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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-01-28


Miss Myrtle Mills, of Kamiah,
is working at the Randall home
at present.
The hog market is still creep
ing upward, but very slowly in
comparison with grain prices.
Lee Gentry is recovering nice
ly from his recent illness and op-
Grafton and is able to sit up
daily.
The Free Press reports that
Mrs. Adam Brust fell on the
street yesterday at GrangeviIle
and broke her wrist.
Fred Bentz, a pioneer resident
of the Salmon river country, died
Wednesday at the home of his
brother near Whitebird. He was
past seventy years of age and
had been i'll for some time.
Gus. Schultz, of the Buffalo
Hump country, passed through
town the first of the week en-
route to Lewiston to attend a
meeting of the stockholders of
the Jumbo Mining company.
Grain prices are on the up
grade again this week with bar
ley touching the $1.27 mark, oats
S1,2O and good wheat shaving
the century numerals. Question:
Will those who are holding two
or three crops sell now, or hold
for $3.50 and get it.
P. A. Gaul had nice little re-
frlgerator installed in his store
this week and intends keeping
The butter in first class shape for
his customers next summer, as
we'll as an occasional watermelon
IN ice for the store help and
close friends of the proprietor.
Ira Gentry is reported to be
making fine progress down at
the Leland-Stanford university
this winter and has been selected
twice as a delegate to represent
mis- school at important conven-
ions. Some record, this, for an
Idaho first term student, but it
is not surprising to those who
BEST know Ira.
Golf Eckert and M. A. Pierce
'eturned this morning from Pitts
lurg where they have been for
he past several weeks doing as
sessment work on the Eckert
mining property. They had a
terrible trip coming out from
Pittsburg, having to face the
storm nearly all of the way and
buck deep snow across the divide.
Two bodies, supposed to have
,een those of the Cain brothers
Who were drowned a couple of
weeks ago above Whitebird, were
seen during the past week in Sal
non river but disappeared before
hey could be recovered. A close
watch is being kept at down river
points in hopes of catching the
bodies as they drift down stream.
A single car of hogs was ship
ped from this place to Seattle
Tuesday, which may not sound
very big to the average reader
out when it is taken into consid-
Grafton that we have been having
very stormy weather and the
roads are almost impossible in
many places, it takes some cour-
age to haul even a single car of
hogs to town.
Idaho is certainly going dry in
proper shape. A house burned
recently at Nezperce and the city
'eservoir was bone dry and not a
lrop of water available to quench
he flames, and last week a rail-
'oad water tank down in Adams
county burned to the ground. 1t
IS sure a dry state where town
'eservoirs go dry and water tanks
lose their sustenance.
Lawrence earrett's Romeo.
Irving contributed to the payety of
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-01-28
P Ointers
For TREE
BUYERS
Pointers
"GrOu ing Good Trees
in The Nursery is
Skilled Work."

i ms RENAL k was made recently nv
Well-known State Horticultural In,
Spector, in an address to planters
MANY times we have been told bv
inspectors that if all shipment Of
trees to their districts were as clean
and high-grade as those received
from US, that State Inspection wouId
De unnecessary. Growing Good
trees is skilled work-and It reouires
experience and costs money.
Ell II you expect your trees to be pro-
ntaole-you must plant good trees
ana give them care. TINE and
CARE spent on INFERIOR CHEAP
trees, is waste. ORENCO trees
are are known erywhere they have
n Deen planted for their dependability,
quality, reliability and the giving Of
E Httisl action: Suppose you do day a
niue more for them at the beginning
plant. e0' Tree 10
0ur Crees are grown on clean nm
irrigated soil and we furnisb vo,,
win trees that cant be heat "
1es-we mean just what we saw IF
you want results in planting treas
pace your orders with the OREGON
N1Sursery Company, Orenco, OREGON
0ui trees are grown by skilled labor.
Oregon Nursery Company
oRENCo, OREGON.
" More Live Agents Wanted.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
COMPENSATION LAW IS VALID
 ACCORDING TO JUDGE BROWN

