Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-01-13
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Patrick McHughey was killed, John
Gardner fatally injured and Godfrey
Lundon was seriously hurt in an ex-
plosion in the Pocahontas mine, in the
southern part OF King county Sunday
afternoon.
The Washington State Dairymen's
association will meet in Olympia
January 10, 20 and I'll.
The board of county commissioners
Of North Yakima has decided to build
a new courthouse at cost Of SIS 600.
The Washington State Federation of
Labor reelected nearly all of the old
officers, as follows: President, Will
liam Blackman; five vice presidents in
order given: G. R. Case, Everett; G.
w. Smith, Spokane; 7. " Copeland,
Tacoma; r. Hesketh, Seattle; R. N.
Moody, Aberdeen; secretary-treasurer,
James Menzies, Tacoma; fraternal
delegates to Oregon, 7. F, Burns, Sc
attic; A. R. Atkins, Anacortes; H. L.
Green, Aberdeen. G. o. Young was
Endorsed for state organizer. Aber-
deem was chosen for the next con
vention.
The first annual convention of the
Benevolent Protective Order Of Elks
will be held in Seattle February 81
and %. The object of the first annual
meeting is more to thoroughly organ
ize them in Washington.
Several hundred jubilant subjects Of
the mikado in this state Saturday cell
ebrated the fall Of Port Arthur with
fireworks and speechmaking, much af-
ter the American fashion.
The Chelan and Lakeside bands
have consolidated and at a recent
meeting % members were enrolled.
The person or persons who beat and
robbed William Jibbins Of $4,000 a
few weeks ago near Dayton are still
at large, and no clew to their identity
has been found. Sheriff Slime has Of
fered a reward Of $500 for any clew
which will lead to the arrest of the
parties. Mr. Jibbins is slowly recov-
ering.
Charleston is to have an artificial ice
plant with a capacity Of is tons a
day.
It is announced that Walla Walla
county will probably have a school
exhibit at the Lewis and Clark fail
when it opens.
While Frank Barnhart, with his wife
and two children, was driving into
EIlensburg recently in a lumber wag
on, the wheels ran into chuck hole
and Mrs. Barnhart and the year ole
girl were thrown from the spring seat
The woman was not injured, but wheI
the child was picked up she was dead
1t is supposed her neck was broken by
the fall.
A number of business men on Lake
Chelan are talking the feasibility O
building either steam or electri'
road from the foot of Lake Chelan t.
connect with the Gerat Northern a
Wenatchee.
The second annual institute Of thu
fruit inspectors of washington open
ed in the Washington Agricultural col
lege Tuesday, January 10, and contin
ued four days.
Governor-elect A. w Mead announ
ces that he will make the following az
pointments on his PERSONAL staff: Col
onel and Judge advocate general, N
p. Hurd of Mount Vernon; colone
and duartermaster general, Cyrus +
Clapp of Port Townsend; colonel an
inspector of rifle practice, Emory
Gilbert OF Spokane; colonel and pay
master general, D. Daun Egan OF Be
bingham; lieutenant colonel and aid
de camp. Albert E. Cagwin Of Kelsc
Governor Mead was inaugurate
wednesday. His inauguration address
and Governor McBride's retiring met
sage were delivered on the same dal
j. G. Megler, representative froI
Wahkiakum county, who has been
member Of every legislature exceI
one since the state was admitted, WI
be speaker Of the lower house this SCI
sion.
Twenty merchants. bankers and mai
ufacturers Of Spokane met recent
and signed a resolution indorsing tn
proposed electric line of the Spokan
Interurban system through the Palouf
from Spokane via Colfax, Wash,
Moscow, Idaho. The Endorsement a
so requests the chamber Of commer6
to call a mass meeting Of the citizen
to consider the project.
IDAHO ITEMS.
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