Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-07-19
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, idaho, OREGON
and MONTANA news.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Postmaster e. H. Cooper at Lake
Bay has been conducting a blind pig
and selling booze on the sly as well
as stamps. His place was raided and
$500 worth of liquor confscated.
Jealous because of attentions paid
his wife by other men, Henry Harrison,
a well-known, North Yakima citizen,
I shot the woman three times, succeed
ing only in inflicting wounds that are
not considered fatal. After first TAX
ing recourse to flight, Harrison re-
traced his steps and gave himself up
to the authorities.
John Green's plan of unionizing the
harvesters who have come to Walla
Walla to secure work among the
wheat growers Of the district is not
meeting with the success he had
hoped.
At the close Of Saturdays session
Of the State abr association in Seattle
A. G. Avery of Spokane was elected
president for the succeeding year, and
the city of Spokane selected as the
place for the holding of the next an
nual meeting at a time to be decided
upon later.
The disappearance Of H. e. Nicolai
Of Sunnyside continues to be a mys-
terry. AS 1t now stands $3.50 is Of
fered for his return alive.
About 10 cars Of steel rails and
$4,000 ties have arrived at Lind for
the St. Paul road. The report is that
the line will be completed and cars
running from Lind to the Columbia in
time to move a large portion of the
wheat that will be harvested in the
Leone valley.
While heating lard on a kitchen
stove recently Mrs. H. s. Calvin, liv-
ing near North Yakima, was badly
burned by the overtuning Of the
grease upon her.
G. H. Sweetser, supervising engin-
eer Of the state highway department,
is investigating the advisability of
constructing a road across the noun
tain into the isolated settlement in the
southeastern part of Garfield county.
Karl Klenhover a laborer at Walla
Walla, has received intelligence from
friends in the old country that he has
fallen heir to fortune valued at about
$4,000.
Frank Desmond, the 16-year-old
son of H. J. Desmond, a merchant of
Oroville, was drowned while swim
ming in the Okanogan river recently.
Thomas Prindville of Spokane died
at Pasco about two hours after being
crushed between box cars Saturday
Fire was discovered in Northern
Pacific bridge No. ITO near Hatton re-
Gently, just in time to stop a Christian
Endeavor excursion train which was
coming at high speed.
Because the clutch failed to work
as an auto driven by John Larson, a
wealthy man of Bellingham, was turn
ing into a narrow road, the machine
with occupants went over an embanl1-
ment near Samisk lake. Larson re-
.ceived injuries from which he died.
Whitman County Items.
The Pullman State bank has begun
two actions against Eugene Ringer of
Pullman to recover more than $780,
900 claimed to be due on promissory
notes.
Frank T. Abbott, who has been
agent for the o. R. & N. at Colfax
for the last six years, has rendered
his resignation to take effect August
1, at which time he will enter the
employment Of the Spokane & Inland
in a similar capacity.
Five hundred divorces have been
granted in Whitman county since
1886.
The first market day was held in
Colfax Saturday.
The grand prize Of $125 offered by
the state college for the best milch
COW has been awarded to Thomas
Matthews. The COW exhibited by Mr..
Matthews is half Holstein and Jer-
sey and made an average Of three and
One-haf pounds of butter per day dur
ing the period of being exhibited at
the grange picinc.
Ten million bushels of wheat for
Whitman county this year is the es-
Innate of Seymour Manning, general
agent for the Northwestern Ware
house company Of Portland.
Two Pennington dealers have tested
the Sunday Closing law to the extent
Of keeping open, for which they were
arrested and fined $25 each. The
complaining witnesses in both cases
were ministers Of the town.
The experts who have been going
over the books OF the city of Seattle
have figured out that ex-City Comp
troller John Riplinger owes that city
$6S,17S.91. Ripnnger is said to be in
Honduras, Central America.