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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26

Fifty carloads of prunes and
thirty of apples will be shipped
out from the Emmett bench
orchards this year. There is
only about 300 acres in orchard
and part Of that was set out this
year.
In addition to the half million
dollar wood pulp paper mill,
which is soon to be in course of
construction east of Spokane, by
the Inland Empire Paper compa-
ny, another big plant for the
manufacture of high class writ
ing paper is now practically as
sured for Coeur d'Alene City.
Plans for the Coeur d'Alene mill
are already well under way.
Early Friday morning Of last
week a cougar entered the sheep
shed of Sumner Radcliff at
Syringa and killed 20 of the "a
sheep housed therein. The cou-
gar had plenty of mutton chop
for breakfast, but it cost him his
life. as he was shot before he
had a chance to pick the wool
out of his teeth. -Kooskia Mount
aineer.
In the past four weeks 450, 900
trout from the Standpoint hatch
cry have been planted in the
streams of the six northern coun-
ties of Idaho. Another $50, 900
trout are ready and will be ship
ped from the hatchery inside the
next three weeks to go into the
north Idaho waters. The stock
ing of the streams with trout is
made possible by the 81 license,
the fish and game department Of
the state planting the fish and
paying for them with the money
realized from the dollar licenses.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26
Train SETS
A BAD FIRE
Mouday's Passenger Started Fire
That Destroyed $500 Worth of
Property Before Brought Under
Control.

The local passenger tr a ] n
seemed to be possessed of a fire
bug Monday morning on its down
trio and set fires along the right
Of way in many places. Fully
half a dozen fires were started
by sparks from the engine be-
tween Grangeville and this place
and one of them did quite a lot
Of damage before II was brought
under control.
This fire started on the VIM.
Hanley farm southeast of town
and burned over 80 acres of
ground before it was put out.
Itdestroyed two large stacks of
wheat belonging to VIM. Baune,
who has the Hanley farm rented,
burned two granaries and an old
house, about 80 rods of fence, a
tanning mill and ten apple trees
belonging to Mr.. Hanley, de-
stroyed 200 bushels of wheat,
some beardless barley, a stove
and some cooking utensils be-
longing to Mr.. Baune, which
were stored in the burned build
ingS, and then burned thirty
acres of pasture and about a mile
Of rail fence on Frank Hanley's
farm. All told, this fire did
about $500 worth of damage.
Fully forty men gathered to
fight the flames, two threshing
crews, a header crew and many
others working hard to subdue
the conAagration. At the point
where the fire was finally whip
ped out it was quite near to
the Frank Hanley and Watson
homes and had it gone a few feet
further no power of man could
have kept it from spreading a.
cross the entire prairie. Luckily
the wind was not strong that
morning or the work of the fire
lighters would have been all in
vain.
Other small fires were started
near Fem, at the Albers farm
and at the Simon field east of
town but these were soon put
out without doing any damage
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26
Buys A Farm.

W. L, Brown closed a deal
Naturday for the sale of the 160-
acre farm east of town, which he
purchased last spring of M. L.
Martin, to Dick R. Haskin for
S6OO. The farm is under cult
Vatlon but has no buildings on it
put is considered a good buy at
ne price paid for it. The new
owner is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
a Il. Haskin, who purchased
ne Barth farm last spring, and
young man who will make a
sauable y home out of his farm in
IAe next few years.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26
Fine Apples For A Dry Year.

Mrs. J. L. Kincaid sent to this
once this week two fine apples
OF the Yellow Transparent vari-
ETY. that for size and beauty are
hard to beat. They measure "a
inches in length and 10 and II
inches in circumference and are
a sight for sore eyes. Consider
ing the dry season and that thew
We're grown without a particle of
irrigation they certainly speak
we'll for this section as an apple
country and we doubt if any of
the irrigated sections can pro-
duce larger or finer specimens of
this kind of fruit than the sam
pies before US.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26

John Meyer, of the local -four
mill, was over to Reubens We'd
nesday on business.
Father Berthold returned We'd
nesday evening from Portland,
to which place he accompanied
the Rt. Rev. Abbot Frawin Con-
rad, of Conception, Mo-, who had
been visiting here for a couple of
weeks. After visiting at Mt.
Angel the Rev. Abbot will re-
turn to the abbey at Conception.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26
FOREST FIRES
REACH WALLACE
destroy Part of City and Kill
Many People in North End of
State---Several Towns Burned
and Others Threatened.

