Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-02-01
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaII Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

submitted to Governor Mead a request |
for the organization of a company Of |
state militia with headquarters at Col |
Vile.
Representative Jones has introduced |
bill authorizing the construction of
dam across the Snake river at Five |
Mile rapids by the Benton Water COM
pany.
Unlike nearly every former in |
stance Of Yakima Indian being killed |
by a train, Wavnaka, the old Indian |
who was struck and killed by loco
motive at Toppenish recently, was not
drunk.
| At a recent meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Dayton creamery a commit
tee, consisting Of J. w. Jessie, H. A.
Kaeppler and A. c. Gerkin, was ap-
pointed to dispose of the creamery
plant, the venture having proved a
financial failure.
Gray & Gray have sold their grist
mill at Oakesdale to a Mr.. Barron of
Asotin.
The annual district convention of
Knights of Pythias convened in Spra-
que and held an all-night session Fri
day night. Five candidates were given
the last rank in the order Team work
was put on by the Spokane lodge and
a team taken from Harrington, Daven-
Iport and Sprague.
Ice jams are forming in the Column
bia river and within the last few days
two such jams have frozen together,
making a compact mass of ice capable
Of sustaining the weight Of teams and
sleds. One is in the river just below
Wenatchee, the up-river end coming
just to the piers of the new bridge, the
jam extending down the river about
two miles. The other is above Wenat-
chez, between Orondo and Chelan, and
! is over a mile long.
Elaborate services were held over
the remains of the late Eugene J. Eel
loves at Spokane last Sunday in the
Masonic temple. The dead man was
a member of several fraternal and
social organizations and members of
these bodies turned out to honor the
memory of their dead comrade.
, Wenatchee business men are debat-
ing the question of raising 5000
month to advertise the Wenatche val
ley.
The river and harbor bill, reported
to the house Monday, carries 100000
for the Cello canal, 100000 having
been added to the amendment original
ly looked for.
Senator Ankeny has taken up with
the director of the geological survey
the feasibility Of irrigating a 10000
acre tract of land lying along Tucanon
river in Garfield and Columbia coUn-
ties. During the flood season it is esti-
mated the river carries off twice the
volume of water it does during the dry
season.
A plan is on foot in Spokane to found
a domestic training school for the edu-
cation of girls in the science of cook
ing, laundering, serving, manners, care
of children and the general duties of
the modern house servant.
The state board of control has con.
tracted for 5000 bales Of jute at $269G
per bale, delivered f. o. b. Walla Walla
to continue the operations of the mill
in the penitentiary. F. T. Grove &
Co., Tacoma, are the successful bidders.
The last contract price, in December,
was $27.65 per bale.
The director Of the geological survey
has assured Senator Ankeny he will
have the proposed irrigation project,
which was recommended by the sena-
tor in Garfield and Columbia counties,
examined into at once. Instructions
have just been sent to geological sur
vey engineers in the field to make re-
POrt at the earliest possible date.
Members of the Spokane delegation
sent committee to Governor Mead re-
sently asking him to make a change
in the superintendent of the Medical
Lake hospital on account, as they
stated it, of the inability of SupeFin-
tendent Anderson to handle the insti
tuition efficiently. DR.. Anderson will
take his vacation during February and
may not return as superintendent.
After living in the woods about the
outskirts of Tacoma for more than a
year, associating with no one, and Sc
curing fool by midnight thefts, Frank
Richie, the police say, is the man who
for year has been hiding in the
woods, sleeping in the underbrush and
stealing chickens or whatever he could
lay his hands on to keep life within
him.