Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-03-09
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
PIaee-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NorEa.

The citizens Of Kennewick have
decided on a $4,000 school structure
in brick or cement.
Mrs. Sukhoda Banarjee, the Hindu
missionary. has arrived in Seattle and
will deliver lectures.
Construction work on the Great Nor
thern between Wenatchee and Oroville
has been commenced.
Indications are that the senate will
confirm U. S. Marshall Charles B.
Hopkins as marshal for western Wash
ington.
The Freer, Hinman & Jones fruit
ranch, situated two miles from Cash
mere, has been sold to w. e. Hinman
for $4,000.
The friends of Postmaster Albert
Dickinson Of Waitsburg are jubilant
over news from Washington announc-
ing his reappointment.
Governor Mead has announced the
appointment of j. L. Riseland as fish
commissioner to succeed T. R. Ker-
shaw, whose term is expired.
No new facts have come to light
relative to the peculiar death of Miss
Jessie Cow, the % year old girl re-
siding Is miles east of Waterville
recently.
State Auditor Clausen has given out
the following statement of receipts
and expenditures for February: Cen
eral fund, total receipts, $151, 667. 78;
expenditures, $87,28312.
The Grote-Rankin company of Spo-
kane has bought the Teale-Hills Fur
niture company's business Of Seattle,
and will increase its capital stock
from $125,0O0 to $35O,OOO.
The federal department of agricul-
ture is to give practical illustrations Of
how to build good roads in the Pa
louise section. A specimen of good
roads is to be built near Pullman.
In the CULLEN family, resident in
Whitman county, is another evidence
of longevity five generations now liv-
ing. All but one of the persons de-
scribed reside within the county con-
fines.
The Fairview creamery, property Of
the Ellensburg Creamery company, To-
Gated in the Fairview district, was
burned recently. The plant is a
total loss, and the loss is about $4,000
There was very small insurance on
the building and machinery.
A record making judgment of $751;
500 was returned for the plaintiffs
in the civil court at Spokane in the
paS1 Of n Euntar oOd Vo,,nu
against the Wenatchee Land company.
The litigation has been extended, in
volving many points of law.
Representative Jones bill permit
ting Yakima Indians to sell so acres
of their homesteads for irrigation pur-
poses, which has passed both house
and senate and referred to the interior
department by the president for final
review. AS the secretary is in favor
of the measure an early signature byd
the president is anticipated.
The order dismissing Lieutenant
Donald F. McClelland from the United |
States army for conduct unbecoming
an officer and embezzlement of COM
pany's funds, has been received at |
Fort Wright, at Spokane, by Lieuten-
ant Colonel Bolton, commanding Of |
fcer at the post. Lieutenant McClel- |
land was found guilty by a court mar
tial last December.
The Ladies' Improvement club held |
a picnic in a park at Granger recently.
Men and women volunteered to trim
trees, grub underbrush and improve
the park in general, and the large
force Of workers made the only natural
public park in the valley very attract
i've. A picnic dinner was served. All
those not working paid for meals, and
quite sum Of money was realized.