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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
Mary Crea Called Above

Mary Ellen Crea, youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
W. Crea, died at the home of her
parents southeast of town Sunday
morning very suddenly. She had
been ailing for the past two and a
half years with diabetes and the
disease took a sudden turn for
the worse late last week and
death resulted Sunday morning
about 8 o'clock. Miss Crea had
been attending business college
at Lewiston and came home for
the holidays, apparently in the
best of health. She visited at a
neighbor's on Friday and was
happy and jolly apparently in ro-
bust health, but her ailment was
one of those insidious diseases
that leaves no surface indications
yet silently undermines the sys-
tenn until death ensues.
Mary Crea was 22 years, z
months and 13 days of age at the
time of her death. She had lived
practically all of her life here on
the prairie and was widely known
and counted her friends by
scores. A bright, attractive
young woman, her death coming
just as she was entering the best
years of life will prove a sad
blow to her family and many
friends. Besides her parents she
leaves one sister n d three
brothers, together with other
relatives and countless friends tC
mourn here untimely death.
The funeral is being held today
at Denver, the remains having
been held until this time to en-
able a married sister to reach
here from California.
The Chronicle joins with
friends of the family in extend
ing deep sympathy to them ir
their bereavement.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05

An explosion Of gasoline on
the. 400-foot level of the Pitts
bug-Idaho mine at Gilmore We'd
nesday afternoon imprisoned
thirteen miners and Ill are
thought to be dead. The bodies
of three were recovered but the
rest are buried beneath tons of
rock and earth and it is thought
impossible to rescue them alive.
State Engineer Booth recently
announced at Lewiston that as
soon as the weather will permit
the state highway commission
will authorize the survey and To-
cation 0 f the state highway
through the Lapwai highway dis
trict. 1t is stated it will be nec-
essary to bridge the Clearwater
river at Spalding and that the
state highway will be located
down the north bank of that
stream to a junction with the
present highway up Uniontown
hill north of Lewiston.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
Local Water Case Decided

The Idaho supreme court hand
ed down a decision on December
22nd on the appeal in the case of
st. MichaePs Monastery versus
the Cottonwood Water & Light
company, both of this place. The
litigation arose over priority rights
to water from the big springs on
Cottonwood Butte west of town,
which both have been using at
certain seasons of the year. The
judgment of the district court of
Idaho county was reversed by
the supreme court decision and
the Monastery is held to have
the priority right. 1t may draw
from the springs 10000 gallons
of water daily before relinquish-
ing any to the other company.
The case was first tried at Ne
perce before Judge Steele almost
two years ago and the appeal has
been before the supreme court
since that time.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
Secures New Location

While at Lewiston the first of
the week Mrs. L. M. Duffy
closed a deal for the lease of the
Oliver building just east of the
Simon Bros. meat market and
expects to move to the new To-
cation about the first of next
month. The building will be re-
modelled at once and an entire
new front will be put in, the in
terror papered and painted and
the partition taken out. Mrs.
Duffy intends putting in COM
plete line of millinery goods in
connection with her present
stock of goods and will then have
the only real millinery store in
the city. She will have assist
tance in the millinery depart
ment during certain seasons of
the year and will be receiving
new creations in feminine head
gear almost every week in the
year. By combining the two
lines she expects to build up a
nice trade and has secured one of
the best locations in the city for
her purpose.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05

The Farmers Union Warehouse
company shipped three carloads
of hogs to Seattle Tuesday.
With lights and power on the
bum this week and a rush of ex-
ira work to be handled, the pa
per is not up to standard but
such occurrences are rare and we
hope our readers will overlook ii
this time.
The robins have been quite
numerous around town this week
and this would lead us to believe
that spring weather is near.
With a big chinook in progress il
is possible that we may have
several weeks of mild weather
during this month and next.
Such things have happened in the
past and may occur again.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
From One Sack of Flour

Here is an interesting item
clipped from an eastern paper.
A woman, who, because of the
screaming of the high cost of
living, kept count Of what she
made from one sack of -four con-
tanning 48 pounds.
The price of flour fuctuates.
She paid So for this particular 48
pound one. From it she made
81 loaves of bread in pans 9x4;
IA dozen and two rolls, 72 bis
cults, 10 loaves of Boston brown
bread, nine big two layer cakes,
10 pies, rs cookies, 20 jumbles.
The bill for the cooking and light
ing at her home for a month was
S1.69. It does not cost so much
to live if smart, capable woman
lis in charge of the house.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
Stock Market Report.

