Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-10-30
NORTHWEST STATES.
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA items.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerou Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The Columbia county tax is 10 mills.
1t is reported that there are about
IS cases of smallpox in Pullman.
Irwin w. Mathews of Waterville is
dead, after short illness with pneu-
monia.
The Idaho Trust company and the
National Bank of Lewiston are to be-
come one in the near future.
From IL to Is cars of apples day
are being shipped from Wenatchee to
different sections of the United States.
The Spokane rate case will not be
decided for a month, according to the
secretary of the interstate commerce
commission.
The generous rains recently are of
inestimable value to the country. The
rain has been general and came in the
nick of time.
Harry E. Gordon, pioneer resident
of Spokane, where he has resided con-
tinuously since 1885, died of locomotor
ataxia Saturday.
Madeline King, who confessed to hav-
ing burned the body of her aged hus-
band, was acquitted of the charge of
murder by a jury at Port Orchard.
Walter A. Davenport of Colfax has
accepted a position with the Seattle
branch of the Foster & Kleiser Advef-
tising company, in which he is a stock
holder.
Spokane postofice receipts for the
month ended September 80 show an in
crease of 10 12 per cent over the re-
ceipts of the corresponding month last
year.
Work on the New Ridgeway theater
building at Colfax is progressing rap
idly and the superintendent thinks the
structure will be ready for use by the
first of December.
| Ed Green, a recent arrival from
northern Michigan, was killed recently
near Sedro Woolley while at work as
brakeman for the Puget Sound & Ba-
ker River Railroad company.
A movement has been started to put
new life in the Spokane Playground as
ISOLATION, to increase its membership
establish and equip Fairgrounds in
every school district in the city.
John Hanson of Everett, for the past
six months a member of the board OF
pardons of the Washington state re
formatory at Monroe, has been ap
pointed for the long term ending July
II, 1913.
Exclusive of the 100000 that has
been paid for the site to be occupied
! by Spokane's new IL story hotel, prop
erty on Sprague and First avenue ha'
sold within the last two weeks to thu
amount of nearly 100000.
The loyal parishioners of the All
tanum church, North Yakima, cam'
down ON their pastor, the Rev: Over
Umstead, recently, and now the par
ochial henroost is loaded till it bends
The Rev. Mr.. Umstead was given ;
chicken shower.
A report from Tacoma says that tn,
state executive committee of the so
cialist party has decided not to pa.
the fee demanded of it's candidates OIL
the state ticket, but to make the rae
!, by means of stickers and the writing
of the names of the candidates upol
the ballots.
Robert Serempus, 20 years old, pre-
prietor of the Star dairy at Rigney Hill
Tacoma, was shot and killed Sunday o
his dairy ranch by Fred Abel, IS year
t old, who, with Roy Comfy, two years hi
, junior, was hunting upon the dairy
MANI land Tho hov murderer claim
, the deed was done in self defense.