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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
THE RED MANS THANKSGIVING
Tow Reservation Indian. Enjoy the

Tow Reservation Indians Enjoy the
DRy-A Pony Smoke Popular.
Interest In Thanksgiving day and its
observance is just as intense these days
among the reservation Indians as in col
lege towns where great football games are
scheduled to occur. Especially Is this
true In the Southwest, where the Indians
have had an opportunity to become thor
Sughly civilized of late years. The white
people find no more enjoyment in this day
Of universal cheer than do these same
Ausky redskins.
1t is a day Of feasting, playing and
gaming, with a big dance at night. Such
sport only comes once a year to them
nowadays, when they have had to forsake
the scalping knife for the pillow. Their
wild nature revolted at the idea of work.
and it has been with much difficulty that
the government agents have made farmers
cut of the young braves. day of rest
and amusement is considered good for
their better nature, and the government
authorities are willing that Thanksgiv-
Ing day shall become a festal time for
the reservation wards of the nation.
The Osages hold a big feast at Paw
huska. their capital city. All members
Of the tribe are invited to take part in
the festivities. At the beginning and end
Of each meal, and there are many, the
aged missionary who lives among them Is
invited to deliver a short prayer, thank
Ing the Great Spirit for the good things
which the agent has sent them. The food
Is cooked by the squaws, and, while it
could be prepared in a much cleaner and
more tasteful manner, the cooking is an
Improvement over that of a few years
ago.
The Apaches and Cheyennes are in the
habit of holding a pony smoke. Often
the Osages indulge in this expensive fes-
tival. A pony smoke is friendly meet
Ing OF two tribes and is especially APP
prOpriate for the occasion. The tribe
giving the smoke is supposed to bear all
the expenses. They provide the best
game and vegetables in the market for
their guests, and at the end of the first
Jays meeting they present a good pony
TO the head Of each family visiting them.
As tribe consists of from 300 to 500
families, the expenses soon mount high.
The Osages, being the richest reservation
indians, can better afford to hold pony
smokes, and they generally invite several
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Train Dispatcher a Holdup.

Terre Haute, Ind, Nov. 23.-Follow-
ing his arrest, Claude Simpson, a train
dispatcher, confessed that he was one
OF the men who attempted to rob the
Merchants bank at West Manchester,
Ohio, October 10.
simpson, who has been a train dis
patcher here for two years, was on his
vacation at the time of the attempted
robbery and had not been suspected.
With his companion, he said, he drove
TO the bank at o. clock in the after
noon When they ordered the employees
to hand over the money Cashier I. W.
Less opened fire, which was returned
The robbers escaped in their rig with
out obtaining any money.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL OVER
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National
Historical Political and Personal
Events.

DR.. Haldane Cleminson was sentenced
in Chicago Saturday to life imprison.
ment for numbering his wife.
William H. Smith, whose home is ~
Milton, Ore, was killed and two other
men were badly injured recently in
Seattle when concrete wall collapsed.
William Matthews, Frank Grigware
John Shelton, D. w. Woods and Fred.
erick Torgenson are now in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kan, to begin
life sentences for holding up a Union
Pacific train near Omaha last MAY.
The men stole seven sacks of registered
mail.
In recent speech President Taft de.
Glared he was in favor of increasing
the American navy. He also stated he
favored the fortifying of Hampton
Roads, the greatest strategical naval
base in the world.
The Coliseum building, an immense
museum hall of San Francisco, the
scene of prizefghts and dances, and
more recently of passion play, was
destroyed by fire Saturday. The loss is
placed at more than 100000.
President Taft has taken up his
duties as a member of the board of
trustees of Hampton Normal and Agri.
cultural institute. The president, in
an address, praised the work of the
industrial schools like Hampton and
Tuskegee.
At Baltimore, Md, the Rev. John
B. Tabb, known in this country and
Europe as a poet of high merit, died
recently.
Hugh M. White, 80 years old, COM
mitted suicide at Chicago Saturday by
jumping from a 6-story building.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate Of Cuba for the establishment
of a national currency on the gold
basis similar to that of the United
States.
Madrid.-Latest official advices from
Teneriffe say that the flow of lava is
increasing considerably from Teyde
peak. One crater has ceased eruption,
but another has opened in Mount Cor.
redera.
Chicago-Danger of general rail
road strike is believed to have been
averted by favorable negotiations of
the differences between the fremen,
switchmen, engineers and others en-
ployed by the big trunk lines.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
THE THANKSGIVING PUMPKIN.

