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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
Another Victim of Apoplexy

Miss Annie M. Wright, sister
of James A. Wright residing
south of town, suffered a stroke
of apoplexy late Wednesday night
and died from the results of the
stroke yesterday afternoon with
o u regaining consciousness.
Miss Wright was stricken by the
disease about eleven o'clock
Wednesday evening and evident
ly tried to call her brother to her
assistance. Mr.. Wright heard a
noise in his sisters room and on
going to investigate found the
lady lying on the floor where she
had fallen. H e Immediately
summoned DR.. Turner and every
thing possible was done to COM
bat the disease, but all in vain.
Mrs. Wright was in Asotin at the
time visiting her parents but re-
turned home last night.
The deceased was about 38
years of age and had resided
here with her brother for the
past number of years. She was
a quiet unassuming lady of much
refinement and had many friends
who will sincerely mourn her
early demise. The funeral will
be held tomorrow at 10 O'Clock
from the residence, interment
taking place in the local GENE.
terry.
The Chronicle joins with the
many friends in extending sym.
pathy to the bereaved relatives.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
The Split Log Drag

The split log drag has contrib
uted more toward the economic
maintenance.of public highways
than any implement of modern
usage. 1t does not require spe-
cial acts-.of the legislature, bond
issues nor EXPENSIVE educational
campaigns to make it available
as usually precedes construction
work. A drag can be built or
purchased for twenty dollars and
is easily operated by any one who
can drive a team. We need more
drags in this state.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
Has Valuable Ranch
Near Higgins

Ed. Ogan came out from his
home at Higgins the first of the
week and on Wednesday met his
brother-in-law, Frank Happ, and
family, who arrived here that
evening from Spokane. MIR.
Ogan and Mrs. Happ and child
rem left yesterday morning on the
return trip to higgins and Mr..
Happ will go in later with a load
Of their personal effects. Mr..
Ogan last fall purchased a fine
farm on the main Salmon river a
short distance above Higgins and
Mr.. Happ has gone into partner
ship with him in operating the
place. The farm has almost a
hundred acres under irrigation,
35 acres of which is in alfalfa,
and it is their intention to go in
to the cattle and hog business on
a rather large scale as soon as
they can arrange matters at the
farm to handle the stock.
Aside from the value of the
ranch as stock farm, the entire
place is one vast deposit of placer
ground and later the gentlemen
intend developing their water
supply to twice its present ca
pacity and will then do placer
mining each spring and fall as a
side line to their farming opera
tions. We are glad that Ed. has
struck such a vauable proposition
and wish him all kinds of good
fortune in developing it.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26


forced in the counties alone and
that, sooner or later. the state
must come to their aid. 1t was
said that the other states which
have had prohibitory laws have
been forced to resort to state aid
and that the amendment does
nothing more than advance the
state ten years in the enforce
ment of these laws. The amend
ment was lost by vote of 8 to
18.
An amendment by Senator
Whitcomb making the act apply
to all liquors and all compounds
made therefrom was lost by a
vote of A to Is.
Finally an effort was made. to
permit holders of 1915 licenses
to operate until the expiration of
the license as is done under the
local option law, but this was
voted down 5 to II. Upon the
report of the committee the meas
ure under suspended rules was
passed.
The bill simply extends the
terms of the present county pro-
hibition act to include the entire
state.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
Birds Spread Hog Cholera

Buzzards, crows and other
birds are active agents in the
spread of hog cholera. They
visit any place where there is
carrion or offal of any sort and
they have thus been known te
transport hog cholera germs fol
long distances. All hogs, there.
fore, that die should be burned
or deeply buried. This will dc
much to check the spread of in.
fectious swine diseases.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26

C. w. Greenough and O. D.
Hamlin were business visitors in
Grangeville Wednesday.
Miss Pauline Smell came up the
first of the week from Charleston
and is visiting with Mrs. James
Blackburn south of town.
An auto belonging to Geo. w.
Wilkin, of Grangeville, burned
up on a hill near Winona the first
of the week. The machine was
a total loss but was fully insured.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
idaho DRY
IN 1916
LEGISLATURE Passed Statewide
Prohibition Bill and Govern
or Will No Doubt Sign It.
In Effect Next Year.