One of the most disasterous
forest fires that has ever visited
the Pacific Northwest is raging
this week in the panhandle of
Idaho and millions of dollars
worth OF property and valuable
timber has been destroyed by
the flames and a large number
OF lives lost in the various sec
tions.
In spite of the fact that a large
force of men had been working
for several days to protect the
town from forest fires, the flames
broke through the barriers last
Saturday and burned about one
third of the beautiful little city
OF Wallace, destroying about
81, 900, 600 worth of property, in
cluding several large business
blocks and about 150 dwellings,.
For time it looked as if the en-
tire town would go and panic
reigned among the inhabitants
of the place. Both railway COM
panies made up trains of box
cars and passenger coaches and
conveyed the frightened citizens
to Spokane or Missoula and away
from the flames. None were al
lowed to take their personal eff
fects and in most cases the men
stayed behind to fight the flames
and save their homes if possible.
The fire was finally brought
under control in the city but in
the woods it burned fiercely and
after destroying many settlers
homes and small towns swept
over the divide into Montana
where it is still raging fiercely in
spite of the army of men that is
seeking to bring it under con-
troll.
At many other points in the
north end of the state fires are
burning in forests of valuable
timber and doing untold damage.
All the men that can be secured
are in the field fighting the flames
and numerous reports are current
of parties of men being sur
and burned to death.
differ, but to date at
least a hundred have lost their
lives in the different fires and
some place the list of fatalities
at more than $50. Over thirty
persons were killed in the flames
in and around Wallace and many
more were severly burned or
many losing their eye
sight from the extreme heat.
In the vicinity of Rathdrum
and Spirit Lake big fires are
burning and it is doubtful if
either town will escape t h e
flames.
Governor Brady has ordered
the state militia to Coeur d'Alene
to assist in fighting the fires and
the Potlatch Lumber Co. has its
entire force of men in the woods
trying to save its valuable tim
Der. Some rain and snow fell
in Montana but nothing
short of a heavy rain will put out
he fires now burning, as the ex-
rene dryness of the timber
causes it to burn like tinder and
10 efforts of man can keep it
1nder control.
Probably twenty fires of vari-
,us sizes are burning on the Nez
oerce reserve east of Kooskia
md though a large force of men
s there fighting them the wind
,auses them to spread rapidly
md it is practically impossible to
ret them under control.
Marion Williams, one of the
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26
harvested Forty BusheI Wheat.

!, D. W. Crea was in the city
y DneOnesday from his farm near
ssan : and informed us that he
LreSned \ part of his crop recent
y and secured a yield of 40
= y1saelS per acre from a field of
Z acres of fall wheat. Consid-
" ing the dryness of the season
Y IL Is an extra good yield and
" ! oest reported so far in this
eelnity this season.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26

Hussman Bros. are loading a
car of lumber for shipment this
week.
J. I. Overman is in town today
from Grangeville in the interest
of his candidacy for sheriff. He
will make a hard fight for the
nomination at the primaries and
if elected will make as efficient a
sheriff as he has an auditor.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26
AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit Of our
Readers-Stories Rehashed from
Our Exchanges.

