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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-07-14

Mr.. and Mrs. A. B, Rookie dt LETT
tho f;rst of the week for across IS
Salmon siaI river where they will WI
S s~ond the summer visiting with
their children.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-07-14

w. G. Bunnell informs US that
he has arranged to have harvest
hands sent here each week from
Spokane and will try to furnish
men to all the farmers needing
help through harvest. This is a
decidedly good move as laborers
are liable to be very scarce as
soon as haying begins. Anyone
desiring help should see Mr..
Bunnell at once and place an
order for the number of men
needed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-07-14
Hog Prices Go Higher.

A decrease in the shipment of
corn fed hogs into the northwest
from the middle states and a
shortage in the local supply, has
caused the prices to be forced up
a notch with indications that
Sc. rs or 81 per hundred will be
offered before the end of sum-
mer. At the present time buyers
are offering Sc. 10 and few hogs
are being secured at this price.
The buyers predict a steady rise
in prices but do not believe the
offerings will exceed $6.75 per
hundred. Lewiston Tribune.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-07-14
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-StOries Rehashed from
Our Exchanges.

The Lewiston ball team won
from the Palouse team Sunday
by score of 5 to l.
Heading has been commenced
in the Tammany country south
of Lewiston and it is stated that
barley there will average about
40 bushels and wheat 35 bushels
per acre.
The 20-months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Randall, of
Moscow, was viciously attacked
by large rooster late last week
and cut and injured so seriously
as to necessitate the calling of a
physician to dress the child's
wounds.
The city council at Standpoint
has decided to put all vagrants
and other arrested persons at
work on the rock pile. This will
result in the floating" popula-
ton giving that town a wide
berth as soon as the news spreads
sufficiently.
The Potlatch Lumber company
has received an order from the
Diamond Match company for g.
600, 600 feet of choice white pine
timber to be made into matches.
1t is rush order and two gangs
will be kept on it when the rest
of the plant is closed down.
Conrad Olson, a 13-year old
boy living near Lewiston, was
kicked in the head by a horse
late last week and received in
juries from which he died We'd
nesday. The boy was trying to
pick up a base ball from beneath
the horse when he was kicked.
A shipment of 10000 young
trout was brought from the state
hatchery at Standpoint Monday
to the Lewiston country. The
bulk of the shipment was sent to
the upper Clearwater country for
planting while some 10000 were
sent to Lewiston to be planted in
streams in that vicinity.
The state pardon board at
Boise, among other things. late
last week commuted the sentence
of Rudolph Wetter from life i'm
prisonment to 40 years. Wetter
was sent up from this county
several years ago for murder.
The board also granted several
pardons and refused others.
A special election to vote
Kootenai county wet" will be
held in the fall if a sufficient
number of signatures are obtain
ed on the "a petitions now being
circulated in the As precincts.
Captain Spaulding, a longtime
resident of the county, has taken
the initiative in putting the nec-
essary petitions among the peo-
pie.
According to advices received
from Oregon it now appears that
Kenneth Gordon, the Lewiston
man who recently mysteriously
disappeared while negotiating
for a canning factory at Browns
vile, absconded with some $500
of borrowed money and is now
thought to be on his way to Au.
stralia. Mrs. Gordon is in Port
land practically without funds.
Figures placing the log drive
of the st. Maries, st. Joe and
Coeur d'Alene rivers, the three
principal logging districts of this
section, at approximately II ,000,.
600 feet have just been compiled
by F. ]. Davies, president of the
st. Joe Boom company. Due to
: market conditions this year.
drive is considerably short of tina
= of 1910, when 81, 900, 900 feet o.
timber were handled in the chan
! nels Of the st. Maries and ST.
Joe rivers alone.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-07-14
Farm Home Burned Last Week.

