Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-04-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WARRINGTON NEWS.
A petition is being circulated in
Stevens county praying the board of
commissioners to appoint Charles NJ
Thomas Of White Mud lakes as game
warden. 1t is reported one man killed
10 deer In one day in the mountains
near Chewelah.
Potatoes in Yakima have taken an
other jump in price. They were SELL
ing for $40 ton, but now $28 has
been offered for a choice product.
The resignation of Prosecuting At
torney w. P. Guthrie was presented
to the Yakima commissioners and ac-
cepted.
Henry Hines of Waitsburg, sustained
a bad fracture of both ankles. the
result of fall from the front of a
business block where he was fixing
an awning.
At recent meeting of the millown-
ers along the line of the Spokane Falls
& Northern at Chewelah, it was voted
to join with the Western Pine Ship
pers' association.
The dairy school closes April %. The
session of eight weeks is proving the
most successful in the history of this
department of the Washington Agri-
cultural college.
With present weather, asparagus
shipments will be under way in 10
days, and gardeners have an excellent
prospect in this crop in yield and
prices.
Manager r. H. Cosgrove of the Spo-
kane Interstate Fair, has found new
kind of earth which, he believes, will
make the track at the fair grounds
faster and better than ever before. The
entire track will have new surface.
The purse for the Spokane Derby this
year will be $1,000, the same as last
year.
James Anderson, one of the propri-
etors of the Doan & Anderson logging
camp near Maple Falls, was drowned
at Silver Lake, 80 miles northeast of
Bellingham.
| The Yakima baseball association has
been organized for the year.
Seeding in Horse Heaven and Rat
tlesnake districts is in full blast.
David Hanley, tramp, had a leg
crushed at North Yakima, by falling
under the wheels of moving train
while attempting to board it.
| One hundred Chinese were shipped
from Seattle to San Francisco, to be
sent from there to the Bristol bay,
| Alaska. canneries.
There have been brought into the
state during the past year under GER
tificate, 904 cattle. 1877 horses and 107
swine.
A Northern Pacific freight train,
eastbound, was wrecked three miles
east of Cheney, Saturday, and the en-
CINE and 10 freight cars were badly
demolished.
John ]. Humphrey, one of the best
known bankers of eastern Washington,
died at Portland, Ore, while en- route
to Spokane, after trip to San Fran
cisco. He was 46 years old.
Plans are on foot to organize the
farmers in the vicinity of Spokane into
stock company to build cold storage
pant uOoI6ACu W dooAoI luO pAOuuSOAo
in the holding of farm products of all
kinds at central point in Spokane I'M
til such time as the best prices prevail
in the market.
1t is learned that one Japanese firm
in Seattle has had credit of $250,000
placed with it by representatives of
the Japanese government to be used
in the purchase of supplies. Largely
through this firm, 1000 tons of barely
have been sent to Kobe already from
this state and Oregon, and orders for
more are placed This movement has
jumped the price of barley from $3.50
to $3.50 ton. Big shipments of -four
are going to Japan on every ship that
leaves port.
After being under surveillance for
five days, and after being trailed about
the main streets of Spokane for nearly
half an hour H. L. Hackett and Chas.
Williams were arrested by Detectives
Burns and Briley in the act of holding
up lone pedestrian.
Senator Ankeny and Mr.. Jones call
ed on the president recently and pre-
scented him with an album of hunting
scenes taken in Stevens county.
BY defeating the University of Idaho
Whitman college won the intercolle-
gate debating championship of the
northwest for 1904.