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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

out and the Clealum department was
rushed to the scene, but beyond saving
the outside buildings and lumber yards
and sawmin little could be accom-
plished
The big hoist of the shaft crumbled
like an eggshell as the flames swept up
from the shaft.
Houses in Town on Fire.
Cinders few in every direction and
many buildings in Roslyn caught fire,
all being extinguished by the vigilance
of the residents.
Scenes of wild excitement followed
the first few minutes after the terrific
explosion. Citizens ran in all directions
in attempts to save property or aid IN
caring for the injured, while Others
were crying and moaning for the loss Of
loved ones.
Produced 5000 Tons a Day.
The Roslyn shaft is $40 feet deep
and had producing capacity of about
5000 tons of coal per day.
About 500 men were employed On
week days in mine No. 4, which Is
known as the shaft.
Fire Bosses Had Reported Safety
The cause of the explosion is MOI
known, as the frebosses had just lel'
the mine and had reported everything
in perfect condition. The mine In tnS
neighborhood of the shaft is burning
fiercely and the fire is raging through
the shaft from bottom to top with ~
awful roar. The electric pumps ais
cut off and the water supply in the clg
is very low. 1t is thought the hre =
the shaft will not affect the other mines
but it will be six months at the earns''
before the shaft can be put in Workins
condition again, if ever.
Will Affect Supply of State.
The mines of the Northwestern ~
provement company are the largess
the state and have producing caPav.
of 5000 tons per day and employ s.
men. The loss of the shaft will ma's'
ally affect the coal supply of the s'1.s
The officers of the Northwestern =
prOvement company are DONG w.
thing in their power to relieve sugsl.s
and to save property. Within one I'D
ute after the explosion word ieap ~.
General Manager Claghorn at dig -
Dor.
Had the explosion occurred -
working day perhaps hundreds o. I.y
would have been killed. On SUI "a
only frebosses and pump men
stable men are working and tnos'
ployed IN making necessary reps''@
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Mount Baker was recently in erup-
tion.
Forest fires are said to be raging
in several counties in Texas.
The Prince and Princess Kuni of
Japan gave luncheon recently in New
York City.
The military port of Batum, on the
Black sea, has been abolished by the
car IS order.
The Kalgan railroad, the first line
in China to be constructed solely by
Chinese, is now in operation
Zurich.-The international goal race,
in which % balloons started from this
place, was won by the Swiss balloon
Mars.
Cincinnati, Ohio Cut-rate" drug
gists recently won a victory through a
decision handed down by Judge Hoff-
melmer.
Congressman Champ Clark announced
that he intends to give up the lecture
platform and devote all his time to
fight against high tariff.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, accom-
panied by his wife and daughter, have
returned from Europe.
Willis Earnsting, a poultry dealer of
Los Angeles, is under arrest for the
murder of William Salters Of Tacoma
on the night of August IA.
A voluntary increase in wages of 1
to cents an hour for the 1900 motor
men and conductors employed by the
Detroit United Railways has been made.
A movement in favor of the idea of
general strike in labor disputes, as
followed in Europe. has been started
in Chicago against the idea Of separate
strikes.
Berlin.-Crown Prince Frederick,
whose wife gave birth to a son on the
night of September 80, was prevented
by a series of mishaps from reaching
home in time for the event.
New York City7s share in the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration ended last Sat
urday night with carnival parade and
a display of fireworks and warship
illumination on the Hudson river.
During September land office officials
at Lewiston accepted homestead filings
on over $4,000 acres of land, which
breaks all records for one month S bust
ness during the ineumbancy of the pres
ent officials. The stone and timber en-
tries do not show the slump expected
since the government began appraising
the land. Many claims have been taken,
even when the appraisement exceeds SIS
an acre. The old minimum price of
$3.50 an acre is seldom used, as most
of the land is estimated worth more
money by government estimators.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
IDAHO ITEMS.

