Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-19
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

show at Waitsburg.
Oliver Pape has been appointed post
master at Cunningham.
The Walla Walla travelling men have
organized local council.
Hatton business men are discussing
the advisability of incorporating that
town.
Work on the foundation for the new
cannery to be erected in Walla Walla
this spring has commenced.
William A. E. Smart, the oldest ma
Coast, died in Seattle recently.
One hundred and seventy-fve bales
of hops were purchased by Isaac Pin
chus & Sons at 61acents per pound.
The splendid spring weather we
have been having the past few days
is causing great activity in the fields.
H. w. Keith was sentenced to five
years in the state penitentiary by
Judge Brents at Walla Walla for adult
cry.
Nels Sells, aged %, was killed by
falling tree in Larsen's camp near
Aberdeen. His home was in Moro,
Mich.
Charles w. Buddrius, a rancher who
lived two miles south of Dixie, was
instantly killed by falling from a load
of hay
Spokane is to be the host of the
grand encampment and of the grand
lodge I. o. O. F. and Rebekah assem-
bly, of Washington from June to 6.
1t is believed that the man found
on the ranch of Green McCabe, near
Rosalia, a few days ago, was from
Spokane and that his name was Moss.
The Northern Pacific company is
spending a considerable sum of money
for new engines and other equipment
to be used in this part of the country.
1t is reported that the Prosser Falls
Lands and Power company, E. F. Ben
son, president, has purchased the light
plant of the Prosser Electric company.
On a merit scale arranged by the
employers and the union the Union Ma
chinery & Supply company's men, who
went on a strike at Seattle, have re-
sumed work
Three representative Quinault In
dams have gone to Washington to
protest to President Roosevelt against
the proposed plan of including the
Quinault reservation in the Olympia
forest reserve.
In addressing the chamber of COM
merce the other day Congressman w.
L. Jones said it would be three or four
years before the south half of the Col
vile reservation could be opened to
settlement.
Wo Fong Kong, wealthy silk mer-
chant, and Miss Chin Sue, the ac-
knowledged belle of the North Yakima
Chinatown, eloped, going to Seattle.
where they were married by justice
of the peace.
Robert King, an IS year old youth,
has pleaded guilty to setting two fires
to the St. Paul lodging house at North
Yakima, where he was detained under
quarantine after exposure to smallpox
King confessed and was bound over to
the superior court in $1,000 bail.
At Asotin Charles McFadden, the
naturopathic physician who was arrest
ed last summer on the charge of man
slaughter, by reason of treating the g.
months-old child of William Robinson
for a period of two or three weeks
through a fasting or starvation method
was found guilty as charged.
The regulations agreed to by the
railroad representatives and state COM
mission are The Interchangeable 25a
cent mile mileage books; prompt re-
demptiOn of unused tickets; that all
delayed trains be bulletined at all sta
tions at intervals and all regulars to
be also listed on a public bulletin; that
stations be supplied with water, heat,
light, seats and toilet facilities and be
kept clean before the time of arrival
of trains.
Whitman County Notes.
The Endicott fire alarm bell has ar
rived.
Elberton people are already begin
ming to talk picnic.
A large acreage of potatoes will be
planted in the Palouse country this
season.
Great complaint is made at Palouse
because Of the car shortage and lum-
Der shipments.
Electric train service on the Spo-
kane & Inland to Oakesdale was in
augurated Monday.
This summer is expected to be the
best in the history of Pullman from a
business standpoint.
The Garfield high school won out
Friday night in a debate with the Col
fax high school at Garfield.
Most of the graded schools in Whit
man county are employing teachers at
a considerable advance in salaries.
The condition of fruit trees at pres
ent indicate an excellent harvest of
fruit this year in the upland country.
The streets of Colfax were thronged
with 1000 people Saturday, who saw
the first annual horse show and parade.
The three days rally of the Chris
titan Endeavor societies of Whitman