An, on Thanksgiving Day. when from east
and from west
from north and from south come the pill
grim and guest
When the gray haired New Highlander sees
round his board
The old broken links of reflection restored.
When the care-wearied man seeks his moth
er once more
AND the worn matrOn smiles where the girl
smiled BEFORE
What molstens the lip, what brightens the
eye
That calls back the past like the rich pump
kin piei
o fruit loved of boyhood the old days re-
calling;
When wood grapes were purpllng and brown
nuts were falling;
When Wild ugly faces we carved in Its
skin,
Glarlng out through the dark with can
die within
When we laughed round the cornheap, with
hearts all In tune,
Our chair broad pumpkin, our lantern
the moon,
Telling tales of the fairy who Travelled like
steam
In pumpkin-shell coach. with two rats
for her team!
Then. thanks for thy presence l-none
sWeeter or better
B'er smoked from an oven or circled a
platter
lFairer hands never wrought at a pastry
more fine,
Brighter eyes never watched Ger its baking
than thine
And the prayer which my mouth is too full
to express,
swells my heart that thy shadow may never
grow less,
That the days of thy lot may be heightened
below,
And the frame of thy work like pumpkin
vine grow,
And thy life be as sweet and its last sun
set sky
'GOlden-tlnted and fair as thy own pumpkin
pie
john Greenleaf Whittier
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
MAGNITUDE OF APPLE SHOW.
Choicest of Display Will be Sent to
Foreign Lands.

Some one with a taste for statistics
has calculated that if the apples on
display at the National apple show,
which closed it's second exhibition in
Spokane on November 20, were placed
side by side they would reach over
~ IA miles of ground. There were
1,525,S31 apples, the average diameter
being three inches, total of almost
$751; 5S feet. The entries consisted of
10 full cars of $50 boxes, 10 limited
displays, 80 free-for- all exhibits, of
which Fl were from non-irrigated or
chards and IS from irrigated tracts; 70
entries in the state and provincial
groups, representing % states and the
provinces of British Columbia and
Nova Scotia; 80 ten-box, 1875 fve-box
and 27S single .box displays, also, 1928
plates of five apples each. The exhibits
covered three and a half acres of floor
space and were seen by representatives
OF every state, territory and province
IN America and visitors from various
parts OF Europe. ATwenty boxes of
Prlze-winning apples will be sent to
President Taft, 10 boxes will be for
warded to the emperor of Japan and
81 boxes will be presented to King
Edward and King William and mem
bers of the royal families in Europe and
to the president of France.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Killed in Auto Accident

Cuthbert, Ga, Nov. 22.-Three per
sons are dead and two probably fatally
injured as a result of an automobile
accident here late Sunday night.
The dead: Curtis Williams Fort
Gaines, Ga; James Shepard, Edison
Ga; Horace Shepard, Edison, Ga.
The injured: Miss Helen Mattox
aged Is, Coleman, Ga; Miss Mary Mat.
tox, aged 16, Coleman, Ga.
The accident occurred as the party
was returning from Cuthbert to Cole.
man.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26

I'm the ghost of the gobbler
Who used to be so great;
They took my poor, neglected bones
And piled them on a plate.
Reader, shed a kindly tear
For my unhappy fate.
This is the common fate of all
Upon the worlds great chart
They've got to leave a pile of bones
The stupid and the smart.
Even when Napoleon died
He left a Bonaparte.
We are merely puppets,
Moving on a string;
J And when we think that we are 1T.
The ak will fall-"Gezing !"
o grave, where Is thy victory7
o death, where is thy sting7"
Cincinnati Post
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Insanity Plea Fails.

Denver.-Mrs. Allan F. Read was
found guilty of attempted extortion
by jury in Judge Sheafor's court.
A year ago Mrs. Reed attempted to
force Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps
to give her 100000, threatening to
blow her up with dynamite unless she
complied.
Inc jury was out 10 hours. Attor-
neys for Mrs. Read set up the plea OF
insanity.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Valuable Magazine

The Pacific Monthly of Portland
Oregon, is a beautifully illustrated
monthly magazine. If you are inter.
ested in dairying, fruit raising, ponI.
try raising, or want to know about irri.
gated lands, timber lands, or free gov.
eminent land open to homestead en-
try, The Pacific Monthly will give Won
full information. The price is Al 5o
a year. If you will send TWENTY-FIVE
cents in stamps, three late issues will
be sent you so that you may become
acquainted with it.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Making the REORGANIZATION.

There is good deal of form and cere.
mony about the making of the Thanks.
giving proclamation. 1t is composed by
the President himself and in most in.
stances written out in his own hand
When this is done the document goes to
the State Department, where it is care.
fully copied in ornamental writing that
is almost like engraving on the official
blue paper of that department. The next
thing needed on the document is the
great seal of the government. This sea-
is kept by the clerk of pardons and com
missions, and it is very carefully guard.
ed under lock and key. Its keeper will
not produce it without a special warrant
signed by the President, and an impress
sion of the seal is quite a ceremony in
itself. When the proclamation has been
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
EXCURSION TO THE ORIENT.
Will Leave Seattle December 22nd or
the Minnesota.

