Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-17
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou AecI-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop outlook 10 Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

infantry, near Seattle, is at Spokane
for month.
Whitman college will be nonsectar-
ian, but Christian, after next com
mencement.
The second annual horse show in
Colfax Saturday of this week prom
ises to be big affair.
With fireworks, ringing speeches,
stirring music, sports and dancing,
Walla Walla will celebrate the Fourth
of July.
The Centralia Chronicle announces
that on and after May that publica-
ton would be issued daily instead of
semi-weekly.
Charles Gunderson, well known
resident of Puyallup, died as the result
Of injuries sustained by being struck
by train.
More than one-seventh Of al the
money deposited in banks in the state
of Washington is in the vaults of the
banks in Spokane.
A man supposed to be John Victor
Lynnquist was struck by the incoming
Grays Harbor train at Chehalis re-
Gently and instantly killed.
The state board of control has re-
duced the price of grain bags from
$3.50 per hundred to $500, on account
of reduction in cost of production.
John Goss, the Potato King"
brought to Garfield recently eight po-
tatoes that weigh 22A pounds, three
Of them weighing three pounds each.
Hundreds of people thronged the
streets of North Yakima to see the
parade of the first horse show ever
given there. There were more than
100 fine animals shown.
Fire Saturday morning in the main
building of the plant of the Washing
ton Mil company. Spokane, almost en-
tirely destroyed the plant only few
buildings being saved. Loss nearly
100000, fully insured.
Judge Preble, in the superior court
at North Yakima, sentenced Joseph
Flanney, an Indian half breed, to 80
years in the penitentiary for killing
his wife near Toppenish last summer.
Active preparations are being made
to commence drilling for oil on the B.
H, Hench farm, one and one-half miles
northwest of Fairfield, and it is ex-
pected that actual operations will be-
gin soon.
After carrying the bank of which
he was an officer through the financial
stringency, and successfully consum-
WastRg the sale of the institution, G.
8. Thomas cashier of the First State
bank of Newport, committed suicide
at Spokane.
Russell & nabcock of Tacoma have
been selected by the governors man
sion building committee as the archi-
tects for the new building. The site
selected for the building is directly
west of the foundation of the new
state house on the capitol grounds on
the HILL
Professor ], M. Layhue, superintend-
ent of the Puyallup public schools, has
received notification of his appoint
ment to the office of assistant state
superintendent Of public instruction to
succeed H. B. Dewey, who was APP
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of State Superintendent R.
b. Bryan.
The man arrested on suspicion at
Hatton has been long wanted by the
authorities of Spokane, Okanogan and
Douglas counties. He has been iden-
tilted as Dan Farley, alleged to be
one of the safe-crackers who blew up
the safe at Coulee City last winter,
and is also wanted on charges of horse
thievery.
Fire again visited Toppenish early
Sunday morning and in less than
three-quarters of an hour it licked up
the dry frame structures for an entire
block fronting on First street The
loss will run up to between $4,000 and
$4,000. The total approximate in
surance is $4,000. This is the second
time within the last six months that
fire has practically destroyed this
block.
Il will find bride quickly in heav-
en-. wrote Frank Sinkus, prominent
German farmer of Castle Rock, Wash,
recently in brief note to his friends.
Then he set his rifle barrel against
his head and pulled the trigger. He
died four hours later Sinkus declared
that the comments of his friends upon
his failure to get married caused him
to take the rash step.
Sluicing on the government irriga-
ton dam at Conconully has begun.
The hydraulic nozzles were directed
against the sides of Peacock noun
tain and the water tore away rapidly
vast quantities of the earth, forcing
it into the elevated sluiceways, which
conveyed it to the site of the dam,
1000 feet distant. The work was en-
tirely successful. Active operations
win be continued until the dam span
ming Salmon creek canyon has been
built up to height of so feet.
IDAHO EVENTS.