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


WASHINGTON NEWS.
Kennewick is soon to have tele-
phones.
John Peters, with other spangle cap
italists, has purchased the spangle
bank.
E. 3. Mayer has sold section Of his
land west Of Downs to Henry Harms
for $4,000.
The senate passed the Jones bill
creating the eastern judicial district
Of Washington.
In the senate on Monday morning
Senator-elect Arthur Gum of Kittitas
and Chelan counties was sworn in.
Valentine Bohen has mysteriously
departed from the home Of his brother
in Palouse, leaving his valuables be-
hind. He took with him only a re-
volver.
The huge sum Of $S,250,OOO is the
probable appropriation by the state
Legislature It is nearly half million
more than was appropriated at the
previous session.
Arthur Gum, democrat, Of We
natchee was today elected joint sena-
tor from Kittitas and Chelan counties
to fill the place Of the late Senator
John p. Sharp of Ellensburg.
Okanogan county is in the uncom-
Portable position of being sued in the
United States court for the price of the
jail in which she has been combining
law violators and county prisoners
since 1890.
The census, which is now complete,
gives the population of that area
which is to be included within the cor
porate limits of Charleston at $3.50,
while. the total population of Clarks-
ton and Vineland precincts is 275O.
The house has passed senate bill
No. 81, by Condor, giving Kitsap coun-
ty an additional judge by itself. The
bill detaches Kitsap county from the
judicial district hitherto composed Of
Snohomish and Kitsap counties.
Clyde Hammond, who was arrested
in raid made by Sheriff Doust on a
cigar store in Spokane last December
failed to appear in the superior court
to answer to a charge of running a
gambling game, and forfeited his bond
of $1,000.
Several farmers are preparing to
run a roller over the summer fallow
this spring just behind the plow and
then follow up with the harrow. They
think in this way they will be able tc
reserve more Of the moisture than by
narrowing alone.
Governor Mead gave out an official
statement Saturday in which he de
clared his intention to veto the bill
by which the proposition to move the
state capital from Olympia to Tacoma
was to be submitted to the people al
the next general election.
James Sprague, a nephew Of Lien
tenant Governor Coon, met with 8
frightful death at Marysville shingle
mill While attempting to adjust
some betting his clothing caught and
he was whirled about the shafting
striking the floor and wall, and was
literally beaten to pieces.
On account of the decision render.
ed by the supreme court Of the United
States at Washington, D. c., recently
granting the Northern Pacific railway
possession of the disputed strips OF
ground lying along its right Of way in
the city, the county of Spokane will
lose close to $4,000 back taxes.
August Dereaux has bonded his
mine to a company of Tacoma, with
$4,000 cash paid to close the deal. The
new owner agrees to expend $780,
on the property during the next II
months. The Dereaux property is in
the Gle Elum mining district and lies
close to the property Of the Skookum
Edward Whitson Of North Yakima,
according to information of the most
reliable kind, win receive the indorse-
ment of Senators Ankeny and Piles
for the new eastern Washington fed.
eral judgeship, and, unless President
Roosevelt concludes to name a judge
Of his own selection and ignore the
Washington senators, Mr. Whitson will
receive the appointment.