Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-08-11
rlaINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AID AID OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
sew interesting Items Gathered
s,om our Exchanges Of the Sur
.,uDdInq country-Numerous Acct
a.ots and Personal Events Take
Ol,es-outlOok Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

, There are eighty-three hundred tele.
0b6aes in Spokane.
pomer Wicks was drowned recently
!, the Snake river near Colfax.
New wheat is arriving in Seattle
40 weeks in advance of last year.
/ new jail for boys has been fitted
m in the court house at Seattle.
The records of the burned court.
,ouse at Waterville are unimpaired.
The Olympia Trade Council has Sc
mred Governor Mead as labor day
orator, September 4.
Chuckanu, sandstone will be used in
he construction of the new federal
building at Seattle.
George Rumens, an old time Palous-
er and wealthy rancher and mine own
A. attempted suicide recently.
It is said the Chicago, Milwaukee &
s. Paul Railway company has pur-
chased terminal grounds in Seattle.
The year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Mahart of Reardan was run over
BY load of hay and instantly killed.
Straw day was observed at Cunning
lam last Tuesday to put the roads in
shape for the general hauling time to
come
Mayor Clark of Sumas has instruct
ID the town marshal to close up all
pmbling places and prosecute all Of
lenders.
A comparison with the tax rolls of
lincoln county of the last year show
az Increase in taxable property Of
elS82S.
The Spokane Interstate Fair will
AOW an improvement over all previ-
GUS years this season." says Manager
COsgrove.
Property owners of Sedro-Woolley
ue required by it's city ordinance to
Ht the thistles from their places be-
fore August 10.
During the last q years the fire in
arance companies have paid losses in
he state of Washington amounting to
more than SIS, 1868.
For the past month the demand for
hbor at the Seattle city employment
bureau has been from two to three
times as great as the supply.
The jewelry store of A. E. Sever Of
Palouse city was robbed of SIS worth
d goods by man whom Mr.. Sever
accidentally locked in his store.
Anunidentified man, supposed to be
George Shannon, was shot and killed
yesterday morning at 4 o'clock at
Cheney by Marshall A. Blackman
The appointment of ex-Congressman
Sam c. Hyde of Spokane to be COM
naldant of the state soldiers home at
OHing is announced by the governor.
Washington's grain crop for the
Iear 1905 will be between 100000
md S5,OOG000 bushels, is the state
hent Of S. 5. King, deputy grain in
Qector.
Inc monthly financial statement is
sued by the state auditor shows re-
elpts to the general fund amounting
July to $751;, 243 and expenditures
q slO2,699.
Eugene E. Larimore, western Wash
lgton agent for a piano house, has
Fen arrested in Seattle charged with
slOezzling 1885 in money belonging
Dis employers.
is announced an effort is being
aaae to organize citizens of Wash
aslon who we're formerly natives of
acnlgan into an organization to be
loWn as the Michigan society.
AGState Senator G. A. Mantz, for
y years one Of the most respected
Sulens of Colville and one of the
'lest constitutional lawyers in the
'Se OF Washington, died recently.
harvest is in full swing now in the
aserVllle section. The farmers are
'uh crying for harvest hands, and
cs'er before has help been so scarce.
wan sacks are now worth 91a cents
'peee in Waterville.
'onn b. Whidden of the junior class
me University of Washington, has
.scelyed word from the college au-
sOsiles at the University of Chicago
qa' ne had been awarded a scholar
NY IN the department of history in
uat Institution.
Ule OF two whales that have been
~aAlng their summer home in Puget
'a ~ wandered about until he caught
ssnpse of Tacoma recently and fell
~ His floating carcass was found
..Aeen Steilacoom and McNeill's ISL
The dead whale was dark brown
'Olor' about so feet long.