Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-11-30
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA 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.

1t has been carefully estimated that
at least 1900 acres of fruit trees will
be put in by the farmers in and close
around Brewster.
1t is reported gambling dens are
again running wide open in Tacoma.
Not the slightest effort is being made
to conceal the fact.
Jacob Johnson, a Northern Pacific
Waterman at Toppenish, was fright
fully mangled at North Yakima re-
Gently by being run over by freight
train
The State asylum at Medical Lake
has advertised to receive bids for 2700
cords of wood for the asylum. The
bids will be opened Saturday, Deem
Der 8, at 2 p. m.
The state superintendent announces
that lit teachers certificates had been
issued to Spokane applicants and is to
Stevens county applicants as a result
of the recent examinations.
Chinese and Japanese are to be pro-
tected in Tacoma hereafter. Judge,
Linck recently gave a white man and
a negro 80 days on the chain gang for
beating Chinese restauranteurs.
Fire in the interior Of the Grand
opera house at Seattle recently caused
$4,000 damage. 1t is believed to have
started from a lighted match or a
cigarette dropped by stage hands.
Special memorial services were held
in the First Presbyterian church in
Seattle Sunday afternoon in honor of
the victims of the steamer Dix dis
aster. Many prominent divines assist
ed in the services.
Conductor F. E. Hatton Of the Ida
no division of the Northern Pacific
fell from the top Of a boxcar recently
while his train was pulling into the
siding lat Selah, % miles east of FL
lensburg. His injuries will not prove
fatal.
DR.. Levi L. Sutton, a farmer and
practicing physician, and one OF the
first settlers in that part of the coun-
try, died at his home, seven and one
half miles east of Hatton, recently. He
was born in Orleans county, New
York, September I. 1885.
J. N. Tompkins, president and found
Ell of the Farmers & Mechanics bank
of Cashmere and Wenatchee, died sud
denly last Sunday in Seattle. He was
Sc years of age, and until few hours
before death had been in what he be-
lieved to be excellent health.
G. B. Dunning, department COM
mander of the department of Wash
ingtoh and Alaska of the Grand Army
Of the Republic, accompanied BIZ AID
jutant General William H. Wiscomb
has returned from visit which they
l,were making to the posts of western
Washington.
Major A. N. Brown, Governor Mead's
private secretary, is working to Sc
cure a state rogues' gallery to be used
by the police departments of the state
says west side report. The gallery
will probably be kept in Seattle when
completed, and pictures will be added
to it constantly.
After a thorough inspection County
Commissioner Metler of Tacoma es
Inmates that it will cost $4,000 to re
store bridges and roads of Pierce
county to the condition they were in
before the floods. This does not in
clude the loss in the Stuck river val
ley, where the diversion of the White
river has caused endless havoc.
A trio of cracksmen crawled through
window Of Blackburn & Burrows
general store at Ridgefield recently
unlocked the door, rolled a 700 pound
safe two blocks and a half down the
street into a cut, punched of the com
binatfon, blew the safe open with
black powder and got safely away
with $500 in money. ..
Tacoma has 40 saloons, exactly the
same number as before the present
saloon ordinance went into effect
about six months ago. There is ap
parently no tendency to decrease the
number of the increased fee, from
5000 to $500, as the opponents of the
measure urged at the time of its pas
sage.
January will be a busy month il
Pullman. There will be three big con
ventions under the auspices of thu
Washington State college. The frs
of these will be the annual conven
ton of the Washington State Bee
keepers association, January 7, AM
bcontinue two days.
Beginning Tuesday, January s, tn
Inland Registered Stock Breeders as
sociation will hold it's annual session
and live stock show in the colleg
chapel and pavilion, respectively
Wednesday morning, January 9, tn
stock show and sale will be held.
Thursday morning, January 10, tn
second wheat convention of the stat
will open for three days.
IDAHO NEWS.
Barney Hedican, one Of the most nj