The home of H. H. Herman
out near Denver was destroyed
by fire on Thursday of last week
together with all its contents.
The fire started from a kettle of
linseed oil which was being boi,-
ed on the stove to prepare it for
use on the floor. The oil boiled
over and caught fire and soon the
interior of the house was a mass
of flames. Mrs. Herman sue
ceeded in saving a sewing ma
chine and washing machine but
had her shoes burned from her
feet by the hot oil and had to
desist. The loss was a severe
one to Mr.. Herman as he had just
recently purchased the farm and
had repaired the house and filled
it with several hundred dollars
worth of new furniture. His
supply of binding twine for har-
vest was also stored in a shed
attached to the house and YVES
burned. Mr.. Herman was on
the mountain after a load Of
wood when the fire occurred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
MANY MEN ARE
 WITHOUT WORK

Chicago, May 14-(Special.) .)-Fifteen thousand men are idle here in the busiest season of the year and buildings con- tracted for to cost s35O00o0 are practi- cally tied up as the result of a petty iurisdictional war being waged between plumbers and steamfitters. Every trade in the building industry is paralyzed and work on 1900 buildings is halted.
 The strike of brickmakers also Is add ing greatly to the tie-up. Hundreds of men reported for work yesterday to be told that there was nothing to do.
 "We have no brick,'' was the remark of the foremen.
 The brickmakers' strike, which involves workmen in every brickyard within 70 miles from Chicago, began three weeks ago when 250O men went on strike. At that time there was a two weeks supply on hand. This was exhausted last Mon- day.
 John A. Alpine, international president of the plumbers, and Simon O'Donnell, business agent of the union, failed to ap- pear at the conference scheduled for Friday afternoon.
 Another chance will be given the plumb CTS representatives to meet the media ton committee in an effort to settle the difficulties. Unless the plumbers rep resentatves are present at this meeting, which has been set for next Tuesday, drastic action will be taken by the en- blowers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
NEWS OF SYLACAGUA

Sylacauga, May 14.-(Special)-Dr. F. H. Craddock has Just completed new one- story brick building that will be used by the Palace Drug company that Is a model store and one not surpassed in this district. The entire front of the building is veneered with white marble, quarried by the Alabama White Marble company, two miles south of Sylacauga, cut and pat into place by the Sylacauga Monumental Marble works.
 The First Methodist church, through its building committee, is now prepar- ing plans for the new church, which will cost approximately $15,000. and they expect to begin work on the build | ing In the next few weeks.
 Mr.. Brown, MT. Howard and others will begin work soon on mammoth cotton and storage warehouse, cover ing six lots on Norton avenue.
 It is very likely that the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges here will erect a Joint fraternal hall the coming sum mer. the building will probably be three stories and of modern design.
 The work of rebuilding the Alabama White Marble company's finishing plant is being rushed and will probably be finishe ed in the next 50 days. The build ings are very much more modern and substantial than those destroyed by fire last Christmas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
GREENVILLE SCHOOL
 CLOSES THIS WEEK

Greenville, May 14.-(Special.)- Jon Thursday night the commencement ex- ercises of the Greenville public school will take place at the opera house Thirteen will receive diplomas and cer- tifcates. There are several in the class who have not taken the full course and these will receive the certificates. The following is prograrnme of the exer- cises:
 Invocation, Rev. c. V. Calhoun.
 Chorus, "Welcome Song" class.
 Reading of honor rolls, Mayor O. A Lane.
 Duet, selected, Misses Lurline Stewart and Lena Butler.
 Literary address. Hon. William C. Fitts.
 Duet, selected, Misses .Bennie Mae Thompson and Miriam Lehman.
 Delivery of diplomas, Mayor O. A Lane.
 Chorus, Good Night Song," class
 On Wednesday night the Greenville High School Alumni association will give banquet at the school building in honor of the graduating class Sixty guests will be present and there will be responses to toasts by several of the prominent educators of the city. The library and one of the class rooms will be used for the event, the graduat tins class being in the receiving line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
ATLANTA WANTS
 B|G NEW HOTEL An Effort Is Being Made to Get Asa Chandler to
 Erect Hotel

