Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-27
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur.
rounding country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop Outlook Is Good.
WAsHINeroN MorEs.

Charged with being implicated in &
Black Hand plot which has for it's OBJ
ject the murder of Tony Sartore, q
construction foreman for the Seattle
Electric company, three Italians were
placed under arrest recently.
The Spokane socialists have passed
resolutions denouncing Roosevelt fol
sending troops to Goldfeld.
The Spokane G. Inland has begun
running a Saturday night special the
alter train from Spokane to Colfax and
Palouse.
J. Hamilton Lewis, formerly of Sc
attic, and now of Chicago, has an
nounced that he would accept the nom
nation for governor of Illinois if it
were rendered him
Archie Mitchell an inmate of the
penitentiary, while working on the
hospital building, fell a distance of
about 20 feet, striking on his head,
killing HIM
The A c block system of train dis
patching, originated by A. Beamer,
division superintendent of the North
ern Pacific, by which the trains be-
tween Spokane and Marshall have
been operated during the past two
months, will be extended to include
Sprague.
If the grain growers of Washington
want to take up the suggestion of
shipping wheat in bulk, instead of
sacked, the state railroad commission
win lend advice and announcement,
according to a recent statement by
\ them.
Senator Piles has introduced bill
for subtreasury at Seattle.
Governor Mead has appointed DIR.
E. T. Kimball of Spokane member of
the state board of health and vital
statistics, to succeed DR.. ]. M. Semple.
S. d. Hawxhurst of the Spokane
Rifle and Revolver association has
been elected president of the Wash
ington State Rifle association, which
was organized recently.
big rabbit drive that is aimed to
rid forever the Wide Hollow country
OF the pest is being planned for next
month.
After this week the BARRIERS of Ia
coma will charge rs cents for hair cuts.
and the price for honing razors will
at that time drop to 25 cents from so
cents. This is the decree of Tacoma
master BARRIERS.
The conditions of sanitation are
infinitely worse in Seattle" said DR..
r. S. Bourns, than they were in Man
lila at the time assumed charge of
the work in the Philippines for the
government. Seattle is confronted
with a condition extraordinary on ac.
count of the topography of the ground
and the character of many of the
buildings"
A sheriff's deed has been given to
James A. Moore of Seattle, who last
year bought a large part of the prop
erty of the BlalOck Island company
from John A. Finch of Spokane. This
deal was one of the largest ever made
in Benton county, the consideration
being $52.034S2. Mr.. Finch secured
the land through foreclosure proceed
ings, since which he has disposed of |
it to Mr.. Moore. Most of the prop |
erty is on Blalock island in the Co |
lumbia river.
When the Lamb-Davis log boom |
broke near Leavenworth a few months |
ago jewellers along the Wenatchee
river reaped rich harvest of timber
by catching runaway logs and appro-
priating them
The Prosser Traction company, or
ganized several months ago to con-
struct an electric railway in this sec
ton, is preparing papers to file for a
power right on the Yakima river.
g. w. Porter, former treasurer of
Cowlitz county, who was short in his
accounts to the amount of 1929, accord |
ing to an expert investigation made |
recently, has made settlement with |
the cSunty commissioners. Shortages
by other officers reported have not yet
been made good.
Frederick A. Roll has been appoint
ed postmaster at Redmond. Frederick |
Cramp of Seattle is made clerk in the |
Quartermaster's service at Walla Wal
la, and Miss Bertha NJ Kennedy, Spo-
kane, operator at San Francisco.