Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-08

The debate between Whitman col
cge and w. S. S. will take place
6arch %. The subject is: Resolved.
That municipalities should own and
operate their street railways.
The third annual debate between
Whitman college and Pacific univer.
Iity at College Grove, Ore, took place |
evening.
Daniel Weaver, a prominent farm
Or near Cheney has received three full
blooded Angora goats from Helena,
Mont. They are the offspring of two
South African bucks, the mohair of
which recently sold for $3.50 a pound.
$26650, there being Al pounds
in one clipping.
Harry Davenport, George Wood
ward and Edward Mason, all of the
junior class of Whitman college, were
chosen after a tryout debate recently
to represent this institution in the
coming debate with Willamette uni
versity.
A needed enterprise at Washtucna
is a -four mill The Washtucna coun-
try produces extra good milling wheat.
The town of Quincy is to be incor-
porated, with F. T. Campbell, mayor;
G. D. Banko, ]. L. Dickinson, H. D,
Vail, J. j. Cox, H. G. Shockley, trus-
tees, and W. H. Linn, treasurer.
Frank Kaufman was killed in the
railroad yards at Sprague recently, be-
ing run over by freight train. He
has relatives in Chicago and Kansas
City.
w. H. Walker, ex-deputy sheriff OF
Franklin county, is in the Pasco jail
charged with killing Charles Ander
son, who died in a Spokane hospital
recently.
Pure bred Shetland ponies, Jersey
COWS and Poland China pigs are to be
bred near Spokane by G. H. Hamley
OF Maquoketa, Iowa.
Arrangements are being made by
Lieutenant Gushing Post, G. A. R., Of
Ballard, for the entertainment of the
state encampment of the order during
June 1928.
Considerable counterfeit money il
TIE form of SIS and $40 bills has beer
circulated about Spokane for the pas
10 days.
The senate privileges and elections
committee returned the direct prim
airy bill with number Of amendments
and an emergency clause attached
which may enable primaries to be hell
il Spokane this spring under the new
/ law.
The King county 100000 bond is
} sue to aid in the construction of thu
} Lake Washington canal has been in
validated in the supreme court a
|, Olympia. The county is not permit
ted to become interested in a private
enterprise, according to the consti
tuition.
After escaping conviction on tech
nicalities at Olympia, Tacoma, Seat
tie and Port Townsend, George King
leader in conspiracy by which hal
the counties in the state were de
frauded out of hundreds of dollars
through the collection of bounties OIL
wildcat scalps shipped to Bellinghan
from the east, gave up long lega
battle for liberty and was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment.
The body of a man found on tn,
4 beach at Whiterock, on the Canadian
side of the line, about two miles from
Blaine, few days ago has been iden
titled as that of William Johnson,
Dakota creek farmer, who disappeare,
on December q.
The police of Spokane are on a still
hunt for a 'Peeping Tom" who ha
been seen there.
Seattle merchants, wholesale ant
retail. city manufacturers and export
ers have invested the enormous sun
of $4,O0O,O0O i'll merchandise from tn
Atlantic states which has been OIL
dered months ago, but which may b
months reaching Seattle, due to tn
freight blockade on railways.
| Dorman Bros. have about consum
mated a sale of their 5000 acre rancl
near Lacrosse. This is one of the yer
best farms in the country and is i
; high state of cultivation and we
, improved.
/ The North Yakima Builders assC
| citation have voted to grant the cal
penters' union an eight hour day a
, the same pay they now receive 70
nine hours, which is $3.50 a day
, In round numbers, 100000 bushel
OF wheat of last seasons crop hav
been delivered at Prosser.
AS a result of a head-on collisio
between two streetcars near Fol
Lawton, Seattle, Sunday, 10 person
were injured, two of whom may di