Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-14
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
= Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acel-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place Outlook Is Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Washington, near Seattle. An up
turned boat with wearing apparel be-
longing to the couple was found on
the bank of Union bay.
r. H. Chiffon of Dayton, aged 65
years, in a fit of dependency placed
a A caliber revolver to his right ear
and sent crashing through his brain
bullet that caused instant death.
Harry c. Boyd blew out his brains
at Spokane last Friday night. He was
the assistant general agent of the
Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance COM
pany and had been in the insurance
business in the northwest for % years.
He was one of the largest stockhold-
ers in the Big Bend National bank of
Davenport, Wash.
Unless the state takes some steps
Immediately toward the appointment
of deputy fire warden with jurisdic-
ton in this county the whole country
to the north and northeast of Seattle
will be in flames within the next few
weeks, says Game Warden Ref.
The body of Albert Irving was found
in Kettle river, about five miles above
Danville, and taken to Curlew for
burial. Irving was driving logs down
the river and was drowned May IL.
The place where the body was found
was IL miles from where the acct
dent occurred.
Ulysses s. Grant, son Of the illus
triOus federal commander in chief, is
spending this week in Spokane.
Marshal Lyons of Toledo has arrest
ed Hezekiah Hall, Familiarity known in
his native home in Lee county, Vir-
ginia, as Hike" Hall. He is wanted
in Lee county for the alleged murder
Of John Grub and divers other seri-
GUS offenses. Hall admits that he kill
ed Grub, but claims that he did it
in self defense. He stated to Sheriff
Urquhart that he had killed eight
men, remarking that some men would
never be good until they were dead,
and that he had run up against eight
men whom he found it necessary to
make good" The man is So years
old and quite gray.
The entire alfalfa crop around We
natchee was badly damaged and in
sections entirely ruined by the heavy
rains of last week. The crop was all
down.
Seattle's foreign export business for
June amounted to nearly 100000,
being greater than that of any previ-
GUS month in the history of the city.
The Northern Pacific hauled 655
cars of lumber out of Tacoma in
June.
The legality Of the 100000 issue
|of school bonds for Tacoma has been
sustained by the supreme court. The
money will be used for the construe-
ton of high school in that city.
Graduates of the law department of
the University of Washington will be
admitted to the senior class of the
Yale law school on presenting their
diplomas,
The Wenatchee cannery has COM
pleted the first week of its existence.
Mr.. Foy, the manager of the canning
company, says that everything is NOV
ing off in first class order, and in the
first weeks run over 1900 cans of
cherries have been disposed of.
Ed Stickney, ]. H. Malone and Jas.
Leslie, escaped convicts from the
United States penitentiary at Nc
Neill's island, have been captured.
3. ]. Lewis, the real estate broker
in Seattle, wanted at Wheaton, Ill,
for frauds amounting to more than
$4,000, will return without extradi-
ton.
Fire which started in the basement
of F. B. Wright & Co.'s paint and wall
paper store at Spokane at / o'clock
Saturday afternoon, did damage es-
timated at more than $4,000.
Saturday afternoon during the Ritz
yille-Palouse ball game, within 20
rods Of the grounds, William, the 10
year old son of John Dawson of Pa
louise, was drowned while swimming
in the river.
In the person of Louise Colotchi, the
Spokane police have unearthed an
heiress to a $15OOO0 fortune in San
Francisco.
w. A. Davis of stepto has discover
ed new and effectual method of de-
stroying squirrels. Mr.. Davis sent to
Iowa for some ferrets, which he uses
to hunt squirrels, which are one of the
greatest pests of this section. The
ferrets are trained to go into the holes
after the squirrels and either catch
and kill them or drive them out of the
holes, where dogs catch them. Mr..
Davis took three ferrets and two dogs
and went into the fields In less than
two hours he had killed 81 squirrels.