Bob Broberg was drowned while ford
ing the Clearwater river near Spalding
Saturday.
The Tenth Annual Lewiston Clarks-
ton Interstate fair closed Saturday as
a financial success.
At the public sale of William Win
IS on his farm near Nez Perce, a
yearling Jersey heifer sold for $4s.5O,
while Jersey mich cows sold at from
$50 to $75.
A searching party is securing the
North Fork woods along the Clearwater
river for Morgan Woodward, who. dis.
appeared from his home near Orofino
several days ago.
The Idaho Combine National Har.
vester company has completed one of
it's three factory buildings at Moscow
and this week will remove machinery
from the old foundry buildings.
Wood dealers are hauling wood to
Lewiston from Craig mountain, sc
miles, because the freight rates on
the railroad are so high it is cheaper
to haul it by wagon than to ship by
freight.
The Stack Gibbs Lumber company
has quit the fight against Shoshone
county and paid taxes for 1908, end
ing one of the legal cases the county
has been pressing against the big lum
Der companies.
During the quarter ending September
30, 1908, the government disposed OF
45,279 acres of land in the land dis
trict, located in Bonner, Kootenai and
Shoshone counties, for which it re
ceived less than six cents per acre.
During 1909, $3.50 acres of origina
homestead filings were taken, beins
721 acres more than in 1908. The fna
entries aggregated. $500 acres, being
1,5S5 acres less than in 1908. In 100!
72O acres were committed to 1888 acres
in 1908.
The advent of the Milwaukee road
its line running near the Occur d'Alen,
district, has stirred the two older lines
the n. P. and the o. R. 8 N, to better
efforts at service, and the benefits at
tanned and promised heartily are wei
coined by the people of the district.
There were sc applications for tim
Der and stone claims to 81 in 1908, ag
gregating 424 acres and $500 acre.
bringing $1,s63 and $1,000 re
speetively. Heretofore all timber land
has brought the government $3.50 PEI
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

nize the necessity for pursuing forestry
reform by making liberal appropris
tions Tor the purpose. The forestrv
lands of the United States ought ID u
surveyed and carefully preserved. ma
its jurisdiction in respect to tbsm
clearly defined.
1.-THE regulation of forests in privats
ownership within state boundaries i
not plainly within the scope Of federal
jurisdiction, and it should be under.
taken by the state.
~ do not think that the states bavo
taken up the matter with as mpeb
energy as they ought, and have not in.
proved the opportunity which was
given them by way of example by M
forestry bureau of the United States /,
The president also spoke at length oO
the other questions mentioned in tba
foregoing, saying also forest lands
owned by the public should be SURVEYED
and held by the government under H.
regulation of the forestry bureau, Der
uniting sale of such timber as shall
be necessary in the proper forestry
preservation. He added, in closing:
"There has been good deal Of dis
cussion in the newspapers as to tbe
attitude of the present administrator
toward the general policy of the con.
servation of resources, and some nm.
fair and altogether unfounded infer
ences have been drawn.
''The truth is my administration il
pledged to follow out the policies Of
Mr.. Roosevelt in this regard, and while
that pledge does not involve me in any
obligation to carry them out unless
have congressional authority to do So
it does not require that l take every
step and exert every legitimate inau.
ence upon congress to enact the legis.
lation which shall best subserve the
purposes Indicated
81 do not think that congress, if
properly approached, will object to
adopting legislation of the general
character, which 1 have outlined. In
the past it has aided the forestry sery-
ice by what seemed to be ample ap
piOPlAdblOho.
HIt has in measure provided for
classification of lands by the head Of
the geological bureau. These are both
important steps. 1 hope nothing will
prevent our taking the further steps
needed when congress meets.
Secretary Ballinger of the interior
department, upon whom will fall the
duty of executing the new provisions
of law, is in entire accord with me as
to the necessity for promoting in every
legitimate way the conservation Of the
resources which 1 have named and he
can be counted upon to use the great
influence which he must have as secre
tary of the interior to this proper end
Indeed, it win be found that in
his reports as commissioner of the gen
eral land office he brought these mat.
tiers to the attention of congress and
urged the adoption of a general policy
along the lines | have indicated"
Next week we will print his speech
relating to irrigation and arid lands
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Eskimo Eats his child.

