Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-12
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
Place-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

"HSHlNG YIN NO ESs
The price for prison sacks this year
will be 9 cents.
1t is said Everett will be a ter
minus of the Milwaukee road.
Spokane voted faVorably for an is
sue of 100000 in school bonds last
Saturday.
The meeting of the grand lodge of
the A. o. U. w. takes place at Aber-
deem this week.
Fire has destroyed the residence Of
l.. H. Koontz with practically all the
contents at Pasco.
Italians working six miles west of
Cheney found a dead man about 100
yards south of the railroad track.
Stockholders in the Columbia Valley
Bank of Wenatchee are to open a new
banking institution at Cashmere.
Ed Sinclair was acquitted by jury
at Walla Walla of the murder of Gust
Kostovos, a Greek restaurant man.
| Hon. S. G. Hyde has been appointed
justice Of the peace by the county
commissioners of Spokane recently.
A large package of dynamite was
found in the street opposite the home
of F. E. Ping at Wenatchee recently.
Benton county will have a term of
the superiour court on the 18th Of
this month that will probably last a
week.
The Waterville city council has &C.
cepted the bid of the state for the
purchase of $4,000 worth of water
| bonds.
The G. & o. S. S. company are CON
structing a new river steamer to be
known as the Okanogan for the upper
Columbia river.
The Wenatchee city council has pur-
chased a $4,000 combination chemical
and hose cart for further fire protec-
ton to the city.
The Kennewick Courier has been
declared the official paper of Benton
county for the period from July 1,
1907, to July 1. 1908.
The shout of fire by some one in
the gallery of the Savoy theater, Ia
coma, started a panic Sunday after
noon. No one was seriously hurt.
Lyman Shotwell and Ira Collier won
the Wenatchee high school declama-
tory contest and will represent that
city at Seattle and Pullman May 1918
Captain G. o. Lorenzo, a pioneer
resident of Tacoma, was stricken with
heart failure Sunday and falling to the
ground died before assistance reached
him.
A train on the Spokane Falls &
Northern crashed into boulder three
miles this side of Myncaster, B. G.
Sunday morning, Engineer JEFF Irby
was the only one injured.
The commissioners of Douglas coun-
ty have designated May as the day
on which a special election is to be
held in Coulee City to vote on the in
corporation of that town.
The state has filed on approximately
20 900 acres of land in Whatcom coun-
ty in the United States land office at
Seattle. The state claims this land
as indemnity for lost common school
grants.
Leslie Larson, the year old son of
L, E. Larson, living at Hatton, Wash,
died recently. The little fellow fell
into a vat of boiling water and was
terribly scalded, living but 40 hours
afterward.
William Constantine was found
guilty at Seattle Of assault with
deadly weapon with intent to COM
NIT murder. Constantine fred six
shots at Jesse Hall, his son in law,
all of which took effect in the mans
body. Hall recovered from the
wounds.
Four men, believed beyond doubt to
be the desperate bandits who, des-
pite a rain of bullets from officers,
coolly exploded charge after charge
of dynamite against the doors of the
safe of the Ephrata bank and later
escaped into the darkness, were cap
tured about eight miles from Ephrata,
The amount of booty secured will not
exceed $50, and has been recovered.
All the dynamite used failed to pene-
trate the inner vault of the safe, where
the treasure is kept.
Whitman County Notes.
Spring work is greatly delayed. Seed
ing is just begun, but the farmers are
ever hopeful.
Albert Powell, during the nine years
he has been sexton Of Colfax GENE
terry, has taken part in burying 522
bodies.
Recently - of the farmers in the
vicinity of Cotton closed a deal with
M. c. Gray of Pullman for a Black
Shire stallion.
The horse show which will be given
on Saturday, April IS, at Colfax prom
ises to be largely attended and will be
an important event.
j. E. Kincaid, who was seriously in.
jured by being thrown from his horse,
is suffering from conclusion of the
brain, is mending rather slowly.
Prosecuting Attorney Kipp has filed
two complains charging John Redman
of Endicott and Bernard Riley of Pull |
man with being habitual drunkards.
After a contest for over two wears /