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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
Damage To Crop.

Chicago, Aug. To-day was
the first time that the Canadian
authorities acknowledge the crop
situation to be serious concerning
the black rust in wheat. At
Chicago the admission caused
less surprise and excitement than
appeared to be the case at mark
cts nearer the scene.
Besides the ominous dispatches
from the Canadian northwest,
there were advices that North
Dakota fields, which had prom
ised twenty bushels an acre, had
shriveled to eight bushels and
that half of the damage had be-
come apparent within the last
two days.
The Kansas official report indi-
eating a yield the smallest since
1899, was another bullish intiu-
ence. Profit taking led to a re-
action for while, as did compre-
hensive statements that the
shortage in Russia was exagger-
ated.
September ranged from 92 3-4c
to SO 5-8c, closing steady IA to
| 3-9c net higher at SO 3-8c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
F." Gather Man Had Us Scared

The weather man seemed to
nave a grudge against himself
last week and handed out a mix
lure OF weather for a few days
tnat had the farmers going south.
Following the light showers that
fell during the middle of the
week a fierce electrical storm,
accompanied by a high wind, Wis
ited tins section last Friday night
and knocked down quite a bit of
heavy grain on summerfallow
ground, although the damage
was not as great as many had
thought it would be. Some heavy
oownpours occurred again on
Saturday, accompanied in spots
by some hail. On Sunday a
heavy storm gathered south of
town and swung to the north. A
heavy rain fell here just at noon
and at Nezperce about half an
hour later the rain fell in torrents
for about twenty minutes. The
storm missed Greencreek almost
entirely, not enough rain falling
there to settle the dust.
While the rains delayed harvest
operations for several days they
did no material damage other
than the lodging of occasional
fields of heavy grain and the
coloring of the barley crop to a
slight extent. Harvest work is
in full full swing again now and
much of the early grain has been
bound and threshers are now at
work in these fields.
The weather this week has
been cool but not stormy and it
is expected that good weather
will prevail until after the har-
vest period is over.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
Standing OF Clubs.

DR.. Carsen, the Moscow veter-
mary surgeon, is in the city. 1t
has been about two years since
ne last visited this section.
Frank Terhaar and E. E. Hale
expect to start up their thresh-
ing outfits next Monday. The
former will begin on his own
place east of town while Mr..
Hale will go out into the country
between Greencreek and Winona
Where he expects to have a big
run.
According to reports from the
Wlnona country the crop of Win
ter barley on the Buckingham
1arm which was threshed recent
ly produced a yield of 104 bushels
TO the acre. This is the largest
barley yield ever reported on this
prairie Tor anywhere else, we be-
heve) and sets a mark that may
never be reached again. East
ern people simply cannot believe
such yields possible but people
Who live here and have seen our
grain fields this year will not be
surprised to hear of many yields
close up to the hundred bushel
mark.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11

w. E. Bishop, who has been
running hotel at Moscow fer
the past month, has flown to
parts unknown leaving a nice
long list of debts behind him.
Marvin Harrah, a young man
20 years of age, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed at
the Bailey Chamberlain place
near White Bird on Thursday of
last week. He was alone at the
time and the body was not dis
covered until about three hours
afterward. One side of the body
was burned to a crisp.
Lake Pend d'Oreille is one of
the six deepest lakes of the
United States, according to Prof.
George Kemmerer of the gov
ernment bureau of fisheries, who
took soundings of the lake last
week, using deep sea apparatus,
and finding depth of 1900 feet,
out from Granite creek. AT
Occur d'Alene lake he found the
greatest depth was 205 feet.
A large silo is being construct
ed on the University farm west
of town, the material used being
cement. The University farm
keeps some of the best stock in
the west, and the silo will make
it possible to add to the winter
food supply for this stock. The
silo is being constructed by the
University authorities, day labor
being employed. Moscow Post.
j. A. Humbird, the millionaire
st. Paul lumberman, who was
formerly heavily interested in
the numbering business in Idaho,
died last Friday night at Spo-
kane. He was formerly presi-
dent of the Humbird Lumber Co.
at Standpoint and was also heavily
interested in the Weyerhauser
company in Idaho, Washington,
British Columbia, Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
A correspondent writing to the
Palouse Republic says: "A few
of the farmers around Diamond
are trying new variety of wheat
which is called Australian Club,
a winter variety which is said to
be a little nearer perfection for
the Palouse country than any,
thing yet tried. 1t has all of the
good qualities of other varieties,
and none of the bad, so we are
told. 1t is a good milling wheat,
yields heavily, and does not shat
ter readily, and is not inclined to
smut"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
Shipped Solid Train Of Cattle.

