Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-08-30
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
Place-Crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

In the state of Washington one per
son in 345 owns an automobile.
Jacob Stevig of Starbuck is dead
in st. Ignatius hospital at Colfax.
Alfred E. TelIesen, aged 20, was
drowned at Tacoma recently, while
fishing.
The second crop of alfalfa is being
cut and stacked and hauled to market
at Pullman.
1t is said the railroads are break
ing the new labor law by working
their men 10 hours a day.
The new recitation building for the
Washington State college will not be
built this year owing to the lateness
of the season.
Near Asotin recently Chas. Sage,
aged IA years, was accidentally shot
and killed. 1t is supposed that he
was shot while attempting to climb
the fence.
A cloudburst on the Genesee branch
of the Northern Pacific railroad Sat
urday afternoon tore out about 300
feet of track, and the passenger train
narrowly escaped being caught by the
raging waters.
There is said to be serious talk in
the Tacoma city council of impeach-
ing Mayor Wright and Commissioner
of Public Works Woods because they
failed to put stop to the stealing OF
gravel from the city property.
The banner wheat yield for the
Odessa section reported so far this
season comes from the ranch of Pc
ter Luiten. four miles northeast OF
town, where a setting cut from 60
acres was threshed this week which
averaged AZ bushels to the acre.
The strike in the South Bend Mil
company's plant is growing, 40 meI
having walked out Saturday. Owners
say they can get plenty of help ant
that they will not suffer by a shut
down. The strikers have been giveI
"a hours in which to return to work.
In an opinion just rendered, the at
torney general holds that 1.-The fees
collected by county auditors or depu
ties for preparing abstracts of title
whether during or after office hours
must be paid into the county treasur!
for the benefit of the county in the
same manner as the other fees Off
cially collected by him.
]. H. Forman, a rancher at Parkeri
bottom, has sold the pear production
on half an acre of land for $4,000
This discounts all former records TO
fruit production and value in the Yak
oh Il,
for that price on the trees, is the crol
Of "a trees, planted IA years ago. Thu
pears are of the Anjou variety.
Charles E. Lewis made a good rul
with his threshing machine recent,
on Peter Klavanos ranch near Enid
colt. The outfit moved and set fiv,
times, and turned out 1856 sacks il
II hours. Lewis hires his help on tn,
basis of 1000 sacks, and finds it bring
good results. In five days the average
threshing was 1852 sacks.
When the Pierce county board o
; equalization adjourned sine die Sal
urday after strenuous session o
three weeks it is estimated tina
Pierce county had to it's credit an in
crease in the assessment valuation
for 1907 of over $5,OOO,0OO notwith
standing the reductions made on pre-
: tests, errors rectif1ed and assessment
, altered.
The first field fire Of any conse
duence near Colfax this year occurre
{ at the farm of Niles Champlin. TIL
fire originated from a smut explosion
and resulted in the complete destruC
ton of the threshing machine and del
rick table of w. P. Brewrink, tt
gether with $50 sacks of threshe
wheat, a stack containing about 60
! sacks more, and 1000 new empty Ca
cutta grain bags belonging to Nile
Champlin.