Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-05-03
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
PIaee-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The North Yakima Carnegie public
library was dedicated Saturday, H. P.
James, representing the library COM
mittee, turning over the keys to Mayor
Fechter. The building cost, including
the site, almost $4,000.
The new steam schooners, to cost
in all $250,000, are under construction
at the Lindstrom shipyards at Aber-
deem.
An eastbound passenger train struck
a buggy in North Yakima Sunday after
noon and hurled Samuel Kesling, one
of the occupants, so feet in the air
and caught his brother Ad under the
lcowcatcher, dragging him for 400 feet,
while he chung desperately to the pilot
to avoid being crushed under the
wheels, AID dying in a few minutes
while his brother was found to have
his right leg broken and several minor
injuries.
Fire Sunday destroyed the coal tar
plant of the Puget Sound Sheet Metal
works at Seattle. An electric spark
dropped into tank of tar, which
caused an explosion. The company's
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000, partially covered by insurance.
In a rear-end collision on the Yesler
way cable line, Seattle, seven persons
were injured.
Effective Monday morning every
barber shop in Spokane commenced to
charge 35 cents for cutting hair.
Two million dollars will be added
to the 1907 assessment roll of Clacka-
mas county
]. M. Snow, the state highway com
missioner at Olympia, has apportioned
among the counties of the state the
$4,000 appropriated by the last leg
islature for the improvement of state
roads.
Spokane ranks fifth among the cities
of the United States in the percentage
of increase in bank clearings.
Signs of storm in Whatcom county
over the contest for lands opened for
settlement last winter are brewing,
states a west side report.
There is a movement on foot among
the business men Of Sprague to or
ganize a commercial club.
1t is feared S. w. WaddelI of BeIling-
ham and his IL year old son Sinclair
have been drowned while fishing in
the Narrows, west of Tacoma.
Chester Thompson, who killed G. |
Meade Emory in Seattle, may be le-
sally sent to prison, is the decision of |
the state supreme court.
Saturday was Spokane's second an
nual cleaning day.
The Metal Trades association and
the Pacific FOundTymen's association
have unanimously agreed TO file the
demand of the iron molders for a wage
scale of "a day.
new oriental steamship line has
been formed by the Centennial Mill
Company of Spokane and Seattle and
he Jebson Steamship company of
Reports from the east to the effect
hat the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
PAUL is to indefinitely discontinue work
III the Pacific extension are denied bv
K. Williams, president of the Chica-
90, Milwaukee & st. Paul in Washing
on. i
Whitman County Notes.
Several farmers of Rosalia are ship
ling in beet pulp from Waverly to feed
o their dairy cows.
A. L. Ballaine, a farmer living in
Pleasant valley, lost a large machine
he'd, containing threshing machine
nd other farm implements, valued at
5000, by fire recently.
Miss Fern Healy of the Washington :
tate college won the oratorfcaI CON
est at Corvallis, Ore, against the Ore
on Agricultural college and Whitman
ollege.
l new floor is being put down on the t
cooper lake bridge in the south end P
Colfax. a
IN travelling over Whitman county r
ne can see every evidence of the large c
creage devoted to wheat and other
rains, and the almost sure results that
re to follow the plentiful railfall fol.
wing the SHOWS of winter.
The new road law provides thai
hen county commences the build 81
ig OF a road or roads Of a permanent n
laracter the state shall bear half the :,
ipense. =
The water supply at Elberton is to 9,
further tested by a new we'll and
'aVity system preferred if supply -,
sufficient. -