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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
HARRY TEFFT
IS KILLED
Found Shot to Death Near MahO-
ney Ranch Yesterday Across
Salmon River---FOul Play is
Feared.

Word was received here last
evening by telephone that the
body of Harry Tefft had been
found yesterday near the w. T.
Mahoney ranch across Salmon
river. The message was very
meager and only announced tie
finding of the body and that
death was caused by shooting.
Mrs. H. w. Tefft and Bert Tefft,
mother and brother of the de-
ceased, left at once for across
the river and will probably bring
the remains here for burial after
a coroner's inquest is held.
While nothing definite is known
as to the circumstances surround
ing the death of the young man,
his brother believes it to be a
case OF shooting Scrape as Har-
ry was known to have had troub-
lie with a man in that part of the
country.
The deceased was about nine
teen or twenty years of age and
a native of this county. He has
spent most of his life since early
youth across the river, staying
much of the time at the home of
his sister, Mrs. E. A. Lancaster.
Word of his death was telephon-
ed last night to his father in
Elgin, Ill.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
GrangeviIle High School Won.

The Grangeville high school
ball team defeated a team of
local school boys last Saturday in
a close and exciting game by a
score of 8 to 6. Contrary to the
expectations of the crowd the
visiting team did not have near
the easy victory that was at first
conceded them. The local team
consisted of players from the
sixth grade up and the battery
was Harry Housh and Percy
Craig. Grangeville started off
with the score getting but the
local boys soon passed them and
it looked for a time as II the
game would go to Cottonwood by
a 6 to 8 score. In the last two
innings, however, the local boys
fell down and allowed the visitors
TO annex the winning runs. Ow-
ing to the close game the visitors
played with the Genesee team
RECENTLY it was a surprise that
the game resulted as evenly as
it did.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
Drawing For Prizes Misdemeanor

The new state lottery law pass
ed by the recent legislature and
approved by Governor Hawley is
now effective and makes unlaw-
full the operation of prize boards
or other devices used for market
ing merchandise where an ele-
ment Of chance entered into the
transaction.
"A lottery is a scheme for the
disposal or distribution of prop
erty by chance among persons
who have paid or promised to
pay any valuable consideration
for the chance of obtaining such
property or a portion of it, or for
any share or interest in such
property upon any agreement or
understanding that it is to be
distributed or disposed of by lot
or chance, whether called a lot
terry, rattle, or gift enterprise, or
by whatever name the same may
be known.
The act prodides that Every
person who sells, gives, or in any
manner whatever furnishes or
transfers to or for any other per-
son any ticket, chance, share or
interest or any paper, certificate
or instrument purporting, or un-
derstood to be or to represent
any ticket, chance, share or in
terest in, or depending upon the
event any lottery, is guilty of a
misdemeanor."
The measure is sweeping in its
scope and is said to be directed
particularly against the prize par
ticularly against the prize pack
age schemes now generally pop
ular in disposing of merchandise,
confections and silverware. The
owner of building where such
lotteries are conducted is also
made liable under the law and
any clerk or other person who in
any manner may be identified
with the sale of the chances or
distribution of the prizes, is held
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
Seven Amendments Proposed.

Idaho voters will be asked tc
pass judgment on seven amend.
ments to the state constitution
when they go to the polls in the
general election in the fall of
1912. These proposed amend
ments take a wide swing from
working convicts on the public
roads to enacting laws independ-
ent of the Legislature.
S. J. R. No. 13-Provides for
the initiation of laws by the vot-
ers and the enactment of such
laws independent of the legisla-
ture when supported by a ma
jority of the legal voters at the
general election.
H. j. r. No. 13-Provides for
new apportionment of the state
giving to each county a senator,
and providing for three times as
many representatives as sena-
tors.
H. j. R. No. 24-Provides for
amending the state constitution
to authorize the working of con-
victs outside the walls of the
penitentiary as we'll as inside.
H. j. r. No. 30-Provides for
the appointment of state board
of education to be composed of
expert educators and defining
their power and duties.
S. j. R. No. 12-Provides for
giving the people power to veto
any act of the legislature through
a referendum vote.
H. J. R. No. 191-provides that
the voters of the state or any
electoral district shall have the
power to recall any public officer
except judicial officers.
S. J. R. No. 16-Provides for
a limitation of $1,000, 900 on the
indebtedness the state may incur
except in time of war.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
Ship Some Fine Cattle.

