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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
CHILD LABOR CONFERENCES
Seventh Annual Session Ended Sunday
At Birmingham, Ala.

Birmingham, Ala, March 13-The
seventh annual session of the National
Child Labor conference ended Sunday
night at meeting at which the prin-
cipal speakers were DR.. Felix Adler of
New York, and Miss Jane Adams of
Chicago.
The work of the conference was di-
rected mainly to securing uniform, child
labor laws. A vigorous plan also was
proposed for prohibiting child labor
on the stage.
1.-The battle for the child and for
the interests of civilization which are
jeopardized by the premature employ
ment of children in industry is not yet
won,' declared DR.. Adler, who is chair
man of the national child labor com
mittee. He then made a strong plea
for "the south to come to the rescue
of the child. The speaker declared,
however, that progress was being made,
though with uneven acceleration, in
every part of the country.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Olympia Highway Commission Middle.

B. w. Huntoon has refused appoint
ment as highway ! commissioner and
Governor Hay ordered the office turned
over to C. H. Sweetser. On advice of
the attorney general Commissioner
Bowlby refused to vacate. Governor
Hay then appointed Sweetser commits
sioner, but he has not qualified and
may not do so.
The contention is made that under
the constitution new commissioner
can draw but half of the $4,000 salary
provided by the last legislature, and it
is further asserted that owing to an
other legislative blunder not cent has
been appropriated for salary or ex-
penses of the office for the term be-
tween April 1, when current appropria-
tions lapse, and June 8, when the new
law takes effect.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Electrocuted in Mine.

Swinging along through tunnel in
the Morning mine in the Occur
d 'Alenes, and whistling away, appar-
emily happy as a lark, Bert Thrasher,
miner, met instant death by electro
cution, when steel drill which he was
carrying came in contact with live
wire, and 1000 volts passed through his
body. Thrasher was carrying steel to
machines on the S0O-foot level at the
time of the accident. Thrasher was
% years of age, and leaves a young
wife in Mullan, Idaho.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Broke Neutrality Laws.

Francisco Cazueta, Rafel Quieros and
Diego Calcium are under arrest at
Tucson, Ariz., on a charge of violating
neutrality laws, the complainant being
the Mexican consul there. 1t is alleged
that the men were the leaders of a
band of insurrectos recruited in Ari
IONA and afterward defeated and dis
persed in Sonora, and that the three
men returned to Arizona and made eff
forts to buy 100 rifles at Tucson stores
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
A New Washington Letter.

A letter of General Washington,
never before published, will be printed
in the March Century" The letter
bears date of October %, 1777, is ad-
dressed to General Henry Lee, and is
entirely in General Washington IS hand
writing. The original is now the prop
erty of Miss Ann Mason Lee, of Rich
mond, Va, a descendant of General
Lee.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
PLAINS, MONT, LAD SUICIDES.
Girl He Was to Marry Takes Poison
When He Shoots Him
co1f

Placing a rifle in his mouth and pull
ing the trigger, Ross B. Johnston killed
himself last Saturday at the Johnston
farm, three miles north of Plains, Mont.
1t is said he was engaged to be mar
ried to Miss Maude Snavely, but his
parents wished him to wait until he
was of age.
On learning of the death of the young
man Miss Snavely swallowed a guam
tity of poison and walked two miles to
where Johnston was, and now is in a
critical condition.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
URGE WAR WAGED ON oPIATEs
U. S. Gives Delegates to Opium Con-
ference at Hague Broad Instructions
for Their Guidance.


