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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
Win One And Drop Two.

The members of the local high
school basket ball team returned
Sunday evening from their trip
to towns across the canyon and
reported winning the game play
ed with Vollmer and losing to
Winchester and Culdesac. The
boys feel, however, that they
were entitled to two games out
of the three played as the Win
chester bunch run in players that
were not members of the high
school and the home team later
defeated the Vollmer team, which
had defeated the Winchester
school team earlier in the season.
The first game was played at
Winchester on last Thursday
evening and resulted in a victory
for the mixed team at that place
by a score of 10 to 10. The next
night the boys played at Culdesac
and lost the game by a score of
20 to IA, playing a much closer
game than when they met Guide
sac here in the early fall. On
Saturday evening they played at
Vollmer, and though pretty sore
and battered up from the first
two games, succeeded in winning
by a score of 9 to 4. When it is
considered that Billie Schober,
the best player on the team, was
not along on the trip, it will be
seen that the boys did we'll to
make the showing they did.
They have been improving stead
lily all winter and next season
should be able to hold their own
with any team on either prairie.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
Mail House Pulls Off A Joke.

Twin Falls is now stirred up
to fury and indignation over the
circulars that have been flooding
that territory from Montgomery,
Ward & Co. viciously attacking
the general merchants of south
ern Idaho and Twin Falls in par
ticuiar. 1t seems that the mail
order houses sent a representa-
tive to Twin Falls (or pretended
they did, to investigate the con-
ditions and he is made to say:
I'm general the stores of Twin
Falls, Idaho, are filled with large
quantities of shoddy and cheap
merchandise of the grade COM
monty called seconds On this
class Of goods l am, of course,
unableet to give you any compari-
son, as | do, not find them in
your establishment. (Ye gods!
Here's the capital joke of the
twentieth century."
I was shocked beyond meas
ure at the condition Of the gro
Gerry stores, especially the fact.
that none | visited was q thor
oughly clean and up-to-date es-
tablishment.'
A telegram to James H. Wallis
brought him to Twin Falls at
once. A rousing mass meeting
was held in the Commercial club
rooms to meet Mr.. Wallis, who
submitted the following state
ment:
with respect to the recent
circular sent out by the mail
order firm of which | have be-
fore me, | desire to state as
emphatically as possible that |
have made frequent inspections
of the various stors and business
houses of Twin Falls handling
groceries and other food pro-
ducts up to within the past 90
days, and have at all times found
them thoroughly clean, up-to-
date, and engaged in the hand
ling of as fine a quality of goods
as there is to be found in, any
similsr establishment. "-Payette
Independent.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
DRAFT HORSES
IN DEMAND
Spokane Buyers Make Many
Shipments to Canada and
Prices are Better Than for
Years Past.

The following item from a re-
cent issue of the Spokesman-Re-
view may serve to apprise our
readers that the horse market is
not as dull as some buyers would
have them believe:
with many carloads of Inland
Empire horses on their way to
points in Canada, where heavy
teams are required in railroad
construction work, local dealers
are securing the country for
draft horses. The demand for
this type Of horse in the last six
weeks has been the heaviest in
years and already has begun to
boost prices, which have been
low for a year.
''Dr. Otto Menig, an instruct
or at the local branch of the
Washington State college veteri-
nary hospital, said yesterday
that the good horses were being
shipped out Of the country by
the carload since the beginning
of the year and that a near-fam-
inc was likely to result.
1T is true that we are sending
horses to Canada in carload lots
and are now sending out a car
each four days." said Josh l..
EsWilson, one of the best known
buyers in the city. Many hors-
! es are also being sent into Sec
tions where burned-over timber
is being logged off. r"
"The demand for good horses
is better than for five years, "
said Wesley Hannah of the Key =
stone sales stables, in announc-
ing that the firm has already
sent 125 horses to tie Canadian
borders. Many horses also are
being sent to the Occur d'Alene
reservation, where settlers are
beginning to require them, but
the Canadian buyers who have
invaded our territory are largely
responsible for the demand. "
cat the Roberts Brothers sta
bles it was announced that four
carloads of horses have been sent
to Canadian points since the first
of the year. J. H. Roberts, a
member Of the firm, is said to be
securing the Inland Empire in an
attempt to fill orders.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01

night. Murray asked for some
sugar to put in the medicine he
was taking and when the jailer
opened the cell door he was
seized by both Murray and Bar
ton who overpowered him and
then escaped from the building.
The jailer at once gave the
alarm but the men had disap-
peared in the darkness and were
not located. The descriptions
were wired broadcast over the
country and it is thought they
will soon be apprehended.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
Start Work On Grave Greek
Road.