The farm home of VIM. Nc
Cormack was destroyed by fire
in the Waha country Sunday.
The fire started from spark
from the stove pipe.
The first carload Of steel for
the new steel bridge at Orofino
arrived this week and it is ex-
pected the bridge will be COM
pleted by October 1st.
There are about 40, 900 or more
acres of alfalfa in the Twin Falls
country and sheep men are buy
ing up the tonnage at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $3.50 per
ton.
The banner crop of oats in the
Twin Falls tract is a 90-acre field
owned by ]. w. Jackson near
Castleferd, where the yield will
be close to 100 bushels to the
acre.
The basin of the Crane Creek
reservoir near Weiser will cover
1885 acres, draining a watershed
of more than 300 square miles.
1t will contain 70, 167 acre feet of
water.
"A meeting of the millers of
Idaho will be held in the Office of
the State Pure Food Commits
sioner, August %, to take action
in considering the bleached flour
question.
Butte is taking all the potatoes
it can buy from the irrigated
sections of southern Idaho and
paying the growers 80 cents per
hundred for them. The crop is
very large.
The Idaho state chemist has
analyzed ice cream cones and
found that they contain coal tar
dyes and boric acid. The city
health officers in Boise have pro-
hibited their sale.
A modern hotel to cost $65, 600
is in course of construction at
Vending and both Vending
and Jerome will have school
houses this fall costing from
$40, 900 to $50, 900 each.
Settlers under the Big Lost
river project are confronted with
the abandonment of the dam
which has cost approximately
81, 800, 900 or stand for damages
to the property below because Of
faulty construction by the con-
tractors.
The state board of equalization
has ordered the assessor of Bing-
ham county to place 20, 1000 acres
of Carey Act lands upon the as
sessment rolls, but he refuses
because the land has not been
patented. The case will go to
the supreme court.
Bonner county has an area of
approximately 1,750,O0O acres.
Of this l, 400, 900 acres are with
in the forest reserve and about
100000 acres privately owned.
1t is estimated by experts that |
the amount of standing timber
in that county is 25, 900, 900, ,OO0,-
600 feet, sufficient to supply mills
of the present capacity for 80
years.
A. L. White, of Seattle, visited
George Brady's placer on Trail
creek and brought back some
very fine samples of gold which
he panned from the diggings.
Among some of the samples
showing nuggets almost as large
as a pea. Mr.. White says that
Mr.. Brady has a wonderful prop
erty and there is no question but
that he will make a big cleanup
A
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26

Marion Williams, one of the
democratic candidates for sher-
iff. was campaigning in town
again yesterday.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26

A school house six miles south
of Culdesac was destroyed by
fire Monday which caught from
a blaze in the timber near by.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-26

Mrs. I. W. Bray also brought
us some sample apples a n d
peaches sent to her by her
mother at Asotin. These sam
pies are beauties also, t h e
peaches being large and we'll
eolored, while the apples are
monsters in size, measuring 134
to l3a inches respectively in cir
cumference. They are of a late
fall variety, notified in color and
beauties to behold. The Inland
Empire is certainly great in pro-
ducing grain, fruit and live stock
of a superior quality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
New York Business Men
 Favor Dix For Governor
Too Much Roosevelt Hacked On To Candidate Stmson Will Insure His Defeat As People of New York State Are
 Tired of Roosevets Style and Will Not Vote for Man Whom He Placed at the Head of the Ticket

Washington, October 21.-(Special) pix will win in New York" said John S. O'Connor of New York tonight. MT. O'Connor is business man, and he claims that the average business man of New York entertains the same views with regard to the outcome of the cleo tion.
 "Stimson may be a good man per sonally-honest, capable and clean but he Is. in bad company. Rooseve' . has shrunk in the last few weeks, a< I believe he has shot his bolt. He h~ talked his head off. and people are get ting tired of his harangues and fault findings. He talks about bosses, and as a boss he's got them all skinned 1000 miles.
 rThe defeat of the Roosevelt ticket will put a damper on T. R.'s aspira7 tions, whatever they may be. It Is hard to say what he will do; he is the sort of man who doesn't know when he is beaten. Business men all over the state with whom came in contact are lining up against the Roosevelt ticket. The whole question which sems to agitate republicans and dem ocrats alike Is to defeat Roosevelt"
 No effort Is being spared to drive home to vote republican clerks in the departments here. Even the President and the civil service commission are helping along the cause and have em- phatically heralded to voters the fact that in casting their ballots they are not violating the civil service law. The republican committee feigned the idea that the civil service law is entirely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
FILLING PLACES
 OF THE STRIKERS

