Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-06-24
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES.
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of interesting Items
Gathered From Exehanges-cuIIings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon--Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


Prosser will celebrate the Fourth OF
July in first class style.
Memorial services of the Odd Eel
lows was held last Sunday.
Arrangements are completed for the
Odessa Fourth of July celebration.
Spokanes Pioneer society held it's
ninth annual picnic last Saturday.
The next convention OF the Masonic
grand lodge will be held in Belling-
ham.
Another farmers telephone line has
been built between Harrington and
Moscow.
During the summer the churches of
Pullman VIII hold union services each
Sunday night.
Nearly $4,000 in money orders was
Der / to May 81.
T. D. Rockwell of Spokane will de-
liver the oration at the Fourth of July
celebration at Colfax
The Arthur Cox ranch of 500 acres,
near Belmont, was sold last week for
a cash consideration of $4,000.
L. O. Janeck of North Yakima was
appointed a member of the state fair
commission by Governor Mcbride.
Former State Senator CARRIER has
been selected to give the Fourth of
July Grafton at Dayton's celebration.
The fourteenth state convention of
the Washington Christian Endeavor
union will be held in Spokane June 23
to 26.
Governor Mcbride has appointed G.
W. Otterson of Seattle a delegate to
the American mining congress to meet
in Portland in August
G. Will Shaffer, secretary of the
State Bar association, has announced
that the annual meeting will be held in
Seattle July Z, 8 and 9.
1t is announced that the railroads
have decided to grant the fare and a
third rate for visitors to the Spokane
Interstate fair this year.
1t is said at the interior department
that retired army officer will be de-
tailed to take charge of affairs at the
Colville Indian reservation.
About two dozen cattle were killed
in the Blue mountains near the head
of Twenty Mile creek last week, it is
thought by eating wild parsnips.
According to present plans, the Ad-
ans county electric road will be doing
business between Davenport and Miles
in time to handle the coming crop.
The fourth annual report of the In
land Empire Horticultural and Flori-
cultural association is out in a book
entitled Fruit Growing in Washing
ton"
The annual picnic of the Lincoln
County Pioneers association was held
this week at the picnic grounds on
Crab Creek, 10 miles southeast of Har-
rington.
The population Of the city of Taco
ma, exclusive of Mckinley precinct,
according to R. L. Polk & Co.'s direc-
tory, now in press, is $1,000, an in
crease of 1000 since little less than
year ago.
The Washington Water Power COM
pany has taken up it's option and Sc
cured control of the old right of way
of the Seattle, LAKE Shore & Eastern
railroad between Spokane and Medical
Lake.
The Colfax community was deeply
shocked by receipt of the news that
j. M. ("Jack") Smith, ex-county audi
tor and one of the best known citizens
of Whitman county, had committed
suicide by shooting, at Tillamook, Ore.
The grand chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star for this state elect
ed the following officers: Grand mat
ron, Mrs. e. Belle Marcy, Montevino;
grand patron, w. r. Baker, Colville,
reelected; grand associate matron,
Mrs. Nellie w. Guernsey of Seattle;
grand associate patron, James McCor-
mick of Tacoma; grand secretary, Mrs.
Lizzie ]. Demorest of Tacoma, re-elect-
ed; grand treasurer, Mrs. Alice M.
Taylor of Seattle, reelected; grand
Mrs. S. D. Deering of
Everett; grand associate conductress,
Mrs. Emily E. Mensing, Seattle.