Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-09-06
NORTHWEST NEWS.

Edlth Wilson, a girl about IA YEAR
Old, attempted suicide at Portland re
Gently by swallowing several tableti
OF poison. The cause Of the act wa,
that the girl had been arrested for in
corrigibility.
There is an influx of Hindus OF
Grays Harbor.
North Yakima has Just put in an
auto hose cart, which is said to dc
satisfactory work. 1t is one Of the few
IN the Pacific northwest.
After a two days session the state
association of master plumbers closed
IT'S convention in ReIlingham. Jar7es
Smyth of Spokane was elected prasi.
dent. The association will meet next
year in Spokane.
Sergeant w. A. Berg of North va
klma, Company E, N. G. W., won the
presidents match at the annual shoot
winch is being held under the auspices
OF the National Rifle association at
Camp Perry, Ohio.
NO smoking is allowed on the back
platforms of Tacoma railroad power
street cars within the city.
William Davis, who shot and killed
John MCGEE, a Seattle contractor, sew
eral months ago at Leavenworth, is
very low with heart trouble.
Rainier Beach and Dunlap, suburbs
on Lake Washington, with territory
two miles square and population of
five to seven thousand, have voted to
annex to Greater Seattle
The Washington Annex MOTEL, a six,
story steel building on a double corn
er in Seattle has been soil by James
A. Moore to G. ]. Smith and A. S.
Kerry of Seattle for 100000.
The state reformatory commission
has selected tract of land one and
one-half miles northwest of Monroe
as a site for the reformatory. The
price asked for the site is $4,000.
George G. Burton, now in solitary
confinement in the Seattle city Jail
awaiting transportation to Illinois to
serve a term of 20 years for burglary
is one of the most skilful safe bur
glars the authorities in Illinois ever
had to deal with.
The banks of Seattle have come to
the aid Of the state commission of the
Alaska-Y ukon-Pacific exposition and
by agreeing to cash all warrants drawn
on the fund to be raised by sale of
shore lands as provided for by the
state at the last session of the legis.
lature have eliminated all obstacles
from the path of the commission.
Work has begun on the installation
of the Gamewell fire alarm system in
Lewiston, force of linemen having
been brought here to string the ter
miles of wire which will carry the
alarms.
Montana has 1885 full members and
468 probationers in Methodist church
There are So churches and As parson
ages. The total value of church prop
erty is $76,625, on which there is al
Indebtedness of SAILS, which proba
bly, will be wiped out this year. az
during the last year the sum of $12, 81.
was paid on the debt.
A large number of the sheep o
ison forest reserve during the summer
months, the country around the heaC
of the Ruby river and it's hundreds o.
tributaries being apportioned to diff
ferent sheepmen, who pay a liberia
fee to the government for the priv
ilege. The same conditions also ap
ply to the other reserves, which have
been established more recently at the
headwaters of the tributaries of the
Big Hole and Beaverhead.
Madison county produced nearly
million pounds of wool during the
past season.
Secretary H. R. Wells of the Mon
tana Stockgrowers association has
called a meeting of the executive
committee of the association to be
held at Miles City September 16.
John Ryan, managing director OF
the Amalgamated company, is agar
at his Office in Butte for the first time
since last April when he started fol
New York and soon afterward sailed
for Europe.
The wool crop in southern Montana
is the biggest in it's history. Beaver
head will weight out 1,75O,OOO pounds
a quarter of million more than any
other year in its history
M. w. Mann has been appointed
custodian at Fort Keogh, the command
of the Sixth cavalry has departed fol-
the Philippines.
1t has been stated that the mission
of Governor S. T. Hauser, who went
east recently, is in connection with
the building of a custom copper
smelter on the Missouri river in the
vicinity of Helena. The smelter is tc
be in close proximity to the lower
plants on the Missouri.
James Hoar was killed at Butte re
Gently by a man named RuscoVich
after a quarrel, the slayer escaping as
soon as he realized what he had done
Hoar was a miner % years DID, ano
came to Butte from San Francisco.