Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-03-24
WASHINGTON NOTES.

ate erection Of a new city hall.
Work on the spolrane-Medical Lake
electric line was begun last Monday.
Special Agent Ramsey has found Joe
Lindsey of Spokane qualified for the
position Of district attorney.
Judge G, M. Kincaid, for 80 years
resident of Whitman county and
prominent politician, lawyer and far
mer, is dead.
N. w. Durham Of Spokane has ten
dered to Governor Mead his resigna-
ton as trustee of the state normal
school at Cheney.
Governor Mead announces that Dr.
w. ]. Howells, superintendent OF the
insane asylum at Medical Lake will be
retained until October 1.
In a splendid exhibition of baseball,
the Tacoma Tigers beat the Chicago
Nationals at Fresno last Saturday. The
boys from the north got the game, 6
to 8.
Peach trees in the entire Walla Wal
la valley are in full bloom. Although
bodily injured by the February freeze
they have blossomed as though unin-
jured.
The board of county commissioners
Of Walla Walla voted to appropriate
$4,000 for a county exhibit at the Lewis
and Clark fair and $1,000 for school
exhibit
Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Rabbit,
formerly of Tacoma and Spokane, is
dying in Brooklyn. He has Just un-
dergone an operation for a numerous
growth on the liver.
Charles Besgrove, foreman Of a gang
Of men engaged in building the new
telephone line from Cheney to Spo-
kane, was severely injured by an ex-
plosion Of dynamite.
The fourth annual debate between
the Idaho state normal at Lewiston
and the Washington State normal at
Cheney was held in Cheney and was
won by the visiting team
Thomas Mccarthy, aged 81 years,
who had been sent to the insane asy-
lum at Steilacoom about a year ago
from town in Clarke county, com.
mitted suicide at that institution.
Citizens of Charleston are discussing
oiling the streets. Figures will be Sc
cured as to the cost of shipping in
enough crude oil to give all the bust
ness part of the town good coating
The fruit trees around Charleston
have put forth their leaves this year
nearly three weeks earlier than Gus
tomary and many orchards are beau
tiful green with leaves two inches
long.
Porter Bros, railroad contractors
have been awarded the contract fol
grading the first % miles of theN Spo
kane & Inland electric railroad south
east from Spokane across Moran prai
RE toward the Palouse country.
A firebug, believed by the police tt
be half-witted youth, made a desper
ate attempt early Sunday morning tt
fire six buildings in the southeastern
portion of the city, and but for good
luck would have succeeded in kindlinf
several serious blazes.
i The mines of the Wilkeson Coal &
Coke company at Wilkeson have reop
ened after being shut down for few
weeks by reason of a strike among the
workers at the coke ovens. There was
no strike among the miners. Only {
! few of the strikers refused to return
to work.
Y Lewis Christianson, a rancher liv
ing alone at the head of Cowiche val
ley, 80 miles from North Yakima, was
found dead in field near his house
with bullet hole through the head
The sheriff and coroner made an in
vestigation and decided it was case
of suicide.
Il Negotiations whereby the Tacoma
smelling plant will be transferred t.
new hands will not be completed FOL
about 80 days. According to William
r. Rust, vice president, general man
ager and treasurer of the Tacoma
plant, there is every indication that tht
sale will be contaminated in that time
and that. the ownership of the loca
smelling works, the Everett smeltel
and the plant of Selby Smelling &
Lead company Of San Francisco vii
pass to the new company.
3-inch field pieces and three small cali
Fbre rapid-fire machine guns.
The indicated horsepower of the
engines. is $4,000, ana they are design
ed to drive the vessel at a speed Of al
least % knots an hour.
Governor Sends Greeting.
The following is copy of a tele
gram sent by Governor Mead to the
New York shipbuilding company Al
Camden, N. J.:
j Accept my best wishes for the sue
cessful launching Of the cruiser Wash