Following is report of the
Portland stock market for the
week of Jan. 2.
The continued light receipts Of
cattle Monday met a very keen
demand and prices ruled a good
25 cents higher than last week
when 80 cents advance on the
best beef grades. One load of
good steers brought $50 with
another bunch at 1856; fair to
good kinds brought 7.50 to 800.
All supplies were sold and
weighed early, there not being
enough here to let each buyer
get a load. She stuff also sold
readily although no strictly good
ones were included in the days
trade. Best beef cows would no
doubt bring 100 or better, fair
cows brought around $50 to CTS
with ordinary ones around 600.
Only a few bulls available best
bringing 5,25 from feeders. Best
heavy bolognas from 4.25 to Ats
with light kinds $50 to 400.
Trading in feeders was limited.
Hog prices continued there up
ward climb Monday again n-break-
ing all records for the winter
packing season. There was but
a moderate run of 1000 head here
which was quickly brought up.
Prices were Is to 20 cents higher
on all good kinds while pigs were
advanced another Is cents. The
quality of the run was the best of
the year. One load of prime
heavies brought 1925 with an
other load at 1920. Bulk of good
packing hogs sold from 9.95 to
10. 10; pigs brought $50 to 8.75;
stock hogs met a good demand
with but light supply. Best 80
to 124 lbs pigs are selling from
100 to 7.26.
Sheep prices continued there
upward climb today when prices
on all kinds were quoted Is cents
higher. Good lambs are selling
10. so to 1915; with good east of
, the mountain lambs at S11 90;
good yearlings 900 to 9.25
. and good mutton ewes 500 to
8.25. Supplies continue very
light.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
COLEMAN NOT
GET LOOSE
New Pardon Board Sets Aside
Effort of Retiring Officials
to Free Defaulter-Claim is
More to be Learned.

Boise, Idaho, Jan. 3.-Fred M.
Coleman, former deputy state
treasurer, incarcerated i n the
state penitentiary for embezz-
ling $33, 600 state funds, will not
be liberated in February, for the
new state board of pardons at a
meeting today rescinded t h e
action of the old board taken just
before the end of the year fixing
his sentence at the minimum of
two and a half years.
The new board composed of
Governor Alexander, Attorney
General T. A. Walters and Sec
retary of State w. T. Doughterty,
held that the old board had vio-
lated one of it's own rules by
considering an application for
pardon in behalf of Coleman be-
fore six months had elapsed and
Disseminated in his favor. The
only member of the old board
who voted against fixing Cole.
mans sentence was the governor
The other board members, J. H.
Peterson and George R. Barker,
voted for it. They took this
action after they had denied
Coleman a pardon.
The new board of pardons takes
the attitude that Coleman has
not told all he knows about the
treasury steal and that if he has
any hopes of leniency being
shown to him he will have tt
make a clean breast of the affair
The board wants to know what
became of the $22, 900 he stole as
we'll as the $71, 900 that Aller
took. Judge j. l.. McClear. ap-
peared as Coleman's counsel anC
this afternoon renewed his appli
cation for leniency. The boarC
took it under advisement with
the significant statement Il
would beYteased" to hear from
Coleman as to the details in the
looting Of the treasury.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05

tween these entrymen, allotting
in forty-acre tracts, but if there
is only one such tract, the first
person making the application
for the additional entry will be
given preference.
In all entries the government
reserves the right to allow quail
fled persons to enter upon the
lands to prospect for coal or other
mineral. Sundays Tribune. !
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05

ary A, and continues for 8 weeks
ending Feb %.
Estimates submitted to con-
gress for present session include
$3.50, 600 for Idaho projects.
Eagle - Ditch and pumping
plant under construction will
water 1900 acres.
Cour d'Alene-Canal to be dug
from st. Joe river into Chatolet
Lake.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places
Reproduced for the Benefit
of our Readers-Stories Re-
hashed from Exchanges.