Atlanta. May 14-Atlanta is trying to induce Asa G. Chandler, the well-known millionaire manufacturer and banker, to build a new s1,ooo,00O hotel.
 There has been a good deal of rouho- about talk in the papers about a new hotel here, but none of it has brought out the fact that the efforts are really di- rected toward MT. Candler with view 10 getting him to build modern hotel upon one of his centrally located Peachtree street lots. and put at least $1,000,ooo into the project.
 MT. Candler has been silent on the subject and continues so. But prominent business men, backed by the chamber of commerce, are involved in the conspiracy against him, and they hope to push it through to success.
 It has been quietly known, however, for some time that the particular designs In this connection were directed toward MT. Cander, and it is probably as result of this as well as of the fact that report has connected his name with hotel pro- ject for some months, that led pig hotei operating company of New York to make to him tentative proposition to take such a hotel here on 20-year lease, paying as rental 10 per cent on the investment.
 AS yet the matter is up in the air ex- cept that the chamber of commerce has appointed a hotel committee with desig- mated duty, namely, to see to 1t that At lanta gets big new hotel as soon as possible.
 | The particular animus of the movement is that Atlanta has been threatened with the loss of several big conventions and gatherings of various kinds unless more and better hotel facilities are provided.
 As specific instance, 1t Is stated that the big railroad associations which now and then hold their meetings here have put the chamber of commerce on notice that unless more and better hotel faclli- ties are supplied in Atlanta, they will discontinue holding their meetings here.
 Some of the hotel men have taken the movement as personal affront upon them, but members of the chamber com mittee give assurance that such Is not in- tended; that their sole purpose IS 10 see that Atlanta is sufficiently equipped with hotel service to meet any emergency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15

A deplorable homicide occurred yes- terday morning at Pratt City in which W. M. Lacey was shot and almost in stantly killed by s. s. Cade. The shoot ing took place at Cade's place of busi-
 ness on Fifth street and Fifth avenue and was brought about by dispute about an account that MT. Lacey was
 trying to collect from Cade who rented
 meat market from Lacey.
 The shooting was witnessed by sev-
 eral persons but the causes leading up I to the affair are not clearly known at
 this time, other than that the two men
 had a dispute over an alleged account.
 The eye witnesses to the shooting Of
 Lacey were Dr. E. T. Fields of Ems ] ley, pr. Gaston, Mrs. Fields little Bige
 Fields and Dr. Fields chauffeur. The
 party were in pr. Fields automobile going to the mines and when nearing
 the corner of Cade's place of business
 pr. Felds states he saw two men ap
 parently fighting. He described the man
 on top as very large, heavy man, the other of slight build. He caused his
 machine to stop near the scene of the
 encounter. As he approached the two
 men got up and Dr. Fields heard Cade
 say. You done me wrong" or words to that effect and pulling a small pistol commenced firing at Lacey, who at tempted to seize his assailant, but fell
 to the ground with four bullets in his head and body.
 Cade made mo attempt to escape. stray bullet struck pr. Gaston in the hand while sitting in the auto. pr.
 Fields rendered all the assistance he could but MT. Lacey died in few mo ments after being shot Dr. Gaston was hurried to the hospital at No. mines, where Dr. Fields removed the bullet from Dr. Gaston's hand. He is resting
 we'll The body of Mir Lacey was re. moved to the undertaking establishment of Sam Foley, where Coroner Brasher will hold an inquest this morning. Both the men involved are married and both have families. Mr. Lacey had lived in Pratt City practically all his life and is known all over the county. MT. Cade has been running a meat mar ket at the above address.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
MORALS MENACED | BY IMPROPER PLAYS
Catholics Undertake Cru sade Against Naughty"
 Stage Presentations

