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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
BOXED APPLE IS BIG
MONEY WINNER
Years Statistics Show Fancy Prices
Paid for Product From
Northwest.

Statistics compiled from reports by
growers and handlers show that the
production of commercial apples in
1909 was a matter of 22,735,OOO bar
rels, of which 2,435,OOO barrels, or
100000 boxes, were marketed by west
ern Orchardists. California and Colo
RADIO report crops of so and 90 per
cent, respectively, while the yields in
the other western states are given at
from 35 to 40 per cent.
The crops in Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana were shorter than
at any time in the last five years, but
the growers received more money for
their fruit than in either 1908 or 1907.
They also received more than the
growers packing their apples in bar
rels, as is evidenced by reports from
Boston, New York and Chicago, show
ing winter apples in barrels selling at
from So to Sc barrel, wholesale, while
boxed apples are quoted at from $3.50
to SIS, with extra fancy selling as high
as $3.50 box.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
TRAIN PLUNaEs DOWN MOUNTAIN
Four Men Were Killed When Trains
Leaves the Track at Terrific Speed
At Leadville.

Leadville, Col, Jan. 17-In freight
wreck early Sunday on the Colorado
Midland, near Busk tunnel, four men
were killed and three others injured.
The dead: H. c. Smith, Leadxille, con-
ductor; Marshal Rich, Cardiff, fireman.;
H. D. Fair, Cardiff, brakeman; Edward
Davenport, Michigan.
The injured: Henry Forest, Leadville,
leg broken; W. E. Landlois, Leadville,
brakeman, body bruised; Bert Harter,
Grand Rapids, Mich, shoulder injured.
An extra freight consisting of II
ears started down the steep grade from
the east portal of the Busk-Ivanhoe
tunnel to Arkansas Junction. The
train had gone three miles when the air
failed to work properly. The speed
soon became terrific and the train raced
down the mountain side. At Windy
point there is sharp curve and the
engine and cars left the track and
plunged down the steep declivity.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21

Monday afternoon, Senator Hepburn
and others speaking. Representative
Hamer gave the chief eulogy in the
house.
For the first time in years the Salmon
river is frozen completely over.
Milwaukee trains into Bovill from
St. Maries on March over the tracks
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railroad" is the prediction of
leading railroad contractors who have
been pushing the work as hard as wealth
err conditions would permit since early
last summer.
George Tophan, one of the oldest
white men in the United States, and the
Oldest on the Pacific slope, died recent
ly at Grangeville, after brief illness,
aged 1913 years. He was born in Sus-
sex, England, and came to New York in
1S4S, joining the rush to the California
gold fields in 1849.
w. P. Boyle, a well known miner and
prospector, was shot and instantly kill
ed by Snowshoe" Brown in a gam
bling game in a saloon in Dixie, a small
mining camp.
The Washington Water Power com.
pany has fled condemnation suit in
the federal court of Judge DIETRICH at
Moscow, to condemn all the lands in
the Occur d'Alene river valley that
have been damaged by the company
1t is claimed the suit would cover all
the remaining lands along the river
during high water mark and the river
banks fall in, and asserted there are
$500 acres of bottom lands between st.
Maries and st. Joe or Terrell.
Alleging that the Northern Pacific
railroad has been shipping cattle with
out having them inspected, Sheriff
George W. Well1er of Nez Perez county
has notified the general agent at Lewis
ton, w. j. Jordan, that the practice
must cease or he will take action.
In less than two years the member
ship of the Farmers Educational and
Cooperative union has grown from moth
ing to more than 1000 in the Lewiston
country.
The Grangeville Water company has
just completed improvements to add sc
per cent to the efficiency of the serv
ice. About 5000 feet of six-inch pipe
have been laid to drain half dozeI
springs into the main reservoir. The
pressure will be greater and the sup
ply of water plentiful, while the de
velopment of additional springs i'm
proves the quality of the water.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
PRESIDENT TAFT'S
LATEST MESSAGE
Salient Points of Fridays Letter
Are Herewith Briefly
Told.