After many vexatious delays
and considerable anxiety work
ON the Grave Creek road was
started this week and will be
pushed until the $4,000 appropri-
ated by the last legislature is ex-
hausted. Owing to the absence
Of Mr.. Blackburn and the dila-
tory tactics Of the state engineer
it was impossible to get the mon
ey appropriated to this road un-
til recently but it is available at
last and will be expended in such
way as to get the largest
possible amount of work done
for the money.
Sam Ryan, who has done con-
siderable difficult road work for
the county across Salmon river,
has been secured to have charge
Of the work on the Grave Creek
road and was in town Monday
after supplies. He has estab-
lished a camp at the mouth of
Grave Creek and will work up
that stream until the prairie is
reached south of town. He will
employ between twenty and
twenty-five men on the work
and will push it as rapidly as
possible at all times, following
the survey made several years
ago. After the road in Grave
Creek canyon is completed the
crew will be located at some
point in Rocky canyon and will
work toward Salmon river until
the funds are exhausted. 1t is
believed that the $1,000 avail
able will complete much of the
road to the river and after this
money is used up it will not be
difficult to raise sufficient to COM
plete the road to the river.
The business men Of Cotton
wood, who have contributed
much in time and money toward
the securing of this road in the
past, will be glad to know that
the road is at last to be realized.
Much credit is also due e. l..
Parker, through whose efforts
the appropriation was secured at
the last legislature.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
M. M. Belknap was a county
seat visitor late last week.

M. M. Belknap was a county
seat visitor late last week.
A. D. Williams was in town
yesterday from Keuterville.
Hans Petersen and Marshall
Ceaser were in town Tuesday
from Keuterville.
w. S. Newport and John Rookie
were Grangeville visitors the
fore part of the week.
Mrs. John Baer and Miss Min
Lange left this morning for Lew
iston to visit for a few days.
Ben Robertson was in from
Greencreek Wednesday and add
ed his name to the Chronicle list.
Hugh Moynagh and brother,
of Iowa, were in town Wednes-
day from beyond Greencreek and
paid this Office a pleasant call.
The latter has been here for about
three weeks visiting his brother
and expressed himself as we'll
pleased with this country from
what he has been able to see OF
it and thinks our land will ad-
vance materially in price within
the next few years. He is en-
gagged in the building of concrete
bridges in the east for the rail-
road companies and states that
eventually a great deal of that
class of work will become neces-
sary in the west after the rail-
roads establish their lines perma-
pently.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
Judicial Fight Looms.
A Boise dispatch saws:

A Boise dispatch says:
"Chief Justice Stewart of the
Idaho supreme court has an
nounced his candidacy for re-
election. This will probably
mean that the contest will be
between himself and Alfred
Bulge, of Pocatello, the man
whom the Mormons of the south
east will largely support.
Doubtless this place on the
ticket will be bitterly fought at
the primaries, as Judge Bulge
is a Mormon, and the church de-
manded, it is said, this place on
the ticket from the republican
leaders.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01

O. d. Simmons and brother
came over Wednesday evening
from Ilo and are preparing to
open their garage in the Creel-
man building. They will rent a
house and move here to reside
permanently and also expect to
bring over a couple of cars next
week.
The Mary Weston Stock COM
pany will present the play en-
titled, "The Plot of the Cattle
Rustler," at the N por It
theatre tonight. The play con-
tains fourteen characters and the
troupe presenting it comes high
ly recommended. The curtain
will raise promptly at $50
o'clock. Prices Soc, S5c and 25c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
WEIGH PLANS
ELECTRIC LINES
Portland Capitalist VIII De-
velop Horseshoe Bend Pow
er Plant and Build Electric
Roads in Idaho.

