Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-04-21
have been struck in the old chan
mel. The deal involves about
$50, 900.

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mel. The deal involves about
$50, 900.
At Spirit Lake two carloads of
the machinery to be installed in
the !. & w. N. locomotives to
convert them into the oil burning
type were received last week, and
as soon as the remainder of the
machinery arrives work will be
started on installing it. 1t is the
object of the management to
have all the engines converted
to the oil burning type before the
dry season this summer, so that
the danger of forest fires will be
reduced to a minimum.
In a quarrel between three
Italians at Potlatch Sunday night
Tony Arabani struck Jim Makaia
on the head with a club, inflicting
injuries from which the man died
later. 1t is said that Makaia.
armed with pistol, and a COM
panlon armed with a knife went
after Arabani who caught up a
club and started war of exterm-
ination on his assailants. The
second assailant ran away dur
ing the melee. Arabani will have
to face a charge of murder.
Mrs. H. L. Hill, of Lewiston,
who has been in a partially in
sane condition for the past three
years owing to poor health,
smothered and killed her 4-year
old son at her home in Lewiston
Monday morning while her at
tendant was out of the room for
a few moments. The child was
evidently smothered while asleep
and the demented mother was
found standing at the bed hold
ing down the bedding when her
mother returned to the room.
Tom Johnson, Robin Bradbury
and Dan Hurley, three inmates
of the Moscow Jail who were be-
ing held for the robbery of the
postofice at Plover, escaped
from Jail late last week and were
later captured by four farmers
after travelling 13 miles on foot
in an effort to escape. They
were exhausted when taken.
AS soon as their escape from Jail
was noticed the rural telephones
were kept busy and soon result
ed in the capture of the escapes.
The Milwaukee Lumber COM
pany has renewed its activity in
the Big creek section, which was
burned over last summer, and
will work a large force of men
this year getting out timber from
the burned area. The company
has established one camp of $50
men and will set up two others
in the near future. Two miles
of track have been added to their
railroad up Big creek from the
st. Joe and the timber will soon
be on the way to the mill at st.
Maries.
At Weiser the organization of
the Twilight league promises 10
give to lovers of the national
game some splendid sport during
the summer. The league is or
ganized for the purpose of giving
recreation to clerks and business
men who are unable to get away
from their business places during
the hours when their stores are
open. Excellent grounds are be-
ing laid out OH the old football
ground where the games will be
held. An admission fee of 10
cents will be charged to the
games.
In a recent decision handed
down by the state supreme court
the city of Lewiston loses its suit
against S. G. Isaman for $l2,
damages, which amount was re-
covered from the city by Miriam
W. Mclean and husband for
damages received by the lady in
falling through a trap door in the
sidewalk in front of the Isaman
property. The court held that