Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-04-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.

| Cnl6I LOU OF the Lower Sp0kdnoS is
dead He was 60 years of age.
A reorganization of the Walla Walla
! Commercial association was effected
| last week
Storey Ware, a pioneer of Palouse
locality, aged about 60 years, was kill
ed last week.
At North Yakima the Janeck build
ing was Quilted by fire resulting in a
loss of about $4,000.
Spokane's baseball team is being
rounded up, practice work has begun,
and in few weeks the league games
| will begin.
With the aid of an old shirt and a
strip of blanket John Weir, an Insane
man, hanged himself to the grating of
a cell in the Spokane county Jail re-
Gently.
Dr. w. H. Hare of North Yakima
received letter from Washington, D.
c., offering him the position of super
intendent of the eastern part of the
Rainier forest reserve.
c. G. Raby, who resigned last week
as Whitman county auditor after the
discovery of serious irregularities in
his accounts, was formally arrested
and Is now out on bail
Late developments in the recent
BUGGY tragedy at Everett tend to show
conclusively that Mrs. BUGGY was
mentally unbalanced when she killed
her husband and child and then com,
mitted suicide
President F. B. Gault of Whitwortb
college, Tacoma, has received a com
mission from President Roosevelt as
member of the board of visitors to
the naval academy at Annapolis this
year.
Colonel B. G. Bedell and Albert
Bedell, father and son, of Walla Walla
have brought 1910 acres of wheat
land in Franklin county. Colonel
Bedell and son now have 1850 acres.
including homesteads, in that section.
and are actively improving the whole. |
From a technical standpoint the
sensation of the Seattle bench show
was the pointer dog, Whitestone. own
ed by A. B. Jackson Of Spokane. "He
is unquestionably the best headed
pointer in America" said G. B. Yam
dell, representative of the American |
Field. Whitestone scooped everything
in sight, on limit, open and winners
classes, including a special for the
best pointer in the show.
TWO hundred thousand bushels of
wheat, mostly bluestem, were sold at
Walla Walla last Friday at 55 cents
Paine Brothers and Miles G. Moore
sold the holdings. The gain is most.
~ on Eureka fiat. The Drumhellers
also made large sales and a number
OF other ranchers let go small uuan.
titles. Puget sound companies got the
pulK. This has been the first action
IN the wheat market for many weeks
The United States land office at spo-
Kane has received notification that an
other township in Stevens county has
been surveyed, and will be thrown
open to settlement. 1t is township SO
In range Al east. 1t contains 14349.95
acres which will be open to settlement
after May 19.-The eastern portion of
the township is still unsurveyed. It
is mountainous, and untitled for set.
Element. The new township corners
on the south.
The following are th1 new officers
Of the Inland Empire Teachers associ-
alton: President, s. B. L. Penrose, of
Walla Walla; first vice-president, Mrs.
Levi Young of Moscow, Idaho; second
Miss Eva Wood, Pendle-
Ton, Ore; third vice-president, Prof.
W. s. Beach of Pullman; recording
secretary, Miss Ida Shepherd of Lew
ston, Idaho; members of the execu-
i've committee, G. s. Bund of Walla
Walla, Miss Permeal French OF Boise,
IDAHO, H. T. Coleman of Spokane, E.
3. Bragg Of Union, Ore. and F. M.
Burke of Walla walla 1t was de-
'ided to hold the meeting next year
It Walla Walla.