Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-08-16
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
PIace-Crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

to vote on the incorporating of the
town.
The ukase has gone forth, and the
hobo in Whitman county must work
or move on.
Construction en- the Portland e oe
attic railroad is being rapidly pushed
to completion.
The bodies of Vern Wilcox and
Robert D. Mitchell, who were drowned
in the Columbia river recently near
Bridgeport. were recovered
Elisha Tarble, an old pioneer and a
member of the Stevens County Pho
neer association, died recently
Carl B. ROden, assistant in the Chi
cago public library, has been elected
librarian for the Seattle. library.
Whitman county will be entirely out
of debt this fall, according to the state
ments of the county commissioners.
It is said the warehouse men
throughout the Inland Empire have
raised the price for storage and hand
ling Of grain.
Under regulations issued by the sec
rotary of the interior, automobiles
will hereafter be permitted in Mount
Rainier national park.
1t is said Washington's new CT
gazette law which is in effect will yet
result in the manufacture of a new
variety of cigarettes.
L. F. Darr, a prominent hardware
marchant Of Uniontown, met with an
accident recently during a runaway
that will probably prove fatal.
The wreck on the Northern Pacific
at Garfield has all been cleared up
The four men injured are doing nicely,
and the doctor says they will recover.
AS many as 80 cruisers have been
looking over timber for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad in the
dense forests on the Olympia PENN
sula.
Riley Harris, declared by the King
county sheriff to be one of the most
noted and daring horse thieves in the
country, was captured in his camp in
Seattle
w. H. Ludden, a we'll known at
tCrney of Spokane, has announced his
intention of making the race for the
nomination to congress from the Third
district.
During the past year ending June
80 the police of Spokane made total
of $40 arrests, of which number 4917
were for city offenses and 553 for
state offenses.
In a rearend collision of southbound
trains on the Northern Pacific at Kala-
ma recently Conductor G. B. Carl of
Tacoma, who was in the caboose of
the forward train, was instantly killed.
Magnus Olson, who is to have charge
of the chorus work of the Nord Pa
cific saengerfest, which will be held
ia Spokane from August 20 to Septem-
Der 1, says large crowd will be
there
After 80 years spent in searching
for his two children, who had been
taken from his home by their mother
SO years ago, M. L. Fauver of Boyd
county, Nebraska, has located them in
Whitman, county.
The Prosser city council has re-
ceived petitions from a large number
of taxpayers, which were granted, to
call special election to bond the city
for $4,000, for the purpose7of sinking
deep we'll to obtain a better city
and domestic water supply.
Orders have been issued from the
Great Northern headquarters instruct
ing all agents to refuse consignments
of shingles for points via Duluth or
! Superior, along the Great Lakes, ow-
ing to congestion of freight at the
docks at the head waters of the lakes.
! The report of Professor Elton Full
mer of the Washington State college
on his examination of the stomach of
made public, and the chemist states
that he did not discover any poison
that could have caused the death of
Henion, or any trace of poison.
An investigation of tho complaints
made by members of the United Span
ish war veterans that unjust discrim-
ination against veterans of all wars
is in vogue at the Puget Sound navy
yard is to be carried on by them. Grant
Hinkle of Spokane was elected COM
mander for the ensuing year. They
will meet at Tacoma next year.
The farmers of the vicinity of Day
ton have been taking advantage of the
high price offered for barley, which is
81, and in some cases higher, per 100
pounds. The farmers have estimated
a total yield of 100000 sacks of barley
alone. If this is true, and with the
wheat crop, there will be nearly 81 ,OOO,-
coo in circulation in that vicinity dur
} ing the coming fall.
At a recent mass meeting in Seattle
} at which 200 single manufacturers
were present, fund of $4,000 was
= pledged to cooperate with the Pacific
: Coast Lumber Manufacturers associa-
ton and other lumber associations in
fighting the proposed 10-cent advance
in freight rates to the east to be made
by the transcontinental lines October
l. Lumber associations have already
raised S145,000.
= IDAHO NEWS.