higher is the
elevation at which luxuriant crops the
rule. In Mexico vast maize fields are found
at a height of over $500 feet ard in Peru it
grows at an altitude of 10000 feet
Indian corn was found over most of the
United States east of the Mississippi by the
earliest explorers and settlers. 1t the
crop to which the Indians gave most attention
and the great staple that turned them from
the nomadc life of the chase into the home
building people such as agriculturists must
be. The primitive method of preparing the
ground was by tillng with hoes made of clam
shells. but the English taught more improved
methods, although the latter learned the ad-
vantage of fertilizing with herrings which the
Indians applied abundantly to the surrounding
soil Their hills were five feet apart-a prac-
tical distance that can be decreased only when
the soil is rich and the climate very favorable
AS the explorers travelled southwark they
found different varieties and different methods
or preparing 1t for food. 1t was made into
meal; il was boiled or parched or roasted
Often it was prepared into flour and served
as provision for journey. The many forms
Barbour County index., 1909-11-03

wherever he may be on either continent. Inc
ears of corn also are beautiful and the tassels
have been the theme of poetry in all Ian
guages The stalk grows to height or TWO
to 15 feet, depending upon the variety OF the
grain planted and the nourishment 1t re-
ceives Corn is an annual, reaching its full
maturity within single season, sometimes
within so days of planting, and must, there
fore, be sown from the seed for each recur
ring crop year. AS a botanical species it does
not of itself travel far and is propagated ra-
ther feebly by natural means. Consequently
the widespread knowledge of corn shows to
what extent it must have been cherished by
the Indians and how it must have been hand
ed on from one tribe and country to another.
There six well-known kinds OF Indian
corn, with innumerable varieties, including
pop corn, flint corn, dent corn, soft or Cuzco
corn (the name indicating traditional
origin from Peru, and the delicious sweet
corn. The pop corn is supposed to be the d.
rect descendant of the Mexican ancestor.
AS a food product maize has few equals
among the cereals. The Indians thriyed on it,
and so long as they continue its use they
show much of their pristine sturdiness, but
when by climatic or other reasons it is de-
MED them they suffer in physique and morale.
In Asia and Africa maize is likewise a food
for man. but in north Europe it has not at
tanned the popularity it merits, although its
nutritive value far surpasses, at the same
cost many of the food products the peasans
consumes Strong effort has been made by
the United States government to introduce
corn into Europe in all its different culinary
forms, but the conservatism of the old world
is not easily overcome In favor of food pro-
ducts from the new
Barbour County index., 1909-11-03

in which maize is eaten to-day in America are
all inherited directly from the aboriginal
planters and housewives from Cape Cod TO
Chile.
,Ahe corn Of the present commercial mar
ket, however, is a more highly developed
grain than that which the Europeans found
when they first landed. Science has improved
the species in this as in other products OF the
fields. The appropriate conditions of soil and
climate have been studied, with resulting In
creased knowledge on the subject. Corn de-
mands rich land. Clay must be avoided;
swampy, undrained areas are unsuitable. while
too much shade, as is often caused by. close
proximity to timber, is sure to be harmful
Land can be drained, however, timber can be
cut, or the shady places can be utilized for
other purposes Soil can be improved by fer
tilizers. or in many cases fertilization may be
accomplished, while at the same time secon-
Diary crops may be raised by wide planting of
corn and interplanting between the rows.
Thus cotton can be grown along with corn
when the climate is favorable and good re-
suits are often attained by growing peanuts as
Barbour County index., 1909-11-03

that maize was indigo
nous in the far east and
the vague term Turkish
confused in Germany
and elsewhere-has been
alleged as proof, but
these claims have no sub
stantial warrant. Gen
eral scientific agreement.
therefore. places the first
home of Indian corn in
the southern section of
central Mexico. Here
lived the Mayas, the fore
most agriculturists of
America, who long pre-
ceded the Peruvians in
this art and whose mate
rial impress on their
country is ineradicable.
All the plants closely re-
lated to maize are Mexi-
can and the discovery of
a very primitive form of
the plant in this part of
Mexico aids in reaching
this conclusion. Some
what north of the 18th
mus of Tehuantepec.
therefore, the wild maize
grew, from which Sec
ton it was carried by In
dians to be the principal
food of all America.
The Mayas did not
emerge from savagery IN
til after the beginning of
the Christian era. so the
cultivation and use of In
dian corn cannot ante
date 1000 years. From
the Mayas the grain was
spread over all America
north to the Nahuas
and AZtecS. then to the