Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-10-09
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges
From Washington, idaho. Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

IONS to Davenport and nothwithstand-
ing the fact that trainloads of the
staple are being shipped out, the ware
houses are overlooking and are COM
pelled to build platforms to handle
the overflow. over a quarter of a
million Of bushels of wheat have been
received and It is estimated that near
ly one-half Of the crop is still upon
the farms. Little grain is being sold.
Frank Coleman, who claims Amer
ica's middleweight catch-as-catch-ca
wrestling championship, recently de-
feated Tom Davis at Whatcom, win
ming the first fall at the end of /
hour and AZ minutes, and the second in
five minutes.
Frank Dudacek of Iowa, who bought
400 acres of the Edgar A. Torrance
farm, near Diamond, last spring for
$1,000, is expected this week in Col
fax with colony of his neighbors. Mr..
Dudacek's experience with Whitman
county farming has been such a pleas
ing surprise to him that he is expected
to bring large number of farmers to
join the Iowa colony which settled
near Diamond last spring.
With the completion of the Belling-
ham Bay & British Columbia line, d.
G. Corbin's new railway to connect
with the Canadian Pacific, and the
Occur d'Alene electric road into Spo-
kane it will be warranted in disputing
with Denver the title of being the
greatest railroad center of the west.
Today Spokane is distributing through
railroads in 13 general directions, not
counting branch lines into territory
reached in general way by main
system. By the first of the year the
new trolley line will have added a
fourteenth general distributor.
After a four days session the Stew
ems county fair closed one of the most
successful expositions and race meets
ever held in the county. 1t is esti-
mated that fully 10000 people visited
the fair during the season.
Exhibits may be shipped free to Spo
kane if destined for the great expo.
sition at st. Louis.
The city of Spokane tax levy this
year will be 10 mills, an increase OF
one mill over last year.
A daughter was born to Cromwell
M. Knowlton recently at Seattle. Just
as the child was born into the world
Knowlton lighted a fuse to can Of
black powder in a small cabin short
distance from his home and blew him
self into eternity. He attempted to
take two-year-old daughter with him
but the little girl escaped with slight
injuries.
The pay roll for the Spokane school
teachers for the first month Of the
school year amounted to $18,079,SO.
All the butcher shops in Walla
Walla will close at o'clock here
after.
The Lincoln county fair dates from
Oct. 10 to II, inclusive, at Davenport
The judges at the fruit fair at Walls
Walla awarded G. R. Frasier the
sweepstakes prize of $50 for the bes'
Individual display, he taking six frs
prizes in this class out Of seven ex
hibits made at the fairs there.
A receiver has been appointed fol-
Greenberg Bros, dry goods dealers O
Whatcom, at the instigation Of Sal
Francisco creditors. The aggregate o
the claims of the San Francisco houses
is $4,000. Their estimated assets are
$4,000.
The rapid growth of Palouse town.
causes a scarcity of houses.
The strike of linemen employed b.
the Pacific States Telephone & Tele
graph company has been official!
called off.
BY the sale of 100000 Spokan'
county refunding bonds the count.
commissioners save the taxpayers o
the county $4,000 in interest in tn
next ten years. The new bonds wer'
sold at 4 IL per cent interest, at $l2O
premium and accrued interest.
Valuable records Of the Catholi
church. which it will be impossible t
replace. were destroyed by fire whic
Quilted the residence of Bishop Ed
ward ODea at Seattle. The fire wa
caused by a defective fiue, and ma
it's origin adjacent to the room
which the records were kept.
A street carnival will be held l
Dayton, October 10 to II, under tn
auspices of the Layton camp, No "
w. o. w. This is the first carnivf
ever held in Dayton.
MONTANA ITEMS.