The state department has instructed
the American delegates to the interna-
tional opium conference, which is to
meet at The Hague in May, to urge a
world wide fight against not only opium,
but morphine, cocaine, and all other
habit forming drugs.
The state department, it is stated,
commissioned delegates to the confer
ence, and will promulgate an institu-
ton covering the entire field of habit
sioners from America will not only
have full slgnatory powers as regards
traffic in the main drugs which are
threatening the manhood of the world,
but will have liberty to go as far as
any nation wishes in opposing restric-
tive measures of any other drug.
U. S. Sends Bishop.
Two of the American delegates to
The Hague will be the Rt. Rev. Charles
Rent, protestant episcopal bishop of
the Philippines, and DR.. Milton F.
Wright, of the state department, both
of whom served on the opium board
which met at Shanghai two years ago.
Charles D. Tenney, Chinese secre-
tary of the American legation at
Picking, who served on the commission,
will be replaced by another delegate
whom rumor has to be person prom
inent in American college circles.
Nations which will participate in
the coming conference are, besides the
United States, China, France, Ger
many, Great Britain, The Netherlands,
Portugal, Russia, Austria Hungary, Italy,
Siam and Persia.
China, the nation which has suf-
fered the most from the ravage Of the
opium evil, and which has hailed with
satisfaction the good offices of the
United States in bringing about aid
for its campaign of suppression, natur-
ally is in the forefront of The Hague
negotiations.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Spokane Prices to Producers.

The following list may be taken as
fair standard of prices paid to pro-
ducers outside of the city market for
the commodities named:
Fruits and getables-Lettuce, 25@
30c lb; caulifower, $1.50@1.75 doz; po'
tatoes, $1@1.25 cwt; apples, 75c@sS
box; beets, $1.75@2 cwt; horseradish'
15c lb; cabbage, 2@2hc per lb; sweet
potatoes, 1878 cwt; parsnips, $1.25 cWt;
green peas, 14c Id; green beans, 14ei
spinach, Sc lb; oysters, 81 at; Dunge-
ness crabs, 25@3Oc; Brussels sprouts
lie lb; cucumbers, 81 doz; Casapa
melons, 1925 doz; endive, $3.50 doz;
wax beans, lac lb; leeks, zoe do1
punches; red cabbage, &c lb; huckleber'
ries, 10c lb.
Butter-Ranch, 25c lb.
Eggs-23c doz.
Cheese-Wisconsin and Hazelwooa'
1870 lb; domestic Swiss, zoe lb; brick
cream, 2o@2ohc.
Hay-Baled oat hay, $16 ton; wheat
hay, $1s ton; alfalfa, $14; timothy NO.
1, $22 per ton.
Grain-Oats, $3.50 cwt; barley, $l'2o
cwt; wheat, $1.2O cwt.
Hay and. feed prices are f. o. b. cars
Spokane.
Poultry-Live hens, 13c lb; dresseoi
15@22c lb; live springs, 13c; dressed
zoe; old ROSTERS, &c; dressed, lac; i've
geese, 13c lb; dressed, 15c; live ducks
young, 1sc; old, 13c; dressed, 1s@22c'
fancy turkeys, soc; dressed, use.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
ARTISAN WELL BREAKS AWAY
Walla Walla Water Rushes Out in a
Dozen Places.

Walla Walla, Wash, March 1.-THE
big artesian well, struck on the Kelly
ranch near here February 30, and which
for time could not be capped, has
broken out in dozen new places at
once. AS soon as the water is turned
off the pressure is SO tremendous that
water starts up from the ground all
over the neighborhood and in some
places, 200 yards from the well, now
spurts upward foot into the air. 1t
shoots 400 gallons a minutes.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
White Bride of Chinese Dies.

Mrs. Harry Toy, aged %, who was
formerly Mrs. Daisy Davis, a mission
worker of Portland, Ore, and who mar
ried prosperous Chinese merchant of
Seattle, February %, died of peritonitls
at their Seattle home, Sunday. Toy and
his bride met in Methodist mission in
Portland, obtained marriage license
in Vancouver, Wash, and came to Sc
attic, where they were married by a
negro minister.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
SAYS YOUNG MAN SHOULD WE'D.
Thomas A. Edison Gives Advice on
Matrimony.

AS soon as a young man is in a
position to support wife, and can get
the right girl to accept him, he should
marry" This is the opinion of
Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor,
as expressed on the twenty-ffth ami
versary of his own wedding, which he
has just celebrated.
eyes,, continued Mr.. Edison, a
man does not take his proper place in
society until he is married. The re-
sponsibilities of family steady him
and tend to bring out the best there
is in him. This presupposes that the
union is cemented by love. There is
no other sure foundation for happy
marriage"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
j. H. Lewis Champion Dresser.