Chicago, May 4.-(Special. (-Public morality and the welfare of the nation are being menaced by theatrical man. tons as "Salome," "The Ea asiest Way and La Samaritaine," according to a stinging indictment of the American theatre which was received by Chicago theatre managers today from the Amer ican Federation of Catholic societies, the most powerful of the Catholic organi- zation in the United States. The societies have undertaken a cru sade to keep the theatre from becom- ing "a pesthouse of moral infection, ? and in a statement which 1t has sent 10 all American theatrical producers it declares war on plays that mock at sacred things and moral principles, which the Christian holds in highest re- spect.
 The 100000 members of the federa- tion will be asked to join in the warfare by boycotting the, plays of producers and the theatres of managers who stage and allow vicious performances in their theatres
 The themes of divorce, free love, in fidelity and other kindred subjects which
 
 their plays and which producers arc importing from abroad are not wanted by the ordinary playgoer but are put on to please a vulgar crowd of de- bauches,'' according to the statement which is signed by three arch bishops and one bishop of the Catholic church, and by the committed on public morals of the American Federation of Cath olic societies.
 The archbishops who apDroyed tho statement are: Most Rev. c. S. Messmer of Milwaukee, Most Rev. w. P. O'Con- nell of Boston, Most Rev. James Fl. Blank of New Orleans.
 Right Rev. J. A. McPhaul, bishop of Trenton, N. J., also approved the statement.
 The federation committee on morals is composed of Edward Feeney of Brook lyn, N r.; Thomas H. Cannon of Chi cago, Rev. F. Heirmann of Toledo, O. Charles I. Denechaud of New Orleans and Anthony Matre of St. Louis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15

Washington, May 14.-The value or wealth produced on farms of the United States was ss926,OOo,OoO during 1910, as es- timated by the department of agriculture in statement just issued This is an in- crease of $104,000, 900 over 1909.
 Texas, with her ten million acres of cot ton, wrested from Illinois during 1910 the honor of being the first state of the union in point of value of her principal farm crops, which aggregated $se4 11oOo, an in crease of 14.9 per cent over 1909.
 Illinois, with s290, ,2s5, ,Ooo, dropped to sec- ond place, the decrease having been 13,9 per cent Iowa held her place as third state, while Kansas, in 1904 fourth state, dropped to tenth.
 Georgia made a rapid stride in crop production for the year and jumped from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
MOTHERS DAY AT
 DECATUR CHURCHES

Decatur, May 14.-(Special.) )-"Moth CTS Day" was observed today in near ly all of the churches of Decatur and special musical programmes were ren dered and white flowers as a reminder of mother were in evidence.
 At the Railroad Young Mems Chris tian association in New Decatur this afternoon at B. o'clock mothers day services were ,held The speaker was Will D. Upshaw of Georgia, editor of tn: Golden Age. A special musical pro. gramme was rendered in which the fol lowing took, part: Miss Annie Lot Spight, Mrs. H. D. Harkreader, Miss Rosa T. Neale and Mrs. F. A. Bartlett
 At the West New Decatur Presby terian church this afternoon mothers day was observed, the Rev. Mir Man ming, the pastor, being the speaker.
 At the Christian church, New Decatur this morning the Rev. J. H. Hill O Hartselle preached an able sermon an, conducted the services.
 At the First Baptist church Will. n Upshaw, editor of the Golden Age, ad
 dressed the Sunday school this fnornin, and tonight he delivered an address a | this church on The Ideal Young Man. at a mass meeting of young people o both of the Decaturs.
 At the Salvation Army hall tonight | farewell service was held for Capt. An, Mrs. John A. Wales. who for the pas l four years have been in charge of tn | Salvation Army work in the two De caturs. They leave this week for Char lotte, N. C., where they will be engage | in the Army work. It is with much re gret that the people of the two De @ turs generally part with Captain an, Mrs. Wales. They have done a grea work here for suffering humanity Among other things they have opene' up an Army hospital, they have paid al debts of the local Army and are leav ing quite neat balance of money II .thl. tfeaa,1rv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15

