Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-09-14
NENSOF NORTHWEST
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
Place-FaII Trade Is Good.
MAaHIMaToN ITEMs.


The Photographers association OF
The Pacific northwest elected w. G.
Emery president.
The Masonic fraternity will lay the
cornerstone of the new Y. M. Q. A..
building at Spokane.
Considerable grain has been de-
stroyed in the vicinity Of Palouse in
the past few days by fire.
There is still vast amount of har-
vest work to do in all parts of the east
ern half Of Whitman county.
The state school for deaf and blind
at Vancouver has re-opened with a
largely increased attendance.
Franklin b. Gault of Tacoma has
been elected to the presidency Of the
state university of South Dakota.
The headquarters of the Occur d'A-
Iene Indian agency will be removed
from DeSmet mission to Tekoa, Octo-
Der 1.
Palouse city council has fixed the
levy on all taxable property in Palouse
at Is mills on the dollar for municipal
purposes.
The Hotel Donnelly at Tacoma was
partly destroyed by fire recently.
There was a panic among the guests,
but all escaped in their night attire.
The Northwestern Woodenware fac
tory at Tacoma was destroyed by fire
recently. One dry kiln and one boiler
room we're saved. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000,
@. II. Rusk Of Chelan and A. L. Cook
of Lucerne have returned from a trip,
during which they made the success
full ascent Of Glacier peak the fourth
highest mountain in Washington.
State Fire Warden ]. r. Welty re-
ports that the rains of the past few
days have closed the season of active
field work, and he is now checking up
TO find how his Office stands fnan-
cially.
Mrs. p. G, stanly, wife of a music
dealer in Walla Walla. received word
that fortune amounting to 100000
had been left her and five other heirs,
in Germany. Her share amounts to
about $4,000.
N. q. Christie, a farmer from Iowa,
has purchased the old Steineger farm,
one and one-fourth miles northwest of
Addy, Wash, in the Colville river val
ley. This is one of the most interest
ing historic farms in the state,
The home industry building at the
Spokane fairgrounds huns like hive
these days, for in that building the
floats for the carnival parade that is
to be held the opening night of the
fair, September "a, are being built.
Terrified at the burning Of their
homes, and by threats made against
their lives by the Bridges on Vashon
island, thirty miles from Seattle, prom
inent citizens Of that place have Sc
cured warrants for the arrest of the
band
A number Of soda water dispensers
in Walla Walla were caught recently
for $25 each when Internal Revenue
Collector w. b. Blow swooped down
upon them for dispensing claret with
their soft drinks without first procur.
ing a license.
Railroad contractors have been In
formed that the plans and profile Of
the new Union Pacific road from Port
land to the Sound can be seen at the
Union Pacific engineers office in Sc
attic, and contractors are invited to
submit bids on the work.
Federal Judge Hanford has granted
a temporary restraining order forbid
ding the state railroad commission
from interfering with the o. R. & N.
or other state railroads in an attempt
to enforce the joint wheat rate order.
The temporary restraining order will
continue in effect until the case can be
heard on it's merits.
According to Professor ]. s. Cotton,
who has represented the government
at Ellensburg for several years in the
matter of conducting experiments
looking to the restoration of ranges,
timothy has shown itself to be pre-
eminently superior for renewing ran
ges, excelling all other grasses in its
hardness, tenacity and general adapt
ability to adverse conditions. Red top
the professor finds to be a close sec
ond. He has concluded that these two
are the ones that must be depended
upon to restore depleted ranges.
Ten cars of steel rails, part Of a
freight train, west bound, Sunday aft
ernoon, were derailed at the west end
of the G. N. Camden tunnel. No one
was injured. The cause of the derail-
ment was a broken fange on one of
the wheels of a boxcar near the front
end of the train. The debris collected
about the scene and workmen were
put to work clearing it away at once.
The track viii be cleared and ready
for the operation of the regular SEIZED
ule.
IDAHO NOTES.