Colonel James Hamilton Lewis of
Chicago, ex-congressman from the state
of Washington, admits he has so bust
ness suits, 10 dress suits, 365 ties, 100
pairs of shoes, 30 suits of silk under
wear, yet denies the charge of Champ
Clark that he is the country's biggest
dude. He says Clark, Senator Bever-
idge and Joe Cannon all have something
on him in the dress line.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Old Timer Dies.

Twisp, Wash, March 14.-John Mich
eltree Thomas, aged 81 years, and a
pioneer of Washington, died recently.
near Carlton postoffice. He is survived
by nine children, all of whom live in
the northwest.
During the Indian outbreak on Puget
sound of 1885, Mr.. Thomas enlisted
with the pioneer volunteers and served
throughout the campaign of those mem
orable years.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Washington State Has S1.071 600.

State Treasurer Lewis at Olympia re-
ports $1,071,o00 cash on hand. There
is $16s,000 in the general, less thar
$4,000 in the military fund, and about
$150,oQo in the highway fund. The
state board of finance reports that its
bids have been accepted by different
municipalities of the state for about
$346,000 on bonds, which will draw
from to 6 per cent per annum.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Bankers Out on Parole.

Bankers w. H. Schmick of Cleveland.
Ohio, and S. H. Brainard of Medina,
Ohio, have been released on parole from
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan. Each was under a sentence of
five years for embezzlement. Schmick
has decided to forsake banking and
left Immediately for Hood valley, Ore
gon, where he has fruit interests His
wife and relatives are there.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Six Cars of Meat for Troops.

The largest single meat shipment on
United States order since the Span
ish-American war left the Union stock
yards at Chicago Saturday for Texas.
There were six carloads of bacon,
corned beef and other meats, enough
for 20 days, and several more are ready
for transit.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
To Protect Street Cars

Five hundred citizens of Oklahoma
City, Okla, the list including bankers,
merchants, physicians and lawyers,
have been sworn in as deputy sheriffs
to take charge of the street car strike
situation. Each man wears badge and
carries revolver. Governor Cruce had
refused to call out the state troops to
protect the street car company in an
effort to run ears
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
China Fails to Make Peace.

The Russo Chinese negotiations have
again taken an unfavorable turn
China S second reply to the Russian de-
mand for closer adherence to the pro-
visions of the treaty of 1881 indicates
an attitude in regard to Russian con
sular and commercial privileges in Iii
and Mongolia that is unsatisfactory to
the Russian government.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Custom Inspectors Changed.

AS the result of special investiga-
ton ordered by the treasury depart
ment several weeks ago and just com
pleted, the entire force of customs in
speetors at the port of San Francisco,
so in all, will be recognized. Some
got fred.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Kentucky Feudist confesses.

General May, noted mountain feudist,
who is charged with the killing of Sher-
iff Meredith, and the latter's wife, in
fight in Clay county week ago, is
under arrest at Winchester, KY. May
it is stated, admitted having killed
eight men.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Pacific Northwest Wheat.

Tacoma-Bluestem, s3c; fortyfold,
S1@S2e; club, Sic; red Russian, Soc
Seattle-Milling quotations: Blue
stem, S5c; fortyfold, s3c; club, SIC;
fife, see; red Russian, sic.
Portland-Club, 7S@79c; bluestem,
81@82c; red Russian, re; valley, soc;
fortyfold, 79@s0c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Noted Outlaw Captured.

Sanchp Alvarado, a noted outlaw
and three of his gang have been cap,
tured by the insurrectionists un lei
Jose de la Cruz Sanchez. The pro
nounciado leader has sent word to the
American authorities that he Would de-
liver the outlaw on Texas soil for pun
ishment.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
North Coast to Celebrate March 90.

Arrangements are being made for the
opening of the Yakima branch of the
North Coast railroad, which will take
place with celebration in North Yaki-
ma and other towns along the route of
the new line on March %.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Oklahoma Town Burned.

Practically the entire business dis
triet of Webbers Falls, Okla, was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday. The fire
started in drug store, but the cause
is unknown. The population of Web
bers Falls is about 1000. The loss was
estimated at 100000.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Ca1ve and Gaspari Marry.

