Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-10-02
NORTHWEST States
WASHINGTON, idaho, OREGON
and MONTANA items.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

operative union will soon have a news
paper of their own, to be published at |
Pullman.
The annual convention of the State
Federation of Labor will be held in |
Walla Walla the last of December.
L. N. Phelps, Great Northern station
agent at Scenic, while out hunting Sun
day accidently shot himself through the
forehead. The bullet, passing through |
his skull, wounded his companion in the
hand.
G. W. Wilton of Anatone is now the
owner of some of the best pieces of
land in Asotin county He has just
bought $40 acres for $22,4OO.
The fruit shipments for the month
of September from Wenatchee will ag-
gregate 200 cars, an increase over last
year of 40 per cent.
This year $41, 9SS.45 will be received
| by the state as excise tax from express
companies under the law passed by the
last legislature. This is in addition to
the small amounts these companies
have been paying in taxes heretofore
and will pay hereafter on tangible
property assessed in the various coun-
ties. The excise tax is 5 per cent of
earnings within the state
Judge A. W. Frater in the superior
court of King county has made ruling
not to grant any further divorces I'M
less at least one year has elapsed since
the parties concerned were married.
Charles Turner, alias Charles Gun
derson, river pirate, arrested a few
days ago charged with looting camps
at South Seattle, pleaded guilty to bur-
glary and was sentenced to serve from
one to fourteen years in the state
prison.
Reports from the state board of
equalization just completed fix the
value of the wealth of the state at
1874, 900, which is $2,OOO,OOO in
excess of last years figures.
No vacations with pay are to be
granted Tacoma city employees here
after unless they work in departments
requiring more than eight hours day
and possible Sunday labor.
The Spokane theater has been en-
gagged for the night of October IA,
when Hearst and Hisgen, the indie
pendent party nominee for president,
will both speak.
Although this years production of
wheat in Washington is less than last
year, the price is better and farmers
will receive about 100000. This
year s crop is 29,7OO,6OO bushels, at an
average price of II cents. Last year
it was IS cents.
NJ. F. Clark, wife of well known
business man of Walla Walla, has
eloped with H. A. Dooley. 1t is be-
lieved that the couple are in Tacoma.
For two hours, while his life blood
ran rapidly from the wounds made by
four bullets fred into his body by a
desperate armed and masked robber,
Pantiley Uordanoff, a Bulgarian Ia
borer, stumbled, half exhausted, along
-, the Northern Pacific tracks to Heron
Siding Saturday to catch train to
n bring him to Spokane.
For a period of six week, Billy Sun
q day, the famous revivalist who used
to star as a baseball player, will hold
4. union revival services in mammoth
tabernacle in Spokane.
David Wallace, laborer in the Nc
q Cormick logging camp, near Pc Ell
n was severely hurt recently by a log
ia rolling on him.
James McNellis, 35 years old, {
- structural iron worker and steel bridge
N builder, who has been employed OF
the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee 4
st. Paul road near Plummer, was killed
recently.
10 The Home Telephone company o.
,s Bellingham has opened its long dis
!. lance system to Seattle. =,
Richard Quinn of Everett recent!
=. shot his wife. He claims the affair wa
" accidental, he being drunk at the time
The woman is fatally wounded.
While walking along the bank o
Pine creek, apparently in good healt
and spirits, Miss Nellie Smith, an 1
p year old girl, was suddenly seized wit
tn fit of apoplexy and fell into tn
r creek. Before help could get to tn
ed unfortunate girl she was drowned.
An Potatoes are now selling for $1.7
We sack on the Spokane market.
~ Spokane was selected as the mex
~ place of meeting of the Hibernians.
as Henry Mcbride has emphatically d.
nd ned the story to the effect that he an
B. Charles E. Coon intend to contest tn
ms recent primary election on the groun
he that the second choice provision of til
no statute is unconstitutional.
The members of the Spokane Me
chants association excursion visite
Kennewick, Lewiston and the inferno
at date points last week.
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