Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-07
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
Place-Crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The Farmers Educational and Co.
operative association of Lacrosse has
placed an order for $4,000 sacks at
the minimum price of cents f. o. b. |
at Portland, Ore.
The general public expectation that
places of business would be closed at
Spokane in conformity to the state
law requiring the same was not real |
lied.
Maka Yasuii, a Japanese, and his |
wife, both employed at the Bunker
Hill quarry, half mile west of Stella,
were found dead in their cabin recent
ly. Both had evidently been murdered |
"a hours before.
The recent cold snap has made it /
necessary to suspend work temporarily |
in the Tieton canyon, where the gov
eminent is constructing the Tieton |
irrigation canal.
The contract for 1,398,350 wheat
sacks was let recently by members of
the Farmers Educational and Cooper
alive association at Walla Walla re-
Gently, the price being 3-8 cents de-
livered in Walla Walla.
The electric light plant at Pomeroy
is out of commission again and the
town will be in darkness as long as
the cold weather lasts.
The new school building at Machias,
Snohomish county, which was built
last summer at cost of $1,000, was
destroyed by fire recently.
The trial of Mrs. Mamie Norris at
Ellensburg, for the killing of her fos-
ter son three weeks ago, was conclud-
ed with a verdict of acquittal because
of insanity. She will be confined in
the criminal insane ward at the state
penitentiary.
Spokane was selected as the next
meeting place for the State Horticul-
tural society at Walla Walla. Oficers
were elected as follows; President,
H. M. Gilbert, North Yakima; first vice
president, H. w. Crowell, Spokane;
second vice president, H. Horns, We
natchee; treasurer, William Ritz,
Walla Walla and secretary, Levi G.
Monroe, Spokane.
Edward Rice, confessed forger, has
been given IA years in the Walla Walla
penitentiary by Judge Joiner in the
Skagit county superior court.
A nervous wreck from drink and
worry, o. G. Mathis, cashier of the
defunct Exchange bank of Blaine, who
was returned to Bellingham from
Vancouver by Sheriff Williams, to
answer to a charge of forgery, now
occupies a cot at hospital.
Nearly 100 hopgrowers of Washing
ton met in North Yakima recently and
perfected a state organization, and the
necessary steps win be taken immedi-
ately to affiliate with the Pacific Coast
Hopgrowers' union,
Robert Usher, librarian of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, has purchased
seven and one-half acres of East We
natchee land, and will make Wenat-
chez his home this summer
Rev. T. A. Hilton of Wenatchee has
accepted a call in Seattle, and will
move there about March /.
A step in the direction of a closed
town was taken Saturday, when by
order of the mayor all slot machines
now in use in the city of Ritzville
were ordered to be discontinued and,
further, that all minors be prevented
from entering poolrooms and billiard
halls, as we'll as saloons.
An uprising against the Montenegro
colony at Roslyn, the coal mine camp
north of Ellensburg, is imminent. The
condition in which the foreigners live
has turned the people against them.
Many of the prominent Yakima In
dams are expressing dissatisfaction
over the present status of the irriga-
ton projects being carried out on the
reservation.
The town of Roslyn will soon begin
the installation of a gravity water sys-
tenn to cost between 100000 and $780,
900.
Rosalia is practically assured of hav-
ing a demonstration farm, to be con-
Quoted under instruction of the agri-
cultural department of the Washing
ton State college at Pullman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Volny j. Long, who
recently celebrated their Goth mar
riage anniversary, are among the old
est settlers of Sprague.
William Malin, aged years, and
Alfred Craig, aged Ia years, were
drowned in Snake lake, near Tacoma,
while playing on the ice Saturday.
The Portland & Seattle Railroad
company filed amended articles with
the secretary of state changing its
name to read Spokane, Portland & Sc
attic Railway company.