Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-04-10
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of interesting ltems
Gathered Through the Week-Most
Every Section Shows Prosperity
Many Accidents and Personal Hap
penIngs.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The census Of Palouse shows pop
ulation of 1904.
DR.. r. e. Stewart, one Of the early
settlers OF Goldendale, died last week.
q The Pacific National league has sue
ceeded the Pacific Northwest league.
g. w. Bowens store and postoffice
at Glenwood was totally destroyed by
IRE recently.
The city of Goldendale has pur-
chased its waterworks system from
Hess & Cooper.
The farmers and fruitgrowers
around Ellensburg have organized a
shippers association.
Flowing has begun generally In the
Palouse country, and with dry wealth
or seeding will be in full blast
North Yakima and surrounding
country is suffering from shortage
OF hay never before experienced.
The Spokane county annual Sunday
school convention will meet April 9
and 10 in Spokane, at the First Pres
byterian church.
The growth OF Klickitat county Is
shown by the fact that 300 tracts of
land were added to the assessment
roll last year.
Walla Walla gamblers say the
games, which are now running wide
open in Walla Walla, will continue,
regardless of the law.
At Seattle the jury In the case of
Annie Lewis. charged with the murder
of Manse Lewis on January 6, returned
o verdict of not guilty.
The residence of Aaron Kuhn, at
Spokane, was entered by burglars re-
Gently while the family was absent
and a number of costly articles were
stolen.
The magnitude of the real estate
transfers In Whitman county and the
number Of immigrants who are pour
ing into the district daily are sur
prising.
G. g. Raby, ex-Whitman county audi
tor, has been taken to the peniten.
tiary. He was convicted of larceny by
embezzlement for the theft of war;
rant for $1753.
Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate
and philanthropist. promises $4,000
for the construction Of book temple
on site to be furnished by the city
Of Spokane.
Charles Hickman was shot through
the heart and instantly killed by Will
liam Kelley at the Colfax fair grounds
recently. The shooting was purely
accidental.
The first hop contracts made this
spring In the Yakima valley have
been filed with the county auditor. in
which 10000 pounds Of the 1908 crop
were sold at is and II cents.
James Fielding, farmer. living on
Pleasant Prairie. near Spokane. took
teaspoonful of arsenic recently,
claiming that he mistook 1t for gut
nine, and as a result Is dead
A large sawmill is to be built at the
town of Ward. about a mile and
half from Marcus, ON Kettle river.
Ward Is new townsite on the Wash
ington q Great Northern railway.
BY the unanimous vote OF the Spo-
kane board of education, James A.
Tormey Of Winona, Mimi, was elected
to the SUPPLEMENTARY of the public
schools at q salary Of $4,000 a year.
Invitations have been extended to
the mayors and the editors through
out the Inland Empire to visit Spo-
kane as the guests of the Roosevelt
committee upon the date of the presi-
dents visit.
Run to earth by persistent work of
detectives. three men are In the Spo-
kane county Jail who have confessed
to being implicated in wholesale
scheme to plumber the Spokane Drug
company.
John Roberts. railroad yard en-
ploye at Wallula, was probably ia
tally shot through the abdomen by
Deputy Sheriff William Nave recently,
the railroad man having shot at Nave
first. thinking he was holdup.
Chris Nygard a we'll known con-
tractor Of Wilbur, shot and killed him
self instantly about 1875 p. m. Satur-
day Dependency on account of be-
Ing unable to get some work settled
for. combined with Ill health. are sup
posed to be the causes OF the sad
AFFAIR.
An unknown man wearing a full
face mask walked into saloon at
Govan recently and. saying "I've got
you now!" fired three shots at G. F.
Tennis, killing him almost instantly.
The unknown ran to the back door
and escaped in the darkness.
The Masonic Temple Association Of
Tacoma has been authorized to let the
contract for the excavation for the
foundation walls and to prepare for
the cornerstone to be laid by Presl.
dent Roosevelt Friday. May 20. All
the Masonic bodies in the Jurisdiction
Of Washington will be invited.