The news made public in Nez-
perce Wednesday to the effect
that A. Welch and associates had
completed power site filings at
Horseshoe Bend on the Salmon
river and will install a big power
plant there, with an initial ca
pacity of 10000 horsepower,
comes as no surprise to those
who have been somewhat &C
quainted with the movements of
Mr.. Welch in this field, and these
people believe that before the
coming summer passes, it will be
disclosed that Mr.. Welch has
plans we'll advanced not only for
supplying the entire prairie re-
gion with electric. lighting and
power facilities for general COM
mercial purposes, but has as we'll
completed plans for system of
electric railway constructed that
will serve all parts of the prairie
and provide line connecting the
same with the open river at Lew
iston says the Tribune.
Mr.. Welch is one of the north
vests big operators. He first
came into prominence by build
ing the Oregon Electric road
from Portland to Salem, a line
now being extended to serve all
parts of the Willamette. He has
also been identified with other
large Oregon enterprises. He
has been classed as being indie
pendent of any of the big electric
power concerns but has always
managed to secure capital neces-
sary to carry out his projects
when they reached beyond his
own large private fortune.
Welch's first appearance in the
Lewiston region in an investment
way developed through the pur-
chase of the Nezperce electric
lighting plant from z. A. John
son, who built the Nezperce rail-
road. His hand was next shown
when he negotiated for the pur.
chase of the Lewiston Terminal
company, the latter owning the
tracks now installed on the busi-
ness streets of the city. Some
objections were raised to the sale
by stockholders-one being that
Welch might run loaded wheat
trains down Main street during
the rush of the shipping season.
and Welch finally withdrew his
offer. Next came rumors that
Welch was quietly getting hold
of power rights so that a big
plant could be installed, but at
that time the people who were
watching him were left to guess
as to exactly the nature of the
move he was to make. Now it
is disclosed that the work en-
braced the securing of the Horse
shoe Bend property. There is
also now a suggestion that Mr..
Welch is much interested inf
not identified with the ownership
of-the Nezperce road, and that
he and Mr.. Johnson are working
together. If that is so, then the
Nezperce line would likely be-
come a link in the electric line
system. Some weeks ago the
johnson road made surveys for
an extension from Vollmer to
Forest and it was then said this
would likely become the first link
in the line that would be extend
ed on down to Waha and thence
to Lewiston. Those claiming in
formation state this is the real
scope of the Welch project and
that the plans are now we'll ad-
vanced.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01

R. H. Deardorf took a load of
tools and supplies down to Grave
Creek yesterday to be used in
the road work to be started there
this week.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01

B. Paul Duffy, representative
of the Spokesman-Review with
headquarters at Lewiston, was
in town late last week visiting
with his father.
The preacher at the Methodist
church on Sunday will be the
district superintendent, Rev.
Andrew Warner, who will ad-
minister the sacrament in the
morning.
The star spoilers of the sixth
grade for the past month were
Arcena Manwaring and Fannie
Rink. Both the primary and
9th and 7th grade rooms report
no tardiness during the month.
A pretty good record.
President l.. C. Crow, of the
farmers union, will be in Cotton
wood on Friday, March 9Th,
accompanied by Lecturer Della
YOU, who will address the farm
ers of this section. All farmers
are requested to be present and
if enough attend the meeting
will be thrown open to the pub
lie.
Martin Huff went down to
Sites the first of the week to
set up a harness stitching. ma
chine which the Foster Harness
Co. recently sold to a dealer at
that place. The Foster Co. re-
Gently installed larger machine
to handle their business and
are running it with an electric.
motor.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-03-01
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places
Reproduced for the Benefit
of our Readers--Stories Re-
hashed from Exchanges.

