Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-30
IDAHO.

All the big mines of the Occur
d 'Alene district and many of the smaller
ones closed down Sunday to give their
employees holiday. Many Of the COM
panies have made it a double holiday
and will not call their men back till
tuesday morning.
The $4,000 packing plant of the
Hagan & Cushing company, Moscow,
starts January 1.
Mrs. Mary E. Pettee and her 90
year-old daughter Mamie of Lewiston,
are under observation, pending an ex-
animation as to the sanity.
Brooding over his defeat at the re-
cent election Probate Judge J. E.
Jacques of Idaho county became VIC
lently insane recently.
The board of trustees of the State
Normal held their annual session re-
Gently. President Black made his re-
port for the year as well as his recon-
mendations for the next biennium.
The secretary of the interior has with
drawn from entry 1850 acres on Crane
creek and 12,142 acres on Blaekfoot
river, to protect water power sites,
There are 24,056 more children going
to the public schools of Idaho this year
than last year. The state makes an an
nual expenditure of 100000 for the
maintenance of its school buildings.
The school property has valuation of
50, 100000 and it's total receipts for
school purposes per year amounts to
So, 100000. Approximately 1000 teach
ers are employed who are paid an
nually 100000.
Idaho will lose its reputation as
rapid divorce mill, and Boise will cease
to be the mecca for Reno s overflow of
matrimonial bond breakers if the reso-
luton recently adopted by the Ada
County Bar association goes into effects
for it provides for residence within the
state for one year instead of six months,
as is now the case, before application
can be made for divorce.
A horrible tragedy was enacted in
the village of Eagle, nine miles west
of Boise, recently at a masquerade
dance when William Crowder. son of
one of the most prominent ranchers of
the valley, killed Lawrence Vaughn by
stabbing him to death. Crowder gave
himself up. Insults addressed by Vaughn
to Crowder's wife and an old feud
were at the bottom of the killing.
A corporation of Wallace business
business men representing a capital of
$4,000 will soon be formed to engage
in business in Texas, where they have
closed deal to take over all the con-
cessions controlled by a new railroad
across Texas connecting with Gulf of
Mexico points. The corporation will
consist of Herman Rossi, L. L. Sweet,
o. D. Jones, w. s. Simons, George K.
Garrett and Harry l.. Madgwick of
Wallace, J. B. Short of Mullan and F.
G. Hopkins of Falcon.
The supreme court has issued tenn
porary writ of prohibition restraining
Governor Brady, Secretary of State
Lansdon, Attorney General MeDougall,
State Auditor Taylor and Miss S. Belle
chamberlain, superintendent of public
instruction, as members of the state
land board, from proceeding further in
the matter of the proposed auction sales
of public school lands in Latah and Nez
Perez counties, granting the petition of
Attorney Curtiss of Pike county.
With gigantic earthen dam under
which the water is already sitting,
standing above the town of Mackay, in
Custer county, this state, ready to go
out with the spring floods and to sweep
before it the town and its inhabitants,
grave danger threatens that section.
While out in the woods where num-
Der of laborers were cutting down trees,
the 3year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Barto, north of Boomers Ferry,