August Schroeder, the wealthy
Keuterville farmer and stock
raiser, shipped out a carload of
fine pure bred Hereford steers
from this place to Mitcham Bros.
at Spokane on Tuesday morning.
The animals were the pick of
MIR. Schroeder's herd and aver
aged 14Opounds in weight. They
had been out on grass pasture
Tor over a month or they would
have weighed considerable more
than they did. Owing to the
high quality of the animals Mr..
Schroeder received six cents a
pound for them at this place,
which is the top price paid for
cattle in this county for some
time past.
Mr.. Schroeder has a fine herd
OF pure bred Hereford cattle at
his farm on Salmon river and
owns some of the best bred cat
tie in the state. He has been
building up his herd for a num-
Der of years and as a result now
gets top notch prices whenever
he has any stock to dispose of,
either for breeding purposes or
for market.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12

The weather is looking a little
stormy again today.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
High School Boys Graduate.

The exercises of the local high
school graduating class will be
held next Friday evening, May
18th, in the Odd Fellow hall in
this city. There are only four
students of the school who will
receive their diplomas this year,
they being George Haskin, Bert
Schroeder, Lyle Wright and
Lawrence Huff. A nice program
has been arranged for the oc-
casion which promises to be a
very pleasant one for all who
attend it.
The baccalaureate address to
the graduates and students will
be delivered by Rev. A. A. Doak
at the Christian church OF Sum-
day evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12

by capturing 21 points. Teams
from Occur d'Alene, Rathdrum.
Wardner. Wallace, Moscow, Lew
iston, Boise, Mountainhome, Pa
louise and Colfax were entered in
the contest. Besides winning
the meet the Coeur d'Alene team
also won the relay race, which
did not figure in the point events.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
Catholic Church Burned.

The Keuterville Catholic church
was destroyed by fire Friday af-
ternoon. The fire started from
the Thurible which had been
used little before nine o'clock
in the morning during service
and which the mass servers were
in the habit of hanging against
the wall without extinguishing
the Goals. The fire must have
crept up between the ceiling and
the rustic of the building until it
reached the arch over the Sanctu-
ary. The fire was discovered at
noon by Hans Petersen who at
once gave the alarm to the in
habitants of the village. In
short time quite a crowd gather
ed about the building but was
unable to locate the exact seat of
the fire as the flames had made
their way up between the ceiling
and the rustic. In a few minutes
the flames shot up through the
roof and it became evident that
the building could not be saved
and those present applied them
selves to the task of saving what
might be saved. The fine 5000
organ, the sacred vestments,
four statues and a large number
of smaller articles were saved.
The church was one of the finest
equipped in the county and the
loss is about $1,000. The church
was insured for $4, 900.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12

Manager Newport has received
wire here for, a private telephone
line for the Grangeville Electric
Light and Power Co. between
this place and the county seat.
The wire will be strung on the
power line poles.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
c,07TONWOOD
WON FIRST GAME
neteated GrangevilIe 3 TO Sum
dav in Best and Hardest Fought
dame Ever Played in Idaho
County.