ST Johns, N, FAN Eskimo, driven
by starvation, ate his child, according
to story brought from the far north.
The mans hunting and fishing season
had failed, and, made mad by hunger,
he. cut the throat of one of his children
and then ate the little victim.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
DRowNED, POSING FOE PICTURE.
In Full View Of Girl on Shore About
to Take Snapshot.

Amesbury, Nashville posing in
canoe to have their pictures taken,
Joseph Manahan, aged "a, and his
brother Frederick, aged II, fell out and
were drowned in Lake Gardiner Sunday
in full view of Miss Bella Bailey, who
was about to snapshot them from the
shore
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Pension working Mothers.

State pensions for working mothers
during sickness, the eight-hour day for
women In industrials and elimination
of night work are some of the special
features of a program adopted at the
closing session of the biennial conven-
ton of the National Woman's Trades
Union league.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
U1TEARTH HOMES 1000 YEARS OLD
Stockholm, Sweden, Near Scene Of
Latest Discovery.

Pole dwelling 1000 years old, similar
to those discovered in the north of
Switzerland, have been unearthed in a
swamp ON the plateau east of Lake
Waiter, 100 miles northwest of Stock
holm, Sweden. The excavations dis
closed petrifed apples, wheat kernels,
nuts, pottery, flint and horn imple-
ments, amber ornaments and wild boar
teeth, all in good state of preserva-
ton, in the calcareous mud.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Bombs for Rebels in Spain.

Dispatches from the Spanish frontier
state that large depot of arms for the
revolutionists has been discovered at
Barcelona and it is believed that bombs
are being secretly manufactured in
large numbers.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
COAL Miners KILLED
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST BY EX-
PLOSION AT ROSLYN,WN.
Cause Is Not Known-Had Just Been
Examined and Declared Safe-Mine
Shaft Is Ruined and Fuel Supply of
State Is Lessened-Women and Chill
dren Frantic With Loss of Relatives.

Roslyn, Wash, Oct. Fifteen dead
and dying was the toll exacted of the
Sunday shift of the Northwest Improve
ment company by an awful calamity
Sunday-the worst that has befallen
Roslyn since the big explosion on May
10, 1892.
The coal shaft of the Northwestern
Improvement company was shattered
by terrific gas explosion at the bot
tom OF the shaft shortly before 1 p. m.
Sunday.
The Known Dead.
William Arundel, trackman.
DOminick Bartolero, trackman.
Dan Hardy, trackman.
Philip Pozarich, trackman.
Tom Marsolyn, trackman.
John E. Jones, pumpman.
Carl Berger, gang boss.
Aaron Isaackson, laborer.
James Gurrell, traclzman.
The Fatally Injured.
Otis Newhouse, outside foreman.
With the exception of John E. Jones
aged Fl, all the dead and fatally injured
are married and have families. The
ages of these men range from IS to IS
years.
Flames Shoot High Into Air.
When the conclusion occurred great
volume of fire went up hundreds of feet
into the air. Immediately the big shaft
plant was enveloped in flames, the siren
at the electric plant began to scream
and people began pouring from every
quarter of the city. AS soon as the peo.
pie got close enough to realize what
had really occurred women and children
began to cry and moan, for it meant the
loss OF husband, father or brother to
many.
The fire department of Roslyn turned
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Cholera at Medvid.

st. Petersburg. = The fashionable
Medvid restaurant and the Saint Anne
German school have been closed on ac-
count of cholera at Medvid.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
Thomas b. sWope Is Dead.

Kansas City, Mo-Thomas H. Swope,
millionaire and philanthropist, died sud
denly at his home here Sunday, follow
ing stroke Of apopIexy. He was SO
years old
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
GUST MRS. sTETscN
Was Looked Upon as a Possible Sue
cessor to Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy

Alfred Farlow, chairman of the com
mittee ON publication of the First
Church of Christ Scientist, confirms a re-
port that Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson of
New York had been dismissed from the
body of Christian Scientists. It is al.
legged that Mrs. Stetson had been teach
ing erroneous doctrines.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08

Next week we will print his speech
relating to irrigation and arid lands
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-08
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

Manager Fred Clarke of the Pirates
refuses to hazard any predictions on
the outcome of the coming world S
series between the Pirates and Detroit
this week.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
A Most Unusual Dam.

