Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-05
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
PIace-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON MorEs.

bier, was run down by a streetcar in
Seattle Saturday night and instantly
killed. The body was practically cut
in two. John Aiken, the motorman,
was arrested on charge of man
slaughter.
General William Booth, founder of
the Salvation Army, was in Seattle
Sunday. ne embarked Monday on the
steamship Minnesota for Japan. Gen
eral Booth delivered three addresses
Easter.
Assistant Attorney General A. j.
Faulkner has decided that the in
crease in salaries voted at the last leg
islature will not take effect till June
IA, although the appropriations carry
ing larger salaries are available
April 1.
Thus far the free employment
bureau recently established in Walla
Walla by the farmers of that district
has proven a success.
A building of an entirely new type
is planned to be built in Spokane this
summer. This building will be an
apartment hotel, 10 story steel struc-
ture, which will cost $25O,0OO.
At last plans are practically COM
pletely for the erection of $26O,O00
hotel in Walla Walla. The proposed
structure is to be seven stories, with
800 rooms, and modern in every de-
tail
There is a large amount of wheat,
aggregating nearly 100000 bushels,
still stored in the warehouses along
the w. & G. R. railroad, which has not
been shipped out for want of cars, and
that the owners have been obliged to
pay insurance, besides losing interest
on their money by the delay.
The proposition to vote $4,000
bonds for Latah school district No.
60, to build a new schoolhouse, was
carried recently at the election.
The wild animal industry cost the
taxpayers of Lincoln county 1921 dur
ing the month of March; SIP for coy
ote and 50 for wildcat and lynx scalps.
Many farmers say this is the most
backward spring in Adams county.
Fruit trees are budding and alfalfa
a foot high in the Kiona valley.
George Mattox's crew Of II men have
just finished shearing 1900 head of
sheep near Kiona for Prior & Son OF
North Yakima.
John Birnot of Spokane, formerly a
farmer, has bought from J. Brown 220
acres Of land in the Saltese lake bot
tom, the price being $4,000, or 800
an acre.
A great deal of dissatisfaction exists
in the Columbia Flat county in regard
to the school situation, as the nearest
school house is 10 miles from the home
of some of the children.
The adoption of 1000 mile inter
changeable mileage book will be
placed ON sale in Spokane May l, and
which will be good over the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and o. r.
& N. roads.
In an opinion to Land Commissioner
E. w. Ross, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral A. ]. Falllner holds that the lano
commissioners having sold timber on
state lands in Stevens county sep
arate from the land, where the timber
does not exceed 100000 feet to the
quarter, the land itself cannot also be
sold until the timber is removed.
To meet more than five millions in
appropriations made by the last legis-
lature for state expenditures for the
two years beginning Monday, there is
on hand in the state treasury general
fund less than $162, 900. All told, the
treasurer at the close of business Sat
urday holds about $1,625,00O accord
ing to statement issued by Treasurer
George G. Mills, but of this a consid-
cradle portion is permanent school
funds, which the state cannot touch.
In the case of the state against the
management of the Tacoma theater,
in which the defendant was charged
with violating the Sunday closing law,
Judge Smell has rendered a decision
in favor of the theater.
ITO connect eastern and western
Washington so that the main tread of
domestic commerce may be given
larger and broader ways of transpor-
tation 1000 miles of wagon road has
been projected in this state, which to
construct will cost more than $1,000 |
OOO," says ]. H. Snow, state highway |
commissioner.
Whitman County Notes.
Eugene Brown of Colfax has COM
pleted and patented a roller mill which |
promises to revolutionize the grinding
of grain for feed purposes. With a |
thTee-hOrsepower gasoline engine Mr.. |
Brown is rolling three tons of barley |
every hour.
A move is on foot to organize a TO-
900 club at Garfield.
Spring seeding throughout the Pa
louise country promises to be late this
year.
The roads, owing to the continued
wet weather, are almost impossible.
Why not make better ones?
Albion will soon have a newspaper.
l. H. Hughey is to be editor.
The Spokane & Inland has a steam
shovel working in the deep cut north
of Oakesdale.
The lambing season for sheep is now
in progress and sheepmen report
bright prospects for a good crop OF
lanmbs.