In an opinion handed down at Valdez on October 26 by Judge Fred M Brown the workmen's compensation act passed by the iPst legislature was held to be valid The decision was upon demurrers filed by the defendant in the case of J. W. Johnson vs the kennecott Copper Corporation. This is the first case decided in Alaska deter mining the validity of the act and the opinion is therefore of much importance
 Johnson sued the kennecott Copper Cor poretion for damages because of personal in uries sustained in December last. The complaint was drawn at common law, and n disregard of the legislative act The defendant demurred briefs were filed some months ago, and oral argument was had in Valdez during September. A Valdez attorney presented a brief as amicus curae n opposition to the law.
 Among other things Judge Brown says in his opinion:
 ''The chief point relied upon by plaintiff is that the selection of the mining industry is an arbitrary selection, and constitutes class legislation, in violation of the four teenth amendment to the constitution. Nothing is better known con corning Alaska than that it Is essentially @ mining country, and the legislature in SO lecting the mining industry toward em ployer and employe must be deemed to have acted from the highest corsidera tions of public policy and the fullest knowl- edge of the existing conditions. The act leaves it within the power of both em- ployer and employe to reject the provisions of this act Were its terms unjust, op rressive or harsh, it is to be presumed that the plaintiff. as we'll as other employees. would have elected to reject its terms
 'Instead of the cid system of uncer- tainty, confusion and speculation, involv- ing much cost and vexatious and often times intolerable delay, it provides a req Sonable compensation to be paid by the employer and a sure and certain indem- nity to the employe within a reasonable time and with little cost or expense, ,"-Cor dova Times
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
EARLY kLUNUikEk PASSES

There died at Los Angeles, Cal, recently, d man who llay be renenlDcreu py early klonUkcGS. lie was Jay b. barDer, anu ne was the man who brought I-e nret linotype into Dawson, III the Wlnter or 1901 -U2 The machine was for the Daw- son News, and was brought in by sled. It was considered quite feat in those days. MT. Barber remained in Dawson for about year But this was not his first experl- ence in the North In lS9596 he was on the upper Yukon and prospected in the vicinity of the klondike and other streams that later became famous. His resources becoming exhausted, he hoated down the Yukon in small boat and reached St. Michael in the summer of 1896. At that point he shipped on board a homeward- bound whaler for San Francisco and when he arrived at that city he heard the news of the klondike strike. the gold ship Port land having arrived at Seattle in the mean time with its sensational news of the big gest gold strike in history Mir. Barber was 50 years of age, and his death was due to paralysis.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
INTEREST IN ROAD QUESTION IS AGAIN IN EVlDENCE

