Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-06
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.

"HOIIIINNiSN - EM9s
The Pullman quarantine has been
raised
The heating plant at the Whitman
county courthouse has at last been com
pleted.
Three cases of smallpox have broken
out at the Stevens county poor farm
near Colville.
Dan Lee, an old resident of Winlock,
and formerly proprietor of Lee s livery
barn, committed suicide recently.
At Tacoma Sarah R. Carey, aged 72,
died recently from inhaling flames when
her clothing caught fire in the kitchen
stove.
Everett Titus, a Is year old boy liv-
ing one mile north of Nooksack, shot
three fingers and the thumb from his
left hand.
The McInnis Brothers livery barn
and So head of horses at Harrington
was burned Sunday. Loss between $780,
900 and $4,000
A. j. Hurst, wholesale huckster' of
Seattle, killed his two children and
| WlIO anu JuOn bO-
nestle troubles the cause.
An intoxicated man named Erickson
was killed in front of the station at
Kanasket while trying to board fast
moving westbound freight train. r
J. G. Livingstone is lying at the hos
pital in Anacortes seriously injured and
may die as a result of bullet wound
accidentally received while@ hunting.
R. A. Patton, the 19-year-old son of
William Patton of Gate City, was acct
dentally shot and instantly killed by his
younger brother, William, last Sunday.
F. B. Halves, prohibition candidate
for the legislature from the Forty
eighth district, died recently as the re-
suit of injuries received He was run
down by a Great Northern train at
Startup.
The Selah Valley Fruitgrowers asso-
citation was organized recently by ranch
ers of that section. An expert packer
is to be employed and the association
expects to ship about 10000 boxes of
apples this fall.
George Murukami, Japanese, has been
arrested at Bellingham, charged with
smuggling wine and tobacco from the
United States to British Columbia and
bringing Japanese into this country on
the return trip.
After the hardest and most sys
tematic days work by 40 experienced
woodsmen, not single clue to Klobel
and Kumle, who were lost while hunt
ing in the mountains near Hot Springs
has been unearthed.
The army wireless signal service sta
tions in Alaska, Eagle City, Circle City
Fairbanks and Fort Gibbon are hand
ling the commercial and press matter
ordinarily carried by the land wires
without interruption.
Frank Pinkham, an employee of tn,
Tacoma Mill company, has disappeared
and officials of the concern have asked
the assistance of the police in locating
b him in the belief that he is responsible
for a shortage that may amount t.
$4,000.
). Accused of having robbed the regis
tered mails at the Bellingham postotfic
for the past three or four months, A. "
: Hadley, so years old, for the last tire
u years letter carrier OF Bellingham, wa
, recently arrested and placed in the cit
: Jail.
Two masked men entered Bassett
. merchandise store at Fairbanks, on tn
II Spokane & Inland, Saturday, held u
the proprietor and two women who wer
70 in the room, took the purse of Mr.. Ba'
, sett, containing about SO, and success
!, fully made their escape.
e The proposed coyote and jackrabb
= hunt, which is to take place near W.
- natchee on November 9, is destined
. be the biggest event of its kind eve
:" pulled off in the northwest, preparation
.o already being made for about 15C
o participants from different parts of I'll
state.
A special officer has been detailed
Everett to investigate the claim of tt
u fire chief that three-fourths of tt
Oh fires which have occurred in Evere
O. during the past few months are of i
nc eendiary origin an dthat the fires we
w. set to satisfy grudge against Owne
b. of the property.
"a The body of julius Kumle, the CHI
g. of the Hotel Hot Springs and col
panion of Fred W. Kloeber on the d
astrous hunting trip recently, W
DO found Sunday morning lying on Il
F. north slope near the extreme top of t
oil Rooster Comb mountain, about TO
he miles north of Hot Springs. He di
,or of heart disease. Fred Kloeber has n
in been found.
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IDAHO NOTES.