|
ported from the southern part of
the state the first of the week.
The Nezperce high school
basket ball team defeated the
Pullman team last Thursday
evening at Nezperce by a score
of 13 to Is in a lIotly contested
game.
Milan Cook was bound over to
] the district court in Lewis coun-
ty last week on charge of at
tempting to poison a neighbor's
stock by putting out poison on
the place. #
Lafe Yates was awarded a
verdict of $525 damages at
Grangeville late last week in his
suit against the Camas Prairie
railroad company for the killing
OF five horses.
By a majority vote of POI the
citizens of Boise decided late
last week to abandon their 40
year old charter form of govern
ment and go under the commits
sion form in future.
Mary Jones, one among the
oldest Indian women of the Nez
Perces, died Sunday at her home
across the river, being inferred in
the Presbyterian cemetery at
first church, of which she was a
ember.-Kamiah Progress.
By a vote of 208 to 10 the
citizens of Kamiah resolved Sat-
urday to bond their school dis
trict for $25, 900 for the purpose
of erecting a fine high school
building there this year. The
building will be completed by
the time school opens next fall.
The Orofino insane asylum dis
posed Of a carload of potatoes
last week to Lewiston buyers
and also recently sold a quantity
of dried prunes, the surplus of
last years crop. So if you hap
pen to get hold of any spuds or
prunes that taste "nutty" you
will know they are the Orofno
product.
The general store of r. j.
Ronbaugh at Woodside was de-
stroyed by fire early Monday
morning at loss of $4,000. The
owner had started a fire in the
store in the morning and left the
building for a time and on his
retnrn found the entire interior
in flames. Very little insurance
was carried.
The body of Bijah Wapshelah,
an Indian about forty years of
age, was found under a bridge
near the relief reservoir of the
Lewiston Orchards company Sun
day afternoon, where it had
evidently lain for several days.
Investigation showed that the
man had became drunk from i'm
bibing too freely of alcohol and
had fallen to his death from the
bridge. One full bottle and an
other nearly empty were found
on the body. In the fall from
the bridge the man had one leg
broken and received injuries
about the head from which he
died. The body was found with
in a few miles of the man. s home
on Sweetwater. He leaves a
wife and four children.
George Barton, serving a sem
tence in the county Jail at Lew
iston on a charge of Jail break
ing, and Archie Murray. held for
raising a check of So. 05 to $50. 05,
escaped from the Jail Mon
day evening by overpowering
the jailer and are still at large.
The men had both been sick
for several days and We're not
Hooked up in the steel cage at
The Washington times., 1912-07-30
SENATOR WASHBURN
DIES IN HIS HOME
AT M|NNEAPOL
Former Member Of Senate
Returned From Europe to
End Life at Home.

Dispatches from Minneapolis announce
the death shortly after 10 o'clock last
night of william d. Washburn, member
of the lower house Of Congress for six
years and United States Senator from
Minnesota from 1889 to 1896.
Senator Washburn was eighty
years old. He had been In Europe, tour
ing that continent, when his health be-
gan TO fail rapidly. II was his desire
that he should die on American soil.
and the party with which he was
travelling. hastened home. arriving In
Minneapolis on a special train from New
York July q. His death has been ex-
pected hourly since then.
William Drew Washburn was born in
Livermore, Me-, January IA, 1881. He
was one Of six brothers, and the family
Is distinguished by the fact that each
Of these brothers served at one time or
another In Congress-.
He graduated from Bowdoin College
In 1854, and Immediately moved to Min
neapolis, where he began the practice
OF law. and soon became one OF the
most prominent figures in the upbuild-
His political life began in 1869 when
he was elected to the house Of the
Minnesota Legislature. He was re-
elected In 1871. In 1879 he was elected
to Congress on the Republican ticket
and served three terms In the House.
When the death of Dwight May Sabin
caused vacancy In the Senate In 1888.
Mr.. Washburn was elected to fill It. He
was defeated for reelection In 1895.
The Washington times., 1912-07-30
C.J.FOX, FORMER
correspondent, IN
RACE FOR CONGRESS

