Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
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.

Selah valley farmers are shipping |
potatoes to the sound markets.
The president has appointed L. c.
Weik postmaster at Odessa, Wash.
An officer to trace cars will be re-
established by the Great Northern in
Spokane.
The grand nest of the Brotherhood
of Owls has moved from Walla Walla
to Seattle.
Building contractors of Walla Walla
claim that a sand trust has been or
ganized in that city.
The Stevens county sawmills are
preparing, almost as whole, to start
work saving on April L.,
Secretary Taft, Governor Hughes
and Governor Folk may visit this
state during the coming summer.
The first steel passenger coach to
come to Spokane arrived Saturday
over the o. R. & N. from Portland.
The first strawberry of the season
has made it's appearance in the Hover
end of the Kennewick-Hover valley.
EVERY physician in North Yakima
is violating the state law because
they have not registered their license,
The Northern Pacific announces
that on March % the resumption of
through freight east will be resumed.
There is no longer any doubt about
the Canadian Pacific using the o. R.
& N. tracks from Spokane to Port
land.
Jennie Jackson, an unmarried In
dian woman living on the Puyallup
Preservation, was recently killed by a
train.
The plumbers union of Spokane is
said to have decided to raise the scale
of wages from $3.50 to Sc for a day of
eight hours
Fred Miller, murderer of Fritz Diertz,
was hung at the penitentiary Friday.
He totally collapsed at sight of the
rope and tainted.
tract of SO acres of land near
Cornell has been selected by the state
college for the experimental purposes
during the coming season.
The Columbia club of Vancouver is
a recently organized club of Vancou-
yer for the purpose of promoting the
commercial interests of Vancouver.
w. M. Allen, chief clerk in the Uni
ted States land office at Waterville for
the past six years, has received no
tice of his transfer to the Seattle Of
fee.
The general land Office has just is
sued a circular announcing that no
definite date can be named for open
ing the Yakima reservation for settle
ment.
Missing for two weeks, and believed
to have met with foul play, N. P.
Nelson, bachelor living recently in
Seattle, is being sought for by his
friends
The disagreement between the Sc
attic master builders association and
the building trades assembly on the
scale of wages for unsldlled labor has
now reached a point where there is
little prospect of any settlement.
Washington, says the Railway Age,
the foremost authority on railroad
matters, leads the world in the num-
Der of miles Of roadway under con-
struction, $780, OF this amount, Mes
srs. Hill and Hartman are behind the
building of no miles,
Whitman County Notes.
Augustus Motz has been appointed
postmaster at Elberton.
The poll tax collectors are now max
ing their rounds throughout the
county.
Calvin McCracken, a former pioneer
resident of Whitman county, passed
away at his home in Charleston recent
ly.
: The 26th session of the Whitman
e County Teachers institute is in ses
= sion this week, $50 teachers are pres
t ent.
The Colfax Commercial club has or
= dered 10000 copies of a pamphlet
q advertising Colfax and Whitman
). county.
= Judge Chadwick of Colfax was thu
S first to enforce the insanity plea Law
g now upheld by the supreme court O
o the United States.
l. Committees have been appointed tt
st formulate plans for celebrating il
is Colfax the SSth anniversary Of tn,
10 founding of Odd Fellowship in Ameri
CT. This occurred in Baltimore Apri
Ic &c, 1919.
q The Palouse river broke out of it
ID banks recently in North Colfax, OWN,
to a log jam that had formed in thu
river. AS a result four houses of tn,
flooded district have a foot of water il
q them, though the water is slowly sub
- Is siding.
~ In the death Of John Bryant, bette
known as Grandpa" Bryant, Whitman
county loses one of the oldest settler
and best known characters. Mr.. Bry
n ant was "a years old on March 9.
e-i James Bunch, who is awaiting tria
ne at Colfax upon the charge of assault
n with a deadly weapon with intent t,
sr- ihfiict bodily injury, and who is tn
I'd defendant in an action for $3.50 dam
nd ages, is again in the tolls of the law
st charged with arson. He now lies il
es Jail awaiting trial upon two counts.
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at OREGON soUIBs.
70 On April 1 the recently enacted Ore
gon sheep law will go into effect an,