l He raises colts for the market and gets
 good prices for them. q tri ! cattle raising, but on account of the Texas fever tick quarantine was not able to make a business success of it." said MT. Eiland, when I talked with him in Marion a few days ago. "As you know, cattle raised within the price In the cattle markets. That Is
 aLcut <h cqnts as against and cents
 paid for cattle outside the quarantine
 T found that I could raise r1'.ies and Horses at a greater profit and lave turned
 my time and attention more to that bus
 iness. It takes about two or three years to mature a thousand-pound steer for the beef market. Then 1 can sell him
 for no more than 21a cents per pound on foot. It takes about the same time to mature a 1000-pound horse or mule colt.
 which I can readily sell at from 15 to 20 cents per pound.
 "It costs no more to grow and mature the colt than the steer' That sounds like good reasoning I be- lieve 1t IS.
 Anyway, I am willing to accept the word of the man who has tried it. Then the man who can figure the re- suit of tariff revision on the condition of farm life surely knows how to figure the relative cost of a mule and steer MT. Eiland has already sold ten colts
 of his own. raising this year at good prices. Some of them brought more than
 $200.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
|uEN YORK POLICE
 WORK b|G GRAF I Police in Partnership With Keepers of Dives
 of Crime

New York, May 14-(Special.) )-That the police and low politicians collect s2,- booOoo year in graft and biackmail from unfortunate women is the direct charge made by Howard s. Cans, former assist ant digTict attorney under William Trav- CTS Jerome. He declared there have been police precincts in this city where the graft collected amounted to s30,O0O month, or s3sooOO a year.
 ''The partnership between the police and keepers of brothels,' said MT. Cans, 'is not mere figure of speech. It is a living, shrieking fact
 These charges of wholesale graft and corruption were given as an argument in favor of the licensing and governmental regulation of the social evils which Mr Cans urged in a speech before the con- ference on the reform of the criminal law and procedure held at Columbia uni versity.
 We have today" said Mr. Cans, "the social evil in this city in it's most objec- tionable forms rather than in it's less ob- jectionable forms. The horrors of the white slave traffic are unchecked by the activity which is legitimately to be de- manded and expected for the police. No law which is not tolerable before the world can be enforced.
 The present laws against the social evil can not and will not be enforced.
 "The consequence of this suspicion is undermined, the sense of civic obligation is undermined, blackmail developes, the police department is demoralized, part nership of crime is established between the keepers of disorderly resorts and the police, and laws are not enforced which are inherently enforceable 1
 ''The police captain asks himself why he should enforce the law if nobody wants 1t enforced, and why he should not profit in this manner if he takes so much per- sonal risk of a sudden spasm of law en- forcement on the part of the public. The effect of this practice on the rank and file
 Ne department is contagious. In the
 5f such a system who and what Is the police commissioner? His present dif- fculty should be described as impossbili- ties, yet have had police commissioners say to me that their jobs would have no more than the ordinary administrative difficulties If 1t were not for absurd laws on Sunday selling and the social evil.
 "One of the prices we pay in this city for these laws is the demoralization of 10000 of our picked men and the corrup- tion and essential insubordination of our police department"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-15
MRS. TAFT LARGE
 TEXAS LAND OWNER

San Antonio, Tex, May 14-(Special.)- Mrs. Charles P. Taft, wife of the brother Of the President. is one of the largest land owners in Texas, her holdings amounting to almost SO,OOo acres in Dim init, Webb and Lasalle counties, south of this city. Mrs. Taft Is one of the wom- en who is doing geat things in Texas de- velopment Recently a glance over the commecials field in this state, showed that many of the largest commercial endeav- ors were directed by women, some of them In person, others through agents Just now Mrs. Taft is making preparations to make large improvements upon her lands, and 10000 acres will be brought under cultivation and subsequent improvements will Include large part of her hold tings.