Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-05-15
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
--LATEST NEWS or THE. WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week-Most
Every section Shows Prosperity
Many Accidents and Personal Hap
peninss.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Coifax Thursday, May Il.
Pullman is enjoying building boom
which promises to surpass that OF last
year.
Heavy shipments of potatoes are
being made from Garfield to Kansas
City and Texas points.
w. w. Renfrew of Colfax, former
county clerk, has bought the Bank OF
ElDerton from H. w. Roberts.
Ralph Niles of. Whitman academy
won the interacademic defamation
contest at Walla Walla recently.
A steady. soaking rain which will
be of inestimable value to the grain
crop OF the Palouse country, fell last
Sunday.
"A letter has been received from
Marconi, the inventor Of wireless
telegraphy, stating that he would visit
Spokane in June.
The semicentennial reunion of the
Pioneers association of Washington
twill be held at Madison park, Seattle,
on June and 8. =
The little son Of Henry Schlehube',
who lives north Of Pennington, was
kicked by horse recently, causing
fracture of the skull.
The members Of the Spokane G. A..
r. propose to give royal entertain
ment to fellow veterans when the de
partment encampment meets in Spo-
kane in May.
The German steamship Anubjs
smashed into the south grain conveyor
and dock of elevator q at Tacoma re
I. Gently. causing damage estimated at
{ between $4,000 and $4,000.
At Whatcom fire recently destroyed
the dry kiln and shingle shed, together
with 100000 shingles, belonging 10
the Hastings Single company Of Van
couver. B. G. LOSS $4,000.
The electric light company has an
nounced that it will at once entirely
replace its line Of poles and wire n
Asotin. The company now has about
100 lights in use in Asotin.
A carload-about $50 head-of stock
hogs was shipped from Garfield recent
ly to Spokane. The pigs weighed from
80 to 125 pounds each. Eight cents
per pound was paid for them.
The Pasco country is to be irrigated
ut last Water is to be secured from
Snake river and to be raised to a de-
sired level by an immense pumping
plant, 1t Is said. at Five Mile rapids.
Tommy Saluskin. an Indian, was
killed recently at Big Cottonwood on
the upper Ahtanum. He got into a
fight with some Indians over a horse
when George Ward hit him with q
stone, killing him almost instantly.
The May apportionment of current
school funds will exceed any other
quarterly apportionment ever made in
this state by over 100000 The state
auditor certified to the amount avail
able for distribution among the school
districts. placing 1t at 5000, 685.
Mrs. Kahlert died at Spokane hos
pital recently of pemphigus. Penn
phigus Is very peculiar disease aud
literally skins the patient alive. The
disease originates IN a large blister.
Other blisters form and, expanding,
take the skin of the patient. 1t is al
ways fatal
The government has ordered a gen.
eral investigation of the status of In
dian allotments which may result In
the cancellation of number of such
claims on the Colville reserve and the
throwing open 20 settlement and entry
by citizens of some of the best lands
in eastern Washington.
A contract has been awarded by the
Pierce County Improvement company,
which is Harvesting the glaciers Of
Mount Tacoma for power for four of
the largest turbine wheels in the world.
The giant generators will develop $500
horse power each and are IL feet In
diameter. They are to supply electric
current for Tacoma and the nearby
places.
George G. Hackett Of Boston is In
Seattle for the purpose of erecting
large refrigerator plant and arranging
for the establishment of line of 100
refrigerator cars between Seattle and
eastern markets. In these his COM
pany will ship from Puget sound fresh
salmon. halibut. smelt and other fish
to all points in the United States. Each
car has a capacity of 25 tons net and
Will be shipped 10 times each year.
MONTANA EVENTS.
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