A full train of beef cattle, ten
cars in all, numbering about $50
head, and valued at between
$12, 600 and $4,000, was shipped
from this place to the Frye,
Bruhn Co. Wednesday. The cat
tie were all raised in the Salmon
river country and contained some
exceptionally nice stuff. They
were the property of Will Platt,
Chas. H. Baird and J. L. Bond
and brought close to five cents a
pound delivered here. Mr.. Platt
had 160 head in the shipment,
ITO head being steers and so
head of cows and heifers. Mr..
Baird had three cars in the ship
ment and Mr.. Bond one car.
Mr.. Baird shipped four cars of
steers to Portland about month
ago, which with the present ship
ment, takes about all he has to
market this year. Most of the
animals shipped were pretty we'll
bred stock and the money paid
for them shows that the cattle
industry still pays well wherever
sufficient grazing land can be Sc
cured to keep a good herd in
pasture.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
Another Land Mark Gone.

Another we'll known Cotton
wood land mark was cast into
the realms of the past Tuesday
when the old town well on Main
street was filled in, and thereby
hangs tale.
Some twenty years ago, more
or less, certain progressive citi-
zens of our town took counsel
among themselves and decided
that it was to the best interests
of the town, it's residents and
patrons, that public we'll be
maintained on the main street of
the village, where the thirsty
wayfarer might cool his parched
lips, the farmer water his thirsty
team or the too convivial cowboy
soak his aching head. Armed
with pick and shovel, these pro-
gressive citizens sailed forth the
next morning, tackled a promis-
ing looking soft spot in the street
and proceeded to go down after
water-and they found it at a
moderate depth. ct had to be
moderate, else the enthusiasm
might have waned before the
vein was encountered In the
meantime others were construct
ing a pump out of two 2x4s, hol-
lowed out and nailed together,
with a hole near the top for a
spout and a stick with a plunger
on the lower end to lift the water
up with. After completing the
pump it was found that it was
too long for the we'll so rather
than cut down the pump the en-
thusiastic ones proceeded to sink
the well a foot or two further,
finishing the task just as the sun
slid out of sight behind Cotton
wood Butte. The next morning
they all crowded out to try the
new pump but it wouldn' t answer
to their appeals. An investigat-
ing committee, appointed on the
spot, soon located the trouble at
the bottom of the well where all
of the water they had labored so
valiantly to conserve was filter
ing out through crevices in the
rock. Cement was an unknown
quantity but wheelbarrow load
of clay from back of Smiley's
furniture store was soon tamped
solid and fast in the bottom of
the well and the illegal vent
thus closed. And the we'll did
public service for many years
and became known far and wide
among the frequenters of our
town.
The well was land mark, all
right, and the old timer, visiting
here occasionally, who looks in
vain for the old buildings that
were destroyed by fire three
years ago, will turn for comfort
to the old well, only to find it
missing also from its accustomed
spot.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11

George Rustemeyer, Billie Par
sons and Philip Williams return
ed Tuesday evening from a fish
ing trip down on Maloney creek
southwest of Westlake and
brought back about 225 of the
speckled beauties to prove their
ability as disciples of Isaac Wal
ton. The trout tasted fine, as a
number of our citizens can attest.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
steers,

The Hoene-Jenny-S u ber
tbreshing outfit pulled out OF
town Tuesday evening and begun
work on the Jenny farm north OF
town the next day. After thresh-
;ng their own crops they will do
outside work and anticipate hav-
ing quite a run.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
RAILROADS ARE
HEADED NORTH
r. & !. N. and Dewey Roads Both
Look Longingly This Way and
Desire a Closer Acquaintance
May Use Old Surveys.