There are Golfer dams, mill dams,
thinkers dams, and various kinds OF
dams, as a school boy would say, but a
jug dam is something entirely out OF
the ordinary.
This particular dam spans the broad
waters of Wilton s Creek, near Dysons
South Carolina. Mayor Mcmillan,
who has been making brick for some
time in that vicinity reports that while
some of his brick hands were bathing
in the creek, they came upon this un-
usual find. At first the bathers
thought that they had discovered a
rock ledge, but upon investigation the
phenomenon turned out what seemed
TO be a submarine jug yard. Jugs ga.
lore were fished out of the muddy wa
tiers of Wilson's creek, but to the cha,
grin of the bathers all the jugs were
empty of the glorious corn and rye
juice that once filled them.
How the jugs got there is an un'
solved mystery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
DUE. WEST.

Due West has had almost q week OF dry
weather and q shower would be welcome.
Most OF the grass is under control; crops are
late but thriving.
we have only few people coming and
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. o. q. Fleming with their
children are spending week with their
mother. Mrs. Todd.
Miss Susie Mills returned home Saturday.
Her health 10 much improved.
Mr. E. q. Carson, who has charge OF the
Villa Helgbths A. R p church In Char
lotte, has gone TO Ran for month
Rev. Henry Pressly left Due West Saturday
TO take bis place in Charlotte.
Mr.. j. H. Long OF Charlotte is In Due West
on q very pleasant mission.
Prof. Paul Pressly leaves Thursday for
Harvard.
MIR. Robert L. Mills left Thursday for Green.
willie. He has position in dry goods store
Messrs. N. E. Aull and George Kirkpatrick
are doing some fine and fast work ON ProL
l.. @. Galloway's house.
Two marriages of Interest took place last
Mr.. Ralph B. McDnl and Miss Eula Mae
Dunn we're married in Donalds Thursday.
July 80.
The wedding of another popular young
man of Sepeca will take place on Wednes.
day, the 30lh, when Mr. T. Leslie Striblipg
will be married to Miss nellie Nickles OF
Due West. MIR. Stribling is the proprietor OF
the Seneca Pharmacy and one Of the rising
bust o ess men OF the city. He is related to q
number Of ndersonianB and is we'll known
here, His friends feel much interest in his
approaching marriage.-Anderson Daily
Mail.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
GOOD WORK Of
COUNTY SUPERVISOR

The County Supervisor has been
busy since he took the oath Of office,
and the roads improved and the list OF
bridges built pile up good work to his
credit
The following is list of the iron
bridges that he has built. p
Broadmouth Bridge on Turkey
Creek.
Iva Bridge on Rocky River.
HALLS Mill Bridge on Rocky River.
Double Bridges on Rocky River.
Wilson's Creek Bridge on Wilson's
Creek.
Hamlin's Bridge on Little River.
Penney's Bridge on Penney's Creek.
McKettrick's Bridge on Long Cane.
Morton's Mill Brsdge on Long Cane.
Brooks Mill Bridge on Calhoun's
Creek.
Norris Bridge on Norris Creek.
Pettigrew's Bridge on Little River.
Searles' Mill Bridge OIL Little River.
Cade's Mill Bridge on Little River.
Morrah's Bridge on Little River. l..
In addition to these Iron Bridges,
twenty-four wooden bridges of size
have been completed. In a short
while the County will be at the head
of the list 80 far as its bridges are con-
cerned.
The next thing to look after is good
roads. While our roads are In fair
condition. We want to make them
even hetter. This, however, will re-
quire the cooperation of the voters
with the Supervisor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
A Lyceum Course.

