Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-03-30
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

railroad building.
Whitman county farmers believe
damage to wheat is less than ex-
pected.
: Arrangements have been completed
for the cannery to be established at
Spokane.
Farmers are elated over the slight
damage to winter wheat by the recent
cold snap.
Mayor Wright Of Tacoma says he
wiz order the police force to close
the dance halls.
The commercial club of Prosser has
decided to inaugurate Benton county
fair this fall to be held at Prosser.
The members of the Tacoma Re
tail Grocers' association have taken
a decided step for patronizing home
industry.
The Waverly Commercial club got
into action last week and gathered up
every tin can within the city limits.
Twelve big wagonloads were hauled
away
The credit for the capture of Jack
Hopkins, wanted for horse stealing,
is due to Deputy Sheriff Hall of
Sprague, who worked up the case and
made the arrest.
Some mining interests at the head
of Lake Chelan seem opposed to the
setting aside of that section as a ma
tional park. A petition against the
project was circulated at Chelan.
Ora Holdman, Robert Fancher and
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lege, have been dismissed for hazing
other students, and a number of 9TH
ers have been severely disciplined
The citizens of towns of the state
as whole have decided to follow in
the lead of some of the larger cities
this spring and have a general clean
up of the town in the interests of
both health and beauty.
Too much free love has caused the
dissolution of the Freeland colony, an
equality settlement near Bow, Skagit
county. A receiver has been appointed,
and it means that the little band
will be broken up and the effects
sold to satisfy creditors.
After making a thorough investiga-
ton ]. M. Brown, county fruit inspec-
tor Of North Yakima, is satisfied that
the loss of fruit due to the recent cold
snap will be of small moment. He
thinks that the apricot trees alone
we're damaged, and these but slightly.
The Washington Land, Stock & I'M
provement company, composed of Spo-
kane men and controlling seven Sec
tons of raw land situated in the vi
cinity of Winchester, in Douglass
county, has been organized for the |
purpose of breaking and improving !
the raw lands of Douglass county.
The supreme court holds that the
proper remedy to be invoked against |
an order made by the state land COM
mission is by mandamus instead OF |
by appeal. Recently the court held
tnat mandamus would not lie against |
an order made by the state board of
land commissioners, and that the prop
'er remedy in such case was by appeal.
A gang Of cracksmen, which for
month or more has been preying upon
the safes OF the stores and banks in
the small towns of the Inland Empire,
operated at Medical Lake Sunday
morning. The safe in the A. w. Green
store on Lake street, opposite the Vir-
gin hotel, was blown open by the gang.
The safe blowers secured $40 from
the depository.
In response to an inquiry on the
subject, the attorney general has Civ
en- the state board of control an
opinion to the effect that it is lawful
to work convicts on the public roads
in their prison garb Of stripes, and
that under the law the sentiment of
common. humanity is the only restric-
ton upon the working of convicts in
rock or other dangerous work.
Sleeping Tom,' a man afflicted
with peculiar malady, has returned
to North Yakima. He has been known
to 60 to sleep while standing on the
sidewalk and TO fall over into the gut
ter. Some time ago he was engaged ON
q trench being dug in the city. He had !
worked but few days when he was
sized ore afternoon with drowsy spell
and was found asleep leaning against
the side of the trench, holding the pick
over his shoulder. He appeared to have
dropped asleep while in the act of
swinging the pick.
OREGON ITFMR