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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
MISSOURrS CAPITAL
BUILDING BURNED To GROUND
CAUSED BY Tightening
STORM SUNDAY.
Fire Department Rendered Helpless by
Inadequate Water Supply-Convicts
Called Out to Fight Fire and Did
Noble Work-Governor Will Grant
Pardons to Those Who Risked Lives.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 6.-The Mis-
souri, capitol building was entirely de-
stroyed by fire Sunday night. The total
loss, including the building and many
records and state papers, is estimated at
81 200, 900, with no insurance.
Lightning which struck the dome
shortly after o clock spread the flames
to the roof and in less than half an hour
it was apparent that the building was
doomed.
Because of inadequate water pressure,
the fire could not be reached, and no aid
could be rendered for some time by the
fire department. Governor Hadley per-
sonally directed the fight against the
flames, which, because of the building s
age, rapidly gained Roadway.
The penitentiary fire department was
called to the scene and the convicts
worked heroically, scaling walls and tax
ing dangerous chances. The local militia
company was called out and formed a
Gordon around the building, driving
spectators from dangerous places and re-
moving records. The fire soon spread to
the roof of the senate chamber, where
the efforts of the firemen to check it
proved unavailing
Priceless Records Destroyed.
The records of the houses of REPRE-
sentatives were destroyed, while those
of the senate were saved. In the state
treasury office more than $4,000 is in
the vault, supposedly proof, and
may be saved when the debris is cleared
away. There was no insurance
The capitol was erected in 1888 at a
cost of $35O,00O, and in 1887 remodeled
at a cost of $25O,OOO While it was built
of stone the roof was covered with much
infammable material which fed the
flames, which spread rapidly with the
falling of the dome into the main part
of the structure.
Legislature Is Homeless
The legislature will determine tomor-
row whether to continue it's sessions
here or elsewhere in the state. Some
members favor continuing the session
here, where smaller buildings have been
offered by the business men, while
Others are for the removal of the legis-
| lature. The loss of the house records
practically necessitates that the work of
the present session be done over.
Governor Hadley says he would grant
pardons to several convicts who risked
their lives to save state papers.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
Oregon Farm Superintendent.

John P. Irish has been appointed
farm superintendent under the agricul-
tural department at klamath Falls, Ore,
at a salary of $500.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
John w. Blaisdell, Actor. Dead.

Chicago, Feb. 4.-John w. Blaisdell,
veteran actor and matinee idol of
generation ago, died here Saturday.
Blaisdell retired from the stage 10 years
ago, and since then has been living here.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
Horace GreeleY,s Birthday.

New York, Feb. SIN New York,
where his body lay in state and was
visited by thousands 80 years ago, there
was meeting Saturday to commemor-
ate the centennial of Horace Greeley s
birth.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
Want Postal Savings.

Demands are being made for the es-
Establishment of postal savings banks in
many. parts of the country. Olympia,
Wash, has reported rapid growth of
patronage.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
London Hotels Prepare for Rush.

Nearly all the best hotels in London
are undergoing extensive alterations in
anticipation of rush for the corona
ton, and the charges are to be proper
tionate.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
BLACK snow FAILS in Switzerland.

Geneva.-Snow which is black as SCOT
has fallen in the Emmenthal valley of
Switzerland and covered the ground to
the depth Of is inches. Scientists be.
liese the snow is mixed with dust blown
from Mount Etna.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10

Paris, Feb. s.-The oldest priest in the
republic 4 Canon Gadenne, of Roches,
where ne d5lebrated MS 105th birthday
on New Year 5 day. He is in very good
health and capable of fulfilling the du-
ties Of bis post.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
BURY OR BURN 5000 VICTIMS.
Plague Mortality In and About Hardin
Mauchuria

Hardin, Feb. S.-Already nearly 5000
bodies of victims of the plague have
been buried or burned in the outskirts
of Hardin. Forty-eight hundred of these
came from the Chinese town and 1000
from the Russian quarter.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
TRl-STATE MEETING
OF FARMERS OF WASHINGTON
IDAHO And OREGON AT
WALLA WALLA.
Demand the Parcels Post System and
Are Opposed to Ship Subsidy-Indorse
Plan to Give Whitman College Lands
of Abandoned Fort at Walla Walla-
Terminal Warehouses Discussed.

Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 5.-The tri-
state mass meeting of the farmers came
to an end in sunburst of resolutions.
There were resolutions by the mass
meeting and others by the separate
state delegations. The leading resolu
ton passed by the general meeting was
one demanding the parcels post system.
Another asked for laws prohibiting gam
bling in cotton futures and those Of
other farm products. Another asks for
direct election of United States SEN
ators and another for more stringent
immigration laws. They also went on
record as unalterably opposed to ship
subsidy.
resolution of interest to inhabitants
of Walla Walla was one in which the
Legislatures of Oregon, Washington, Ida
no, received the Endorsement of the
farmers for the memorials of those bod
les recently sent to congress asking that
Whitman college be given the Fort
Walla Walla lands.
Frown on Crop Futures.
They passed a resolution demanding
that the postmaster general close the
mails to matter referring to deals in
crop futures. They urged the legisla-
lures of the northwest states to pass
laws making every threshing machine
operator file a report of the number
of bushels threshed.
Another resolution demanded that the
federal government observe the strict
est neutrality in the present insurrec-
ton in Mexico. George Beloit, of Sum-
nit, Idaho, who introduced it, says it
will be forwarded to President Taft.
The Washington delegation adopted
resolutions favoring state inspection and
weighing of grain, the initiative refer
endum and recall, a mill tax for the sup
port of state educational institutions,
house bill No. 205, relating to township
organization, an amendment of the
present local option law making the
county the unit, and mine workers
compensation act.
Echo of Good Roads Meet,
was al OChU VI lue controversy
that tore the recent good roads con
vention here when the farmers further
asked for the repeal of the state aid law
and recommended that the penitentiary
Jute mill be reorganized on business
principles, and that it be operated at
full capacity to determine whether it
is financially profitable.
The Oregon delegation passed resolu
tions opposing the state aid system in
the concentration of highways, demand
ing state inspection and weighing of
grain at terminal points and the es.
| tablishment of a number of one milling
grade for wheat testing over So pounds
The Idaho delegation passed a reso.
luton favoring the initiative, referen.
dunn and recall
The meeting Endorsed the movement
of the Washington state executive com
mittee to send G.. W. Nelson of Tacoma,
to Europe, to study the cooperative mills
there and make arrangements for direct
grain transactions with them.
The matter of a terminal warehouse
at Tacoma or Portland was discussed
and there was also discussion of the
good roads situation.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-02-10
General Cronje Dead.

Klorksdorp, Transvaal, Feb. 6.-Gen-
eral Pet A. Cronje, the noted Boer
general, died Saturday.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20
LA TOILETTE TALKING TO HIMSELF

