Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-10-09
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
PIace-Crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

has certified to the state auditor that
the census school population of the
state June / last was 247, 997, and un-
der the law the state board of equaliz-
alton must fix the school levy at sum
which, less receipts from other sources,
will produce $40 per school capita.
Miss Mary Gertrude Parr, young
woman 2S years of age, who has been
| employed for three months as house
keeper in the home of Postmaster James |
Ewart, committed suicide Saturday. |
She was Respondent.
The Whitman county exhibit at the |
A.-Y.-P. exposition will be under the
| charge of I. B. Harris.
| All kinds of grain are selling readily
in the Palouse country and a fair share
of the crop has already been sold.
Wheat is bringing from 70 to 70 cents,
barley 81 to $1.1O per hundredweight,
and oats $1.25 per hundredweight.
With it's last issue the Colfax Gazette
completed it's 31st year.
The demand for farm property in the
Palouse this fall is greater than for
|
vancing.
The recent cold weather, the worst
known in the vicinity for nine years
at this season, has done incalculable
damage to late fruits and vegetables
around Bellingham.
E. w. Ross, commissioner of public
lands, has complete a list of school,
granted and other public lands, also
time and shore lands and the right to
lease harbor area, to be sold at public
auction Saturday, November Z, begin
ming at 10 clock, in the several eoun-
ties of the state, said sales to be made
) by the county auditor in front of the
} courthouse in which the land is stu
ated, the total appraisement being
$12s. 900 and the east side counties be-
ing: Douglas, $23,S6s.sO; Franklin,
$4,000; Spokane, $695O; Stevens, $13,
a OH; Walla Walla, $4,000; Whitman,
$56OO
e Much interest is being taken by the
. fruit growers in the national apple
e show, (which will be held in Spokane
t in December.
The provisional program of the an
r nual convention of the Washington
i Library association, which will be held
|, in the Spokane public library October
$ and z, has been issued.
t From any point of vantage in Walla
,. Walla the snow.covered hills can be
seen, the white carpet extending close
d to the grain line.
n The work of extending the High Lime
F. Ditch company's canal on the east, side
of the Columbia river across from We
n natchee has been resumed.
+ Forest fires in the vicinity of Rail
q road creek. a stream which flows into
Lake Chelan, have been giving the for
estry department much trouble OF late
Two big fires on Railroad creek TINS
wear have burned over 5000 acres ano
: DESTROYED over 100000 feet OF timber
q Complete official figures from all thu
10 counties received by the supreme cour
& show that the supreme court nominees
" are Chadwick, Gro wand Root.
"a The day of cheap lumber is passing
"a and prices are stiffening, according u
the millmen.
Citv Health Officer Sargentich ma
20 notified the theatrical managers of Ia
- coma that their theaters must be rum
>, gated at least once each month IN Tn
interest of public health.
7 X. Thomas is in the Belllnghar
20 iail. while charge of willtul murae
20 is being prepared for filing against mn
~ while the mutilated body of his torme
81 wife has lust been dug from shallo'
So crave in a potato patch in the woman
6l 9ardar in South Bellingham' MT
80 Thomas disappeared July 49, lhom'
70 ov,;no she had gone to Chehahs'
Ms frankie Jones, recently release
on parole from the Steilacoom asylu
rocantlv. attempted to kill herself an
'e' two children by jumping into u
20. Skagit river. of ~
re- E;ro started in the pressroom OF u
lat nolso Journal office at Kelso, whl'
OF completely destroyed the printing piaI
we and damaged the buildings on eaen slu
iIe The loss will amount to about pow -,
W. some time ago it was announced IN
Sweet. cashier of the FIRST Qua
IN horlx Of Prescott, had resigned nv
ing - l. claimed he was discharged on
On count of Irregularities in his aeeoun
vas Mrs. Richard Quinn of Everett, W
ann received mortal wound at the nan
wv Of her husband last Friday aIVerho'
.oa died few days later.
' ,1 The Bremerton city council mas
' ' +bor;zad census of the town OF Bre
the thorlzeu
erton. ,,4o.
ino Laura vertelle, aged 4, daughter
49, AUGUST Vertelle, raneher hVlhg
VI" the Aberdeen Gardens, six miles IT.
!" Aberdeen, fell into the Wishkah rl'
recently and drowned.
mas. Street graders in working on
Fan boulevard approach to the Alaska,
dow kon-Pacifc exposition grounds IN DC
Tor tie Thursday dug up an old tin que
awv at a depth of three feet containing
md in currency and gold. =,
md A unique system of grating settl
he. upon government land is being carr
he'd on in different sections OF Washlngt