Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-05-06
LATE NEWS or THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-cuilings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Hal ]. Cole has assumed the duties
of register of the United States land
Office at Spokane.
Lett Adams, whose parents and
home are at Detroit. Mich, committed
suicide at Spokane.
The output of Washington loggers
will. be curtailed so per cent during
the months of May and June.
The Spokane bank clearings for the
month of April as reported by Brad
streets, amounted to $9,973,24S.
| Work on repairing the ilrigatins
ditch of the Palouse Land & Irrigation
company will begin in the next few
days.
The annual army athletic competi
ton for this department will be heiu
at Vancouver barracks. May 10. 90
and 81
Final arrangements have been made
for the state trap shoot, to be held in
Harrington on the 18th, goth and 21st
of May.
The Master Horseshoers and Black
smiths Protective association held its
fourth annual convention in Yakima
Saturday.
The trustees of the state normal
school at Cheney have decided to re
tain the entire faculty for the coming
school year.
The first Seventh Day Adventist
campmeeting of the upper Columbia
river conference will be held at Col
fax June to IL.
A big stock parade has been arrang
ed by the management of the Spokane
Interstate fair association for Friday
afternoon, October 7.
Another attempt is to be made this
week to organize all the lumber deal.
ers of the northwest, except the coast
shippers, into one association.
Edwin A. Snow, assistant professor
of English at the Washington Agricul.
tural college, has severed his connec-
ton with the school and left Pullman.
Merchants and people handling mon
ey should watch for counterfeit coins,
as several bogus ten dollar gold pieces
have been passed in Colfax recently.
Rates for Bellingham on hay, grain
and flour from eastern Washington
equal to the carload lot schedule in
effect to Everett and Seattle. is in ef-
feet.
The proposition for a filter for Col
fax's water supply carried by a vote
OF 293 to lit in a recent election. The
plant will be installed as soon as DOS
sible
Victor Ahern, the 16 year old son
OF Mrs Ahern, a widow living seven
miles northeast of Ritzville, was killed
at Hitzvilie by train striking his wag-
on while crossing the tracks.
In a trial test of Greene Smiths new
reversible hillside disc harrow near
Colfax proved a perfect success and
no doubt exists but that it will meet
the requirements of the country.
Frank P. Bell of Fairfield is the
inventor of device which he claims
Will prevent lightning from striking a
telephone and running the instrument
or giving person who may be using
1t at the time a shock.
Robert ID. Williams accidentally kill
ed himself while STOPPING over to drink
from spring, while bear hunting
ABOUT two miles from Northport. The
accident was caused by a revolver
dropping from its holster, the hammer
striking rock.
The scaffold on which Chamnoux
seattle wife-murderer, will be hanged
may 3, is ready at the state peniten.
tlary. Champoux will be the first man
TO sufer capital punishment under tho
new law which provides for all eye.
cutions at the prison there.
We were very much surprised while
IN SPOKANE few days ago. to note
that the shaw-Wells Company South
lSo Post St, carried full line Of paso-
line launches and both wood and metal
row boats. We had an idea that this
class OF gods would not be carried in
an inland town. ~
Inc Goss contract for the buildino
OF the state capitol annex has At Last
Deen completed and contractors are
ready to turn the building over tn tbe
state. Some minor contracts Which,
include installing of vault fixtnres
electric fixtures and hot water beatar
Ior the lavatories. are not completed |
out VIII probably be finished before
tne capitol commission is called
Sheriff ]. A. Denholm of Tacoma vos
shot through the head and serionsln
injured by Bob Taylor, who later shot
and killed an English tramp and thor
wounded boy companion of the tramn
on the Indian reservation between To
coma and Puyallup. Denholm was try.
ing to gain admittance to the cahin
where the crazy man was hiding Tha
injured boy lives in Butte, where he
says his father is a physician.