The mystery that has cloaked the re-
lations of Nine. Emma Calve, the noted
singer, and Amor Gaspari, the Floren-
tine tenor, has been cleared up, they
admitting that they had been man and
wife for a year. They were married
in Marseilles, France, last March, but
kept their union secret save from
their most intimate friends.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
MILITIA WANTS TO 60
ALL over The UNITED STATES
THEY FAVOR PRACTICE
On TEXAS SOIL,
War Department Invitation for Them
to Participate in Way Maneuvers Re
ceives Quick Replies-Are Not Or
Northwest Would Go.

Officers of the organized militia are
giving prompt response to the war de-
partment s invitation to proceed in the
military operations planned along the
southern frontier Already 1909 officers
of the National Guard have accepted
the invitation. This represents re-
sponses from only p states.
Illinois stands first in the number of
officers accepting the invitation, 1875
being offered; New York ranks second,
with 16S, and the announcement that
more acceptances are to follow; Cali
fornia third, with 1873, and from the
far-off territory of Hawaii come ac-
ceptances from five.
These Accept.
The number of officers who have ac-
cepted the invitation in the various
states are: California, 1853; Hawaii, 5;
Maine, B; Massachusetts, 90; Missis-
sippi, &c. Missouri, los; Montana, IL;
New Hampshire, 8; New York, 1868, and
more to follow; Ohio, 90, Oregon, 81
South Dakota, %; Tennessee, IS; Tex
as, 100; Vermont, 4; Washington, 81
West Virginia, So; Wisconsin, 6.
These reports, it is said, indicate that
the total number of acceptances will be
more than the army now being mobo-
lized at San Antonio can accommodate
at one time. 1t is possible that all the
officers who accept will be given an OPP
portunity to go into the field by TO
tating them.
Can Not Order Militia Out.
In contradiction of rumors that the
citizen soldiers of the United States
are to be called for active service, of
ficers of the army point out that such
action would be impossible because
there is no contingency, as prescribed
by law, which would warrant it. The
" Dick law enacted eight years ago,
prescribes the constitutional causes au-
thorizing the president to call out the
militia. This act, carrying out the in
tent of the constitution, enables the
president to call to arms the militia
of the states, territories and District
of Columbia to "repel an invasion of
a foreign nation, to suppress a rebel
lion in the United States, or to enable
him to execute the laws of the union. -
AS the country now faces none of the
emergencies, it is added, it would be
impossible for the president to call out
the militia.
The army division, which is assem-
bling at San Antonio, Texas, is officially
designated by the war department as
"the maneuver division -
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Portland Store Changes Hands.

Announcement is made of the sale to
Max Holtz of New York city and Aaron
Holtz of Portland of all but a small
block of the stock of the Olds, Worth
man and King company, one of the
three big department stores of Port
land, Ore. The deal involved a consid-
Grafton between $3,ooO,OOO and $4,000
900.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Mrs. Eddy's Estate $a,512,14e.

A valuation of $2,512,14 is placed on
the estate in New Hampshire of the
late Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy,
founder of the Christian Science church,
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Vesuvius Trembles Again.

Naples, March ia severe earth
quake, accompanied by strong detona,
tions from Mount Vesuvius, occurred
Sunday.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17

A scientist says the human race is
more than 100000 years old-yet
some specimens don It know enough yet
to close the door on zero day.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Killed il Suowslide.

John Turney, an aged resident Of
Sierra City, and an unknown man were
killed in snowslide at Sierra Citv.
Cal.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
SPOKANE BALL
LEAGUE SCHEDULE

Manager Joe Cohn Grabs Best Days of
Season.
The Northwestern league schedule
for the season of 1911 is announced. 1t
gives the Spokane squad 101 home play
ing dates, as compared with IS on the
road, which is very considerable
point of advantage. 1t also provides
for home opening and home clos
ing, another big factor, with three
weeks to commence the season on the
Recreation park lot and the last two
weeks of the season there also.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Joe COINS Spokane Team.

