Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-09-13
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, idaho, oregon
and MONTANA news.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur.
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIaee-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Milk IL cents quart at Tacoma.
Two Great Northern freight trains
collided in the Newport yards recently.
Nobody was killed
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is all that could be desired for
the completion of harvest work.
Marion Russis, young Frenchman,
aged Fl years, met his death by drown
ing in the Palouse river recently.
W. Phillips, rancher in the Matches
valley, committed suicide recently by
shooting. He leaves a wife and fam
lily.
Too drunk to exercise reason, Carl
Brown of Tacoma, 40 years of age,
was run over by an electric train and
killed.
Tomato shipments continue from
Sunnyside, and it will be another
month before the entire crop is mar
keted.
In struggle with thief in a room
at a hotel in Seattle recently, Detec-
tive Lee A. Barbee shot and killed his
adversary.
Jefferson H. Fulton, of Asotin, has
left for Manila to enter upon his duties
as second lieutenant in the United
States army.
floating dock has been built for
the accommodation of steamboats,
landing at Kennewick, and moored at
the landing.
There is hay famine on the coast
The death of Mrs. Mary P. Shieldse,
an old pioneer of Garfield county, oc-
cured at Seattle recently.
Joe Macline, a Finnish contractor,
was killed recently at Aberdeen,
Wash, by falling from the lift in
well which he was digging.
Horse thieves appear to be numer-
GUS in the Yakima country, a number
of cases where horses have been stoI-
en- being reported within the past few
days.
Beginning this week the Washing
ton, Idaho & Montana Railway com
pany will put on two trains each way
daily between Palouse and Deary,
which is the present terminus.
Farmers of the vicinity of Dayton
are taking advantage of the fine
weather to haul their grain to the
warehouses as fast as possible, and
already the houses are nearly filled.
Most of the farmers have sold their
grain.
The entire city of Wenatchee is in
dire straits because of a flume being
washed out at the Wenatchee Electric
company. No power is to be had in
the city, nor lights, and as a result
the entire community has been
plunged into state of things border
ing on the archaic.
The annual business excursion of the
Spokane Merchants & Manufacturers
association will this year touch the
country lying west of Spokane along
the Washington Central and Great
Northern roads. The start will be
made on Wednesday morning, Sept.
IS, at 1880 o'clock.
Tied in their stalls and unable to
escape from the burning building, %
horses belonging to the City Day
company were cremated in
a fire that destroyed the company's
stable at Spokane. Thirty tons of hay
in the loft of the barn, where the fire
is supposed to have started were also
lost, making the total loss over S10,- |
900. Only about $4,000 of this was
covered by insurance.
The old soldiers in camp at Chewe-
lab recently elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: Commander,
Comrade f, A. Parmeter of Daisy, |
Wash; senior commander, Comrade
Childs, Kettle Falls, Wash; junior |
Comrade Stafford, Kettle
Falls, Wash; adjutant, Colonel Fish, |
Kettle Falls, Wash; officer of day, ].
T. Grove, Deer Park; officer of guard, |
Mr.. Anderson, Spokane; quartermas-
ter, E. A. Keyes, Spokane.
Fire destroyed the Webb hotel at
20 miles from Tacoma, re-
Gently. Miss Bailey and Mrs. Nudge,
both Of Shelton, are known to be
among the lost. The following perish
ed: Miss Ivy Bailey, chamberlain;
w. H. Holmes, master mechanic in the |
Peninsula Railway shops; Pearl F. |
Larson; a boy driver for Connolly, the
Mrs. Gay Of the hotel; Dan
Hennessey, a logger. Eight or nine
are still unaccounted for.