ference of the people themselves, Outside of personal letters which have reached the authorities, and which probably were promptly pigeon holed, no attempt has been made in late years to interest the road com mission in the wants of the district.
 Beggarly Appropriations
 The amounts which have beeD expended in road building n this district in the past few years might almost as we'll have lain idle in the public treasury With driblets of few thousand dollars annually, doled out few hundreds at a time, the people have had to be satisfied, and in the mean time traffic must await the freeze-up each year. when, without even trails in many in stances, supplies are dragged over the snow to outlying camps. It would be verltable bonanza of placer mine that would stand the cost of such orerations.
 Tolstoi's Needs
 An example U1 what tn1 lack Ot roads means to this district is the TolStoi just now coming to the front as a producing camp All of the supplies that were taken that district last winter were hauled from Iditarod by dog team, a distance of some seventy or seventy-fve miles. This IS, of course, most expensive transportation. 1hls year again, because of the fact that the new camp had not developed sufficiently last summer to warrant merchants in taking ln extensive stocks, there is dearth of sup rles, and again the primitive methods must be resorted to because of lack of roads. The distance by water from Tolstoi to ldlt- arod is in excess of five hundred miles. With comparatively small expense a road could be cut which would reduce this to seventy-Gve miles, and supplies could be hauled the year around There are many promising creeks in the TolStoi region, and even trail would be of great use in help ing the settlement and development of the country.
 In Nearby Districts
 The Innolso is another example of what tfe lack of roads means. With distance of only about a hundred miles separating Ophir from Iditarod practically all of the traffic between the two places except what can be carried by dog team in the winter season, must await the short navigation sea n and be carried along the tortuous streams a distance of between five and SIX hundred miles. One of the greatest needs of thls ,ction of Alaska is road between Ophlr and Iditarod The latter place is the bank ing point for the whole district, as well as the telegraph md express point.
 Between Ophir and Tokotna, hkewlse, and the adjoining creeks, there is the great est need for roads, and as far as known nothing has been done toward providing them. Practically all traffic must await he forming of the winter trails. At To kotna and McGrath on the Kuskokwlm, the same condition prevails. and there is now
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
FAMILIES OF RIOT VICTIMS COMMENCE NOVEL ACTIONS
 AGAINST CITY OF SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Dec. 5.-Suits for damages aggrcgating $l75, ,O00 have been filed against the city of Seattle by relatives of the per sons killed in the l. ". W. raid on the city of Everett on Sunday, November 3. 1t Is claimed that the city authorities of Seattle should have prevented the invasion
 The suits are the sequel to the killing of eight men and the wounding of forty others ;n pitched battle between members of the I. w. w., aboard the steamship Verona. and a posse of citizens headed by Sheriff Donald McRae The fight occurred when the l. w. w. members who had been driven from Everett several times, made a deter mined effort to return and establish the right to h;ld street meetings. The l. W. W. clan was returning to Everett in two boats to speak on the streets in defiance of both city and county authorities. They were met at the dock as the vessel commenced to tie up and the battle began without warning. Both sides accuse the other of firing the first shot. Hearing the battle, the second steamer withdrew
 Alarming reports sent while the battle was at its height resulted iD the naval re- serves and militia being called out to help the police in handling the l. W. W.'s when they returned to Seattle, but no resistance was offered
 Among those killed were Charles o. Cur tis of Everett, former lieutenant of the Washington national guard; Jefferson F, Beard, former sheriff of Snohomish county j; L. C. Richtel, Hugo Gerloit, Carl Rohlin Gus Johnson, John Looney and one uniden- tifed man. members of the L w. W. Harry B. Blackburn, Elmer P. Bulner and Athel Gorvil members of the citizens posse were desperately wounded. Twenty-one wounded were brought to Seattle, and nineteen were placed in Everett hospitals.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09

l. there enough interest in the road queS- ton in the ldltarod district to warrant an attempt at concerted effort to secure for the ensuing year the cooperation of the federal and territorial officials in the open ing up of highways to the many producing end prospective producing creeks in the district which are now almost totally desti tute of transportation facilities!
 The question IS propounded by reason of the fact that there is again evidence that some of our citizens are awaklng to the i'm portance of the road question, and that roads cannot be secured without effort. If there Is to be serious effort Tn this drec ton, there Is no time like the present, and the sooner our citizens become actively in- terested the more likely is it that some good will be accomplished
 Iditarod is today the center of probably he greatest undeveloped gold field in Alaska For hundreds of miles on all sides of her lie untouched wealth in enormous quantities. Creek after creek could be named which, given transportation facll- .ies, would become the scene of profitable industry and development. Many of these creeks contain auriferous deposits of low -rade, which will not warrant the expensive methods employed in the early days Of 0lacer mining in Alaska, but which could be made extremely profitable were it possi- ole to transport machinery and supplies at fairly reasonable cost
 While this section of Alaska is plenteously ,ndowed by nature with watercourses which ;an be navgated by light-draft vessels, yet conditions are such as to make road-bulld- ng extremely expensive, and the great tores of wealth at our very doors are un- available until government aid is extended for the building of roads as auxilaries to the natural water transportation routes.
 Roads Secured by Other Sections That such government aid IS procurable 5 evidenced by what other communities, 1ith nothing like the natural resources available here, have accomplished in this expect. Take Fairbanks, for example here, with the principal energies of the Alaska road commission exerted for years in Ter interest. tEe cry now is to make the 7airbanks-Valdez road a boulevard And Ruby, which, while it has promising geld fields in its vicinity, cannot begn to com
 are with this district in resources. Yet hese two districts have been able to pro- rre that most needed adjunct to the de-
 elopment of new country good roads
 Is it not about time that the people of lis rich district rouse themselves and in
 uire why, with all the private capital and
 nterprise expended here, so little has been 'one by the federal and territorial authori- ies to assist in the development of district hich has produced many millions in treas Ire and is destined to produce many more? l The answer is found in the apparent indif-
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09