Without doubt the best and
hardest fought ball game ever
nlayed in central Idaho was pull
Cd off at Grangeville last Sunday
when the Cottonwood and
Grangeville teams played the
opening game of the Camas Prai-
RE Base Ball League series. The
game was practically air tight
on both sides and from the start
the large crowd Of enthusiastic
fans saw that it was to be a bat
tie royal between the pitchers of
the two teams.
In the first inning Rustemeyer
forced the first batter to put up
a high fly into left field which
was killed by Housh. The next
two batters famed the air in
rotation. Hughes, for Cotton
wood, then hit a safe one back
of first base but did not succeed
in getting home.
In the second Brown drew a
base on balls, stole second and
scored on Tipton's scratch two
base hit which Housh was back
too for to reach. This ended
Grangeville's troubles and for
seven remaining innings they
failed to get a hit or a run and
but few of them got past first
base.
In the third inning Nc Coy Hill,
Cottonwood's third baseman and
utility pitcher, got hit on the
finger by a pitched ball while
batting and was replaced by
Robertson.
For Cottonwood, Hughes got
safe to first on his bunt in the
fourth inning, took second on a
wild throw and scored on another
wild throw to third.
In the fifth, after two men
were gone, George Lange got
safe on E. Moses muff of his
nigh fly and scored on Billie Par
sons mighty drive over the left
field fence for a home run. This
drive cleared the fence by at
least twelve feet and when it
was made the grand stand and
bleachers went wild with delight
and excitement.
Cottonwood failed to score in
the last four innings and the
game ended with Cottonwood
winner 3 to l.
The Moses brothers battery
Tor Grangeville did great work
as is attested by the way they
succeeded in holding the local
sluggers down during the entire
game.
For the locals Rustemeyer
pitched league ball and had speed
and curves to burn. His in-drop
was especially wicked and had
80 much steam to it that Parsons,
VINO is known as the best catcher
IN this part of the state, had
hard work to hold it and dropped
several third strikes, thereby
cutting down the pitchers strike
out record.
Everyone who saw the game
pronounced it as being the best
ever played here and the league
games IN future will draw big
crowds wherever played.
Following is summary of the
game as officially given out:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12

-. ouinmary-Home run. Parsons. Two-base hi,
Upton First on balls by Rusre,neyer, !. hy
Moses' |. Struck out by Rustemeyer 9. nv e
moses H. Left on bases, Cottonwood a. c,rangs.
s'iie' First base on errors. Grangeville 2 CO...
tonwood. q . No'-
lime OF game-l:l5. Umpire-J. wilkes scor-
er-Van Deventer. 'e0'
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12

Thony Aichimayr came in last
night from Charleston. He is
well pleased with his property
there and likes that climate fine
thus far.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-12
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places Re-
produced for the Benefit of our
Readers-StOries Rehashed from
Our Exchanges.

