Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-01-08
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanees-culilnss
from Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Spokane Will be connected Will
Wallace, Idaho, by January Id by POS
tai telegraph wires.
The ending of the year 1903 closed
most prosperous one for Chelan.
Spokane had no zero weather In
1903.
About 40 cars of barley have passed
through Walla Walla during the past
week en- route from Columbia county
to tidewater. Most of the grain was
sent to Portland, but one trainload
went to Seattle. Columbia county pro-
duces nearly 100000 bushels of bar
ley annually, and most of it Is sent to
Milwaukee, Denver and the Sound. A
large sale was made early in the sea-
son by which Jacob Weinhard secured
nearly half million bushels. Since
that time the sales have been light
until just at the close Of the year.
All Sou, a Chinese girl 16 years old,
who has been sold as slave three
times in the past three years, is in jail
at Seattle, and two Cinnamon who are
charged with aiding her to elude the
immigration officers are also under ar
erst.
No attempt is being made to oper-
ate the shingle mills in Bellingham,
where the operatives. are on strike
against a 10 per cent wage reduction
The annual meeting and banquet OF
the Whitman county bar association
held recently, was the most successful
in the history of the association.
With the purchase out of the per
manent school fund of state bonds
amounting to $195,O0OO, the invest
ment of the. entire permanent school
fund, and it's normal increase up to
April 1, 1904, is provided for.
The shingle mills in the state OIL
Washington have closed and will not
reopen until February. The shutdown
was agreed upon as an effective meth
cd of restoring the market conditions
and preparing for an advance of pri
ces, which will be insisted upon in the
future.
Adolph Krug, former city treasurer
of Seattle. who, before the expiration
of his term of Office, in 1894, was con
victed of embezzling over 100000 O
the city funds, was found dead in the
Pleasant Beach hotel recently. Coro
ner Kellan of Kitsap county says hear
disease was the cause.
The number of creameries operat
ing in the state during the year O
1908 is All, and the amount of butte,
manufactured was 6,970,992 pounds
showing an increase of 1,OS7,741 lbs
The number of cheese factories in tn,
state during the year of 1908 is "a
and the amount of cheese manufac
tured Is 1,S15,551. showing the in
crease for the year of 1856 pounds
During the present season Their,
have been received at the grain ware
houses of Tekoa from Occur d'Alen,
Indian reservation, an estimate,
amount of 10000 bushels of wheat
and 10000 sacks. or 100000 pounds
of oats.
DR.. R. P. Moore at Davenport re
moved bullet from the skull of Jacol
Rathjens, who shot himself in Spo
kane a few months ago. The bulle
was located by probing and when lo
Gated the skull was chiseled away an,
the ball removed. During the opera
lions the pressure upon the brain O
the pationt nearly resulted in death
For 30 minutes artificial respiratio,
was resorted to and for 10 minutes n,
action of the heart or pulse could b.
perceived. The patient is restin
easily and will probably recover.
Fred Poepinger, the Is year. old DO,
OF Tacoma who was shot by a spen
bullet November 10, is now playing
with his companions though the lead
en- missile is embedded in his brain.
Brick" Johnson, wanted in Wall
Walla county, Wash, on a seriou
charge, was arrested in Billings, Mont
recently.
Brakeman George G. Blanchard O
Everett, fell between the cars of tn
eastbound freight train near Merritt
and was killed. He had probably bee
applying or releasing brakes and wall
ing over the train and slipped. H
leaves a wife and four children |,
Everett.