St. Louis, October 2.-Simultaneously with the walking out of the boilermakers, pipemen and blacksmiths of the Missouri Pacific. Iron Mountain system today, In sympathy with the 1900 striking machin- ists. the companies received three car loads of men here to fill the vacancies. The men, 1t was said, came from Chi- cago.
 The walkout of the mechanical workers was general along the entire lines of the roads. Reports late today to the roads headauarters were to the effect that all members of the three unions obeyed the orders of their presidents. General Man ager A. w. Sullivan said today the walk out would not have any material effect on the train service as he was filling the places of the men who walked out. Most of the places of the striking machinists who quit work in May have been filled.
 Sullivan said the roads employ 120o members of the unions which walked out. The presidents of the unions maintain that 250O men quit work. One carload of the men to take the strikers places was sent to Sedalia, Mo, where the principal shops of the Missouri Pacific are located.
 No violence Is expected. The men who walked out have said they will call out the union men in the mechanical depart ments of other Gould roads if the trou- b!c Is not settled within a reasonable time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
ROBSON SPEAKS AT
 DOUBLE SPRINGS

Double Springs, October 21.-(Special.)- J. Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson made a telling speech at the courthouse to a large and enthusiastic audience yester- day. His discussion of the tariff was excellent, and as the audience was com posed mostly of young men and those who have not to a great extent given the tariff question much thought, his convinc- ing argument will materially aid democ- racy in this section. Captain Hobson made strong plea for votes for Con gressman Burnett, and told his audience of the valuable service Mir. Burnett could render his constituents and the south if returned to Congress.
 He argued that MT. Burnett, being a hard working member of Congress, and on many important committees. could render the Seventh district more service by being sent to Congress than his op- ponent. who was member of Congress for four years and as matter of record never did not get single bill passed bearing his name. The captain did not hesitate to refer to the fact that Mr. Burnett's opponent had unfortunately for himself rendered himself incapacitated to render any valuable service in Congress even if he should be elected, owing to crtain book once written in which he denounced that body In terms and lan- guage not suitable for publication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
NEGRO LYNCHING IS
 NARROWLY AVERTED

Mobile, October 21.-A special from At more says:
 The timely arrival of officers this aft ernoon saved from lynching Jim Joinera negro. charged with criminal assault upon white woman at Jay. Fla.
 The crime was attempted Tuesday and posse followed the negro to the plan. tation of farmer near Atmore. He ran from the posse and volley of she's was fired into him. Crowds attracted by the shooting gathered and threats oi lynching were made when the officers hurried the prisoner away The negro is now en route to Pensacola In an au- tomobile, guarded by officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22

Boston, October 21.-Declaring that 1t would be calamity to the nation if Senator Lodge should fail of reelection, Theodore Roosevelt spoke here tonight in behalf of the republican party of Massa- chusetts. He said the senator was a friend of progressive legislation, and that there was no difference of opinion as to the basic principle of protection, as the republican party stood solidly on the tar if commission plan as contained in its last national platform.
 The colonel made no reference to the Payne-Aldrich bill confining his remarks to an indorsement of the tariff plank of the republican state platform and of the tariff board scheme. He said he was ad- vocating the same political principles in his speech of tonight, that he had adyo- cated in all of his speeches during the summer from the Rocky Mountains to the eastern states.
 Colonel Roosevelts reception in Boston afternoon away from the crowds at the home of pr. W. s. Bigelow. a brother in-law of Senator Lodge, but when he appeared in public tonight the public gave him one of the most striking dem onstrations that he has received since his return from Africa.
 Colonel Roosevelt spent the night in Boston. He will depart for New Hamp- shire in the morning to make campaign speeches In Concord, Manchester and Nassau for Robert P. Bass, republican candidate for governor.
 q cannot claim any merit for coming here?" said he, for I have for many years come to Massachusetts, not to give strength, but to get it.
 "The opponent of Governor Draper has said that the tariff is an issue in this campaign" he continued.
 'All l ask is that the voters compare the attitude of the two parties in regard to the tariff. On the republican side there Is no difference as to the principle to be observed In every state the republicans are unit in adherence 10 the principle expressed in the republican platform that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
NEW AIRSHIP TO
 CROSS ATLANTIC

