Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-06-15
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Accl.
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FalI Trade Is Good.
wAsHINaroN NorEa.

Attorney General John u. Atkinson
has been called to Alaska on a bust
ness trip.
The Spokane county pioneers 10th
annual picnic at Medical Lake was a
great success.
Tacoma's mayor has put himself
on record as in favor of saloon and
restaurant boxes.
Excellent work is being done on the
wagon roads leading into Colfax from
the surrounding country.
The Everett Milling company will
begin the erection this week Of a
large grain warehouse at Ephrata.
G. E. Briggs, well to do rancher
of the upper Methow valley, and
pioneer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself recently.
The finding Of John Carroll's body
in Garrison creek, near Walla Walla,
removes all doubt as to the aged milk
mans death. He disappeared May 29.
Kettle Falls citizens have voted
unanimously that the district be bond
ed for $1,000 to build an addition to
the large school building and establish
high school
| George Taylor, engineer on the
McInnis Lumber company's tug Sa-
retta was killed in an unknown man
ner on the boat about four miles be-
low Newport.
Governor Mead today granted a
parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles
w. Hamlin, who was sentenced in
Mhatcom county on August 6, 1902, to
IA years for robbery.
The prosecuting attorneys of the
state will hold convention at
Everett on July IL, 10, and IA in
connection with the eighteenth annual
session of the State Bar association,
A we'll dressed man who committed
suicide at the Tacoma hotel has been
identified as William Campbell Beas-
ley, publisher of the Commonwealth
Magazine of Seattle. His former
home was in Peoria, Ill.
Twenty farmers of the Kittitas val
ley have formed an association and
purchased Samson De Thorembrais,
an imported Belgian stallion, from Nc
Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio,
IOE 4HUOU.
One of the largest realty transfers
in Yakima county in recent months
was the sale of the Bounds ranch in
Selah valley by p A. Bounds to Ur-
ban Ditman, a widely known stock
man, for $3O,8OO.
Theodore Strong, laborer in the
Erickson-Peterson construction gang
on the o. W. & l, road at Riparia,
met with a serious accident recently
which will neccessitate the amputa-
ton of his left leg above the knee.
1t is announced that Samuel A.
Wells, former receiver of the Spokane
land office, has been nominated by
President Roosevelt to succeed Eu-
gene B. Hyde, the present receiver,
who succeeded Mr. Wells four years
ago.
Thirty-six of the 81 counties of
Washington were represented at the
first annual convention of farmers
held under the auspices Of the Wash
ington State college. Okanogan
county was the only one not sending
a delegation.
One hundred and fifty farmers met
in Cunningham Saturday and voted to
build a farmers elevator. Steel stor-
age tanks will be put up to handle the
crop. All the wheat will be handled
In bulk. This does away with what
the farmers call the sack graft"
A. A. Armstrong, who killed Robert
Patton near Aberdeen three years ago,
was hanged at the penitentiary Fri
day morning at 5:26 o'clock. The
execution was successful in every de-
tail. The mans neck was broken by
the fall and death came in 10 minutes.
Although 60 years old he bravely met
i death.
Manager Lennon of the proposed
Whitman county fair has been work
ing hard laying plans for the event.
he has about decided to hold the fair
the first week in October. The prizes
will be more valuable and cover a
larger number of displays than ever
before.
Wenatchee valley fruit growers are
receiving higher prices for fruit this
year than ever before, the prices up
to date averaging so per cent higher
than those paid last year. The We
natchee Valley Fruit Growers asso-
citation, an organization of the grow
ers of the Wenatchee and Columbia
valleys, controlling S5 per cent Of the
fruit raised in the Wenatchee valley,
is doing the work.
Engineers of the reclamation ser
vice are measuring the area Of lands
contracted for the Tieton project. Ap-
lproximately, $4,000 acres will be re-