Congress should sanction a 100000, 00C
bond issue, complete promised reclama
ton projects in the west and keep faith
with the settlers.
Conservation of the soils should be
cared for with all the means at the gov.
eminent s command, and states should
aid.
Lands should be classified as to values
and the right to mine should be sepa-
rated from the title to the surface.
Coal and other mineral could be dis
posed of by lease on a royalty basis,
with proper restrictions against monop-
olies. Such laws should apply to Alaska
as well as the United States.
Anticipated land laws should be
amended and brought up to date.
The "open river" should be revived.
Congress might begin with an appropri-
alton of $63,OO0,OOO to make dams in
the Ohio above Cairo, H., and provide
navigable water the year round.
Forests should be jealousy guarded
and fostered and economy in the cut
should be guarded. States must pro-
vide means to check waste by private
owners.
Water power sites must be kept out
of the hands of combinations, long time
leases under proper restrictions might
give private capital more freedom.
All natural resources must be made
to yield in plenty and kept as nearly
perfect as possible.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
NEwsBoY TRIES FOR ARMY.
John, the Newsboy' of Chicago,
Wanted to Get Away.

Desperate from hunger and almost
mad from brooding over the loss of
an estate of which he had been de-
prived when his parents died in Ger
many Is years ago, Peter Friedenich,
SO years of age, known to thousands
of Chicagoans as "John, the News
boy" appeared at the South State
street recruiting Office of the United
States army recently and asked to be
enlisted as a soldier.
"Send me to some place far away
he pleaded in broken English. "Send
me to the Philippines or Nicaragua, or
any place. 1 IN sick of dis countree.
Long time ago I make lots of money,
but now I get old and can't boiler
extra paper out loud like the young
ones can and I get no business He
was refused.
Lieutenant Kinney, touched by the
old man IS plight, bought him a turkey
dinner and sent him home to his frugal
lodging in the heart of the slums with
money in his pocket.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
GOOD ROAD MOVEMENT
All Glasses Are Urged to Cooperate and
Help.


Ex-President Roosevelt Struck tia
keynote when, in his comment on the
report of the country life commission.
he said: cit is the application Of the
knowledge already in the possession Of
the great majority of the rural popula.
ton which means the actual uplift Of
country life to what it really should be
the lift worth while. "
Since, then, the initiative must come
from the farmer and the township OF,
ganization, it is proper that the county
Organization assume the position of a
central clearing hous for the various
townships, acting as a collecting, dis
ributing and investigating organization.
The county organization, as conducted
in Spokane, assumes the attitude Of
mediator and mentor for its smaller
township organizations, with which it is
working for mutual economic interests
and the development of community
spirit.
The large moneyed interests of the
city, the automobile owners, real estate
dealers, merchants, manufacturers, rail-
roads and other transportation COM
panies are asked to do their proporI
tionate share toward securing good
roads throughout the county. When the
state levies tax of one mill on all
taxable property in county to be ap4
piled to the state highway fund, it is
reasonable to presume that the large
holders of real and personal property in
a county, to be applied to the state
highway fund, it is reasonable to pre-!
sumo that the large holders of real
and personal property in the cities are
contributing as much, if not more, of
their proportionate share of the actual
money spent by the state on country
roads, yet this phase of the case is the
one which it is hardest to impress on
the resident of the rural communities.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
COOKS SECRETARY
ADMITS DISTRUsT
Walter Lonsdale, Who Carried Records
to Copenhagen, Has His
Doubts.

Copenhagen.-W Lonsdale is the
most recent of the former associates and
employees of DR.. Frederick A. Cook to
admit distrust of the man whose
claim to the discovery of the north pole
was rejected by the University of
Copenhagen.
Lonsdale was private secretary to
United States Minister Egan up to the
time of the arrival here of DR.. Cook,
with whom he then associated himself
in similar confidential capacity.
He accompanied the explorer to the
United States, made the typewriter
duplicate of the polar records and
brought the data here for examina-
ton by the university committee. He
has remained loyal to his employer I'M
til now, when he says he is beginning
to doubt him.
Lonsdale states that he received q
letter from Cook under date of De
cember "a and mailed from a city in
southern Spain. According to this let
ter Cook was on the sea from Decem
Der IA to December "a, and therefore
was not acquainted with the decision
of the examining committee when the
letter was written. Since the receipt
of this letter Lonsdale says he ha
heard nothing from Cook, though he
has addressed several kilograms t.
him at point where he thought the
explorer could be reached.
Lonsdale estimates that Cook cleared
$4,000 from the exploitation of hi
arctic reputation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
news OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM EVERY
WHERE, ALL THE time.
A Review of Happenings IN Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