Boise, Feb. 23.-Is the prohi-
bition bill passed? The question
was much in doubt tonight. The
vote on suspension of the rules
WAS 81 to 9. Senator Frazier
was absent. Senators Bowman
1 And Rockwell were paired. Sem
ator Whitcomb raised a question
at the time as to whether it re-
uuired two-thirds of the members
4 of the body. or two-thirds. of those
ii present to suspend the rules.
d President Taylor ruled that two
Il thirds of those present was suffi-
y cient and declared the rules sus-
\ pended. Later he questioned the
correctness Of his ruling and
members of the senate expressed
/ the belief that the rules were not
suspended when the bill was
passed and that it would be nee
essary to call it up Wednesday.
4 Prohibition legislation is thing
of the past in the state Of Idaho.
n It became so when the senate
passed today, under suspension
of the rules, H. B. No. 142, max
y ing the state dry by statutory
enactment January 1, 1916. The
result of the rollcall was "a to 6.
There is no doubt that the
measure will receive the sigma
ture of the governor.
Before an audience that filled
every available space in the SEN
ate chamber the measure was
discussed pro and con by half
the members of the upper house.
amendments were offered but
were rejected and the bill passed
the senate in the same form in
which it was sent from the house.
There were seven votes cast
Against the bill in the house and
bix in the senate, making a total
pf 13 in the legislature number
ing "a members.
Laws now approved by the leg
islature regulating the liquor
traffic are three in number. The
first one passed provided for the
submission to the voters of a
constitutional amendment to the
state constitution prohibiting the
sale or manufacture of liquor
within the state. The second was
a stringent local option measure,
intended to make more rigid the
laws governing the sale of liquor
under the local option laws.
The third law prohibits the
manufacture of liquor in the state
as we'll as the sale or gift. II
goes into effect January /, 1916
Two amendments were offered
but neither was accepted. One
provided that the state shoulC
provide one officer for each coun
ty to be paid 81, 800 a year, whose
authority should be concurren
with that of the sheriff, but wht
should devote his entire time t.
the enforcement of the prohibi
tion statute. 1t appropriated
$1,000 a year for carrying out tn
provisions of the act.
Proposal of this amendment b.
Senator Frazier, of Kootenai
brought forth charges of ba
faith from Carter, of Washing
ton, and Bundy, of Nez Perce
who insisted that the purpose o
the amendment was only to fore
a veto from the governor and t
so delay the passage of a prohi
bitory enactment that it woul
be lost in the rush of the closin
days of the session.
Emphatic denials of thes
charges were made by the &C
herents of the amendment, VIII
said these laws could not be er
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
Cottonwood Country on Map

That the Cottonwood section
will be put on the map at the
San Francisco exposition can not
be disputed if--the plans of
Arthur Brissett do not go awry.
He is planning to take four-pig
team to the big fair to advertise
that section of the country. He
has secured four mule-footed pigs
which he expects to take to the
fair and drive near the Idaho
building at the exposition, all OF
which shows that the Cottonwood
country is alive and up and do.
ing. g.-Genesee News.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places
Reproduced for the Benefit
of our Readers-Stories Re-
hashed from Exchanges.

