Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-03-02
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
PIaee-FaIl Trade lie Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Civil and Spanish-American wars was
a pleasant affair at Waitsburg last
week.
The farmers of Walla Walla county
have been selling wheat in small lots
from day to day for the past few
weeks until it is estimated by dealers
that there is not to exceed Is or 20
per cent of the 1905 crop left.
1t is officially stated that the next
annual encampment of the Department
of Washington and Alaska, G. A. R.,
is to be held at Walla Walla, on June
rs, 26 and 81.
Word comes from Bellingham that
the scheme to raise a subsidy of ST.
100000 for railway line between that
city and Spokane has failed for the
lack Of support, less than 100000
having been subscribed toward the
project.
High school students who struck at
Tacoma for a Washington's birthday
holiday are being suspended as fast
as their names are learned.
Kittitas county is yearly increasing
its fruit production and it is believed
that more fruit trees will be planted
this year than during any previous
year.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manu-
facturers' association has agreed to
the recommendation of the price list
committee, making an advance Of 81
a thousand, on the existing lumber
schedules.
Secretary Hitchcock has ordered the
cancellation of the Washington state
selection in the Yakima valley. The
selection embraces about $4,000 acres,
and was rejected by the interior de-
partment because it was in conflict
with government irrigation work.
Responsive to a movement begun
in Seattle to contribute 1000 tons Of
Washington wheat to the famine
stricken sufferers of Japan Judge
Chadwick of Colfax has begun a
vigorous and systematic effort in
Whitman county to raise its proper
ton.
Tbe4sRiga Bend - railway is having
rails hauled from Davenport to where
the grading is going on for their cleo
trio line a few miles north Of the
town.
Two Japanese laborers, Y. Yamam-
OTTO and G. Ibosi, were thawing out
dynamite In a shack near Tacoma
recently when % sticks exploded.
Ibosi, was killed instantly and va
mamOto, who was seriously injured, is
still alive.
Harriet Richards, a school teacher
% years of age from Clifford, Mo,
committed suicide in Spokane last
Saturday morning by drinking two
ounces of carbolic acid Dependency
over i'll health is the supposed reason.
E. 2. O'Neil, right of way attorney
for the Northern Pacific, with head
quarters at Tacoma, is now securing
right of way for an extension Of the
Northern Pacific from Pasco to Ri
,paria, Wash.
Mischievous youngsters are believed
to have set in motion the Great North
ern locomotive, which crashed into the
Oregon Railway OC Navigation COM
pany's passenger train at the junction
near Spokane last week, plotting out
one life and injuring three others.
lack Taylor, the station agent at the
junction, who was injured by being hit
on the head by flying trunk, died
few hours later.
The plat of the townsite. having its
southwest corner IL miles due east OF
Bossburg, in Stevens county, will be
filed in the United States land office
in Spokane on April 6. Actual settlers
will be allowed three months after
April to make their filings, and the
state of Washington will be allowed go
days in which to offer selection lists
of unoccupied lands.
c. B. Bussel and Andrew Weber,
capitalists of Seattle, will build a
$4,000 canning factory at North
Yakima this year.
Washington State college and the
University of Idaho will not hold their
regular annual debate this year. The
debate council of the University OF
Idaho has cancelled the date.
While the three big lumber associa-
tions on the coast increased prices on
the fir products and tilted the cost OF
ties 81 thousand feet to become eff
fective at once, the raise will not af-
feet the wholesale prices on lumber in
this part Of the country.
William Bartlett and Lauren Barnett,
the boys who attempted to wreck the
0. R. & N. train and were sentenced
to one wear in the county iail have /