How would you like to hear Bob Taylor In
the ew Opera House?
Plans are on foot TO establish Lyceum
Course for Abbeville. 1t seems q wonder
that such a course has not been arranged here
long ere this
The Lyceum Course proposed is most inter.
esting In every detail. First, there is Bob
Taylor on the list, than whom there is no
better entertainer in all the country. Then
comes The Hinshaw Grand Opera Company
which speaks for itself. II has earned most
en- nvlable reputation all over the land. Next
ls Senator Doliver. All who have heard him
will hear him again. He Is as full OF
"Quips and cranks and wanton wies.
Mods and becks and wreathed smiles"
az any Puck. The Vassar Girls will get full
house, rain or shine, The name is enough
but these girls are not en- tertainers In name
only, they are the real thing. Whit Miller is
an other on the list.
This Is entertainment that anybody can
recommend. 1t Ia chaste, high class and up.
roarous amusement and deserves the com
mendation and support OF all.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
PRETTY WEDDING
AT DONALDS.
Prot. Ralph McDiII and Miss EuIa MAY
Dunn are Married.

Donalds, July 1.-The social event
of the season here was the marriage
Yesterday of Miss Eula May Dunn al
her home here to Prof. Ralph Byron
McDill of Erskine College.
At 1890 a. m. Memberships wed
ding march played by Mrs. l.. A.
Brock, announced to the overtilled
house that the bridal party had ar.
rived. The bride, dressed in a beauti-
full travel costume and escorted by her
brother, Mr.. Herbert Dunn, was met
at the altar by the groom and his best
man, Rev. H. E. Pressly of Mexico.
The bridesmaids, Misses Mary Shell
don Dorah, Agnew Jennie May Dunn
and Lucille Humphreys, formed to the
right and left. The bride and groom,
who stood beneath a beautiful floral
bell, were quickly pronounced man
and wife by Rev. r. j. Williams. The
array of bridal presents was unusually
numerous, u costly and appropriate, and
attest the popularity of the contract
ing couple. Immediately after the
ceremony the bride and groom board
ed the northbound train, amid show
er Of rice and fusilade of old shoes,
for Washington-and cities north where
several weeks will bespent, after which
they will be at home to their friends in
Due West
An old fashioned wedding dinner
was served the wedding party by the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. r.
Dunn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-07
The Taxpayer and The Tiger.
(Contributed.)

The News and Courier Of last Friday pub
fishes, sn editorial which we thipk bearl
eoua Iiy Oh Abbeville County and Charlestoni
$50 uy CoSy on The Court House, which ia being
met by tex Of Q "a millf-Or about Sl7,cO y
year. Money to.build the Court House wal
borrowed from The State Sinking Fund, and
this money and interest must be paid II
about four years.
Owing to the profits on the dispensary 6
very small levy has been made for county
expenses, the roadf, the bridges and othel
items. In case the profits from the dispen
must Of course be increased. And then abou
$18,O or $4,000 OF dispenrary profits bal
been going to the schools. Now II our fellow
citizens who wish to cripple the schools vii
favor the building OF good school housel
without additional tex levy might 40 well te
investigate the facts before voting for biint
tigers, All those who favor high: taxation
$50, ,DOo or s6O.0O OF dispensary money whil,
helping the blind tigers. The News and
THE TAXPAYER Or THE T1aER?-Las
Thursday the voiers OF Charleston antnorl
building Of q modern system OF sewerage lol
this town. A special levy Of tax OF ont
mill on all property here will be made TO pro
vide for the pay yment OF these bonds. Inll
tax will yield about $4,000 year. " whiSt 10,
III
the new sewerage tsy ystem. probably, by tn
year 1920. which means that they have assn n
ed large debt for q most necessary public
purpose but debt they must pay.
An election is TO be held In this town ne1
month on the liquor question. II the tax'
payers vote against the sale OF intoxicating
liquors under The dispenssry plan 1t will b'
necessary to provide by. special taxation foi
q deficit OF something Ike $l4, 900 for the SUP
port Of the public schools, the building o
good roads and for general expenses. Thi
will mean that the taxpayers will be compel
led TO stand an additional levy Of about si1
mills, exclusive Of the levy OF one mill TO-
the payment Of the sewerage bonds; that y
TO say. the present taxes, already grieVous to
be borne, will be about one.third higher than
they are now. That is not an agreeable pros
peot, surely but II the voters would like u
have It that way the decision is In their OWL
hands.
1.-THE voters vote against the sale Of intox
icatng liquors as now regulated by law, they
will vote, In fact, for free liquor. The ques
tion reduced 20 It's last analysis Is, therefore
The Taxpayer or the Tiger