Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-08
-FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS or THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice selection Of Interesting items
Gathered From Exchanges cuIIIngs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and orenon---N Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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Al savings bank, to be known as the
Peoples Savings bank, has been or
ganized at Davenport.
So much rain has fallen In the Pres
colt country and westward on Eureka
nat that the farmers predict an un-
usually bad spring for weeds.
A new idea at the Spokane Interstate
fair this fall will be q number of
prizes in different departments which
will be open only to school children.
Columbia county has a court record
for the past 15 months perhaps UNI
equaled elsewhere in the state. But
one criminal case has come to trial
in that time.
A report from seattle says that or
ders have been placed with local deal
ers in the last few days for 225,000
cases Of Alaska pink salmon for ship
ment to Japan.
Mrs. f. +. Emery Of Spokane will not
represent the Washington State Fed
GRAFTON as delegate to the General
Federation of Women's clubs, to be
held at st. Louis this summer. Mrs.
Emery has left for Boston, to be gone
all summer. 1t is expected that Mrs.
Harris Baldwin OF Spokane will be ap-
pointed to I'LL the vacancy.
The first conviction in a perjury
case ever secured in the superior court
of Spokane county has reached the end
with the sentence of Frank Rutledge
to serve five years in the state peni-
Tertiary.
Prizes for fruit will be greatly in
creased at the Spokane Interstate fair
this season.
An order recently issued by Adju.
tant General Drain announces that
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Taylor,
18th infantry, has been detailed by the
commanding general of the Pacific
division to make the annual inspec-
ton Of the national guard Of Washing
ton during this month, as provided for
by the militia act of 1908.
Joseph Henritzi of Chelan has in
vented new building material which
he expects to manufacture at his up
lake home. 1t is white as marble, can
be nodded into any shape. and is to
be much stronger and tougher than
brick and to stand the ravages of the
elements much better.
Barnet Lipscomb, we'll known far
mer. is dead at his home near Colfax,
of old age.
The First National bank Of Colfax
has opened savings bank department,
the first In Whitman county.
In response to the call of the comp
troller Of currency the banks of Spo-
kane have issued statement Of their
financial condition at the close of bus
mess Monday, March 2S. The report
shows deposits Of ten millions Of dol
lars In the Spokane banks and an In
crease Of nearly half million dollars
since the last call for January 23.
We expect to build about 60 miles
of railroad to tap our timber holdings
at the head of the Palouse and the
Potlatch rivers" said Henry furnish
OF Duluth. Mimi, vice president of
the Potlatch- Lumber company, which
has mill at Palouse City.
The American Hereford Breeders
Association has decided to offer $500
in premiums at the Spokane Interstate
fair this fall
A special Pullman will be chartered
for the Walla Walla delegation to the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows meeting
to be held in Tacoma in June.
The Farmers warehouse at Garfield
was damaged to the extent of $500 by
fire.
Blanche Stoddard. the Pacific coast
actress. who is now Mrs. Edward J.
Ratcliffe, has been engaged at Boston
for the star part in special produc
ton of Wagner's "Parsifal," to be
given at the Castle Square theatre
Miss Stoddard came from Spokane
where she made her debut in public
March rs, 1893, reading the chariot
race from Ben Hur" with fine dra
matte effect.
A plant to make brick, to cost $4,000
will be installed at Prosser.
Five hundred homestead patents
without which title to government lane
is not considered perfect, lie in the
district land Office at Walla Wallt
waiting claimants.
Workmen in the Great Northern
shops at Hillyard are employed II
hours day now instead of eight hours
as they have been working all winter
The quarterly report of the stat
land office shows greater receipts int,
the current school fund than for an,
previous, quarter. The excess over tn
largest previous quarter is $4,000.
The sugar beet industry in the vi
entity Of Latah promises to be create
this fall than ever.
DR.. John NJ. Semple has been elect
ed president of the Medical Lake He
tel and Sanitarium company. which
erecting new sanftarium at Medics
Lake. Spokane county. The sanitariur
is to be four stories high. A phys
clan viii be in charge.
Farming operations are In full bias
: in the vicinity of Endicott, and abor
half of the spring seeding is dom
In western Whitman county. wher
the soil is lighter and contains NOR
sand than in the eastern half. sprin
work can begin from one TO thre