|
An epidemic of the mumps is
reported in the Peck country.
The Farmers Rochdale COM
pany of Lewis county has decided
to erect large grain warehouse
at Greer this summer.
An attendance of 100000 at
the opening day of the San Fran
cisco fair, as against 10000 at
the st. Louis fair, is reported.
Governor Alexander has signed
H. B. No. 185, by Koelsch--Per-
mitting the making of an hello
graphic will by either married
or unmarried woman, and H. B.
No. 72.-the uniform bill of lad
ing law.
George l. Scofeld, of Wiscon-
sin, head of the Scofeld timber
syndicate operating in the Clear
water country, has made appli-
cation for the purchase of 1900
acres of state timber land in
Clearwater county.
Three men were arrested at
Lewiston Saturday for burglariz-
ing box car loaded with goods
consigned to Kendrick. The men
were trying to sell sugar and
oranges to restaurant when
placed under arrest.
L. A. Duvall, former deputy
treasurer of Blaine county and
alleged to be implicated in the
embezzlement of $4255 of county
funds, returned last week from
Iowa and submitted to arrest.
1t is claimed he returned at the
request of his wife.
Ernest Coffelt, % years old,
shot and fatally wounded An
gelus Golandages, a Greek Sec
tion foreman, at Glenn's Ferry
last week after being refused a
dollar late at night. Coffelt had
been discharged and then got
drunk and went cunning for the
foreman. The wounded man was
very popular.
The rabies scare down in the
Weiser and Caldwell country and
in parts of eastern Oregon con-
tinues unabated and is becoming
serious. Coyotes are said to be
generally afflicted with the dis
ease and large numbers of dogs
and farm animals have died from
the disease after being bitten by
rabid dogs or coyotes.
James Scott, young man of
! the Reubens section, was found
) guilty late last week of assault
} ing the principal of the Reubens
| school and was sentenced to serve
) 80 days in the county Jail and
: pay a fine of SIS and costs. Scott
had been janitor of the Reubens
( school and held the principal re.
t sponsible for the loss of his posi-
ton.
Mrs. j. C. burlington, 70 years
of age, and Birdie Sullivan, hel
grand daughter, are in Jail a
Nezperce and younger Sullivan
girl has been placed in charge o.
a probation officer. The Sulliva,
r girls had stolen articles from
e homes where they were employ
Y ed as domestics and it is elaine,
S they were encouraged by thei
4 grandmother.
o T. w. R. Nelson. a wealth.
r business man of Rupert, sho
: and killed Mrs. Nellie M. Petten
d ger at Minidoka Saturday even
o ing and then killed himself
+ Mrs. Pettenger, who ran a board
ling house at Rupert, had been t
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26
HYE TRIAL
IS NOW ON
Elk City Shooting Case Will
Occupy Attention of Court
for Two Weeks-Case to be
Stubbornly Fought.

The Hye murder case has been
occupying the attention of the
district court at Grangeville this
week and still lacks much Of be-
ing completed. The case was
set for trial Monday and all of
that day and the greater part of
Tuesday were consumed in Sc
curing a jury Of twelve men who
were satisfactory to the attorneys
on both sides
The jury as finally secured is
as follows: Barney Stubbers,
Greencreek, 26 years in the coun-
ty, farmer.
]. H. Johnson, Ferdinand, 18
years in county, farmer.
John Tallman, Westlake, five
years in county, farmer.
]. F. Oliver, near Grangeville,
% years in county, farmer.
w. G.. Hanson, near Grange
vile, 38 years in county, farmer.
C. w. Barnum, Clearwater, Z
years in county, liveryman.
W. J. Braybrook, near Grange
vile. 20 years in county, farmer.
T. S. McCune. two and one
half years in county, farmer.
L. G.. Adams, Caribel, nine
years in county, farmer.
Albert Gregg, near Grange
vile, Is years in county, farmer.
G. N. Mclaughlin, Cottonwood,
II years in county, liveryman.
Peter Aschenbrenner, Ferdi-
nand, 20 years in county, farmer.
The taking of evidence in the
case began late Tuesday after
noon and is still in progress at
the time of going to press. A
large number of witnesses are
being examined, some 67 in all,
and the questioning and cross
questioning requires much time.
Former Supreme Justice J. F.
Ailshie is assisting County At
torney Hattabaugh with the
prosecution while Attys. Scales
and Hardy are appearing for the
defense. After the evidence is
all in the attorneys will require
at last a day in summing up the
case to the jury and it is doubtful
if a verdict will be rendered be-
fore the middle of next week al
the earliest.
1t will be remembered that the
case on trial is the result of {
double killing at Elk City on the
night Of October 4th, 1914, a
which time Frank Hye, a promi
nent citizen of that place anC
owner of the Stites-Elk Cit!
stage line, returned unexpected!
to his home and there shot ant
killed his wife and Hugh Ken
nedy, an employe who was fount
in the house with Mrs. Hye
! Feeling is said to be very strong
against Hye at Grangeville ant
in the Elk City country and man,
look for an early conviction bu
until the evidence is all in it i
l impossible to hazard a guess a
2 to how the case may terminate
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26

visit her ranch and was met at
Minidoka by Nelson who shot
her when she refused to marry
him. Nelson was 81 years of
age.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-02-26

Miss Cressie Lamb came up
from Lewiston late last week for
a short visit at her home north
of town.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-20
TERMS
A Friends Greeting.