The La Toilette BOOM which was turned loose
at Chicago. has not made enough noise to attract
even passing attention from the bulletin boards
where the post-Season baseball games are being
recorded. 1t is very Sicly and subdued boom
SO far and the indications are that it will become
sicker and more subdued in the near future. The
La Toilette boomers have mustered all their
claquers at Chicago, and the result is somewhat
dSconcertng.
Responsible 'progreSsiyes' are conspicuous ~
their absence From California there are four NAL
contents at the confab who represent malcontents.
The representatives from the other states who have
representatives. at the republican progressive con-
ference are OF the same sort
There will be merry war when it is realized
by the conference that the boom has fallen flat
Someone has Numbered in calling together the con
ference at this time when President Taft is max
ing his triumphant tour around the great circle
The republican party has proved much harder to
split than some Of the wordy members of the
conference ever dreamed and the time selected
seems to be the very time when the party is be-
ing more closely welded together
Among the noises which disconnected the mem
berS OF the conference on the first day was the
letter Of former United States Senator William r.
Chandler of New Hampshire He wrote:
For myself | say that Senator La Toilette
has been my personal choice for the last five
years. If | could feel sure that he would be
advocate his nomination whatever my action
would be worth. Between Senator La Toilette
and President Taft, | think we should select
the one most likely to be elected
There are many other progressive republi-
cans who realize that La Toilette has not the
slightest chance Of being even nominated, and
they have come back to the party. They feel a
resentment against the La Toilette boomers who
are attempting to disorganize the party just at
the time it is being strengthened for the next
presidential campaign. This resentment is grow
ing. and the La Folletteites will feel it before
long
In way the conference at Chicago serves
to show the strength of President Taft The gath
cring represents all Of the most influential enemies
of the president in the republican party and it is
surely not particular formidable array The long
heralded La Toilette boom has turned out a sput-
tering of fuse not connected with anything ex-
ploSvc
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20
BATTLEsHIP BUILDING.

AS everybody interested in American Shipbuild-
ing knows the reason why the private companies
declined to submit bids for the two dread
Inuehts, so-called, authorized by the last con
grcss and regularly appropriated for was the fact
that the federal eight-hour law had been made
TO apply TO all United States warship construction
and 50 the builders were unable to figure out -
any profit for themselves in turning out battle
ship under eghthour day. The following re
cently-published statement generally credited
with having had its inspiration somewhere in the
navy departments of special significance in this
connection:
Advocates of the building of battlcships in
American navy yards will get a staggering
blow when Secretary Meyer submits to
greSs at its net session, figures showing the
comparative cost of construction Of the dread
noughtS Florida and Utah. The former is
just being completed at the New York navy
yard and it is believed that when all the
figures are at hand it will be shown that the
vessel cost almost % per cent more than her
sister ship, the Utah built ~ the New York
Shipbuilding company at Camden, New Jer-
sey. 1t is believed that this fact will restrain
the navy departemnt from undertaking any
more ship construction at the navy yards.
save perhaps vessel in each Of the two
yards which will serve to give employment to
a small number of expert mechanics who
might be kept available for an emergency.
secretary MPAcf cannon zeal anybody OF any
thing staggering blow by the submission Of such
figures In the past the department has labored
time and again to prove that United States navy
yard construction more economical for the
government than construction by contract with
regular Shipbuilding companies that in the
business day in and day ont Of every year. that
keep their plants up-to-dae because they have tC
and that are not in consequence compelled to pu
out lot OF money on new machinery every time
they get warship job, the navy department
is alleged to- But in every instance the depart
ment has had only its labor for its pains. Private
builders can turn out better Warcraft than tho
government and at less cost and in quicker
time. Not even backwoods congressman will b.
shocked or surprised at the secretary's report.
Congress-not the navy department.
mines our naval policy. If we don't add a
least two dreadnoughts a year to our nava
| equipment-better half a dozen-our seafightin!
force will speedily be ont of date and we shall
decline steadily in range among the naval pow
| crs OF the world Congress must make it wort
| while for private contractors to build Uniet
States batteshpS and all other classes of war
| craft 1t will never do TO let federal eight hour
! day law drop this nation down below it's prescn
status IA naval force-N. Y. COMMERCIAL
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20
SUMMONS.

II THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DIS
L trict Court of the State of Ne.
vada, in and for the County of Nye.
T. J. Lynch, Plaintiff, vs.. Nj. l..
Efiinger, Defendant.
The States of Nevada Sends Greet
ing to NJ. l.. Efiinger.
You are hereby required to APP
pear in an action brought against
you by the aboYe-named plaintiff in
the aboye-entitled court, and to AZ
swer the complaint filed therein
within ten days exclusive of the
day of service) after the service on
you of this summons, if served with
the county, or, if served out
Iof the country, but in this district
within twenty days, otherwise with
in forty days, or judgment by de-
fault will be taken against you, ac-
cording to the prayer of said COM
plant.
Said action is brought to obtain
judgment against you for the sun,
of $500 lawful money, with interest
thereon at TIE rate of per cent
per annum from August I, 1907, un-
| til paid. Said principal sum being
/ dllCSGu " NC uuS pldllIil uHuCI a
contract made between plaintiff and
defendant on July s, 1907, whereby
defendant agreed to assume and
bear one-half of the expense then
Incurred and to be thereafter in
cured in the examination, expert
ng, floating and promoting of the
Big Belle" Mining property, plain
if to pay the other half and that
pursuant to said agreement plaintiff
9aid out $1,000 between April
907, and August /, 1907, and that
o part of said sum of 5000 has
cen paid. That defendant agreed
to pay his said one-half not later
than August /, 1907.
All of which will more fully ap.
pear from plaintiffs verified com,
plant filed herein. a certified copy
of which is served herewith and tC
which you are expressly referred.
And you are hereby notified thai
.Iif YOU fail to appear and answer
said complaint as above required
said plaintiff will take judgment
against you by default for said sun
" 5000 lawful money. with inter
st thereon at Z per cent per annun
from August 1 1907, until paid
together with all costs and dis
NuI sements of this action
Given under our hands this Att
Of October, 1911, at Tonopah
! We County, Nevada.
M'INTOSH e COOKE
Attorneys for Plaintiff
1921 6-23-3 Sol -f-1S
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20
NOTICES!

we are revising and posting up
TO date our map of the Tonopah
mining district. Let us survey your
properties and show them on this
new map.
MACDONALD & MORAN,
Rooms IA and Is Tonopah Block.
10-9-tf
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

Who says woman is not a frstclass fighting
man? Not politician You may guarantee Also
you may guarantee that every officeseeker will
make his affidavit that he voted for the suffrage
amendment The ladies will now find it difficult
to discover man who voted against them If
they believe all they told they will have to
conclude that Colonel Irish stuffed the ballot boz
in every county in the state
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20
THEY ARE PREPARING.

The passage of the Eighth Amendment has
furnished the oficeseekers with considerable food
for thought says the San Francisco Post. They
realize fully that the vote of the citizenesS will
have considerable influence on all special and gen
eral elections of the future. Those who think that
the new electors will be easy to convince had
better consult the Librarians in their district They
will learn that the electors are taking their
new responsibilities very seriously. They will find
that books government are IN great demand
In some libraries they being sought after to
greater extent than any of the works of popular
noyestS.
The wise politician will do some examining
himself if he contemplates making any consider
able number Of speeches before audiences of fem
mime electors. He will probably be asked some
rather shrewd questions. If he is not prepared
he will find himself in position very similar to
that Of the parent who is puzzled by his son S
demanding that he solve some school problem.
There are those who maintain that women will
take the vote more seriously than the men and
vote in more conscientious manner. Just as wom-
en take their clubs more seriously. While men $
clubs as rule, are only places where the chairs
are particularly comfortable and the highballs
particularly close at hand. nearly every woman S
club is organized for some particular purpose or
purposes. and the members never forget the pur-
pose purposes.
There some who insist that the women
will be easily by magnetic personality
in male candidate or by little well-handed
tiattery, but these are hard losers among the
antis. Prospective candidates who have given
some thought to the matter admit that they will
have to work hard to convince the new electors
Some candidates claim that they take the cleo
tola privilege too seriously, if such IA thing could
be possible.
At the University of California; a number of
women who have not attended any university have
made application for admission to special courses
III rlv!l government. The ants may claim that
his IS merely fad, but it is hard to argue
that This is not an indication that MANY of the
nov electors ariouS to east their votes intelli-
gently. The wise prospective candidate will be
ready to answer any question hat could possibly
hc pnt TO him when he takes the stump under
the new law. 1t is the experience of most Of us
that t'e ladies can always ask the one question
winch we cannot answer. The ladies who will
take active interest in future election in California
will pull the textbook on the superficial candi-
dane who mdere Inmates their knowledge.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

