Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-14
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 Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


That the state board of control will
make a material reduction on the
price of grain sacks this year is prob
able in view of the decreased cost of
manufacture at the penitentiary.
w. B. Shaffer, president of the
Waitsburg Development league and
member of the Inland Empire excur-
sion party, was robbed of wallet
containing between $500 and $500
shortly before the special train left
Portland
Fire recently Quilted the interior of
the new public school building COM
pleted two years ago at Auburn, en-
failing a loss estimated at $4,000.
Jumping off a Tacoma streetcar
backwards, John Hilburg of Seattle or
Ballard struck the pavement and re-
ceived fatal blow.
After constant struggle of three
years the Pacific States Telephone
company has completely vanquished
the Interstate Cooperative Telephone
company, and has undisputed posses
sion of the Palouse field
Fire recently destroyed the three
story frame building of Fidler G Gray
and several smaller buildings at
Kelso, entailing loss of about $4,000.
A number of small business places
were burned out.
The petition of J. G. Norris of FL
lensburg to be appointed guardian of
the estate of his wife, Mamie Norris,
committed to the insane ward at
Walla Walla for killing her foster son,
Tom Murray, reveals the fact that
Mrs. Norris was made beneficiary in
an insurance policy of young Murray
for $500.
The Moran Brothers of Seattle and
the Campbell Lumber company of
Prosser are drilling for artesian water
in Horse Heaven, where each company
owns large tracts of land.
State Oil Commissioner F. A. Clark
reports 9,555,535 gallons of oils in.
spected during 1907. The fees collect
ed amounted to $19,27960.
If Secretary Garfield's report can be
taken as an index the Occur d'Alene
and Colville reservations will be
opened to settlement this year.
The board of Whitman county com
missioners have the letting of con
tracts for nine new bridges in tha
county.
Governor Mead has refused to gran
the parole recommended by the prison
board for ]. E. Brown, sentenced il
November, 1904, from Whitman coun
ty to a term of five years, on the
charge of attempt to murder. Brow
assaulted and shot L. ]. Turnbow,
prominent resident of Garfield, in tn,
summer of 1908.
The first annual poultry show eve
given under the auspices of the Asotil
County Poultry association closed Sal
urday evening.
Paul Brainerd won the oratorica
championship from Whitman college
His address, 1.-THE Modern Menace,
was an arraignment of Mormonisn
Miss Madge Fowler was second.
The debate held in ColfaX recent
between the Rosalia high school tear
and the Colfax high school team rt
suited in victory for Colfax.
The experiment tried recently
Waitsburg of giving a day to the sal
of horses and cattle by ranchers {
the surrounding country was tried i
Dayton Saturday. Success followe
| the effort
The funeral of the late James Wi
liam Brown was held at Cheney Sa
urday. The deceased had been a Nj
son for so years, and was SIS year
old at the time of his death.
: Pullman high school won the debat
with Johnson high school Friday.
: Citizens around Pullman are elate
over the semi-official announceme1
that the Spokane & Inland Empil
Electric Railroad company will exten
it's line from Colfax to Charleston, v
: Pullman, and that the work will
done this year.
= The steamer st. Paul, running {
: the river from Trinidad to the st. Pa
bridge, has been frozen in an ice ia
/ for the last week, about 20 miles b
1 low Trinidad.
j. B. Atkinson, chief clerk to Ma
ter Mechanic Dressed of the o. R.
N. at Starbuck, has taken charge
the bank at that place.
: But one of the 19z state banks al
three trust companies doing pusine
9 in Washington failed to weather Il
. recent financial storm, according
u the first annual report of State Exal
liner A. w. Engle, advance sheets
. which were made public recently.
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