Clyde Gibson and Robert Pugh
were arrested at Grangeville
Monday on a gambling charge
and it is understood other arrests
may follow.
]. B. White, formerly employ
ed in the auditors Office at Grange
vile, has been awarded the con-
tract for transcribing the records
of Lewis county.
Several Sites citizens recently
installed water wheel in the
Clearwater above that town and
small streams are now running
through that place on both sides
of the main street.
Frank Tamblyn, who was ar
rested last week at Grangeville
on a charge of violating the local
option law, was given a trial Fri
day and the case was dismissed
on account of insufficient evil
dence.
According to reports Pure Food
Commissioner is soon to put a
ban on green tea in this state.
Black tea is dried naturally but
the green variety is colored in
drying and has been termed an
"artificially colored" article.
0. B. Logan, a pioneer of the
northwest and for many years a
well to do resident of Dayton,
Wn., was ordered committed to
the Orofino asylum from Lewis
ton late last week. He had been
a county charge for several years
past.
Edmund F. Richardson, a
prominent Denver attorney who
appeared as one of the attorneys
for the defense in the Meyer
Haywood trial in this state four
years ago, was killed Sunday in
an automobile accident. His
family escaped injury but a
wealthy New York mining man
was also killed in the accident.
Eleven feet of steel galena,
estimated to add not less than
$, 900, 900 to the value of the
property, was cut recently in the
l, ,000-foot level of the Hercules
mine at Burke. The ore was en-
countered about 1000 feet from
the main shoot on the lower level
and has been opened up for 300
feet.
Former state penitentiary
warden E. H. Whitney, and who
was a candidate before the last
primary election for the position
of secretary of state, died at
Berkely, CAL, recently from
heart failure. Mr.. Whitney had
been a resident of Idaho for the
past twenty years and was sher.
if of Kootenai county for two
terms before being appointed
state warden. He was Sc years
of age and leaves a wife ant
three daughters.
Breaking and entering through
a window in the store of w. l.
Galbraith at Lorenzo recently
burglars looted the postoffice OF
$155 in money and stamps, ant
escaped, leaving no clue. Local
ly the presumption is strong tha
the crime was committed by loca
boys or men. 1t being near the
end of the quarter, there was
considerable more funds on hanG
than ordinarily. Postoffice in
spectors have been summoned
from Helena to make an investi
cation.
In the interscholastic track ant
field meet at Moscow last Frida,
the Coeur d'Alene team won tn,
meet with 33 points while Lew
iston was a close second with 8
points and Philips, of Lewiston
won the individual championship
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the caving in of The roofs and Walls
of the mines <nd from the terrible I'M
foreground fires that. n blazing sheets
ruu from tunnel 10 tunnel. 1t relates to
the bureau Of mines. which, although es-
tabl.shed by Congress only last year, has
already saved many lives.
old King Coal i cruel old soul,
And a cruel old soul Is he.
Indeed there Is no more terrible mon
arch lie has 10000 slaves. who are
compelled to deve in the darkness. and
durin. the past twenty years he has sac
rificed upon his Subterra mean affairs the
lives of more than :0.ED men. He killed
more than 1890 in 1907. and he is now
numbering upward of 2.4r1 A year In
every coal camp of 900 miners four or
FIVE heads Of families annually lose Their
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lives. and this to say nothing of the
much larger number who are wounded
and MANNED. In 1907, in addition to the
killed. almost 5000 We're injured, and
Director Holmes of the bureau of mines
estimates that from S.GC0 to 10000 are
wounded or killed by mine accidents every
year, and that this continues year in and
year out. as the decades go on.
The worst of it is that our death rate
and accident rate are far in excess of
those of the coal regions of Europe,
where the mines are much deeper and
the workings far more dangerous. In
Belgium, which is noted for it's deep
mines. the average death rate per thou
sand from 1901 to 1906 was only little
more than one. whereas we lost more
than three miners out of each thousand
employed during every one Of those
years. The death rate in Belgium is now
considerably less than one, and 1t has
had steady decline since 1890. when 1t
something like ours. Great Britain
now kills about one and three-tenths of a
man to its each thousand miners Rus
STA one and eight-tenths and France least
of all only about nine-tenths of one
man per thousand
This is Notwithstanding our coal
mining conditions are more favorable to
the safety of the workmen employed than
those of any other part of the world. The
great loss of life comes from carelessness
of mining, frun the use of improper ex-
plcsives and from lack of the means
for the prevention of accidents. II is TO
remedy these things that the bureau of
mines was created.
The bureau Of mines is q branch of the
Interior Department 1t occupies new
building back of the patent office here
al Washington. but it's chief experiment
stations are scattered throughout the
mining regions. The most important Of
these is at ittsDurgh, where there are all
sorts of arrangements for testing eX-
plosives and studying the rescue work
both above and below ground. One of the
most interesting pieces of apparatus there
is great steel cylinder, 100 feet long
and so thick that a man without Stoop-
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Oeqenerated.

r/ID MCCOY, the hero OF Us battles
n is to open sanitarium at STAN
ford. He said the other day TO New
York reporter:
II hope i'm my sanitarum To restore
lots of grumpy middie-aged people 10
perfect health. and IL / give them back
perfect health III give them back youth
and gayety and romance. IL middle age
i STUPID If middle age is prosaic. II y
only because the health OF middle age Is
IOor.
THE woman" he continued. who sends
her grumpy mate to my establishment
viii no longer have TO make the bitter
complaint of Mrs. Blank.
nv husband. fifteen years ago. said
Mrs Blank. used to kiss me every time
we passed through tunnel. But
now
she gave bitter laugh.
Now she said. he takes long pull
at his travelling flask.
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Each car ia manned by crew Of miners
trained in rescue work. 1t is officered by
a mining engineer chief and mine
foreman or mine superintendent who has
been especially trained for the purpose
as assistant chief 1t has also Red
Cross surgeon and other men.
These cars are hospitals on wheels and
schoolrooms on wheels Well. While
not busy in mine disasters they are taken
from town to town in the mining dis
tricts, and the mining engineers give lee
lures to the whole bod. of miners, show
ing them how To avoid danger and Giving
them advice a. 10 what to dn in e'nersen-
cies. In most places the miners are
persuaded to organize rescue corps, and
these are trained by the men oN the cars.
1t Is expected that by the close 81 this
year 5000 or t.tao men Will belong to
such corps. The lecturers treat also Of
the use. of explosives, Of electrical equip
ments and of fire prevention and santa
ton.
During my visit to the bureau OF mines
this afternoon l was shown some of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-10
A NiggardIy Policy.

