Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-10
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDARO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the sur
rounding Country-Numerous Accr
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


house certificates issued in Spokane
during the recent financial furry have
been retired.
The state book will show 100000
population for Seattle, 10000 for Spo-
kane and 10000 for Tacoma.
Hopgrowers of the Yakima valley
nave formed a union.
The city of Colville is now in the
third class.
There are entries of 700 birds fof
the poultry show at Walla Walla.
There will be no cut in the price OF
hair cuts and other tonsOrial work at
Tacoma as announced some time ago
Tacoma, Wash.--While his accom-
plice stood at the door of the wool
sned frightening away inquisit1ve chill
dren with a revolver, John Vargo,
miner at Carbonate, recently stole
chest containing $1,000 in $40 gold
pieces, the lifelong savings of John
Vaselino of Carbonate, and made his
escape.
The body of P. w. Dillon, who d1eI
at his home in Davenport, was shipped
to Tacoma for burial.
Injuries that may prove fatal to
both were sustained by Abraham Neil
sen and Albert Olson, who jumpe1
from. the second story window of a
Spokane lodging house while that floor
of the building was enveloped in
flames.
During the year 1907 over $2,OOO,OO9
of county and school funds were han
died in Spokane.
During the past year Tacoma has
spent $87,5O195 for new fire houses
and fire equipment.
There is little hopes of rescuinS
Harry Joyce and John Hager, who
we're buried in caving we'll on the
ranch of Miss Tillie BIeck, two miles
north of Ethiopia.
The Toppenish school district has
commenced suit to annul $4,000 worth
of school warrants, declaring them
fraudulent.
Steve Philips has been charged at
Seattle with murder in the first de
gree in the killing of Mrs. Madge Hen
derson, a negress.
A meeting of all county commission
ers of the state has been called Al
Tacoma for February II to form 6
state organization and make system
attic campaign for good roads.
Filing of candidates. under the di
rect primary law for the city election
in March closed with 1O4 aspirants
listed for the 10 offices in Seattle.
Earl Musselman, aged IA, was killed
and Clyde Damaske, aged 10, fatally
injured, recently by heavy shinglt
bolt, which crushed them.
At the meeting of the state teach
ers' association at Seattle it was de
cided to hold the next annual meetins
in Spokane, commencing December 20
1908. OficerS were elected for The
ensuing year as follows: President
A. H. Yoder of Tacoma; vice preSi
dents, N. D. Showalter of Colfax, an;
Miss Nettie Sawyer of Seattle; treas
urer, Chas. Pagan of Seattle; secre
tary, o. c. Whitney OF Tacoma.
The Sedro Woolley postoffice wa
burglarized recently.
1t is reported that state general fun
warrants are being discounted b.
q, banks of Seattle, Spokane and else
-, where 5 per cent.
The trim new steamer North Sta
of the Columbia & Okanogan Steam
, boat company has made her first tri
up the Columbia.
- int Wit
completing the approaches to the ne,
= Wenatchee bridge and the forma
: opening of that structure consequent
may be delayed until about Januar
Is.
! The Walla Walla auxiliary to th
Washington State Stockgrowers' ass,
: citation was formed recently.
- N. ~ Carroll, a Colfax stock buye
has made the largest shipment of liy
stock that ever went out of the Cola
. yards in one day. The shipment COZ
sisted of five cars of stall fed steel
and three carloads of hogs.
Two laborers were killed and eigl
, badly injured by dynamite explosio
- at a subcamp of Contractor Taylor G
. the Portland & Seattle road, % mil,
south of Sprague, Saturday.
/ Six members of the Law Enforc
u ment league who canvassed Spoka1
- Sunday gathering evidence again
those saloon prOprietors who Ike
IS their places open found 10 saloon
y closed in one district, in another
L and in the third 40, making a total
5. rs saloons which were closed.
is With a complete counterfeiting on
fit in their possession, two allegC
h. workingmen, giving their names
lg w. H. Hawley and C. A. Quaife, we
S. arrested in Tacoma along the Mort
s ern Pacific tracks in South Tacoma.
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