I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me,
I'd like to be the help that you've
been always glad to be,
Id like to mean as much to you each
minute of the day
AS you have meant, old friend Of mine
to me along the way.
I'd like to do the big things and the
splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;
I'd like to say the kind things that ! sc
oft have heard
And feel that l could rouse your SOU
the way that you've stirred.
I'd like to give YOU back the joy tina,
you have given me,
Iet that were wishing you a need
hope will never be;
I'd like to make you feel as rich as l.
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with
you to lean upon.
I'm wishing at this Christmas time
that could but repay
A portion Of the gladness that you've
strewn along my way.
And could I have one wish this year
year, this only would it be;
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you
have been to me.
Detroit Free Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-20

the hard work Of summer We're keen
to be off They nearly pulled your
arms off," The runners sang of Christ
mas upon the hard packed road. The
breath of the horses changed to rapid
puffs of steam and that of the pas
sengers gathered in white filligree upon
the heavy buffalo where 1t was drawn
up close about their shoulders. A cold
day but merry one. The younger
boys pleading cold feet got out to run
behind the sled and the driver slipped
away from them by a simple loosening
Of the reins for no boy was ever born
who could keep his place with old Bet
and Fan when they had their heads.
How they begged before they We're
permitted to catch the end board and
pull themselves in. How they painted
and their eyes shone and they cuddled
down under the robes warm. full
blooded and happy. There was lots OF
fun going to town in a bobsled those
days.
Still and cold the fields stretched away
on either side spotted with the cattle
stringing out from the straw stack to
the cornstalks. The smoke from the
farmstead chimneys stood straight as
an iron bar toward the zenith. The
willow hedges were marvels Of frosted
beauty. And in the cold silences the
sleighbells rang keenly musical as we
went to town in the bobsled.
Every generation has it's pleasures.
We are past the bobsled era. We run
out the six cylinder, fix the chains and
set side curtains. We whirl at railroad
speed to the town thirty miles away
and looking at our watches pleasantly
remark that we took an hour and ten
minutes to cover the distance. The
buffalo robe has gone with old Bet and
Fan but there is plenty to keep us
warm. And arrived we buy mick
nacks" for Christmas that mother
would have held up hands of holy
horror over when we Went to town in
the 5chS. STU! we haven't changed
much. We are the same folks with
the same ties and the same affections
and impulses. The boy that drove the
auto is as good a boy as he VINO
fooled old Bet and Fan and the rest Of
the folks are like those who sat under
the buffalo robes of another genera
ton.
1t doesn't matter so much how we
go as that we go together. Not the
bobs and the horses and the rushing
cars matter but the folks they carry.
And men and women and families are
the same and the children laugh and
the young folks smile and love rides
across the miles in an auto as it used
to do when we went to town in the
bobsled.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-20
The RuMMAGE SALE.

She opened her garrets and closets,
Peered back on the uppermost shelf,
Pulled out the things she had thrust
away
AS not good enough for herself;
Overlooked not the flimsiest item
She found in her annual search,
For any old rummage is good enough
For r0mmage sale for the church.
She drew forth a china teapot.
Quite good-saye for the spout:
And there was a lamp that always
smoked,
So shed finally thrown it out:
And then came a muslin shirtwaist,
F'rail shield 'gainst the winters blast.
But-rip off the lace!-somebody will
pay
A dime for the poor ohtcast.
This? Why this is flannel jacket,
All threadbare and fretted with
holes:
And here are some slippers and high
heeled shoes,
She must have danced out their
soles.
Four cups with the handles all broken.
A bodice that's minus a cord.
But-they all 81 into her basket
They'll bring few cents for the
Lord!
And so the cleaning goes forward,
For miladi is fired with zeal
To sell to the poor of the parish
What thief would not trodble to
steal.
And the price of the WORKOUT garments
(The sweat OF the poor why buyA
Is set aside as an offering
To the Lord Of the Hosts on High.
Comes time when miladfs translated
To mansions not made with the
| hands,
And st. Peter, who knows all her rec
ord,
Shall say to his angelic bands:
Go. look in the dimmest corners
u OF the closer under tine staiT
Is dented crown that has lost two
But twin do for this woman to wear.
"And here are some WORKOUT sandals,
] A robe and other old things.
And just take down from that hook on
the wall
That pair Of second hand wings:
They are rusty. l know. in the hinges,
To use them she may demur,
But-her trash was good enough fol
the Lord.
So we'll hold a rummage for her"
Sara Beaumont Kennedy, in Mem
phis Gnrrmercial-Appeal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-20
JUST A MATTER OF PATIENCE.

