Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-15
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Aec'-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHING ! yin W. G9s
The funeral Of H. G.. Stimmel who
died in Seattle, was held Sunday aft
ernoon at Spokane, where he had made
his home for % years.
County officers at Bellingham are
having trouble with negro laborers i'm
ported by j. j, Hill to replace Japs on
the Great Northern. The negroes have
been quarantined, but refuse to remain
In the camps.
The case against Tacoma skating
rink proprietor who kept his place open
on Sunday has been dismissed. The
court held the prosecution had failed
to make a case.
The body of q woman was found
on the ice in the Mohawk river near
had jumped from a passenger train.
Her ticket bore the name Of Mrs.
Maria Becker, Of Chehalis, Wash.
Mrs. Jane Anderson, the Oldest
woman in the state of Washington and
perhaps on the Pacific coast, died last
week at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. w. H. Hamilton, in Bellingham.
She was 101 years old.
The school for the feeble minded at
Medical Lake has 124 attendants.
A number of schoolgirls in Walla
Walla, ranging in age from 10 to 10
years, have been stealing small arti-
Giles from the different stores in town.
Efforts are being made by the
friends of Herman Lown OF EdmOnds,
Wash, to secure for the young hero
a Carnegie medal. Young Lown saved
four girls from drowning last Sun
day after a boat in which they were
rowing had capsized, himself receiving
serious injuries.
It is said Everett will be connected
by electric road with Seattle at an
early date.
Samuel McCauley has been appoint
ed regular rural carrier at Dayton.
Victor Dessert, owner of the Pacific
hotel and a pioneer resident of Spo-
kane, died recently His fortune was
rated at s75O,OOO
John H. English, aged So years, who
lived south Of PalOuse, was found dead
recently at the foot of bluff along
the Palouse river just east Of the city
limits.
Roy N. Wolfe, who was selected last
December as the champion debateT of
Whitman college, will be given the
debate trophy, awarded by the gradu-
ating class of last year for the best
debatef.
The annual bean bake of the G. A.
RI post and Woman's Relief corps at
Pullman last week was one of the big
events of the season.
The 10 year old son of Mr.. Snead
of Garfield, while out hunting SPUR
rels recently with younger brother
and a neighbor's son named Davis,
was accidentally shot dead by the
Davis boy.
The town of Prescott is headquart-
ers for the new association recently
organized under the name of Farmers
& Wheat Growers of America. The
purpose of the association Is to pro-
tect the members from the grain buy
ers' combine, and assist In marketing
their product to the best advantage.
Mother" Smith Of Portland, known
over the northwest for her work in
trying to reform the criminal element
visited the Walla Walla Jail and peni
tertiary and preached to the prisoners
recently. She travels without money
and says that God always provides for
her wants.
A cooperative store, with a capital
stock of $4,000, fully subscribed, is tc
conduct general merchandise bust
ness In Harrington.
It now appears that Washington will
be divided into three congressional dis
tricts, one east Of the mountains anC
two west. Klickitat will be in tht
Pierce county district
The February report from Medica
Lake hospital for the insane shows al
average attendance Of 526 patients
with 16 new ones, six discharged ant
two deaths.
It Is reported there is a scarcity o
farm laborers throughout the Palous,
country and wages have been ad
vanced. Farmers are paying 81 t,
$3.50 per day and board for commo,
farm work, and some are Offering q
per month and board for steady work
with regular harvest wages during har
vest.
The embargo on through eastboun,
dead freight, in effect west of White
hsh, Mont, since January 2, will b.
lifted March Is.
IDAHO NEWS.