Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and M0NTANAsITEMS.
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 STATE NEWS.

Byron Westicott died at his nome
in Garfield recently.
The recent horse show in Wala
Walla was a great success.
H. M. Moseley, resident of Spo-
kane for q years, died Sunday.
Rosalia may secure canning fac
tory. the initial steps having already
been taken.
Reports from all over Whitman
county show that the farmers union is
growing rapidly.
C. P. Coey of Rockford Saturday en-
tertained number of friends in honor
of his 25th year in that vicinity.
Fir and tamarack can be obtained
now at Spokane for IS cord, 81 and
$3.50 less than it was quoted in De-
cember.
The Rev. Benjamin F. Morse. aged
SO years, a retired minister of the
Baptist church, died in Spokane Sun
day.
The Asotin fruitraisers are very
busy cleaning up their places, pruning
their trees and making ready for the
annual spraying.
The city authorities of Spokane are
taking active steps to remove the dan
ger consequent upon the existence of
large powder warehouses.
James Wright, the wealthy stock
man of North Yakima, who died last
week, left the bulk of his estate to
his widow, Mrs. Ella Wright
A fall of rs feet off Hangman creek
trestle Saturday afternoon caused the
death of little Arthur Corbet, aged Z
years, son of j. M. Corbet. at Spokane.
The existence of a BLACK Hand"
organization at Black Diamond and
other coal mining camps in this state
will be closely probed by the county
officials
Joshua WEIGH, the eccentric octo-
genarian chairmaker of Cheney, died
recently. He was an exceedingly odd
and interesting character and was
widely known.
Building operations, which for a
time were at a standstill in most of
the towns of the Yakima valley, are
steadily resuming. and busy year is
looked for by contractors.
Charles f. Wilson, who died recent
ly. had been a resident of Spokane 16
years and was well known as a res
taurant man. At the time of his death
he was proprietor of the Halliday cafe.
Children playing with lighted match
es set fire to the clothing of the in
FAINT son of Mrs. Eta Hoghe at Ia
coma recently, and the child was so
badly burned that it died shortly after
ward
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
by the Spokane county commissioners
for the capture and conviction of the
murderer of Keevil Albring, whose
body was found in a clump of bushes
last December
In retaliation for being compelled to
close their saloons on Sunday. liquor
men are believed to be behind the eff
forts of Main and Front avenue cloth
ing dealers to close every line of bust
ness in Spokane on Sunday.
The highlander war which has smol-
dered in Seattle's Chinatown for some
time broke out Friday afternoon,
when Chin Bak, member of the Doe
Ong tong, shot and killed Hon Com,
a member of the Hip Sing tong.
Estimating the population from the
number of individual names contained
in the new city directory, multiplied
by two and a half, the usual multi
plier, Spokane and suburbs, including
Hillyard, now have population of
10S,675.
Work will be begun upon the pro-
posed executive mansion" and upon
the additions to the capitol provided
for by the legislature as soon as pur-
chasers can be found for the state
warrants which have been drawn for
that purpose.
A large deal was consummated in
Wenatchee recently which results in
the transfer of the interests of o. E.
Loving, M. r. McMahan and others
in the Soap Lake sanitarium, to
syndicate headed by Colonel George
Darrow of Seattle