Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-12-11
NORTHWEST ITEMS
NEWS OF IDAHO, MONTANA.
WASHINGTON and OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fau Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

WA01INSbON - %b"0~
The Elks of this state held their an
nual lodge of sorrow Sunday.
Royal W. Raymond, head of the anti
saloon league of the state of Washing
ton, has resigned.
In the superior court at Dayton, Les
ter Atwood and Archie Lindsey have
been acquitted of the charge of stealing
cattle.
February 2, 8, and are the dates
fixed for the annual meetings of the
Western Retail Lumbermen associa-
ton in Spokane.
Five thousand sheep, blindly follow
ing the leader over a low bank in the
Mckee eoulee, resulted in smothering to
death of 210 of them recently.
Oliver V, Linn, superior judge of Ma
son and Thurston counties, died at his
Olympia residence Sunday night. He
leaves a widow and one son, Donald,
aged 9.
The celebration of the fiftieth ami
versary of the organization of the
Masonic Grand Lodge in this jurisdic-
ton took place Monday and Tuesday at
Olympia.
The city council of Prosser has unani-
mously decided to raise the liquor
license to $1,000 per year, but by vote
of one to three rejected the proposition
to limit the number of saloons.
Motorman Gus Olsen and two others
were fatally hurt, 90 seriously injured,
when an eastbound university car rush
ed into an inbound at Roanoke street
and Eastlake avenue at Seattle Satur-
day morning, owing to the fog.
Mrs. Frank Eggleston of Bellingham,
who shot her husband in selfdefense
last July, has commenced suit in the
superior court against the Order of
Maccabees to recover $500, for which
amount the deceased was insured.
James Devlin, prominent young man
of Centralia, was accidentally shot and
instantly killed recently by Robert T.
Ready, a painter. The two men, in
company with two others, were shoot
ing at a target and Devlin was mark.
ing the shots.
E. B. Palmer, former law partner OF
Judge Milo A. Root, who has become
deeply involved in the Root scandal by
testimony given in Spokane to the in
vestigating committee, now faces &
prospective investigation by the STATE
legislature, which may result in his ex
pulsiOn from that body when it con
veues in January.
Confined to ,histFoom, with the excep
tion Of the two trips that are mad'
daily in wheel chair to the adjacen
bathhouse, where heftakes the treatmen
that has been prescribed for him, will
no one save the physicians in attend
ance, his wife and two close friends per
mitted to talk with him, the exact con
dition of Governor-eleet Cosgrove o
Washington is largely q matter of con
lecture.
There was in the state treasury 1914,
1885, as compared with but $433
E7s7.40, December /, 1907, according t
a statement prepared by Treasure
George G. Milla The deposit interes
paid by the banks on average state de
posits has already reached the sum o
81, 295.so since January last. Inter
est for the current quarter will brin
this amount up to about $4,000, whie
win be apportioned the first of the yea
ito the several state funds.
L
james odgers, editor and publishe
, of the Davenport Tribune, died Satul
day morning from perforation of tn
. bowels. James Odgers was born i
, Cornwall, England, January IA, 1884,
. and came to America in 1867, settlin
, in New Jersey and later in Nebrask,
In 1888 he came to Ellensburg, Wash
where he engaged in the real estat
q business. Later he went to Coulee Cit,
where he entered the newspaper bus
\ ness. He came to Davenport in 1900.