Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-08-22
WASHINGTON.

The game season Is now on.
Harvesting has begun throughout
the entire Big Bend.
An enraged steer ran wild In Seat
tie recently butting people right and
left.
The fruit crop is abundant this
year, and the quality is up to the
standard.
An enormous amount of hay is COM
ing into Palouse from the big mea-
dows along the Palouse river.
The Cucumber industry is gaining a
foothold among farmers east Of Spo-
an acre.
Gotfreid Closner, who escaped from
the Medical Lake insane asylum, has
been captured at the farm of his
brother near Colfax.
The water has been pumped out OF
the Princess Maud workings at Repub-
lie. In few days the work Of stop
ping ore will begin.
The demand for timber land Is so
great that all the government timber
land in the Spokane land Office dis
trict is being rapidly exhausted.
An estimate OF $350,000 for a new
city hall in Seattle Is in the report
Of the city engineer. There is also an
estimate of 100000 for a new Jail.
The Turner extension Is now in rum
ming order and the o. r. & N. and
w. & G. r. will run trains alternately
to Turner.
If warehousemen cannot tell the
county assessor and the board Of equal
ization to whom the wheat belongs
in their warehouses they must pay the
assessment.
Charles Owen, workman on a
Great Northern pile driver train,
slipped and fell between the cars at
Lowell last week. His body was COM
pletely cut In two.
Notice has just been received at
Fort Wright. near Spokane. that the
government will erect one field off,
GERS set and one double captains set
at the fort in addition to the improve
ments now under way.
The Snohomish County Agricultural
association is closing the entries for
the race meet to be held in Everett
September 8, 10 and II. The entries
include many Oregon, California
idaho and Colorado horses.
One Of the boldest holdups in Walla
walla for years took place last week
when two unmasked men pointed
guns at Antoine Besette, night bar
tender at the Eureka saloon, and got
away with SIS and Bessette's watch.
Mrs. Josie Adams holds the record
this year for having packed the larg
est number Of crates of pound tins Of
salmon at Blaine. The other day she
put up 1889 crates Of "a tins each. In
order to do this she had to handle
1886 pounds of salmon.
L. n. Hopkins, superintendent o.
the Congress mine. on Bridge creek
Is In Republic. He states that small
forces are working on the Congress
Robin and Art Dumont claims, and
that the outlook for these properties
was never brighter than at this time
The Eagle roller mills, at Colfax
burned recently. making the third fir
In week within a radius of 800 feet
all believed to be of incendiary origin
The fire started under the floor Of |
shed adjoining the mill, which was
three-story frame structure run by wa
ter power.
Mary Garner and Hilda Koenig, tw'
girls. z years old. while at o picni
of the Presbyterian Sunday school a
Buckley recently, fell into the rive
from a pile driver. William DAT
Cutlery, a timber cruiser, jumped 4
and managed to save Hilda Koenit
but the Garner girl was drowned.
Receiver Eastman Of the First M
tlonal bank at Vancouver announce
that he would declare a Is per Ger
dividend to the depositors. This wi
make a total of 80 per cent declare
in dividends. and the receiver believe
that 100 cents on the dollar will b
paid within a short time.
A man, barefooted and bleedin
from several severe knife gashes
the neck and over the heart, wa
found wandering around through Il