E. Henry Wenne of Portland, Ore,
has closed contract with the Curtiss-
Herring company for the purchase of
what is believed to be the first aero
plane to be owned by a resident of Ore
gon. Mr.. Wenne secured his machine
for $1,000 and will have it shipped to
Portland at the close of the aviation
meeting in Los Angeles.
The Barber Asphalt company, already
incorporated in Virginia, has incorpor-
ated in California.
The affairs of John r. Walsh, con-
victed of misapplication of the funds
of the Chicago National bank, may not
be adjusted as outlined in the plans of
the Chicago Clearing House association,
and Walsh may go to prison-if the SUI
preme court holds that he must-with-
out settling the $7,121 900 note held by
the banks of Chicago.
In what is claimed to be part of a
plan to gain control of all the transit
facilities Of New York, j. P. Morgan
and Z. P. Shonts have taken over the
Fifth Avenue Automobile bus line and
the Green and Red Taxicabs company
operating so motor buses and 600 taxi
cabs in New York. The deal is sale
to have involved about $5,00O,0OO.
King Alfonso, sitting as president Of
the council, ruled with an iron hand
in putting down the internal evil
threatened by revelations in news
paper.
The last chapter of Thaw s life seems
about to be written. His family have
abandoned all hope of getting him ou
of Matteawan insane asylum, and al
application has been made by a ref
cree for the right to dispose of all hi
personal property. Alice Copley Thaw
his sister, has agreed to purchase al
of the interest he may have in the
Thaw estate.
Representative G. J. Diekma of Mich
igan has formally announced his can
didacy for speaker of the house of rep
resentatives to succeed Mr.. Cannon al
the end of the present session.
The vatican announces the promotion
of the Right Rev. Neil Mcneil, bishoI
of st. George, Newfoundland, to the of
fee Of archbishop of Vancouver, B. c
"Tex" Richard, the principal pro
moter of the Jeffries-J Johnson fight, de
clares that the contest will be held in
Salt Lake City, July T.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
president, is lending her aid to the sew
eral thousand shirtwaist strikers in
Philadelphia.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
SUITS WILL TEST
CORPORATION TAX
Actions Begun in Illinois and Min
nesota Courts for That
Purpose.

Chicago.-A fight on the federal cor
poration tax law, which provides for a
tax of per cent on net incomes of cor
porations which exceed $4,000, was
launched here Saturday when a suit
intended to test the constitutionality of
the law was fled in the United States
circuit court.
Fred A. Smith, a stakeholder, fled
the bill of complaint against the Great
Northern Trust company and it's di-
rectors to restrain them from voluntar-
lily complying with the provisions of
the act.
1t is reported here that large fund
has been raised for the purpose of con.
Quoting an organized crusade on the
law.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
PRISON SACKS, SIX CENTS.
Board of Control Fixes Price of Grain
Bags in Washington.

Bags in Washington.
The state board of control has fixed
six cents as the retail price of peniten.
tiary grain sacks for this year or five
and nineteenth cents when the appli
cants combine orders to make carload
shipment. These prices are for the bags
delivered at any railroad station in tbs
state.
Based upon the estimate of crop mads
by the state grain commissioners, the
board apportioned the 100000 bags to
be manufactured this spring to grain.
growing counties in quantities as fol
lows: Garfield, 82,2O5; Columbia, 81.
645; Walla Walla, 179,O35; Whitman,
365,395; Spokane, 59,365; Lincoln, 249,-
6s5; Adams, 95,9O5; Douglas 1876;
Franklin, 28,915; Benton, 38,O55; Kick.
itat, 1926; Yakima, 1926; Asotin, 49,
sos; all other counties, 161, 1875.
Applications must be made before
April to the superintendent at the pen
itentiary and sacks not applied for at
that date may be sold to oyster grow
ers on the West Side. The plan of sell.
ing the bags at fiat rate delivered at
any railroad point in the state was in.
augurated last summer to work off the
accumulated bags in the warehouse.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
MEN DIE IN euNN1soN TUNNEL
Smoke and Gases Blown Back, Three
Men Perish

Montrose, Col, Jan. 1s.-Three men
were suffocated by powder smoke and
nitro fumes in the Gunnison tunnel Sun.
day and 80 others barely escaped with
their lives. Air currents of the tunnel
were reversed by the conclusion of
heavy blasts and the smoke and gases
were blown back upon the miners be.
fore thay could reach the portal.
The dead: A. S. Haynes, Parker Pat
ton and N. Martin.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
CREW OF SCHOONER SAVED
Captain and Crew, With Family, Get
Safely into San Francisco.