DIR. ]. N. Ally, formerly with
the Indian agency at Lapwai,
has been appointed pension ex-
amining surgeon at Lewiston.
Lapwai highway district has
advertised for bids for the sale of
its $4,000 bond issue and will
dispose of the bonds on January
10th.
The Northern Pacific railway
recently placed orders atSt. Paul
for 7,000,000 worth of equip
ment, most of which is to be
rolling stock.
With the close of the year
1916 Lewiston post office entered
into the first class, its business
for the year having passed the
$40, 900 mark.
1t is said fully 100000 railroad
ties will be delivered to the
Northern Pacific railway at Oro-
fino this winter. The price paid
is As cents per tie.
Stock cattle are said to be plen-
tiful and cheap in the Moscow
country but the purebreds are
not to be had at any price. Hence
it pays to raise the best.
A. H. Mullen, rancher near
Bonners Ferry, committed suic.
ide in a hotel there last week by
taking strychnine. Dependency
over money troubles and poor
crops lead to this rash act.
Jacob Schudel. a laborer, was
found in Lewiston late last weel
with a bullet hole in his head anC
died Saturday from his injury
1t is thought he tried to commi
suicide with a 22-calibre rife.
The measles quarantine placed
on the Second Idaho regiment a
Boise was raised late last weel
after it was decided the epidemi
would not spread. Only thirteel
cases of the decease developed
and these were isolated.
Charles Howard, formerly {
member of the Jesse James gam
of robbers, was burned to dealt
in a fire at a farm near Bois
last Friday morning. Howar,
was 73 years of age and was a
one time one of the leading mem
bers of the James gang.
1
Four young men of the Guide
sac neighborhood were arreste
late last week on a charge O
trying to hold up and rob Wm
Num- at his home in that place
Num- fought the invaders an
was about to secure an axe whe
they fled. He was reported
have $500 in his home and thi
was what probably led to tn
attempt at robbery.
C. A. Butler who lives in tn
Rosetta section northeast of Gu
desac, recently, purchased c
Henry Theissen, sixteen head {
thoroughbred registered Here
fords, consisting of fifteen hea
heifers, not yet one year old, pa!
ing for them $3.50 each. He ais
purchased a male yearling pa!
ing $500 for it. Mr.. Butler
going into the thoroughbred catl
business in earnest and sees
good future in this class of stool
Enterprise.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
To The Public

We now have our flour and
other mill products ready to offer
to the public.
This is home institution
Now if you wish to patronize
home industry give us chance
to serve you. We guarantee all
of our mill products not to con-
tain any acids or bleaching COM
pound and to give entire salts
faction.
FARMERS UNION WAREHOUSE Co.
by G. S. Downer, Mgr.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05
Idaho Industrial Review

