Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-09-21
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
Al Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

between Natatorium park and Fort
Wright. the dead body of a man was
found Sunday. Efforts to identify the
remains failed, though it was appar-
ent the man had taken his own life
and had been dead about two days
Walter s. Hurley, fireman, was
struck by Northern Pacific train No
is, Sunday, one mile east of Pasco. 1t
Is supposed that Hurley, who was a
member of the firemen's union of Port
land, Me-, was first run over by No.
70, which he attempted to board, and
that his remains were again struck by
No. Is, which followed.
In the FIRE at Starbuck recently,
which destroyed seven buildings con-
sisting Of one saloon, two restaurants,
one drug store, one saloon, livery
stable and the city jail, the loss aggre-
gated less than $4,000.
George Hazard, who returned to In
diana some months ago from Wash
ington state, where he was democratic
state chairman, has just been cleared
Of the charge Of forgery. His trouble
grew out Of his recently completed his
tory OF Henry county.
The supreme court holds that unless
an indorser of a note is notified of the
proposed action for its collection, the
indorser is released from liability.
Arrangements are being made by
the Wenatchee Commercial club for a
demonstration at the harvest festival
to be held in Wenatchee October 25,
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After living three days with a brok-
en- neck. Frank Allison, Jr, aged, 10,
died at Tacoma Saturday
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Schloesler Of Walla Walla, while play
ing about the kitchen, fell into a tub
Of boiling water, resulting in death.
mot guilty" were the words Sidney
Hull Sloane spoke in Spokane when
the judge asked him whether he was
guilty or not Of numbering his father,
J. F. Sloane
Many poultry breeders are anxious
to come to Spokane this year because
Theodore Hewes of Iowa has agreed
to Judge the poultry show during In
terstate Fair. this being the last poul-
try show which he will ever Judge, as
he has retired from the business. Mr..
Hewes has judged more shows than
any other man in America, and retires
from the business to give more time
to the publication OF his poultry jour
nal.
W. A. Harris, formerly a druggist
AZ Medical Lake, has disappeared
The indications are that the annual
Whitman county fair and live stock
show which viii be held in the fair
grounds west Of Colfax October to
8, inclusive, will be the best fair ever
held there.
Mike Burns has been completely re-
stored to mental health by the author
tiles at Medical Lake, and has been
taken back to Asotin, where he is to
stand trial for robbing Charleston
stores last July,
The fruit inspection law has with
stood the attack made on its constitu-
tionality in the trial court at North
Yakima. It is hoped the supreme court
win take an equally favorable view.
Far exceeding the expectations of
its owners in every way, the Weber
Russell fruit cannery at North Yak
ina, the largest in the state, has now
been operating several weeks, and is
turning out large production.
DR.. q. H. Latham has been success
full in the raising of figs on his lake
shore farm just west Of Lakeside on
Lake Chelan.
Clifford Hendricks, an engineer on
the steamer Tourist, fell overheard
recently near Safety Harbor on Lake
Chelan and was drowned. Captain
Smith heard Hendricks call for help.
He found him struggling in the water,
but he sank before the boat could turn
and reach him. No one saw him fall,
The body was in deep water and was
not recovered. He was not married.
The members of the Chelan County
Poultry association will hold its an.
nual poultry show in Wenatchee.
Babe Leach has Just purchased the
Wilson Mercantile company's business
at Garfield and has taken possession
Mr.. Leach has put in on the deal a
splendid Palouse farm of 200 acres for
a consideration Of SOS an acre or a
total Of $4,000.
That closer commercial union be
tween Spokane and British Columbia
win result from the visit OF the Spo
kane business men to the rich country
across the boundary line is a perfect
~ natural and reasonable superstition
Three street cars. one loaded to the
guards with passengers, collided OF
First avenue recently at midnight al
Seattle and more than a dozen passen
gers and car employees were injured
Three Of the passengers are not ex
pected to survive.
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