New York, October 21.-The next at tempt to cross the Atlantic in balloon will probably be made on a westward course-the opposite from that attempted by wellman The expedition will be that of Joseph Brucker, formerly of Chicago' who has been engaged for a year in the preliminary plans for his airship trip. ]. Brucker's dirigible, the Suchard, Is ap- proaching completion at Munich. The en- tire equipment will be shipped to the Canary islands at the end of the year and the start westward is scheduled to be made from Teneriffe next February. Brucker's first scheme was to start from Cadiz. The adoption of Teneriffe as a starting point will save him 700 miles or travel over the ocean.
 The Suchard is 200 feet long and has $500 cubic meters gas capacity. Two 200 horsepower motors will drive the airship by means of two propellers. The balloon will carry a 35-man life boat with gaso- line motor equipment. Trucker hopes to sail with fayoring northeast trade winds to Porto Rico or Hayti.
 If necessary he can make a descent there and continue his voyage over Cupa to New Orleans. He has novel method of overcoming the effects of the sun rays on the balloon. which in the case of the Wellman expedition sent the Amer ica bounding up to height of $500 feet. He proposes to make this not by an equi- librator as planned by Melvin Vaniman. but by filling tanks with water to act as ballast during the warm hours of the day and emptying them again as the cool of evening comes on. To do this he pro poses to ship an automatic pump at- tached to the engine of the ship, which will take in and discharge water through long hose hung from the lower part of the balloon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
EDGAR ALLAN POE
 IN HALL OF FAME

New York, October 21.-Edgar Allan Poe Is at last in the Hall of Fame. Years of effort on the part of stanch supporters to get his name added to the list was rewarded today by the announcement of Dr. John H. Mac Cracken, chairman of the senate of New York university, that the author of The Raven" with 10 others, had been accorded this honor. The II names added are as follows:
 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "A votes: Oli- yer Wendell Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe, 6s votes each; Roger Williams. 64 James Fenimore Cooper. 62; Phillips Brooks, 60; William Cullen Bryant 59; Frances E. Willard, 56; Andrew Jack son, George Bancroft, 53 votes each, and John Lathrop Motley, 51.
 The total number of ballots cast was 97 and the number required for choice was 51. Poe's vote jumped from 42 in 1905 to 69, an increase of 27 votes. Analysis of the vote shows that of this 69 votes 21 were cast by college presidents, IT by professors of history and scientists, IS by publicists. editors and authors, and 13 by jurists. Con- trary to the general impression, the memory of the melancholy poet is as famous in the west as in the south, according to the vote. Since the last election his fame increased more among college presidents than among any Of the other groups.
 As result of today's election the authors corner doubles It's population and goes far ahead of the statesmen i'm nun1hers Eleven bronze tableta for the names chosen will be designed with an appropriate quotation from the works of each and the formal unveil- ing will take place in October. 1911 in the Hall of Fame at New York uni- Versity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22

Beaumont, Tex, October N.-An inter coastal canal, not loss than nine feet in depth and with a bottom width of 100 feet or more, to extend from New Orleans on the Mississippi river to Brownsville, Tex, on the Rio Grande, Is to be the object especially strived for by the Interstate Inland Waterways leagne. This was de- c,ded at the concluding session today of the leagues annual meeting. and in fur therance of the project the secretary of the organization, who was made a sal aried officer, was instructed to devote his time principally to it's accomplishment.
 An endeavor is to be made to secure the necessary appropriations at the next ses- sion of Congress, the work to be done under continuing contracts and completed 1t in five years.
 Other than this resolutions were adopt ed urging the improvement of streams tributary to the canal and insisting that the national government appropriate not less than 1000 annually for waterway