Catehers-Hasty, Hayes, D. Baker,
Ostdiek, Mcintosh.
Pitchers-H. Killilay, T. Baker,
Strand, Brown, Cornelius, Willis,
Schopp, Woods, Holm, Bonner,
Schwenk, Kraft.
Infielders - Nordyke, Cartwright,
Tauscher, Vivian, Netzel, Gray, Levy
(new shortstop to be announced later).
Outtelders-Frisk, Kippert, Wells,
Dickinson, Lerch, Zimmerman.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Americans Killed.

What is believed to be reliable re-
port of the casualties at Casas Grandes,
say that Is Americans were killed and
II Americans taken prisoners.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
REALBATTLEFOUGHT
The MEXICAN REGULARS And
REBELS go To 1T And 10
ARE KILLED.
Battle Spectacular and Witnessed by
Several Thousand Americans Who
Rushed to Give Aid After the Battle
General Blanco Led the Rebels
Northern Part of Mexico in Panic.

Douglas, Ariz., March 13.-Eleven
federal soldiers dead, II wounded, with
the losses to the rebels unknown, is
the result of battle just east of Aqua
Prieta Sunday. This place is on the
border across from Douglas, Ariz.
The opposing forces were 500 insur-
rectors under General Jose de la Luce
Blanco, and federal force of 800 di-
rected by Colonel Mora.
The battle was spectacular and wit
messed by several thousand Americans,
many of whom rushed close to the bat
tlefeld while the firing was still at it's
height. After the smoke had cleared
away it was Americans in automobiles
who gave the first aid to the wounded,
hurrying them to Aqua Prieta, where
two American physicians were in readi-
ness to assist the Mexican army sur
geon.
If there were any rebels killed or
wounded they were taken back to the
mountains by their comrades.
After mystifying both the Mexican
officials and the Americans on the
border for week, Blanco surprised
all by suddenly breaking out of the
canyon leading from Genzes Springs
and attacking the federal force of 800
that had been rushed into Aqua Prieta
last night on a special train under com
mand of Colonel Mora. Except few
prisoners taken by the federals, the
rebels retreated in good order
1t is understood that Blanco's entire
force did not participate in the engage
ment. His first action was to throw
out skirmish line for the purpose of
drawing the federals into action to as
certain their strength.
Another Attack
Blanco's forces again advanced on
Aqua Prietas, Monday
The United States cavalry has turned
out and will Immediately take up it's
position on the border
Situation Critical.
Conditions bordering on panic reign
almost throughout northern Mexico.
Stirred by the belief that the revolu-
JloHdfy movement mas reached critical
stage, the insurrectos in the state of
chihuahua and Sonora are reported to
have renewed activity in tearing up rail
road and telegraph lines. Numerous
towns, according to reports, are under
siege by the insurrectionists, and thou
sands of women and children, cut off
from food supplies, are rendered help
less.
Corrected details concerning the bat
tie week ago at Casas Grandes, town
of about 500 people, about $50 miles
southwest of Ell Paso, shows 60 men
were killed.
Five hundred insurrectos attacked 800
federal troops, but were repulsed, with
total of 35 dead and wounded on both
sides The fighting was short and the
insurrectos, armed only with rifles, soon
We're scattered under fire of machine
gun.
Americans Killed
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Weeks at Spokane.

Weeks at Spokane.
April 1S-Portland.
April 24-Victoria.
May Tacoma.
May 29-Vancouver.
June 5,,Seattle.
July 3-Victoria.
July 1O-Portland.
July 17-Seattle.
July 24-Tacoma.
August 21-Tacoma.
August 2S-Victoria.
September Vancouver.
September 1s-Victoria.
September 24-Portland.
Holiday Dates.
May 80 Decoration day)-Van-
couver at Spokane.
July 4 Independence day)-Vic-
toria at Spokane.
September Uabor day)-Van-
couver at Spokane.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
OTHER MARKETS

Dispatches concerning market o,.
tions, conditions and phases are y qae "a
lows "io DIS FOL
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
Another Attack.

Blanco S forces again advanced on
Aqua Prietas, Monday.
The United States cavalry has turned
out and will Immediately take up its
position ON the border.