Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-08-14
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
sRiEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-culilngs
! From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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| good.
The state penitentiary now contains
$50 prisoners.
Stevens county Will hold its county
fair in Colvflle this year.
| Grain yield reports. are more en-
couraging from Palouse farms.
| No other town in the northwest can
boast of as many automobiles as Spo-
kane.
The new depot of the Northern Pa
cific at Kennewick is well under head
way.
The Spokane city commissioners
have ordered a Decarie crematory
plant to cost>$22,500.
No fruit fair, such as was held last
season by the Walla Walla Fruit Fair
association, will be given this autumn.
The Portland FIGURING Mills COM
pany of Portland has purchased the
entire plant of the Everett roller mills
at Everett, Wash.
Earl Longmire, Is year old son of
George Longmire of Wenas valley, was
dragged to death recently by run
away horse attached to hay rake.
The following postmasters were re-
Gently appointed in Washington: Moh-
Ter, Erwin Yake, vice Emma Ayers, re-
signed; Quincy, G. M. Stewart, vice R.
w. Williams, removed.
Prominent hop growers Of the Paci-
fic northwest are endeavoring to Sc
n,,ra unity, of a ofion oroono +bo crod,o
ers with the object of controlling this
seasons product and forcing up prices.
If the attendance of Presidents Hill,
Mellen and Mohler can be secured, the
largest good roads convention ever
held in the west will be held in Spo-
kane during the interstate fair next
fall.
The supreme court has handed down
a decision unfolding the constitution
atty Of the law passed by the last
legislature making the conducting of
a gambling room, resort OF game a
felony.
The McGinnis Bros. will run hack
line between Davenport and Harring-
ton, making the round trip once each
day. The stage will leave Harring-
ton at s a. m. and return about the
same time in the afternoon.
Susan B. Bachelor, a girl not yet
16 years old, died in CONCLUSIONS re-
Gently at Seattle as the result Of TAX
ing strychnine. The coroner, after
an autopsy, declares that the drug
must hauo hoar folzar ~x,3+h o,,,.;5oI
intent.
The entire plant and lumber yard
of the Filion Saw & Single mills COM
pany at Port Angeles was destroyed
by fire recently which was probably
started by hot box in the planning
mill. The loss was about $4,000, no
insurance. The mill will be rebuilt.
On Monday, August 8, the mercan-
tile firms Of M. E. & E. T. Hay and
David Thomson of the Big Bend will
consolidate, the new firm to continue
business under the name of Thomson
Mercantile company. David Thomson
will be the manager of the business.
The new cutoff connecting Coulee
City on the Washington Central with
Adrian on the main line of the Great
Northern will be completed by August
15, In time to handle the first ship
ments of the new wheat crop In the
Big Bend country.
G. o. Cobb and H. B. Waterman, res
idents of Spokane, who came from
Webster, Iowa, last spring, have pur-
chased 1,120 acres of farm land eight
miles northeast of Watervilie. The
land Is fenced and mostly under Gull
tivation. Price $15,660.
Convict Ed. Bloom was shot in the
thigh in the jute mill at the state
prison because he refused to stop fight
ing with convict named Stetson. af-
ter being ordered three times. Bloom
was not seriously hurt. Since the
Folsom break there has been con.
siderable INSTRUMENTATION and unrest
among the prisoners at walla Walla.
Adjutant General Drain has an
nounced that the annual encampment
OF the National Guard will be held at
Camp Weisenberger, near American
lake, beginning September IA to "a.
The same rules and regulations govern
ing the encampment of last year in re-
gard to cooking, bedding, tents and
practice will be observed. All the cook.
ing will be done by enlisted men.
Oren Butten, a trapeze performer.
was killed at North Yakima in Camp-
bell Bros show. He was walking head
downward from a set of rings sus.
pended from a board 35 feet from the
ground when one of the straps holding
ring broke. He fell to the ground
and sustained a crushed skull.
Two Indians were run over and
killed on the railroad near Wapato.
While on their way home from the
show they became drunk and Law down
on the track to sleep.
]. e. Brown, a prominent real
estate dealer Of Garfield, seriously
shot Thomas Turnbow, another real
estate agent, on the streets of Garfield
Sunday morning. Brown was fastened
to Colfax and lodged in the county Jail
to prevent lynching. Feeling against
Brown here is very bitter and the
shooting is condemned as an attempt
at premeditated murder. Turnbow was