Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-02-02
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-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

pleaded guilty to the shooting of Pear :
son and Heady at their mining camp
on the South half, was sentenced by +
the superior court of Ferry county to |
five years at hard labor in the state !
penitentiary at Walla Walla.
General Charles King camp No. 4,
department of Washington, United
Spanish war veterans, has issued in
vitations to their comrades to join in
a celebration at Spokane, February 8
of the Filipino insurrection.
The Great Northern observation car
Columbia took fire between Wenat-
chez and Rock Island recently and was
totally destroyed.
Seattle will have an ordinance pro-
viding for the inspection of meat.
The annual charity ball of Ell Katif
temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine,
of Spokane, will be given in Masonic
temple February %. The entire tenn
pie will be given to the Shriners for
the annual event They will enter
tain with lunch, cards, music and
dancing.
Plans for the railroad shops of the
Washington & Columbia River road,
which are to be removed from Eureka
Junction to Walla Walla, are nearly
completed and work on the new build
ings will soon be commenced.
Daniel x. Oliver, one of the pioneers
Of Spokane, died at his home Sunday
from stomach trouble. Mr..
Oliver came to Spokane in 1873. He
% 81 nd n hnT nf the
G. A. R. He leaves a wife and one
son, Charles w. oliver.
The workmen on the Sunnyside
branch of the Northern Pacific are
now laying track on the last mile of
the road into Sunnyside. Upon its
completion the citizens have decided
to hold a jubilee meeting.
]. G. Robinson, a member OF the
Prosser G. "A. R. post and prominent
in the order throughout the state, has
received from General Tanner, depart
ment commander of the national or
ganization, notification Of his appoint
ment as aide de camp on his stan
But one such appointment is made IN
each state.
A statement made public by the rec
lamation service shows that the rec
lamation fund now amounts to S21,
818,351, of which amount the state
of Washington contributed $3,187,13'
and Idaho $2,O28,751.
All Min, alias Gold Tooth WHIT
is said by the United States authorl
ties to be the most notorious SNUG
gler of Cinnamon in the northwest
will be deported to China this week
The body of Martin Murray, tn
baggageman who was killed IN tn
train wreck at Rock Island near we
natchee, has been recovered by tn
wrecking crew. It succeeded in rails
ing the car, which had sunk in tn
Columbia river after leaving the tract
IDAHO NEWS.
Charles McTiernan, timberman l
the Morning mine, near Mullan, wa
killed recently by being struck on tn
back of the head by falling mine tin
Der.
LYMAN Johnson of Clarks Fork stel
ned off a passenger train on the Nortl
ern Pacific at $50 o'clock the othe
day when the train stopped on u
bridge over Lake Pend dOreille, an
vas dashed to death on the rocks D
low.
w. P. Green, an employe on rigl
of way contract on the Corbin roa
cbopped down a tree the other da
In falling the tree struck green tai
arack, bending it to the ground. Wne
released the tamarack shot back WI
such force as to strike Green, crushiI
in the side of his face and body al
killing him instantly.
William Yarbaugh, plasterer al
mortar mixer of Lewiston, last Sund'
attempted to murder his wife with
butcher knife. and after failing In
purpose returned to his room, Whe
he cut his own throat with a ca
knife.
With $145,OOO cash in the hands
the county, Lewiston banks are
gagged in a fierce contest over the
bository law, the settlement OF viii
will determine where the money
he deposited and when the county "
begin to draw interest. The, cou1
commissioners are at deadlock.
Henry Neuebaumer, the Alaskan
ner who committed suicide at Bol
recently, after having fatally wound
Ollie Powell, his former sWeethea
who ran away with another man
night before her marriage to Ne
banner was to have taken place, a
seriously wounded L. Gray success
rival and the latter's mother a
sister left what is believed to hs