Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-16
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
Few interesting ltems Gathered
r,om our Exchanges Of the Sur.
.ourdlnq country-Numerous AeeI-
..0,s and Personal Events Take
p,.os-outIoOk Is Bright.
wAsHlNeroN NOTES.

u rings at o'oU y. H'
i I Grain near Wilbur is we'll advanced
4 .nd harley is beginning to head.
O Tho NAV tax receipts at Tacoma
L ..ounted to $163,000, an increase Of
3 shout $4,000 over last year.
b rollegiate work at the University
4 !, washington has now been closed
y mr the present year.
l THE annual reunion of the pioneers
4 a spokane county held last week was
. snioyed by between 900 and 700 peo-
pie.
n The May flour shipments from Sc
rs ,tle amounted to 122,681 barrels, val
. nod at nearly one half million dol
y lars.
Governor Mead has decided that
e. 1udpe S. ]. Chadwick of Colfax is in
eligible to the Office of railway com
missioner.
Ernest Tough, aged 10, son of Jas.
r, Tough, farmer near Rock Lake, had
4 his left arm shot off while hunting
wyotes recently.
as The body of George Wright, de-
serer from Vancouver barracks, was
pg bund Sunday IN the river, about
NJ mile below Spokane.
=. The congressional irrigation COM
nittee has agreed to spend one day in
!. eastern Washington, devoting three
\ hours to North Yakima and the re-
Il nander of the day at Spokane.
Il A grand jury to probe into rumors
!. Ot corruption in the Spokane city and
/. county government was drawn in the
n superior court Saturday morning by
i. direction of Judge Poindexter.
Mark A. Fullerton of the supreme
n, bench of the state of Washington is
n 10 be given the degree Of doctor Of
a laws, by the Washington State col
"a ege on commencement day, June %.
re Arnold Kohler shot himself with
ia, nlCldal intent at a sheep camp on the
Its Columbia river. He died just as rela-
aid lives reached town with him. He shot
Ri himself in the head with a big re-
VOlYer.
The annual encampments Of the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
., WOmens Relief Corps for the depart
n nent Of Washington and Alaska, will
I'M begin at Vancouver June 20 and con-
81 inue for three days.
St John S. McMillin of Roche Harbor
cit md ]. c. Lawrence of Colfax will as
on dst Chairman Harry Fairchild Of Bel
lie, hgham in regulating the railroads Of
the he state Of Washington, according to
be he governors latest determination.
sy. fine flow of water has been struck
wi the we'll drilled on the farm Of
on bhn Bradley, in Horse Heaven, eight
niles south of Prosser. The water
vas encountered at depth of 1853
let and stands "a feet deep, the sup
as ny being inexhaustible.
on The Woolgrowers' association Of
ghO Fierce county has sold their clip to
on theodore Berheim at Portland at 27&
rip ents, the highest price received in
bat many years. Six bidders competed,
figuring at about q cents. The
sO4 mp will be about 5000 pounds.
the Peter Curry. a man who had been
the 0lVicted short time ago in the SUI
,TyI erlor court at Olympia on the charge
pan horse stealing and who was out
bail pending an appeal to the SUI
rene court, shot and killed himself
Lewis county.
,ds. William Lowering and Thos. O'Con-
raj Who were arrested at Seattle a
ect !" Gays ago after duel with officers,
ich which number of shots were fired
the sunday morning, have pleaded
ing iiV to the charge of burglary and
al VI sentenced to serve IA years each
,ro- lne state penitentiary.
,lry beginning with the goth of this
ext l0ntn and lasting until after the
vu''h OF July, hundreds Of Indians
M assemble at Nespelem, on the Col
ie reservation, and hold a meeting
10y VIII be one of the most noted
u, 'aerlngs of the red men ever held
~ 'ue west. The occasion will be com
g. curative of the death of Chief Jo-
ar ~. .ulis Par!sshiGGTst, proprietor Of the
WI MOTEL at Aberdeen, lies in the
& 1pltai with a cracked skull as the
~. OF a shooting scrape which oc-
s,eu early Sunday morning between
I9eI and a roomer named r. A.
%s'enoerger. The quarrel was over
'n' auufst's stepdaughter, whom, it is
-sl Nv, Weisenberger had insulted.
an 'sSnOerger fred two shots, one TAX
EN- ! elect in the skull. He also fred
one 'srkhurst's wife, but missed her.
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MONTANA NOTES.