May Use Old Surveys.
II reports of people returning
from the Payette lakes and Long
valley sections can be taken as q
criterion, within the next few
months that section of the state
is to be the scene of a railroad
race, the ultimate end of which
Is a connection with Grangeville
making a direct north and south
road.
The two contending roads
which will seek to be first into
the new, rich and highly improv-
ed country, are the Pacific &
Idaho Northern, the present
terminus of which is at New
Meadows, and the Idaho North
ern, commonly known as the
Dewey line, which it is generally
believed, is really owned by the
Oregon Short Line. The latter
road has already closed a con-
tract to build from Emmett to
Smiths Ferry, and has secured
the right-of-way and signed an
agreement to build through Long
Valley to the big lakes and in
tends to run from there to
Grangeville.
Parties recently returning from
the lakes state that Superintend-
ent F. j. Barnes of the Idaho
Northern has purchased for the
Oregon Short Line company a
considerable amount of land
fronting on the lakes and has
taken options on more, and it has
been learned on good authority
that he purchased a 4O0-acre
ranch at Van Wyck from Mr..
Jones. This ranch has been
famous for years on account of
it's fine hot springs which are
said to be very valuable for me-
dicinal purposes and it is stated
that hints have been dropped
that a health resort is to be built
there.
On the lake front, according
to men returning from Mccall, a
proposition is under way for the
building of a $4,000 hotel, and
it is stated that the Oregon Short
Line company, with others, is
interested in the proposition.
While considerable talk of the
big hotel has been going on for
several weeks, it is now claimed
that the deal has been definitely
closed and within the last week
it is stated that the Short Line
officials made trip over the
grade and inspected the site Sc
lected at the lakes.
Seeing the activities of the Ida
no Northern and hearing the
rumors about road extension into
the Payette lake country, people
in a position to know, state that
E. H. Heigho has been busily en-
gagged in arranging for capital
to build from New Meadows to
Grangeville and that work is to
commence upon the line within a
short space of time, as the sur
vey has already been made and a
good grade secured. Boise Cap
ital News.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
District Court Dates.

Judge Steele has announced
the following court dates for the
various counties of his district
during the remainder of the
year:
Idaho county, Aug. %.
Lewis county, Sept. Is.
Clearwater county, Oct. 2.
Nez Perce county. Oct. 16.
Latah county, Nov. 20.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11
NEWS AROUND
THE STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-Stories Rehashed from
Our Exchanges.


G. l.. Duffie, of Lewiston, was
arrested Saturday for fishing in
Lake Waha without a license and
was fined $15.35.
A contract has been awarded
at Moscow for the construction
of an Odd Fellows and Masonic
temple to cost 500, 900.
Plans are on foot to reclaim
$500 acres of land in the Kootenai
valley by drainage. A ditch z
miles long and 10 feet wide is to
be dug.
Culdesac citizens recently vot-
ed 81, 500 bond to build an ad-
dition to their school house. The
present building is of brick and
cost 81, 900.
A number of farmers around
Culdesac have organized a cream
cry and have put up $4,550 to
build the building and purchase
machinery. The company is cap
italized at $4,000.
Senators Borah and Hepburn,
of Idaho, were among those who
voted against the Canadian reci-
procity bill when it came up for
final passage in the upper house
OF congress July %.
The Lewiston ball team was
defeated Sunday at Potlatch by
a score of 6 to l. This makes
one game for each team and the
tie will perhaps be played off
Sunday at Pullman or Moscow.
Fred Dory, wanted in Grant
county, Oregon, for cattle steal
ing, was arrested at Lewiston on
Monday just before he intended
leaving for the prairie country to
harvest. He was cooking in a
restaurant at the time of his ar
rest.
George R. Barker, editor of
the Pend d'Oreille Review of
Standpoint, has been appointed a
member of the board of regents
of the state university at Moscow
by Governor Hawley to succeed
M. E. Lewis, who recently re-
signed.
A bride of six months at Mos
cow is bemoaning the sudden de-
parture of her husband who left
and took all of the money, in
cluding $3.50 that belonged to
his mother-in-law. The mans
name is Johnson and the sheriff
is trying to locate him.
The general merchandise store
of DeWinter & Gouchward at
Leland was destroyed by fire at
an early hour Sunday morning
at loss of between 500, 900 and
$50, 900. No one slept in the
building and the fire got a good
start before it was discovered.
Its origin is mystery.
A big wood drive down the
Clearwater from Peck to Lewis
ton was started the first of the
week by Len Magill. The drive
comprised about 1900 cords and
it will float 81 miles. tits thought
the wood can be delivered on the
Lewiston market cheaper this
way than by hauling it on the
cars.
A sheep herder up in the
Meadows country was wakened
one night recently by a racket in
camp and raised up to investi-
gate, only to be knocked fiat and
badly mangled by a big bear.
He was found the next day and
taken to doctor for treatment.
This is the second case of the
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11