Charles, J. Fox Of Rockville, formerly
well known here as a correspondent for
several Republican papers. has an
nounced himself: candidate for, Con-
gress Of the National Progressive party
in the Sixth Maryland district. Mr.. Fox
10 member Of the Roosevelt executive
committee Of Montgomery county and
has been active in politics in his dis
trict for some time.
II firmly believe" says Mr.. Fox in
his announcement, "in the immediate
success of the National Progressive par
ty both in Maryland and in the coun-
try at large. Voters in the Sixth dis
trict are Overwhelmingly for Colonel
Roosevelt and his policies as announced
In his Columbus speech. They will fol-
low him enthusiastically into a third
party, and he will get a tremendous
Democratic vote.
We are tired of putting into office
both Democrats and Republicans who
disregard the wishes of the rank and
file OF each party. The new party is
one of protest and We can win only as
an out and out organization appealing
to the reason. sense of justice and en-
lightened self-interest of all voters
whatever their former party affilia-
ton. -
believes sbsoiutely.tfis the ability Of the
peopie to manage their own affairs.
Starting with this as a fundamental
principle and using ordinary common
sense freed Of party affiliations to
special interests. 1t will be a simple
matter to find immediate practical
methods of righting the social and In
dustrial wrongs of the present day.
my petition to go on the ballot has
been prepared by a competent attor-
ney and / have promises, of signatures
from many people in all counties of the
district" q -3s q ~, p.
The Washington times., 1912-07-30
ACCEPTS $2SO,OOO
AS AMOUNT LOST
BY SUGAR FRAUDS
Government Makes Settle
ment With Philadelphia
Refining Companies.

With the declaration that no evidence
was obtained in exhaustive investiga-
tions tending to show any deliberate
fraud on the Government or connivance
OF Government agents, threatened pros
ecutions of the sugar refining COM
panies at Philadelphia have been aban-
doped, and settlement will be made by
the payment by the companies to the
Government of s250. 900, estimated as the
full amount the Government has lost.
According to the report OF Henry N.
Arnold, special assistant United States
attorney general, in charge Of the in
vestigation, "the frauds were to be
accounted for largely through the fact
that discipline was lax, making It pos
sible for the refinery employees to get
the better Of the Government agents..
In addition, an improper system of
drawbacks on sugar exported in the
form Of syrups had been I'm use since
1893. The system, It is explained, was
inexact, rather than vicious. 1t was
instituted at the time OF the reimpo-
sttion of duty on raw sugar by the VIII
son act. and was made worse by
New methods are to be employed in
| the future and electric registering scales
are to be used.
The w. j. McCahan Sugar Refining Co
has paid the Government 100000 and
the Franklin Sugar Refining Company
has paid for itself and the Spreckles
Sugar Refining Company, both com
panies having been operated as one
under the so-called trust, S124, ,3S6.29. ir
addition to waving claim to SO, 900 due
the company from the Government or
excess collections Of countervailins
duties,
The Washington times., 1912-07-30
MOONSH|NE RAIDS
SUSPENDED UNTIL
BUDGET IS PASSED
mo Funds" Is Cause for
Joy Among the IL
licit Stills.

Moonshiners and other violators of
the internal revenue law I'm the Caro-
linas, Kentucky, West Virginia, and
other mountain States of the Appa-
lachian region. where the picturesque
characters OF present-day romance hold
forth, have gained temporary immunity
from the revenue officers through a
lack Of departmental appropriations.
Homemade stills are simmering along
undisturbed I'm many a mountain fast
ness. while alert owners and operators,
made doubly vigilant by the apparent
disregard of the hated "revenoos." are
, pacing in nervous uneasiness at the
unusual quiet and peace of their lives.
Forty raiders Of the Internal Revenue
Service, brave men, renowned for their
daring and efficiency. have been called
| from the hunt because there are no
funds. These forty men are all being
assigned to other work, and moon
sinners have gained temporary i'm
| munity.
Commissioners of Internal Revenue
Royal e Cabell said today, however.
that no violator of the revenue laws
would escape. I'VE will get them
| later" he said, IF we cannot do Il
now. Many contemplated raids are SIM
ply postponed. The service is suff-
ciently elastic for readjustment to keep
these men employed"
The Washington times., 1912-07-30
President Thanked for
Message of Sympathy
ToJapAaese Emperor

President Taft. today, received cable
grams in reply to his messages Of con-
dolence to the new Emperor of Japan
upon the death Of the Mikado. The new
Emperor. Yoshihito sent the following
"hs Tokyo, July 30, 1912.
ITO the President of the United States,
Washington ..'.'
"I am deeply touched by your sympa-
thetic message and offer you my sincere
thanks. ."YOSHIHITO."
The widow of the Mikado. Haruko,
sent the following cablegram:
Il am deeply touched by your kind
message. Please accept my sincere
thanks for the heartfelt sympathy so
cordially expressed by you and Mrs
Taft on this sorrowful occa sion" +