Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-04
NORTHWEST States
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.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Negotiations are pending for the
sale of the Gawley Mill company,
across the bay from Tacoma.
While operating his threshing ma
chine near Pullman Friday John Stein
burg was probably fatally injured.
The death of Nathan Keith, aged sc
years, occurred at Waitsburg recent
ly. He was a pioneer of the west.
The Spokane bartenders' union has
purchased a large burial plot in Fair
mount cemetery, paying $500 for the
plot.
H. M. Ludlow, 6S years old, fell to
his death down the elevator shaft of
the Oriental building in Seattle Sun
day.
James Ragsdill, aged about 60
years, was fatally injured near
Springdale Saturday in a wood haul
ing accident.
l. The hardware store of McClintock
& Simpson at White Salmon was en-
tered recently and about $500 worth
of cutlery carried away.
Harry Long and an unknown assist
ant, groundkeepers of the Seattle Ten
mis- club were asphyXiated in their
room at the clubhouse last Sunday.
The Hardwood company, It'd, has
sold it's cattle to John L. Smith, the
veteran superintendent of the live
stock department at the Interstate
fair
A harvest hand giving his name as
James Bovard was given Jail sen
tence at Oakesdale for being drunk
Soon after he succeeded in hangins
himself with a towel and breaking his
neck.
E. F. DAILY has been arrested at Sc
attic on the charge of stealing abou
$4,000 worth of iewelry from trunl
5 in the room of Mrs. Carrie S. Erne
+ proprietor of the Ertyl hotel, fash
ionable rooming house in Seattle.
, Joseph A. Bloch, a rich Pacifi
coast banker and real estate broker
d wanted in Portland on the charge @
/ deserving his wife, who is destitute
+ with Mrs. Y. Weiss, an attractiv
$ brunette, with whom he eloped, wer
u arrested in Seattle.
Fire early Saturday morning
h Starbuck destroyed property value
n at $4,000, two stores, the Odd Fe
h lows hall, and other buildings bein
q complete loss. The blaze starte
n near Sprout & Barnhart's store, pr
e sumably from a match thrown int
y the rubbish.
Eight thousand dollars was pa
n Saturday to the 500 Indians compri
y. ing the Occur d'Alene tribe, by India
d Agent C. o. Worley, at Tekoa. Fac
n person, including men, women al
IS children, received SIC. The none
le is q payment due on reservation LANE
n sold some years ago.
lie A recent statement made at Was
ington, D. c., by the surveyor ge
Id erals office shows that on July
there were 2,947,825 acres survey
Of and 2,2S7, JIG acres unsurveyed, una
ly propriated and unreserved publ
r. lands in Washington and 36S,O21,5
H. acres left in Alaska, all unsurveye
Us Spokane, Columbia & Weste
OF Railway company is the name of t
p new electric and steam road viii
the Graves interest will build fro
ID Spokane into the Big Bend countl
10 Articles of incorporation for the ne
ne railroad were filed recently at t
lie, county courthouse, the capital sto
al being $3,O0O,0O0.
ld The Protestant Episcopal chur
ne has 85 bishops, including the presidi
Is bishop, in the United States; two
sp- China, two in Japan and one each
IN West Africa, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil
Mexico. The Methodist Episco
church has 10 bishops and seven n
sionary bishops. The Methodist Ell
copal Church South has II bishops.
Cd While T. ]. Maynard was thresh
at the Ranch of H. A. Spills, west
Do Cotton, in moving from one sett
me- to another, along a steep hillside,
sht separator overbalanced and rol
ers down the hill. 1t turned complet
lho over three times. Mr.. Maynard
ing charged his crew, left the wreck ly
where it was and gave up thresh1
the There are more than 100000 c
en- dren of school age in this state,
'lCh cording to the census taken in j
gar This is a gain of about $4,000 {
the previous year. The 1850 sch
ers' houses in the state in July, 1908,
an sites. libraries and other school p
ana erty are valued at an aggregate
hey about 100000, as against but
men 44S,291 the previous year.