no continues. Mining breaks all
records. Crops good with high
prices. Railroads and public
utilities making many improve
ments.
Elk City-Wo d er mining
plant completed and ready for
operation.
Orogrande- -Sawmill and pen
stock completed for development
work on this mine.
Blackfoot gets new pasturizing
dairy plant.
Arco will hereafter be an elec-
tric-lighted city.
Arco Advertiser-Ever lover of
Idaho longs for the time when
o u population has trebeled,
when markets will be made to
bulge with active and enlarged
enterprise. That is our indus
trial wish. But to obtain this our
laws must silently invite i t.
Things should be clarified and
simplifed. Laws which retard
and shackle should be either
amended or repealed.
Kellogg-S h o e factury will
operate here with force to turn
out 100 pairs daily.
Pocatello - Pocatello Traction
and Interurban Co. increase cap
ital stock from 5000, 900 to So, ,OOO,-
600 and promise to extend ST, $780,
600 on projected lines.
Lewiston-Dewey mining pro-
perties near here sell for $10O, 600.
Harrison-Proposed Kootenai
Co. road bond issue approved at
large meeting.
Leonia $500, 600 Troy-Kalispel
Co. takes over Wood & Hogan
properties of Is claims.
Boise-"Tax Reduction" is big
issue before coming session OF
legislature.
Caldwell-Much interest at
taches to details of announce
ment that reclamation service
commission recommends distribu.
ton of surplus water from Boise
project on $4,000 acres of Black
Canyon lands and $4,000 acres OF
Hillcrest section near Boise.
Shelley - Utah-Idaho Sugar
Company representatives here
are working every pointto facili'
tate work of putting track fol
spurs and sewer.
Boise-$40,O0O garage to be
erected here soon.
Ustick-$3OOO creamery to bt
erected here soon.
Winona-Farmer here makes
$1,000 from IL acres of potatoes.
Wa!lace-Coeur d'Alene mines
output for 1916, $4,000 900 Divi
dends $1O,OOO,0O0.
Everett-Big sawmill plant her
nearing completion.
Boise-A new nonpartisan lane
commission is proposed.
State Highway engineer will
ask 81, ,500,0O0 for new roads il
next two years.
Idaho bank deposits gained
$14, ,689, 325 in past IL months.
North and South Idaho stat,
highway to receive 100000 iron
federal funds.
Office of chief forester to b
created is already supplied b,
federal forest service.
Idaho-Wallace miner say,
Douglas mine shipped 145 tons o
ore last month, or$3 per to-
royalty.
Troy y-Kalispel mines to b
worked with capital of 5000, 600.
Mackay- Empire Copper CO
to double output in 1917.
Idaho Falls-Beet growers O
the Upper Snake River vale
who grow beets for three factor
! les of the Utah-Idaho Sugar com
: pany at Idaho Falls, Blackfoo
and Sugar City, are a hundre
thousand dollars better off toda
E than they were yesterday, ir
( crease in wealth coming in forr
E of extra dividends on bonu
. checks from board of directors @
t the company.
n Do1,oA4o ,.o;ooEo1 ho,.l son,,I e.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05

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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-05

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Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-19

visions must be supplemented without delay.
 The Divisions.
 The divisions of the national guard and of the Selective army which will be summoned about September 1 will be located by military department as follows:
 Northeastern department, first divi- sion, selective army.
 Eastern department, second, third and fourth divisions, selective army.
 Southeastern department sixth, seventh and twelfth divisions. selec- tive army, and fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth. tenth, sixteenth, sev- enteenth and eighteenth divisions, na- hona1 guard.
 Central department eighth, ninth, tenth, thirteenth and fourteenth divi- SionS selective army.
 Southern department, fifteenth div1- sions, sefective army and eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and f1f- teenth divisions. national guard.
 Western department sixteenth di- ivsion, selective army, and nineteenth and twentieth divisions, national guard.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-19
BRITISH TRANSPORT
 CAMERONIA TORPEDOED.
14o Men Missing Are Presumed to
 Have Been Drowned.

London, May IT, 11.45 D. m. -CDe- layed).-The British admiralty issues the following statement for newspapers of Saturday:
 ''The British transport Cameronia with troops was torpedOed by an en- emy submarine in the eastern Med iterranean on April 15. One hundred and forty men are missing and are presumed to have been drowned"
 The survivors of the Cameronia say the vessel was torpedoed in fine, calm weat ther in the afternoon. The subma.- rine was not seen.
 A large number of casualties were due to the explosion of the torpedo, which struck where there happened to be many soldiers. There was some excitement and confusion at the out set after the torpedo had struck but discipline soon prevailed. The boats were snartly launched but one of them was smashed and many lives were lost.
 The Cameronia was anoat for forty minutes after she was torpedoed, which enabled torpedo boat destroyers to run alongside the wounded vessel. Soldiers from the Cameronia jumped on these boats in disciplined success sion. The destroyers ceased taking on men as soon as they had obtained their full complement. Many men from the Cameronia who jumped into the water were picked up by the boats.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-19

