Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Piaee-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

tOuI-ySaE-Olu AICuAOdAu SASoAA6 "S'S
drowned in a well at Tacoma re-
Gently.
The last Of the single mills OF
western Washington, shut down. on
account of the recent strike of the
weavers, has resumed operations.
The state board of education has
decided the custom of calling the roll
in schools and then dismissing the pu-
pills for a holiday must be discontln-
ued.
Mrs. N. E. Munson, wife of the late
N. e. Munson, the Great Northern en-
gineer who was killed in the wreck
of a passenger train at Chain lake on
July %, has offered reward OF $25O
for the recovery of the body.
The drill team from Spokane Aerle
of Eagles won first money In the
prize drilling contest at the natlonal
convention at Milwaukee.
William Henning, So years of age,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in a cell in the Everett city jail.
Several Walla Walla grocers have
taken up the proposition Of recon-
mending to the next legislature the
passage of a law requiring the stamp
of the manufacturer to be placed on
every package of butter offered in the
market to furnish a means OF identi-
fication in case of short weights or
adulteration.
The fruit harvest is on in earnest In
the Weuatchee valley.
superintendent Jesse Smoot of the
government reclamation service has
begun work on the Okanogan irriga-
ton project, and the plan requiring
years to mature promises swift frui-
ton.
Claire Hunt of Colville has been ap-
pointed special locating agent in the
Spokane Indian reservation.
Invitations have been issued for a
triple wedding to take place in Puy-
alIup. The principals in the unusual
ceremony will be Miss Agnes j.
Barry and John Mills Jr, Miss Gather
inc L. Decker and Fred L. Mills, Miss
Frances B. Mills and Shirley D. Barry.
Two of the bridegrooms and one of
the brides are the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. John LIills.
The Spanish War veterans hold next
convention at Spokane.
Fire consumed the residence of
Charles Biery at Wenatchee Saturday
and incinerated a 5-months-old baby
who was sleeping in the house while
the mother had gone into the garden
with the father.
Stockholders Oh the Farmers Tele-
phone & Telegraph company turned
down the proposal of the Pacific States
Telephone company to merge the two
systems.
The fiercest forest fire Pierce coun-
ty has experienced this year is re-
ported raging over a big tract of
logged off land about three miles
south of Puyallup.
One of the largest cold storage
plants in the southeastern section of
the state is that just completed at
the state penitentiary.
There was wild runaway of 80
horses with a combined harvester and
thresher in Adams county, in which
IL horses were killed, nine crippled
and the harvester and thresher was
broken into splinters. The damage
from the runaway amounted to $4,000.
The Waitsburg council has let the
contract for the purchase of pump
and motor for the new filter system.
The Chelan forest fire is dying out.
Cuba and Rex, the two original div
ing elks, fought a desperate duel at
Spokane which ended in Rex being so
badly injured that he had to be killed.
Harvest work is again in full blast,
having been resumed since the rains,
and is being rushed.
The death of William Baldwin,
whose body was found floating in the
Columbia near Bossburg, about two
weeks ago, looks like murder.
Willard Rabbits was accidentally
killed recently while rolling logs on
the bank of the Pend d'Oreille river
about 40 miles below Newport oppo-
site McInnis' mill.
Mike McHale, who shot and killed
William Drugan, his mining partner,
near Chewelah recently, was liberated
on recommendation of the prosecut-
ing attorney.
IDAHO NOTES.
Few residents of Lewiston or Nez
Perez county were too poor to pay
1906 taxes, according to the final re-
port of the county auditor.