Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-06-12
THREE NORTHWEST STATES.
LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week-cuII-
inss From Washington, idaho, Mon
tana--Numerou Accidents and Per
sonaI Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A gun club has been organized at
Waterville.
1t is expected Spokane county will
have magnificent exhibit at the St.
Louis fair.
The plans Of the Cascade Lumber
company at North Yakima is to double
the mills size.
The German agriculturists from the
fatherland practically cut Spokane out
of their itinerary.
The New York market is opening up
TO Inland Empire shingles on account
|of the high grade of the cedar.
Thurston County Sheriff ]. T. Mills
is said to have the appointment to
take charge of the state reform school.
The May record of the police is a
record of the largest number of arrests
on state charges in the history of Spo-
kane.
The body of James Mccormick was
found recently, having smothered in
a lumber car on the way from Milan
to Spokane.
A business mems association to pro-
mote the interests of the town and
surrounding country has been organ
lied in Oakesdale.
James Montgomery, 25 years of age,
was robbed. murdered and his body
was placed on the interurban street
car track near Auburn recently.
A Northern Pacific section hand was
drowned in the Yakima river recently
about four miles below Ellensburg.
The body has not yet been recovered.
Palouse farmers are jubilant over
better crop conditions. The warm
weather, with plenty of moisture in the
ground, has given wheat good start.
The depostitors of the defunct Scan
dinavian American bank at Whatcom
have voted to prosecute embezzlement
charges against the former assistant
cashier, ]. S. Stangroom.
Brigadier General Fred Funston, in
command of the department of the Co
lumbia, visited Spokane recently and
made thorough inspection of all gov
eminent properties at the fort.
Mrs. Robert Scatter, wife of prom
inent furniture dealer in Seattle, was
attacked, chloroformed and robbed re
Gently of about $1,000 in her apartments
in the day time by two unknown men
The citizens of Bremerton have TAX.
en- the final step toward compliance
with the demands of the navy depart
ment. The town council has passed
an ordinance summarily revoking the
license of every saloon in the place.
Lying in clump of bushes on the
side hill at Meadow point near Seattle
the badly decomposed body of an un
known man was found recently. In
the right side of the head was a bullet
hole, but no revolver could be found
Bert Padgett and two young men
named Ibsin were arrested recently al
Latah, charged with horse stealing. II
| Is claimed they are members of gang
of horse thieves which has been oper
ating in that Section for over year.
Laying the cornerstone of the 500,
000Roman Catholic church at Spokane
will occur Sunday, June %, at 2 O'Clock
in the afternoon, providing the date
does not interfere with the plans OF
Bishop Edward O'Dea, who is to de
liver the address.
The executive committee in charge
of the Spokane millworkers' strike de
clares that a general sympathetic
strike of all the building trades in Spo
kane will be called unless the Difficult
ties of the millworkers and the mill
owners are not soon settled.
The city of Spokane has accepted
Andrew Carnegie's offer of $4,000 for
a public library, and the resolution
which was unanimously adopted by the
city council thanked Mr.. Carnegie for
the gift and accepted his terms, there
by agreeing to raise annually $500 for
the maintenance of the library and also
to provide the necessary site.
On and after Thursday not public
gambling house will be open in Spo-
kane. The new gambling law, which
makes 1t felony punishable by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for
from one to three years, to conduct
any gambling game in the state of
Washington, goes into effect next
Wednesday night at midnight.