that a powerful ally has come to their support against German aggression.
 Announcement of Order.
 Announcement of the order followed signing of the selective draft war ar my bill by the president and the is vice of military experts on both sides of the water, the president could not employ volunteers nor avail himsen of the fine Vigor and enthusiasm" of Former President Roosevelt for the expedition.
 The army law provides for an ulti- mate force of approximately 2,0OO, 900 men to back up the first troops to go to the front. When the bill had been signed the president affixed his name to a proclamation calling upon all men in the country between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive, to register themselves for military service on June 5 next.
 Even before the bill was signed the war department announced that the full strength of the national guard States army beginning July 15 and concluding Aug. ,. Orders to bring the regiments to full war strength imme- diately accompanied the notification sent to all governors.
 Forces to Go to France.
 It is from these forces that the first armies to join General Pershing at the front will be drawn, to be followed within a few months by recurring waves from the se1ective draft armies, the first 500,000 of whom will be mo- bilized September first.
 Text of Announcement.
 Following is the text of the terse announcement of the war depart tment as to General Pershing's expedition:
 "The president has directed an ex- peditionary force of approximately one division of regular troops, under com mand of General John J. Pershing to proceed to France at as early date as practicable. General Pershing and staff will precede the troops abroad.
 Tt is requested that no details or speculations with regard to the mo bilization of this command, dates of departure, or other items, be carried by the press, other than the official bulletin given out by the war depart ment relating thereto"
 Why Roosevelt Was Turned Down
 In his explanation for his reasons for not availing himself of the so- called Roosevelt amendment to the army bill, MT. Wilson has brought out sharply the points made against that amendment by army officers, regard less of their personal political leanings or their regard for MT. Roosevelt him. self. Many officers who are warm ad- rnirers of the former president have unhesitatingly condemned his pro- posal to raise a volunteer army corps or division on the ground that it would drain the regular service of men vitally needed to train the mill lions that must be whipped into fight ing trim in all too brief a time.
 The list of regular officers MT. Roosevelt desired to take with him has been the subject of much specu- 1ation and comment. Because OF the old association in Spanish war days between Major General Leonard Wood and MT. Roosevelt, it has been re- garded as virtually certain that Gen eraI Wood was the former Drcsfoents selection for supreme command of the force.
 Under the plans of the war depart menf, General Wood, by reason of his
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-19
ACQUISITION OF MERCHANT
 SHIPS DEBATED IN SENATE.
Proposed Expenditure of $75o,00o, 900
 for Construction and Purchase.

Washington, May 1S.-The proposed expenditure of $750.0o0, ,000 for con- sruction and purchase of merchant ships engrossed the senate today. when 1t resumed consideration of the S. .390,- 000,00 war budget bill. The section probably will be adopted tomorrow.
 Democratic and republican leadees joined in urging that the money be speedily provided and emphasized the urgent necessity of ships, both to aid the allies and for possible use of American military forces.
 Before taking up the merchant ma rine section, the senate reopened de- bate on the army draft bill, already sent to the president, and adopted without record vote rider" amend ment to the war budget measure limit ing operation of the draft law to four months after, the present war with Germany" instead of to the existing emergency.
 Opposition to the merchant marine program came mostly from the repub- hcan side and largely upon the ques- tion of conferring power upon the president to commander ships, ship yards and factories. Senators object ing said they feared what was termed dangerous and far-reaching'' power might harmfully affect business inter ests.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-19
CONSERVATION HAS BEEN
 PROPOSED IN CANADA
To Fill Up the Gaps of the Canadian
 Army in France.

Ottawa, Ont, May 18.-Compulsory military service on a Selective basis to raise immediately at least 5O,OO0 and probably 100000 men to make good the wastage Tn the Canadian army corps in France, was proposed today.
 The prime minister declared that every man in the country had been given the opportunity under the vol untary enlistment plan to do his duty to the country and to the cause. There had been 326, 900 men of the Canadian force to cross the Atlantic. Including British, French and other reservists, not less than 360,0O men had gone from Canada. for oversea military ser vice.
 But more were needed, Sir Robert announced. There were under arms enough men to supply endorsements to keep the five Canadian army divis- ions up to strength for some time, he said, but losses were great and pro vision had to be made for the future unless the five Canadian divisions were to dwindIe to four, to three, and to two.
 The prime minister said that the message he brought back from the Canadians who had held the Germans at Ypres and beaten them from Viny Ridge was that they must be sup ported and their losses made good.