at the latter point several hundred tons of machinery which will be hauled over the snow next winter to Candle creek, having been compelled to lie idle by reason of the failure of essential parts to arrive from Seattle
 Between Tokotna and Iditarod are many undeveloped creeks, among them Moore, where sufficient work has been done to as ure its being worked on an extensive scale whenever some means of transportation is available. Considerable gold has been taken out; but the high cost of transportation necessarily limits the operations.
 Our Lack of Roads
 Coming closer to home, the various creeks If the Iditarod district proper are practi lily without roads, and in cases where these have been built they are the work of he enterprising miners themselves The ,nly thoroughfare in the whole district that can be dignifed with the name of road $ that built by the Yukon Gold Company on Flat creek There is TO road between Flat and Otter creeks-nothing but quag mire, through which in the summer season wagons gre dragged axle deep in mud. The same is true also of Willow creek, where extensive mining operations are carried on.
 The roads between Iditarod and Flat and Iditarod and Discovery can only be called such in the winter season. At other times they present difficulties which would appal the boldest transportation men in other sections. The road from the Summit to Otter creek, down Boulder, while passable is long way from being an ideal road and even its present condition has been the re suit of private enterprise more than gov ernment aid
 Action Necessary
 But the recital of the shortcomings of our system of roads amounts to nothing It must be understood that the authorities must be made acquainted with conditions here, and made to realize that the lack of roads is doing incalculable injury in retard ing the development of country whose resources are sufficient to maintain g large and prosperous population. A liberal gov ernment furnishes funds for this method of improvement, and the people of the Iditarod I,istrict, in common with those of the rest of the territory have an interest also in the road funds provided by the territory. It is up to the people of Iditarod and vicinity to present these demands and to insist that the shabby treatment accorded them heretofore shall cease.
 It has been suggested that the Iditarod Commercial Club take up this matter i'm mediately and it is likely that campaign for new members will be initiated with the object of securing united action of the people of the entire district in securing these essential aids to the development of the dis trict Every citizen is interested, and all should lend their aid.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
CHRISTMAS TREE AT FLAT

Already the peorle of Flat are laying plans for the annual Christmas tree to be given to the youngsters of that city. The program for the entertainment hes not yet been fully outlined, but it Is understood it will be of a similar nature to those hel5 in former years There will be an enter tainment by the school children, under the direction of Miss Grant, Christmas tree loaded with presents for all, and refresh ments No admission fee will be charged and a general invitation will De issued It Is likely that definite rlans will be an nounced in next weeks Pioneer
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
GERMAN IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR HOLLWECG
 MAKES IMPORTANT SPEECH TO REICHSTAC

BERLIN, Nov 10In the of speech the rcchStag today Imperial Chancellor Won Behmann Howegg made an the effect that Germany willing after has been declared and coaborate with other tons guarantee justice i'll nations and freedom on land and sea- especially if the political conditions such
 condition of such organization he sMd be antagonsm aggressive coalitions He declared that became 1915 that Great Britain and France had promised to Russia catorial domination Consanlnope Bosphorus and the Dadanee well the hnterands on both sides that the allies proposed enforce their domination by arms a brutal The chancellor also de cared that Germany planned rob France of her colonies but that favored the French and Russian plans for cnnn1ests which only could obtain.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IN THE GREEK CAPITAL

PARIS Dec 3An embargo has been placed upon all Cheek ~ ing in consequence of the attack the entente trees at Athens. Mayor Benkes has been removed
 2( ME 2Athens is panic, battle has taken place
 n French sailors and Greek Two French cruisers . entered FhaerCn harbor.
 IyNDON Dec 3In the fighting and liong in Athens e hundred persons have been killed The of the allied 1T. lps have been trained on the city,
 GENEVA Dec 3-King Constantine has acceled 10 the de- nanG of the of the allied forces and has surrendered 4n army artillery, retaining only 50000 rifles,
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
Alaska Railroad to Be Provided For