Captain and Crew, With Family, Get
Safely into San Francisco.
San Francisco, Jan. 17.-Captain Paul
Rappmundt, his wife and three months-
old child, his 16-year-old son, Paul Rapp-
mundt, Jr., and the entire crew of seven
of the wrecked schooner San Buenoven-
tura, were saved from the sea. They
arrived in San Francisco on the steam
er Fairhaven, and the first news of them
received since their vessel drifted
ashore at the mouth of Rogue river,
came from the Fairhaven's signals as
the steamer steamed in through the
Golden Gate. The party was taken
from the sinking, water-logged lumber
schooner after three days of terrible
hardship and suffering. They had about
despaired of their chance of escape from
death in the ocean when the Fairhaven
hove in sight just before dusk and the
rescue was accomplished despite the
heavy sea that was running.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
IDAHO JoTTINGS.

The town of Grand Forks, on the Nil.
waukee road, was burned again Satur'
day morning. This is the second con.
fagration in Grand Forks within five
months.
Idaho was well represented Saturday
when the house of congress held exer.
cises in recognition of the unwilling Of
the statute of George L. Shoup, one-time
governor and senator of that state
Many Washington, Montana and Oregon
citizens complimented idaho by attend
ing. The senate held similar exercises
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
LATHAM $500 FEET IN THE AIR.
Aviator's Flight at Paris Creates
Excitement in France.

Hubert Latham's fight recently,
when he attained an altitude of ap.
proximately $500 feet, or nearly three
quarters of a mile, has aroused the
greatest enthusiasm among aviators,
who consider that it presages great
things for 1910. Latham says there is
no reason why he should not have
mounted still higher.
Bleriot declares that the aeroplane
is destined to surpass the dirigible
balloon as an engine of war. Artillery
officers agree that an aeroplane hav-
ing a speed of so miles an hour and
flying at the height reached by Latham
would be invulnerable.
The machine used by Latham was an
Antoinette monoplane.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
Flood JeOpardizing $4,000, 900, Louisville

Louisville, KY, Jan 1s.-Floating
property valued at nearly $4,000 is
in jeopardy, people in the low-lying sub
urb of shippingport are beginning to
abandon their homes, and business hous-
es adjacent to Louisville's wharf ter
ritory are threatened by the swelling
waters of the Ohio river.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21

Asbestos is being used now in the
construction of warships to a consider
able extent to replace the infammable
wood and the heavy iron.
In Australia there are ants which
build their nests along a north and
south line so accurately that traveller
may direct his course by their aid.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
WOULD RESTORE cANTEEN.
Missouri Representative Offers Amend.
ment to Army Bill.

ment to Army Bill
The subject of the army canteen was
brought up in the house recently and
an editorial from Chicago paper was
read into the record by the clerk. 1t
denounced congress as a "bigoted and
hypocritieal body" for not restoring
the canteen.
Representative Bartholdt of Mis-
souri,, who had the editorial read, said
he would offer an amendment to the
army bill restoring the army canteen.
The newspaper editorial recited the
instance of carload of insane soldiers
being brought from the Philippine
islands and said their insanity had
been caused by the failure to supply
a well controlled canteen, thus caus.
ing them to fall victims to the habit
of drinking poisonous and highly alec.
holic drinks.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
FLOODS DOWN A RAILROAD
San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake
Is Out of Business.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 1s.-Never
in the history of transportation in the
United States has great railroad been
stricken SO seriously as was the San
Pedro, Los Angeles 6 Salt Lake by the
midwinter thaw. In a twinkling the
desert-born torrents Tapped up a hun.
dred miles of rails and embankments
severed the steel bond between the
mountain and sea, and made of busy
avenue of commerce two disorganized
branches whose ends are lost in the
wilderness.
Millions of dollars of investment TEN
porarily proftless, and hundreds of cap
able railroad men without employment
are two results Of the disaster.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
UTAH GOVERNOR SAYS "No'

Jeffries-J johnson Fight Can Not Be Held
in Salt Lake.
"There will be no fight in Salt Lake
city of any other place in Utah. The
authorities will take whatever drastic
steps necessary to prevent it," says
Governor Spry of Utah.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
Fuel Men Meet,

Western Fuel association, composed
of retail coal dealers in Washington,
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming and
Utah, will have its first annual conven,
ton in Masonic temple, January 22.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
TRAINS IN HEAD-oN COLLISION
One Killed, Ten Injured in Bad Wreck
In State Of Illinois.