Charles Steinhous, a farmer
living three miles south of Nez-
perce, threshed his crop of win
ter barley this week and reports
a yield of ninety bushels to the
acre.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-08-11

Mrs. Chas. H. Baird was in
town Tuesday from her home on
Salmon river.
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Lift your knees. BIT Didn't you evxr zee a horse with string hait?"
 He let him stop finally, and gave him a moment to get his breath. Then he set him to turning somersaults. They spread the cushions from the couch in the tent on the roof. and Jim would poke his head down and say a prayer, and then curve over as gracefully as s sausage and come up gasping, as if he had been pushed of a boat.
 Five pounds a day; not less. sir" !" F1annigan said, encouragingly. You'll drop it in chunks"
 Jim looked at the tin as If he ex- pected to see the chunks lying at his feet
 Yes" he said. wiping the back of bis neck. If we're in here 30 days that will be 150-pounds Don't forget to stop in time. Flannisan. don't want to melt away like a candle" He was cheeTed, however, by the promise of reduction
 What do you think of that, Kit?" he called to me. Your. uncle is going to look as angular as 6 problem in geometry. Tll-FIl be the original re- ductio ad absurdum. Do you want me to stand on my head, F7annigan? Wouldn't that reduce something?"
 Your brains. sir" F1annigan retort- cd, gravely. and presented a pair of boxing gloves. Jim visibly quailed, but he put them on.
 Do you know, F7annigan," he re marked, as he fastened them, I'm thinking of wearing these all the time. They hide my character"
 Flannigan looked puzzled, but be did not ask an explanation He de manded that Jim shed the bath robe which he finally did, on my promise to watch the sunset Then for fully q minute there was no sound save oi feet running rapidly around the roof and an occasional soft thud. Each tbud was accompanied by a grunt or ! two from Jim. FIanuigan was grimly silent. Once there was a smart rap an oath from the policeman, and a mirthless chuckle from Jim The chUckle ended in a crash, however, and l turned. Jim was lying on his back on the roof. and Flannigan was wiping his ear with towel Jim sat up and ran his hand down his ribs They're all here" be observed after a minute- T thought I missed one"
 1 -The only way to take a mans waf0hf down- F7auufgap said dryly
 Jim got up dizzily.
 Down on the roof, I suppose you mean" he said
 I The next proceedings were mysteri' ous. F1annigan rolled the barrel into the tent, and carried small glass lamp. With the material at hand he seemed to be eTectiug a combination, nc. new one, to judge by his facility.
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reduced the president to what he -is, and he and Jim had a seance every day which left Jim feeling himself for bruises all evening. He claimed to be losing flesh; he said he could actually feel 1t going, and he and Fiannigan had spent an entire afternoon in ths cellar three days before with a potato barrel. a cane-seated chair and a lamp. The whole thing had been shrouded in mystery. They sandpapered the in- side of the barrel and took out all the nails. and when they had finished they carried 1t to the roof and put it in . corner behind the tent. Everybody was curious. but F1annigan refused any information about 1t, and merely said it was part of his system. Dai said that if he had anything like that in his system he certainly would bo glad to get rid of 1t.
 At a quarter to six Jim appeared. still sullen from the events of the afternoon and wearing a dressing. gown and a pair of slippers. Flannigan following him with a sponge. a bucket of water and an armful of bath towels. Everybody protested at having to move. but he was firm. and they all filed down the stairs. was the last with Aunt Selma just ahead of ma At the top of the stairs she turned around suddenly to me.
 That policeman looks cruel" she said. Whats more, he's been fin a bad humor all day. More than likely hen put James fat on the roof and tramp on him. under pretense of train ing him All policemen are inhu man"
 "He only rous him Q, barrel oB something like that ssted-
 James had lumI egg oves lis ear last night" Selina in sisted, glarfng at F1ann- IS unconr scious back T don't thius it's safS to leave him. It is my relaE for 30 minutes, or ] p him. You will have to stay VinH me with her imperit
 So stayed. Jim me. and FIannlgan mutteTec --lny But it was easier to obey Aunt Selma than to clash with her, and anyhow I wanted to see the barrel in use.