The Seattle Commercial club is or
ganizing an excursion to the orient
for business men, their families and
connections, to leave Seattle by the s.
3. Minnesota on December 22nd, and
return about March 5th, 1910. The
Minnesota will touch at Kobe, Yoke
hama, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Manila
and Hongkong. First class round trim
will be $3.50. Space for exhibit on
board will be provided. Stops will be
made of from one to three days at all
ports, and seventeen days at Manila.
Applications for full particulars and
reservations should be made to J. M.
shawhan, chairman of the publicity
committee.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
A THANKSGIVING IDYL.

ut is a good thing to give thanks unto
the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy
name, o most High. To show forth thy
loving kindness in the morning, and thy
faithfulnesss every night. Serve
the Lord with gladness; come before
His presence with singing. Being
enriched in everything to all bountiful-
ness, which causeth through us thanksgiv-
ing to God. o give thanks
unto the Lord, for he is good, for his
mercy endureth forever. To him which
led his people through the wilderness /;
for his mercy endureth forever"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26

thus duly signed and sealed many copies
are made of it by clerks, and one is sent
to the Governor of every State in the
Union. 1t is also given out then to the
press agents, who telegraph it all over
the United States. Each Governor, as
he receives it, issues one himself for his
State
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Six Meet Death in a Fire.

Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. ga fire
early Monday morning is believed to
nave caused the death of six members
OF family at West Allis, suburb.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26

This can usually be said of every
man who can play the piano we'll: He
can't do anything else.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-26
Chances Grow Less.

Each hour that passes now is looked
upon by the watchers as making the
chances of escape less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07
Y.M.C.A. MEETING
 FULL OF INTEREST

Anniston, April 6.-(Special.) With about POO delegates and a large number of visitors present from all denomina- tions in Anaiston and Oxford, the spa cious auditorium of the Parker Memorial Baptist church was crowded this even ing when the sessions of the Alabama Baptist Young Peoples sixteenth annual conference began. President T. J. Wing field of Birmingham called the body to order, and the meeting was opened with devotional service led by the Rev. s. A. Cowan of Montgomery. Attorney Hugh Walker welcomed the visitors in an elo- quent address followed by a selection by i the Whick quartet. Onward the con- vention song, known as the Christian $ l 'Marseillaise," was inspiringly rendered by the entire congregation. The Rev. G. i ". Macon of East Lake made an excel lent talk on The Need of Baptist Young Peoples Union in Every Church," stressing the importance of beginning Christian work early the first of his talk scattering around the expression that the primary object of the Baptist Young Peoples union is to save the souls of the post. and to save the lives of the saved.
 The feature of the evening, however, was the address by E. E. Lee. for several years corresponding secretary of the State Union of Texas. He stated that the ideal Baptist Young Peoples union aims at definite service; it Is not an in- stitution separate from the church, but department of the church, with the object of training the young to carry on the church work It should not be self centered but altruistic in spirit. He ad- voeated junior classes, and said the proper object of the union is to die in service, giving its leaders to the church proper. Prominent among the delegates here are MT. and Mrs. T. B. Richey of Avoa- dale, who are on their honeymoon, hav- ing suddenly decided to get married just before leaving home. Mrs. Richey was Miss Ada Griffin.
 The morning service tomorrow will again be held at Parker Memorial, but the afternoon service will be held in Ox- ford
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07
Aviation With and Without Gas

Count Zeppelin believes in a big gas bag with motor attached. He puts no trust in the contrivances of the Wright brothers. He wants some- thing positive when he goes up against the attraction of gravitation. He is at any rate aiding in the solution of aerial navigation, for he plainly can go where he pleases in good weather, and he can carry a goodly number of persons along. For war purposes he may be the first to conquer the air. Given a balloon big enough he can carry 50 men and a stock of ex- plosives and he would thus become A. factor in war. All the nations are be- coming alert in the matter of aero nautics, and Admiral Scott in England advocates two-power standard in air ships as well as in Dreadnoughts.
 The venerable German count has better control over his airship than he had last year, but still the world inclines to the belief that the Wright brothers and tnose who are planning airships that are heavier than air have the true key to the conquest of the air. The present summer will bring many contest between airships of the Zeppelin sort and those of the Wright construction. The air is to be conquered as the water has been. and this seems to be an age that proposes to begin the task. As soon as 1t Is put on a commercial rather than a war basis we may be sure that one improvement will follow an other until the air becomes as sub. servient to mans uses as the water is at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07

