Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-02-09
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
PIace-Fall Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A real census of Whitman county
by municipal officials shows the popu-
lation to be 31,S73.
good showing is made in the
treasurers Office of Douglas county in
the collection of taxes for 1904.
The MAYHEM grange is one of the
prosperous institutions of Garfield
county. 1t has membership of 100.
The 50th anniversary of the we'd
ding of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Loundagin
was celebrated at Waitsburg last
week.
Only one woman committed suicide
in Spokane county last year out of the
16 unfortunates who ended their ex-
istence.
That he was tired of life, is the ex-
PLANTATION given by Peter Thompson, a
Dane, who shot himself in the head at
Spokane recently.
Manager butcher of the Sprague
roller mills has received an order for
ALSO barrels of -four to be shipped to
Vladivostsck at once.
The state board of control will in
future not limit the sale of jute bags
manufactured at the state penitenti-
airy to use in the state of Washington.
The Harrington school board has de-
cided to turn the seats in a number
of the schoolroomss half way around
to gain better light for the pupils
at work.
A huge tree sprayer has been sent
to Spokane from the Washington State
college at Pullman to be used for
the spraying of shade trees, which
have become affected by aphis and
other pests.
Representative Jones has been as
sured by Secretary Wilson that east
ern Washington will receive a liberal
appropriation of the general funds for
the promotion of scientific farming in
the west.
The highest price ever paid for 10
acres of fruit lands in Yakima county
was recorded recently, when E. J..
Haaeze sold a tract on Mob hill to H.
S. Wilkinson of Syracuse, N. Y, for
$40 900, or $1,000 an acre.
On the ground that her husband has
mot taken bath for four years and
has not during the seven years of
their married life used soap for per-
sonal cleanliness, Mary Fredericksen
commenced suit against Kristian Fred
erickson in the King county superior
court to obtain divorce.
No officer in the northwest is a more
thorough student of the Bertillon sys-
tenn of measuring criminals and the
finger print system than Deputy Sher-
if Maxey Of Ellensburg, and no office
in the northwest is better equipped
for this method of taking and retain
ing measurements Of criminals than
the sheriff's office of Kittitas county.
About 1000 persons gathered at the
Sunnyside barbecue to celebrate the
coming Of the railroad. Two beeves
were roasted, with which bread, but
ter baked beans. pickles and coffee
were served The business men OF
Sunnyside acted as walters. A tenn
porary table 300 feet in length en-
circling the barbecued beeves was
provided, around which the guests
stood several deep. All the towns
from Prosser to North Yakima were
well represented.
Judge M. ]. Gordon Of Spokane and
other lawyers claiming to have con
tracts with the Colville Indians for II
per cent Of the amount received by In
dams from the sale of their surplus
lands, are trying to secure an amend
ment to the bill for opening the Col
Vile reservation which will provide
for payment to them of $3.50 900. Theil
contract was approved by Hoke Smith
when secretary of the interior, but i
is now claimed the contract was neV
: er made with representative citizens
? of the Colville reservation.
= IDAHO NEWS.
Mrs. Ella A. Wade, postmistress a
! Mullan, has resigned.
The Commercial Cream company o
Lewiston is establishing cream sta
ton at Genesee.
William Campbell, settler living a
Big Creek, 80 miles above St. Joe, &C
cidentally chopped his foot in two.
; 1t is authoritatively stated that tn
I Northern Pacific has awarded the con
I tract for building the lewiston Grange
vile line to Porter Bros. & WEIGH.
The debating council of the UniveI
5 sity of Idaho has severed debating re
lations with Whitman college on &C
count of lack of time.
At a recent meeting Of the Mullal
b town council 10 years franchise wa
y granted the Mullan Electric Light
l. Power Co. to operate in that camp.
}, Larger premiums for the live stoc
?, exhibit and a better street fair togetf
g er with more entertainment feature