Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-09-07
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 ITEMS.

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their homes on Trout creek, about
nine miles north of Republic They
lost control of the team going down a
steep grade, were thrown out and the
necks of both were broken. Both men
had been drinking.
Theodore Thurman, slayer of Mark
Lipscomb at Tyler last Sunday, is re
ported to have been seen by a section
man near Waukon, six miles northeast
of Edwall
w. A. Davis, a prominent business
man, formerly of Fairfield, has dtsap.
peared
The new distributing freight rates
out of Walla Walla are now in effect.
Paul Scott was shot by his com
panion, James Robinson, while hunt
ing near Lake Washington near
Seattle. Robinson took his friend for
bear in the underbrush and fired,
killing him instantly.
Robert Schlaeppe, a deck hand on
the steamer Columbia, was drowned
in the Columbia river at Wenatchee.
The body was recovered.
The safe in the o. r. & N. depot at
Latah was robbed recently of about
$3.50 in cash
Ernest Berg of North Yakima broke
the record for that section of the
country last week when he disposed
of $500 head of sheep of all ages.
An electric railway from Spokane
into the Big Bend country is now
declared to be assured.
The churches of Davenport have
opened reading room for harvest
hands.
E. Fl. Hincliff, a we'll known mer-
chant of Colfax, is dead.
The business men of Wenatchee are
planning for a harvest festival to be
held some time in October
The Hazelwood company of spo-
kane has purchased a ranch near
Krupp.
The latest report shows total num-
Der of census children in Washington.
2l9,2ll; total number of pupils en-
rolled in public schools, 1894. and
total average daily attendance, 1877
sos.
A. A. Walgren is dead, Harry Will
son is in the hospital suffering from
serious shot wound in the hin and
abdomen, and John Jones is in Jail
with several cuts in the head, the
result of a fight in a dance hall at
Aberdeen
j. H. Schively, for the past six
years deputy insurance commissioner.
has rendered his resignation to In
surance Commissioner Sam H. Mich
OILS.
The state was enriched by more
than 100000 by the sale Saturday of
10000 acres of state school lands near
Priest Rapids, Benton county. Four
fifths of the area was bid in by the
Hanford Irrigation company of Seat
tie at $40 to $40 an acre, the appraise-
ment being $40.
1t will cost Spokane county Just
one-tenth of cent per funeral for the
burial of its poor during the next
year, that being the bid of a firm
there.
The Indians talk of holding a big
gathering of the tribes from Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho at Toppenish
for a great powwow after hop pick
ing.
1t is planned to hold a fair for
Okanogan county at Riverside at some
date in October to be fixed later.
Fire again visited Waterville and
wiped out the oldest hotel in the Big
Bend country, the Bradley, formerly
the Big Bend hotel.
The c. M, & ST. P. Ry. is preparing
to start construction work around
Ellensburg.
Howard kressly, the ex-society man
and broker of Spokane, who has serv-
ed three years of five year sentence
in the Walla Walla penitentiary for
the part he took in obtaining $780,
900 under false pretenses and in
wrecking the Lucille Dreyfus mine, has
been parolled by Governor Mead.
Fire was discovered recently at the
home of Mrs. H. S. Gowing at Pres
colt. Neighbors at once ran in, and
were Mortified to find the inside of the
AASesNS IL ieAACS anu lilC lll6ISSS DOuY
of Mrs. Gowing on the bed. Just
how the fire originated is unknown.
IDAHO NOTES.
Lewiston 32nd degree Masons are
preparing for the annual consistory
there this fall.
A bomb, filled with nitro-glycerine.
has recently been found by a farmer
near Payette. 1t was turned over to
the authorities.
The four banks of Occur d'AIene
have organized a clearing house.
G. G. Pickett and ]. D. McGary of
Moscow have leased a portion of the
Potlatch river, at the junction of the
West Fork and Ruby creek, for fish
preserve. The location and waters
are ideal, and about S5 miles east of
Moscow. The government will furnish
$4,000 Alaska and Pennsylvania trout
fry some time in October. Fishing
will be prohibited for two years.
A minor wreck occurred a coupIe OF
miles west of Wrencoe recently on
the Great Northern. Two flats in the
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