Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-06-19
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.

Broker Howard ]. Kressly of Spo-
kane is still among the missing and the
warrant issued for his arrest remains
unserved
All four national banks of Spokane
show decided increase In the report
which has been prepared for the comp
troller of the currency.
Just $3.50 for each meadow lark is
what two birds cost Leo Denzel and
John Hopkins, two young men of Spo-
kane, for killing the birds.
Reports come from the Horse Heav-
en- country that the wheat crop for
this year is practically ruined and
hundreds of farmers will be ruined
financially.
Officials of the new Occur d'Alene
& Spokane Street Railway company
have received $50 carloads of rails and
materials for the new line, from Pu-
eblo, Col.
Contracts are soon to be let for the
construction of an irrigation system
which will furnish water for 226 acres
Of land owned by that company at
I.irby.
The recent rain was general through
out nearly all parts Of the Inland EN-
pire, according to reports from the
principal towns, and was Of great value
to the growing crops.
| The dead body of a man was found
in the Yakima river recently 20 miles
below Kiona. 1t is supposed to be
the corpse of section hand who fell
into the river at Ellensburg
| Governor Mcbride has named R. @.
McCroskey of Garfield, Wash, and
Frank ]. Barnard of Seattle as regents
Of the state agricultural college. Both
men succeed themselves and each win
serve q term of six years.
Horatius won the second Seattle
Derby on a slow track, against field
of eight starters. in 2:12h, coming un-
der the wire two and one-half lengths
ahead of Polonius, with Fossil third,
killed off in the early pace.
| The dry kilns of the Monarch Shin
gle company at Blaine we're destroyed
by fire recently. Six million shingles
were burned, entailing loss of be
tween $4,000 and $4,000. The insur-
ance is about half the loss.
A leading hop buyer of North va.
kima who went over the valley on a
tour of inspection reports that he
found the hop fields in better condi.
ton than at this time last year, with
good indications OF crop equally as
good as last year.
A 10 year old son of Simeon Evans,
who lives in Robinson canyon, near
Ellensburg, while driving to the cream
cry recently fell of the wagon and the
wheel, striking his head, completely
acalped one side. The CHANGING blow
saved the boys life.
4 Charles Billings, former sheriff OF
Thurston county, selected to succeed
Jesse Mills, who has been appointed on
the state board of control, has declined
and Edward McClarty, veteran of the
Spanish-American war, has been ap
pointed in his stead.
The directors of the Seattle National
bank and the Boston National bank
have each adopted resolutions to con
solidate these two institutions, form
ing new one with a capital and sur.
plus of 100000 and taking the name
of the Seattle National bank.
Major Silas Wolf of the Nineteenth
infantry will be the battalion com
mander of the four companies of that
regiment which will be quartered al
Fort Wright at Spokane to succeed the
two companies of the Seventeenth, that
will leave for the Philippines on the
goth.
A number of the members of the
Spokane Rod and Gun club will attend
the shoot at Dayton on June 26, q
and 28. This shoot, given by the
Sportsman's Association of the North
west, is the biggest event of the year
in gun circles. Shooters from Oregon
Idaho, Montana, Utah, British Column
bia and Washington will take part.
Governor Mcbride has announced
the appointment of the Lewis and
Clark exposition committee of the state
of Washington. 1t consists of Hon.
g. Megler, Brookfield; Colonel F.
Parker, Walla Walla; w. W. Tolman
Spokane; Hon. G. w. R. Peaslee, Clark
ston; Hon. r. P. Thomas, Anacortes;
Hon. Thomas Harrington, Buckley
Hen. George Lindsey. In this list
Messrs. Tolman, Peaslee, Thomas
Harrington and Lindsey are also mem
bers of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition commission of the state of Wash
ington, while Messrs. Megler and Par
ker were on the preliminary board Of
the Portland exposition.
The fruit harvest on the Snake river
has begun. The cherry crop is being
gathered and shipped.
The sixth annual encampment o.
he whitman county G. A. R. and w
r. G. will be held in Pullman July
g and 10.
The recent electric storm at We
natchee, WASH, caused the hills an(
mountains to reverbrate in sounds o.
cannonading.
4 The Walla Walla district conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
will be held In Pullman three day.
beginning June %.
John F. Dore. one of the best known
'riminal lawyers in the northwest
: died at his home in Seattle recent,
of fatty degeneration of the heart.
Smallpox is getting a fresh start In
Walla Walla, eight patients being re
ported here. Five of these are In the
pesthouse, which is now under county
control.
The "Old Settlers club" of lower
Spokane county appropriately OBJ
served Flag day by giving picnic
and having a flag raising at the new