Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-26
WASHINGTON News.


second annual WiiDur fair.
The fall term of the Waitsburg pub
lie schools will open ON August 20.
Dissatisfaction is expressed at ST.
John because of the poor mail service.
1t is said that Spokane stands sec
ond only to Los Angeles as bicycle
town.
The hay harvest in Kittitas valley
is practically over and the baiers are
at work in all directions.
Company L, N. G. W., at Colfax, has
been mustered out Of service because
of lack of competent officers.
The most serious of the forest fires
in this part of the state appear to be
in the northern part Of King county.
Sportsmen are having no trouble in
bagging plenty of birds this season
around Chelan, as they are plentiful.
Whitman county's yield of wheat is
enormous. Conservative men place to-
| tai at between 100000 and 14,0O0,-
900.
held at the association grounds just
west of Colfax from October IL to 10.
Inclusive.
| r. C. McCroskey of Garfield sold
10000 bushels of club and red wheat
Saturday to Kerr Clifford q Co. for
l66 cents.
Frederick William Round. Jr., To-
connective fireman, % years old, ended
his life with pistol at Tacoma Sat
[urday last.
T. y. Demerest of Palouse has just
sold to w. ]. Demerest of Salem, Ore,
his patent right on compressed air
water elevator.
The people of the Chelan country
think they have real live volcano in
addiction to many other interesting
natural features.
Saloon man Portz of Uniontown was
victim of masked thugs recently. They
secured $3.50 in cash, $54 in checks
and a gold watch.
4 The plans submitted for the county
bridge over the Okanogan river at
Riverside have been approved by the
secretary of war.
Twelve of the leading Knight Tenn
, plar Communicates of various eastern
cities will pass Through Spokane on
their way to San Francisco.
Jesse Reeder was killed and fear
, fully mangled in a threshing machine
accident recently near Texas lake, Ii
miles southwest of st. John.
Work was begun this week exca
waiting for the foundation and swim
ming tank for the new gymnasium fol
Whitman college, at Walla Walla.
Twelve adults and 20 children are
homeless as result Of what is though
to be an incendiary fire which burned
over Fourth Plain, five miles east o
Vancouver.
george L. Woerheide, apparently O
n cultured family in st. Louis, commit
e ted suicide in Spokane because h
would not stoop to an inferior position
:. in the community.
Frederick Campbell, the IL year oil
3 ,,son OF Rufus Campbell, farmer living
8 six miles west of Sprague, was drown
4 ed Saturday morning in Colyille lake
z He had gone swimming.
Tommy Burns of Chicago defeate,
s Cyclone" Kelley of San Francisco a
3 Tacoma recently in the fourth roun,
4 Iof what was to be 20 round mattel
Q with right to the heart.
0 A few days ago Fred Ripley o
4 Stehekin rowed small boat from tn
B head to the foot of lake Chelan in
z little over IL hours. The distance
> supposed to be about 60 miles.
Dogs of high and low degree will
compete for premiums in Spokan
from October to in the bench shoy
d which is to be given in connection
t with the Spokane interstate fair.
e Many fields of wheat that farmer
: ESTIMATED would make 40 and SO bush
d els per acre before harvest show a
+ lthreshing time a crop of 80 to 4
t bushels instead.
e Fire broke out in the stockyards o
t the Great Northern at Hillyard. Tw,
e warehouses were burned. The build
e ings were filled with outfitters' tools
and the loss is estimated at abou
$4,000. The cause of the fire is uI
known.
The mystery surrounding the disaI
pearance of William Mckenzie of Bel
J ingham, who was last seen two week
: ago in company with Miss Kate Bast
: was cleared away today by the dis
covery of both the bodies floating i
the water of Lake Whatcom.
At nrasont fbara ara 2 0A0 7eo aora
of forest reserve in Washington, an
J it is proposed to increase it by with
L drawing 2,7S2.000 acres more. 1t
!, probable that 100000 acres of tn
Z Walla Walla resArve will he eliminai