T Ew FIELDS was discussing in his
l. New York Office his recent round
up of 800 chorus girls.
We treat our girls generously he
said THAT is why we can round up
80 of them with such ease. The fact
is we could round up 5000 chorus girls
OF exquisite beauty il We had need Of
that number.
The comedian chucSleG.
1--WE don't treat our chorus girls, he
said. AS Billy Bunkum treated his peo-
pie. Billy, you know. was q manager in
tie Sos. Here is IN example Of his nag
:ardly policy.
Bill said the lea ding man al one
night stand. Bill | want dime.
You are always bowling for money,
said Billy. What do you want dime
for?'
~ want l. for a shave. the leading
man replied. How can / play Romeo to-
night with eight days BLACK beard on m!
face"
..Bunkum turned angrily away
You'll get no money out OF me, ne
growled. Wen change tonights bill TO
Otheilo.
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can pet into the lungs. and the arrange
ment is such that miner so equipped
can remain. without injury, for two
hours in room filled with gas or fire
damp. In addition to the oxygen ,ana
at the back, there Is another tank which
contains certain chemicals through which
the air emitted from the lungs passes,
and ia thereby relieved Of its poisonous
qualities. Another interesting feature i
a telephone transmtter inside the helmet.
while receiver T. attached outside il 10
ihe ear of the wearer. \ wire from this
extends to the surface tGat the res
rue man in the helmet while down in the
mine i in constant communication with
the men at tn. surface. The telephone
wire IL marked III tifty-foot lengths, and
from tie amount Of wire used the men on
top can tell just how far away the men
below are.
These helmets cost about 500 apiece,
fpt theg haze proved to ne invaluable,
as was shown the Cherry mine dis
aster where the reScGerS were able 10
get twenty men on alive after they had
been entombed seven days. 1t is true that
Joseph Evans lost his life while usina
one ct the Pancoast disaster at Throop
Pa, but that was because he did not
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calculate that a man working hard would
consume much more oxygen than while
at rest.
= go tsSs- So. Zt:f
One end Of each of the rescue cars is
fitted up as a tight room to be used in
training men in the use of helmets.
This room is filled with noXious fumes
and gases in which the miners wear
ing the helmets stay for two hours.
The atmosphere is such that one would
die without the helmets. Similar air.
tight rooms have been put up at the
various stations, and some of these
have been made to resemble NINA
ture coal mine after 1t has been wreck
ed by an explosion.
Another most interesting apparatus
with which these cars are fitted is one
which pumps oxygen into the lungs
of a man, making him breathe Wheth-
er he be conscious or not. Indeed, 1t is
said it will make even corpse breathe,
although 1t cannot. of course. restore
life. 1t forces the oxygen in and sucks
it out, making a continuous breath ing
very much like nature.
I was shown this machine by Mr..
John l.. Cochrane of the bureau Of
mines. who allowed me to test it upon
myself The apparatus was fitted
closely over my face. covering my chin
and nostrils. Then by touching a but
ton the oxygen was turned on and |
found my lungs pumped full and suck
ed empty in a natural operation OF
breathing. / was first asked. however
whether my heart was all right, al
though Mr.. Cochrane assured me that
there was no great danger. even
though ii We're weak He said that
the machine should be in every hospi-
tai. and in every equipment of first
aid to the injured. and especially at
seaside resorts where drownings are
frequent.
In place of lifting the arms back
and forth and trying to pump air into
the body the machine does the work
better and with more regularity On
one occasion four men who had been