Pinckneyville, Ill.,, Jan. 1s.-One per-
son was killed and 10 others, eight of
whom were passengers living in the mid
die west, were injured in a collision
near here between the st. Louis and
Memphis Central, bound for st. Louise,
and a freight train.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21

Civilization has to thank the French
revolution and the subsequent wars for
masculine emancipation from the wig.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
AIRSHIPS FLY HIGH
PLAY TAG and DO STUNTS in
their FLIGHT.
Great Contests in Los Angeles Great
Crowds Interested in Results Fight
Against Bad Weather Victory for
Operators Meet Was Great Success
Entirely Free from Accidents.

Aviation Camp, Los Angeles, Jan. II.
The wind and the rain conspired Sun
day to test the mettle of the airships
flying on Aviation field. The result
was victory for Glenn H. Curtis and
Louis Paulhan.
In half a gale of wind Curtiss rose
to height of more than 100 feet and
there performed as pretty a piece OF
aeroplane jockeying as the world has
ever seen. He described circles in dar
ing fashion, lifting and dipping and
beating against the wind, and winding
up by cutting the letter S.
Paulhan strove to Guido this, going
up 512 feet and circling about like a
hawk over a barnyard. But his ex-
hibition lacked something of the skill
shown by the Yankee.
Another wonder picture was painted:
Curtiss, Paulhan and Charles K. Hamil
ton, each in his own machine, swung
round in an aerial marathon. At times
they raced together, headlong against
the wind. Again they played tag with
each other. They few under, over ant
around each other, guiding their trem
bling steeds with sure touch. THAI
there were no accidents was a marvel
They knew that the wind strains the
delicate silk planes and pulls at the
fastenings with cruel fingers. A sud
den blast and the planes might crum
BILE and dash the driver to the earth
But the crowd was there and something
had to be done to amuse it.
Through the rain of the morning the
people went in drove to the field, stand
ing in the dripping seats.
Frenchman Tries for Speed.
Paulhan came up with rush ani
sailed past the grandstand in two quail
flying rounds. He veered and shot ou
of the course, back of the grandstant
200 feet high, going over the field agar
after short run. When he came dow1
he said that he had intended to try II
laps for speed but found the wind toe
strong on the westward course.
Then Curtiss came out in prelimin
airy flight. Hamilton and Paulhan start
ed together in wind-bucking contest
but were sent out of the course ant
landed back of the grandstand. Paul
han, after finding that his machine wal
standing the strain well, made anothel
try for speed.
Charles F. Willard, in a Curtiss ma
chine, came out for a brief flight, bu
after feeling the force of the wind, gavt
up. Curtiss, who had announced tina
he would try for mile speed record
also quit. The crowd was sent home.
Paulhan, the irrepressible, was no
content. AS the crowds were fling on
he appeared on the horizon with tw,
passengers behind him, a difficult ant
dangerous feat in such a wind. TIL
passengers were mechanics.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-09

den will conduct services at Lundby
church next Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock.
Howard Olson is sick with
measles.
Miss Esther Gilbert is helping
Mrs. Gust Melin with the house,
work at present.
P. J. Lindgren returned from
Kerkhoven last Saturday where he
has spent nearly two weeks with
his son Albert, who is quite sick.
Miss Jennie Bergren made a call
at Thor Dahlman's home Sunday
evening.
Gustaf Danielson is expected
home from Redwing today.
A special business meeting was
held at the Lindgrens school-house
last Saturday afternoon. F. N.
Anderson was elected clerk in place
of Peter Rodman who has resigned.
Several of the people in this
vicinity are sick with LaGrippe.
0. F. johnson made a business
trip to the twin cities last week.
Buster Brown.