The department the interior has asked for nronaon of OO0 the building of the Alaska government railroad.
 Senator Borah Idaho has introduced bill to repeal the na tional guard provisions in the national defense act
 Senator Owen of Oklahoma rentroducd the ce bill which talked death in the closing hours o the last session.
 WASHINGTON Dec Both Democrats and Republicans have agreed pass corrupt practices act before the adjourn mel of the present
 The federal authorities pressing the high cost of living probe.
 Congressman Philip P Campbell Republican, of Kansas has introduced bill placing embargo the exportaon o news print paper.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
THE MAIL

The second consignment of through Seward mail arrived last Wednesday evening in charge of Emil Jensen, who brought it from the Halfway roadhouse, He also re turned to that point with the outgoing mail. It is expected that this week, if weather permits, the mail will again be on its orgi nal schedule
 The regular time for closing the mail is p. m. Sunday but Postmaster Ansley states that mail will be accepted up to within as short a time of the departure of the mail as possible. There is no assurance that mail can be registered after the regular time, however
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
HEAD OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY sUCCUMBs

TARRYTOWN N. Y, Dec. 5-Johr D. Archbch president of the Standard Oil Company died yesterday after operation for appendicitis.
 ohn D. ArchboId Leesburg Oho July 26 lS48 the Penny oil els 1864 and spent eleven years the peaum industry He had been connected with the Standard Company director president, end president the Standard oil Company of New Jersey since 19l1.)
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
READING OF PRESIDENTS ANNUAL MESSAGE
 INTERRUPTED BY WOMAN SUFFRAGlSTS

WASHINGTON Dec 4-The second session of the Sixty fourth congress convened today Railway bills will receive seraton preference all other legislation and Claud kchn the Democratic leader has promised President Wilson that
 VIII facilitate the passage of the legislation and declares himself T. ,pposed to the customary weeks holiday
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
ANCHORAGE MAIL INCREASED

Alvah F. Eames, chief clerk of the rail
 way mail service told the Seward Post re-
 gently that the department would send 2,OOO pounds of mail out of Seward every week for Anchorage and Iditarod and way stations and that they would employ a regular mail clerk in the Seward postotfice during the winter Anchorage will receive 1895 pounds of this mail, which is prac;l- cally double the amount of last winters
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
DEATH OF AN AVIATOR

A San Francisco dispatch of November l gives the account of the death of Silas ChrstofTerson, pioneer aviator of the North west, who was killed while making experl- mental flights and trying out a new mill tary biplane on Redwood field. Chrlstotfer son had made a national reputation for him self by making daring flights and exhibition darts and dives
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
Offered to Bcnar Law

LONDON Dec 6'Iebcrt Asluth head of the Brih cabinet during eight stormy years has resigned premiership been offered by the king A. Bonar Law the Concvative leader If he should refuse Lloyd George will be tcnerd the office
 The conduct of the the basis of the cabinet Lloyd George forcing the battle the eastern front prob able that general election will be called Premier Asqh vouh saed no explanation to parliament, which adjourned
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
MOOSE SMOKER

The smoker given at Flat last Sunday evening by the local Moose lodge was en- joyed by large crowd. Some most inter esting stunts" were upon the program, and general good time was enjoyed Much interest hes been manifested in the work of the lodge this winter and these affairs, of which more will be held later are expected to have tendency to retain the interest of mpmhprS
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
MORE BOOB CREEK DEALS ON

The arrival of several persons from the Tolstoi during the past few days has revived the rumors that other deals for Boob creek property are pending with George Riley, and the presence in the city of that ener getic operator yesterday tended to give color to the rumors
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
TRIP" GOES SOUTH

C. J. Maltby, brother of A. E, Maltby, who has been visiting with him here for the past few weeks, left for the south this morning on the Princess Alice-Juneau Elm pire. November g.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-09
Some of the Earlier Rumoys

LONDON Dec The political crisis has become King George has advised the reconstruction of the cbnc David Lloyd George secretary for has rendered Iii, rgnao bat has yet been accepted A. Bonar Law may succeed him Another given currency has it that I"y George Asuh premier