Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-08-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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louise country.
Four dollars and a half per COW Il
the profit farmers of Walla walla dis
trict are realizing from the dairyinf
industry.
A party Of Iowa farmers have pur
chased about 10000 acres of land IL
Douglas county, around the town o.
IWaterville.
Burglars effected an entrance to the
Office OF Kusler & Nicholson, lumber
dealers Of Oakesdale, recently, ant
blew open the safe.
| Reports from the Puyallup valley
are to the effect that the blackberry
crop has been seriously injured by the
recent hot weather.
George Steele Of Spangle was seri
ously injured recently by being STRUCK
over the eye with derrick fork while
working with header.
Frank Ahalstrom, Swedish section
hand working on the Northern Pacific
at Marshall, is dead from a collision
with a train while riding a railroad
velocipede.
| The wheat crop is turning out bet.
ter than was expected. Short grain
that was thought would only average
from 10 to Is bushels per acre is now
going from Is to 20.
8. L. Davis was crushed to death by
falling tree in Wizards logging
camp near Orting, about 80 miles from
| TQannn0
man, recently from South Pennington,
Mass.
Contracts have been let for the
erection Of two large grain warehouses
by the Puget Sound Warehouse COM
pany Of Tacoma to replace the struc-
lures recently destroyed by fire at
Pullman.
A wreck occurred on the Northern
Pacific recently one mile east of Cum
bingham. No 8 passenger train, heay-
lily loaded, crash.- into the rear end
OF freight train, but fortunately no
lives wer lost.
The annual tournament of the. Dav-
export Rod G Gun club was a great
success. The meet was attended by
Sportsmen from all parts of the state,
as well as from Idaho. There was $500
prize money divided.
Coleman Tierney, sailor between
Seattle and Alaska on the steamer
Spokane. was killed by hitting him
on the head with handouts recently
by Policeman w. H. Soaring of Sc
attic, while resisting arrest. He was
drunk.
From 20 to 30 bushels per acre is
the yield Of wheat Monroe Martin,
an extensive farmer living on Alkali
nat, 20 miles southwest of Colfax, re-
ceived from 700 acres Of spring and
fall sown grain which he has finished
harvesting. .4
Governor Mcbride has appointed w.
L. Wright of North Yakima as a mem
Der of the state fair commission for
Washington, to succeed William H.
Wesley Of North Yakima, who resign
ed on account of business. Mr..
Wright's term ends March 20, 1905.
Hope and Eunice Faulds' daughter
OF Postmaster Faulds of Redmond,
were drowned in Saminski slough
near Seattle recently. The two girls.
who are IA and is years old, with a
cousin, were wading in the water of
the slough when Eunice slipped into
a deep hole. The other two started
to her rescue and the two sisters sank
into the deep water locked in each
others arms. The cousin managed to
escape though she nearly lost her life.
The bodies were recovered.
1t is the opinion Of State Auditor
John d. Atkinson, who is ex-oficio
chairman of the state board of equal
ization. that the aggregate property
valuation Of this state will be raised
this year by the county boards nearly
$40 100000 over last years total val. |
uation. This means that. notwith- |
standing the increased appropriations |
by the last legislature, there will be |
no necessity for an increase in the
state levy over what it has been for
the last six or eight years.
1t has just been learned that while
sinking an artesian well few weeks
ago on the Blalock farm near Walla
Walla, owned by Finch & Campbell,
Spokane, a stratum of coal, 10 feet
thick, at depth of 300 feet, was en-
A sample of the material
sent to Pullman showed, 1t is said. a
good quality of coal. The Blalock
'arm consists of 700 acres, but deal
IS pending to add another hundred
acres. The local management refuses
o give out anything concerning the
ieal.
The open season for grouse. part
ridge. prairie chicken, sage hen, ma
I've pheasant or ptarmigan has begun.
This applies, however, only to those
east Of the Cascade noun
aims. The season extends until No
'ember 15. There is an exception.
however, in the case Of Kittitas coun-
y, where the season runs from Sep
ember 10 to October 1. In other parts
II the state the open season is from
september 1 to January 1. The open
eason for swan. goose, sandhill crane.
rant, snipe and ducks does not begin
Until September 1.