1t is announced that the Stanford university
football team banks all its chances of winning Il,
big game on the fact that the men have trained
on diet OF mutton. If the Stanford team does
win, mutton chops will go up high that only
the most wealthy educational institution will be
able TO afford them.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

Wonder if this is the real awakening of China
Of which so much has been written? The alarm
clock has been set very often by the prophets but
China has never really done more than yawn and
sink back the pillows.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

New York girl paid $500 for husband
and then did not get him. 1t is rather hard to
say off-hand whether she is much of loser or
not An $500 husband like Of the cheaper
brands OF automobiles, is likely to cost more to
keep than he is worth
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

According to the dispatches the lady with no
lines in her figure is going out of fashion. She
will not be out of fashion very long, however. fo
she will get some lines somewhere somehow
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

1t is reported that large hole has been dug
al the park near where the president sank the
shovel which started the exposition building 1t
is probable that spectators will soon be retailing
samples OF the earth in that vicinity. This savors
somewhat of IIuckleberry Firms plan to sell sam
pies Of Sahara Desert sand. The supply of both
is certainly equal to any demands that may be
made for them.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-20

Perhaps the thieves who stripped man of his
clothing in the Sutro Forest were only advocates
Of the simple life who took these heroic measures
to gain a convert.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-04-04
OPIUM AND WHISKY TWIN DEVILS.

History and tradition teach us many
es and obes They tell of great civilizations that have
gone cycles leaving their mpeshab the powess
that have down and passed under the
weight of their selfmade iniquiies and needless oles
The civilization that buded the pyramids and the sphinx and
bamed the mpeab found their vaults and catecmbS
date of its existence and record of its extinction Yet
Enthusiastically than the day other cycle of
genius that But judging by the lights before
examples behind doubt that persisted from
the earth folly and shame and the surely mpendent evils that
befal those who forget God.
Likewise during period clearly fixed in chronology China
had great civilization Conuu its its aever its
matchess teacher unbendng adherence his philosophy
would have doubtless preserved that civilization this day. for but
thin partition divides from the teachings of the Master of own
presenay civilization But the Chinese forgot God and departed from
the precepts Of Confucus their Savior,
they today? mind upon their national plight
Hardly they aoo upon the scale wherein the and ndepn
of notions weighed They overwhelmed submerged and
almost dismembered the flood of their besoedness
They victims of narcocthe opium habit How long they
have been not known Opium smoking first heard China
fourteenth century, Edward AswOrh Ross tells the
of Eveybodys Magazine
There record however show that any steps taken
by society authority check habit until 1929 when
edct issued by the Emperor prohibiting the opium and
ordering the close of the smoking den Nobody knows whether
enforced
Later century says Ross consequence of the
British East India Company pushing Bengal opium the various
ports China the habit took all parts of the The
British found that lucrative trade and up The total
gain Indian opium that the paid by China
that commodity above price between 17S and 1906
been estimated at two billion hundred million dollars
About 1870 the Chinese Emperor became alarmed
poison that he appointed Lin vcey with
put down the trade His efforts brought him collision with
English and his destruction thousand chests opium
precipitated the First Opium War"
of that exceedingly disastrous China
forced finally into dsgaceu treaty binding his govern
interfere with the British opium trade in China
socaed rapacious greed money
compelled weak deeneang people continue the indulgence
habit deban and encng that four the Chinese
using times much they using in 1900 Ann
ally twenty-five thousand the drug absorbed
converted into thick smoke and inhaled by legion of smokers estimated
10 number at least fifty millions.
This terrible condition. But terrible China,
awakening full realization
terrible the disease being waged kill the traffic and the
started September 1906 when the Empress