Des Moines is viewing with disgust
the number of packages of Christmas
booze that arrive by express. 1t is
noted that one shipment of over 400
packages arrived in one day.
What of it? And why not? Des
that closing saloons would stop the
thirst of the graduated ooozehghters
who esteem d Christmas drunk per-
sonal liberty and a great joy And
counting Des Moines' hundred odd thou
sand inhabitants, 400 packages of booze
isn't much. Also Des Moires need not
worry overmuch about the quality Of
the squirrel whiskey that these fellows
are getting. That's their lookout. If
they skin the Innings off their stom-
achs it only means fewer packages
next Christmas when many of them
will have gone where the craving for
logwood and tobacco juice and prune
juice doesn't affect them. About so many
VIII get the stuff, about so many will
get drunk and be thrown into jail or
buried from the hospitals and the like.
Nobody can stop the real and genuine
boozer who prides himself upon his
degradation. He must go on to the
finish, with rare exceptions.
Why so much fuss over the pack
ages thus sent in? II all the booze
and beer shipped in to individuals
were placed beside the amount Of drink
the saloons purveyed in one day it
would be as gills are to gallons. Why
SO much worry over the old soaks who
will drink anything from Jamaica
ginger to sulphuric acid? Why not
more joy over the fellow who has quit
and who is paying for real coal in
stead of slack, getting groceries on
time where he couldn't have got trust
ed for a plug of tobacco and whose
family is looking forward to a real
Christmas?
The point is that thousands of men
are better off because the saloons are
gone. not that certain whiskey suicides
are committing hari kari with squirrel
whiskey. And, at that, they are not
getting much faster results than they
might get with Somebody's Ten Year
Old. There's headache and poverty
and heartbreak and death and murder
in it all whether it was made in
cellar in Kansas City or in private
distillery down in Kentucky
Des Moines will just have to let
them go. They are on their way. It's
only a question of time and not long
time at that. 1t is a question Of wait
ing until the poison works. That all.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-20
WHEN We WENT TO TOWN IN B0Bs.

Pretty sharp weather this, with the
mercury flirting with zero and the crisp
snow cracking under foot, pretty brisk
weather, but Christmas weather, the
old fashioned kind or Christmas
weather that was favored when we
were boys and girls.
Times change, however. In those
older days snow at Christmas was con-
sidered a trade necessity. Nowadays
good sharp weather with dry roads are
the hope of the merchandizer. People
do not change much except as they
adap, themselves to the progress of in
ventive advancement but the automo-
bile has changed the ideas Of merchan-
dizers from good sleighing' to good
automobile roads.
In those old days it was a days
journey to the big town with span
of Morgan bred horses AMI the 5os
sleds
II you remember we took the wood
rack off the bobs, cleaned the snow out
of the wagon box and put that on the
sleds, filled the box with clean oats
straw, piled in three or four buffalo
robes and quilt or two as a preiimin-
airy. Then after the team had been
hitched and the crowd was ready we
carried out the bricks and the big
stone that mother had been baking in
the cook stove oven and wrapped them
in i,iio-se Blanket or two where
mother and the girls could put their
feet on them. Everybody piled in.
pulled up the robes and we were of.
1t was zero morning tho nobody
knew it for thermometers were not
hanging beside every door then. The
horses full fed and well rested from