Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-05-31
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
Place-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES

| WAS1ING ON NOTES.
The bridge over the main Kettle
river at First street, Grand Forks. B.
c., was destroyed recently by log
jam.
Under new regulations for the cadets
in the United States military academy
annual physical examinations will be
held
Eastman, Ga.-Miss Sallie Feeney,
a widow charged with the murder of
w. p. Hargill, was found guilty. The
jury making plea for mercy.
Evansville, Ind.-The streetcar
strike, which has been on in this city
for 10 days, has been settled.
st. Petersburg.-The lower house
of parliament has appropriated $780,
600 for famine relief fund.
John Bell, the Brooklyn trolley car
conductor accused of the murder of
DR.. Charles w. Townsend, a prominent
physician of Staten Island, who had at
tended Bells wife in childbirth, in
which she died, was convicted of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced
to be electrocuted on July 1.
Five workmen were killed recently
by an explosion of amonia in Armour
& Co.'s packing plant at Chicago.
The national conference of Dunkards
at Los Angeles has passed a resolu-
ton condemning the wearing of neck
ties.
Walter O'Neill, II year old son of
prominent resident of Superior, Wis,
was found dead recently in a boxcar
at that place.
Theodore Tilton, the American edit
or and author, who has been i'll in
Paris for several days past of pneu-
monia, is dead.
No actors name will be among
those inscribed in the hall of fame at |
New York university this week.
Binghamton, N. Y.-James O'Con- |
nell, president of the International
Association Of Machinists, has called
out the entire force of union ma
chinists upon the Erie railroad, about |
5000 men.
The Columbia river is now 80 feet
above low water mark.
Captain H. L. Bennett of Spokane
vas elected colonel of the Uniform
Rank of the Knights of Pythias, re-
,ently held in Tacoma
In a drunken fight on the NisqualIy
about four miles from
Toy, Ed Jackson was dubbed to death
y Paul Leschi.
1t is understood steel has been or
erred by the o. r. & N. to lay 115
niles of it's Washington division with
5-pound rails before July 1. 1t also
attended to rebaIlast this section of
he road this season and place it in {
he best of condition.
The EdwaIl horse show which was '
cid last week was a great success.
The wheat crop at Quincy is looking
ne. t
Pullman is to have connection be- I
yeen the Oregon Railroad & Naviga- Q
on and Northern Pacific railroads. Q
Fred H. CASTOR, city editor of the v
okesman-Review, has been selected
7 the board of managers of the Spo- c
ane 10000 club as secretary of the 2
ub, to fill the vacancy caused by the D
'signation of Rem H. Rice, the new h
lief of police. O.
What is rated as the largest audito- Z
UNI in Spokane was opened to the Il
lblic Sunday. 1t is declared to be II
e finest Methodist church on the Pa b
ic coast. S
w. H. Fouts is credited with being b.
e. oldest school teacher in the state. Ia
3 resides at Bellingham, is 81 years
age and recently took the state ex- 1o
1ination for teachers, receiving a a
rtificate. 10
Chesaw was visited by $4,000 fire IL
Gently. pl
The ministers of Everett are making
warm fight against the gambling fra
nifty.
The bodies of Miss Edith Vogt, Jo- pI
phi F. Goshorn and Glen Jaquith, the tie
rec college students who were to
owned in Lake Washington Sun Of
y, were recovered. 81
The grain bag shortage promises to pr
a serious menace to the grain grow
this fall M
The ferry across the Columbia at di
lnidad was swept down the river fel
,ently. YC
Fhe Cheney Commercial club is ar of
lging to take a census Of that place.
Wilbur Virgins of Cotton, who was alb
identally shot in the hand short be
lie ago, is dead from lockjaw. me
spokane retail grocers and meat of
llers will hereafter close at 8 D. m.
urday evenings. mt
'eterans of the Civil war and their hiC
endants and of the Spanish-Amer- sal
u war at Spokane have organized rec
regiment of the Union Veterans
on. ga,
'wo hundred shingle mills in Sno- agt
nish, Skagit and Whatcom counties rig
shut down and remain closed J
il July 10. at
IL brands of flour manufactured in his
state jumped up 25 cents a bar 7
in
sea
IDAHO NEWS. nos
t the closing session of the Idaho ma
eration Of Women's clubs at Occur me