Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-09-02
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanses-c Cuttings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon--Numerou Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON news.

Hops have reached 28 cents per
pound at North Yakima
The new government cable from Sit
ka to Seattle is completed
The sales at Colfax for machinery
for one year make an aggregate of
100000.
The public schools of Colfax will
open for the new year Monday, Sep
TENDER 5.
The business of the Northern Pacific
in Pasco has reached about the high
water mark.
The business men of Hillyard have
declared in favor of annexation to the
city of Spokane.
George H. Leggett, assistant chief of
the Tacoma fire department, commit
ted suicide last week.
The initial step has been taken to-
ward the organization of a Chelan
county bar association.
Saturday about noon a company of
friends called on Richard Mcmahon
of Albion and celebrated his 92d birth
day
Over 100 mills were represented at
the semiannual meeting of the Coast
Lumbermen's association, held in Ia
coma.
The Puget Sound American is the
name of the new evening daily to be
started in Bellingham by the Blethen
family of Seattle.
Four Spokane boys, all of whom
had longing desire to see more of
the world. rode into Seattle on brake
beams last week.
Mrs. Mary Phelps, one of the pio-
neers of Whitman county, was strick-
en- with paralysis at her home near
Garfield and died.
Jack Lawton, fireman on the tug
Tempest, while fixing valve was
scalded to death by steam, six miles
below Mukilteo, near Everett
H. Baker, prominent veterinary
surgeon of Walla Walla. was found
dead in his bed recently, death having
been caused by an overdose of choral.
Guy Cotton of the state of Washing
ton was struck by an eastbound Great
Northern passenger train near Cedar
Lake, Mimi, Saturday and instantly
killed.
Cracks in the walls of the recent adj
,dition to the state insane asylum at
Meolcal Lake are so serious that trou-
BILE is feared if patients should be in
stalled.
Work will commence this week to
put the Spokane interstate fair
grounds in shape for the fair that
opens there October and continue
to October 8.
The jury in the case of state versus
Frank M. Taylor, who shot and killed
Bert A. Mcintyre on the streets of
Bossburg in the afternoon of July
the second degree.
A twin screw steamer is loading
$4,000 sacks of flour at Tacoma for
the orient. This is said to be the
largest cargo of -four ever carried
from any port on the Pacific coast.
School opens at the Washington
Agricultural college on Wednesday,
September 81, for a full term of nine
months, and the prospects are for a
larger attendance than ever before.
Jay P. Graves of Spokane, with A.
j. Smith and S.. ]. Crutcher of Pine
City, have made a trip of investiga-
ton in reference to the proposed line
from Colfax to Spokane via Pine City.
Special days have now been given
to each one of the dates of the Spo-
kane Interstate fair as follows: Octo-
Der 8, fruitgrowers' day; October 5,
British Columbia day; October 6, Der
by day; October z, Palouse day; Oc-
tober s, Spokane day; October 8, In
dian day.
The governors Office has given out
the names of four officers of the ma
tional guard of this state who have
been recommended by the governor
for the course of free instruction at
the national military school at Fort
Leavenworth and Fort Monroe. They
are: Lieutenant Howard Darlington
of Seattle, Lieutenant Burton E. Bow
en- and Captain Herbert Num- of Van
couver and Lieutenant George M. Bur-
bingham of Ellensburg.
While threshing on the farm of Bud
five miles west of Cakes.
dale, Mr.. Goodard's threshing ma
chine was blown up by smut and the
entire inside burned out. Very little
grain was destroyed, though the straw
stack was burned. Nobody was hurt
badly.
Fire originating from sparks from
the smoke jacket of the pumphouse
engine destroyed the w. & G. r.
pumphouse, water tank.
Toulouse, tools and locomotive No. l I
at Hunts junction, so miles west of !