 l never sa< any one train before. It is not a joyful spectacle. First Flznnigan made Jim run. around and around the roof. He said 1t stirred up his food and brought 1t in contact with his liver. to be digested-
 F1annigan. from meekness and sub mission, O: 6 sort. became an autocrai on the roof.
 ~Once more." he would say, ~PicA up your feet. sir. Pick up your feet!
 And Jim would stagger doggedlJ past me, where sat on the parapet his poor cheeks shaking and the tall of his bath robe wrapping itsel around his legs. Yes. he ran in the beth robe in difference to me. It seems there isn't much to a running suit I Head up." Flannignn would say
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They nave brought them backi" she said dramatically. ~They are out there now: distinctly heard Jim's voice. Open that door. Dallasl"
 9h. don't let them inl" walled.
 Sas quite involuntary. but the dis ,aDointment was too awful Dallas. don't open that doori"
 Dal swung his feet and smiled from Bella to me.
 Think what solution it is to all our difficulties" he said. easily. Without Aunt selina could be happy here indefinitely"
 There was moro knocking, and somebody-Max, l think-said to let them in. that 1t was a fool thing any how, and that he wanted to go to bed and forget 1t: his feet were cold. And just then there was a crash, and part of one of the windows fell in. The next blow from outside brought the rest of the glass, and-somebody was coming through, feet first It was Jim.
 He did not speak to any of us. but turned and helped in a bundle of red and yellow silk comfort that proved to be Aunt Selma, also feet first. l had e glimpse of a half-dozen heads outside. guards and reporters. Then Jim jerked the shade down and un- swsthed Aunt Selina's legs so that she could walk, offered his arm, and stalked past us and upstairs. without a wordi
 None of us spoke. We turned out the lights and went upstairs and took off our wraps and went to bed. l. had been almost a fasco.
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T wouldn't if l were you. Max There's nothing back there. I had 'em out yesterday" He was quite pale.
 'Nonsensei" Max said grufiy. If it's a practical joke, Jim, why don't you less up? Anne has worried enough"
 The pearls are not there, tell you" Jim began. Although the studio was cold, there were little fine beads of moisture on his face. T must ask you not to move those pictures" And then Aunt Selina came to the rescue; she stalked over and stood with her back against the stack of canyasses. As far as l understand this" she acclaimed, You gentlemen are trying to intimate that James knows some thing of that young woman's jewelry, because you found a part of it in his pocket. Certainly you will not move the pictures. How do you know that the young gentleman who said he found 1t there didn't have 1t up his sleeve?"
 She looked around triumphantly, and Max glowered- Dallas soothed her, however.
 Exactly so," he said. How do we know that Max didn't have the clasp | up his sleeve? My dear lady, neither ] my wife nor I care anything for the ! pearls, as compared with the priceless l pearl Of peace. I suggest tea on the i roof; those in favor? My arm, Miss | Caruthers."
 | It was all well enough for Jim to say later that he didn't dare to have the canvases moved, for he had stuck behind them all sorts of chorus girl | photographs and life-class crayons that were not for Aunt Selina's eye besides four empty siphons, two full ones. and three bottles of whisky. Noi a soul believed him: there was a new element of suspicion and disoord ir the house.
 Every one went up on the roof and left him to his mystery. Anne GranH her tea in a preoccupied silence, witl half-closed eyes, an attitude that bod ed i'll to somebody. The rest were fe yerishly gay. and Aunt Selma, with 2  pair Of arctics on her feet and a hot water bottle at her back, sat in ths middle of the tent and told me "a miliar anecdotes of Jimmy's earll youth (had he known. he would hay' slain her) Betty and Mir. HarbisoI had found a medicine ball, and vert running around like a pair of children It was quite certain that neither hii escape from death nor my accusation weighed heavily on him.
 While Aunt Selina was busy witl the time Jim had swallowed an opel safety pin. and just as the pin ha' been coughed up. or taken out of hi nose-I forget which-Jim himself ar peared and sulkily demanded the pri vacy of the roof for his training houI
 Yes. he was training Fannigal ! claimed to know tae system that ha
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