cred, that has ever been devised. The new President, William Howard Taft, is the official head of the republican party and it is idle to say that he could not. if he would, protect con- sumers and place on incomes their proper share of the burdens of gov ernment He could do this His power is ample at the outset of Rew ad- ministration. As time goes on it be- comes palmer that the President has become reactionary.
 He will be held responsible for the result. If the cost of living is in creased by the pending bill, and es- pecially if no income tax is levied, he may as well get ready to meet the anger Of duped consumers. The peo- pie will not look in 1912 for redress to MT. Cannon's district or to MT. Alu- rich's 7x9 state, but they will cast out at the ballot box the mead who could have demanded and secured ] just tariff bill in the interest of the many instead of the few, and who did not d. il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07
HORRIBLE SUICIDE GAME

sit down to a champagne poison party, where one out of the score of bottles has been drugged with the morphia which means swift and dreamy death.
 Again, within a single night there occur many 'suicides which present every ev- idence of murder; the only explanation possible is that both slayer and victim belong to one of the numerous suicide clubs existing in emulation of Stevensons grim organization.
 The game of Tiger and Hunter surpasses all the other horrible gambles in dra- matic effect
 Lots are drawn among the members every suicide evening to determine which shall be tiger and which the hunter.
 The victims chosen, one is given the sil- yer bell, the clapper of which he may not touch or silence under pain of dishonor. The other, his eyes bandaged, is handed a revolver or a knife The rest of the party improvise barricades in the corners.
 The hunt begins and the hunter, chasing his victim at the noise of the tigers bell, is permitted to do what he can to bring death to his opponent If he has failed to hit the tiger, the roles are reversed and he becomes the quarry, carrying the fatal bell, while the tiger turns hunter.
 The fearful duel proceeds until. the weapon finding it's mark, one or the other falls.
 Human slavery, under the law which has never failed to infiict the merciless penalty upon the oppressors, is taking in Russia it's terrible toll of vengeance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07
THE LIFE ROAD.

A troubled throng doth sweep along The crowded road of life, The weak are trampled by the strong And evil passions rife Do sway the slaves of gold and greeds And mocking standards wave Above q host of sorrows thralls, Careering to the grave. No kindly word no gentle note,
 No helping hand reached out, But aye the restless tramp of feet And thunder of the rout. The love that makes amends for all Is trampled in the dust, seorned there by tongues that lie and
 hearts
 That hold nor hope nor trust. And still the angry roar goes up Uneeasing to the skies, And still the sound of dying moans And sobs and stifled cries, While Time glooms darkly OCT the scene Of anguish pictured there And fatefully the world rolls on, Unheeding mans despair!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07
Getting a Jury In San Francisco

On January 12 efforts were begun in San Francisco to get a jury to hear and determine the charges of bribery brought against Patrick Calhoun, pres ident of the combined trolley system of that city. It is alleged that he bribed the board of supervisors to grant his company one franchise or another, while he claims he did noth- ing he had no right to do.
 After 19 weeks of constant effort a jury has been secured, and the talk ing of testimony will no doubt soon be begun. The delay in securing jury was due to the fact that everybody had discussed the case and had opin- ions concerning it.
 To some extent the south is inter- ested in the trial of Patrick Calhoun, for he is a grandson of John c. Cal houn. He formerly resided in At lanta, but of late years he has lived either in New York or San Francisco. He is wealthy, and neither Lawyer Heney nor any other lawyer can con- vict him against the law and the evil dence He will secure a fair trial de- spite the prejudice and clamor that grew out of the Ruef and Schmitz cases. There should indeed be sus- pension of the public opinion in MT. Calhouns trial until all the circum- stances are brought out. His friends have good reason to feel that he will be acquitted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-07
Our Lazy FillpinoS

Alexander Sydney Lanier, assistant attorney general of the Philippine isl ands, has arrived at San Francisco en route to Washington, where he goes to urge the admission of the Chinese into the islands. He says that the Filipinos are not inclined to work, and he unhesitatingly asserts that the Chinese are the only people who will prove of real assistance in the devei- opment of the islands.
 The Filipinos are no doubt not in- clined to work if they can live in idleness, but there are several millions of them on the islands of the archi- pelago, and surely MT. Lanier does not expect the Chinese would be will ing to earn a living for themselves and for the idle Filipinos also. The Chinese are not altruistic, at least UOC IO JudI tAleul.
 MT. Lanier is carrying to Washing ton the chronic problem of the hot islands of the Pacific. The natives of Hawaii are not doing the work of those near-at-hand islands and all through the Pacific ocean like story is told. The Filipinos have ought the Oriental hot-climate complaint, and they prefer to see others work rather than to work themselves.
 To let the Chinese in would mean the displacement in time of the Fili- pinos, and it becomes a question whether it would not be better to in vite the Japanese in, or the Chinese and Japanese, for the Filipinos stand condemnel, it appears, as wholly un- equal to the task of developing the islands.
 Altogether it begins to appear that when Admiral Dewey sailed into Ma nila harbor in the month of May he picked up a gold brick rather than a | streak of pay dirt. How to unload the gold brick has become in fact one of the problems of America.