Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-22
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 STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
"Old Man" Wheeler, a track walker,
has confessed that he was the man
who made off with the money pouch
containing $500, which was stolen from
the Elk express Office Wednesday
night.
Seattle high school boys and girls
are to be educated separately in fu-
ture
The buildings at Charleston of the |
Snake River Canning company are
now complete and the machinery is
being installed.
Renewed trouble at the state train
ing school has resulted in F. G.
Thompson resigning his position as su-
perintendent.
When the Atlantic battleship fleet
arrived off Grays harbor Wednesday it
was presented with 16 Teddy bears
live ones" The gift was from the city
of Aberdeen.
A section of five blocks in Seattle
was flooded for two hours Saturday
night by the bursting of an 18-inch
high pressure water main on Melrose
avenue
Navigation has opened on the Okan-
ogan river for the ensuing season.
Authorities of the naval academy
announce that Midshipman o. Wilson
of Seattle, member of the graduating
class, is the winner of the handsome
sword presented annually by the class
of 1871 for general excellence in gun
merry.
The water has been turned into the
new high-line ditch on the East We
natchee land, This means that 5000
acres more are now under water in
the Wenatchee valley.
An extra freight train was wrecked
three miles from Cheney recently and
10 cars loaded with coal were COM
pletely wrecked, being smashed into
kindling wood
Owing to the illness of Mr.. Hilliard,
billiard & Co., bankers, of Cotton,
have closed their bank. Accounts will
be liquidated until May 81 and all
notes, etc, will be transferred to the
First State Bank of Uniontown.
A package containing $500 in silver
was stolen from the Great Northern
depot at Elk recently.
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
cific is preparing to begin work on
the 100000 Point Defiance water
grade route out of Tacoma to Port
| land.
Recently Jay Barnhart, aged 10
years, was drowned in the Spokane
river while fishing with his brother on
Mitre rock.
Ceremonies for the dead were held
over the body of Theodore Galland,
who died in Spokane recently was laid
to rest Friday.
April reports from the superintend-
| ents of the state institutions to the
state board of control show increases
in the number of inmates except at
the school for deaf and blind.
Five thousand dollars in currency
represents the loss to the Great North
ern Express company in the robbery
of the companys strong box by two
bandits in the Great Northern tunnel
in Seattle recently.
Guy C. Stratton, secretary treasurer
of the Acme Single company, was
convicted of manslaughter in the SUI
perior court of King county for the
death of year old Henrietta Mar
garet Johnson, who was killed by an
automobile.
The steamer Yakima, which has
been a freighter between Lewiston
and Riparia, on the Snake river, will
be put into service between Pasco
and Priest Rapids.
Fred L. Shaft, a wealthy retired
lumberman, died suddenly in Spokane
Saturday. He was owner of the horse
Sherlock Holmes.
Marie j. Candy, whose husband,
Clinton E. Candy, was sentenced to
year in the Pierce county Jail for
Handwriting his wife, was granted al
decree of divorce.
The Rosalia public schools have
closed for the summer.
This week will mark the graduation
of the first class from the Kennewick
high school.
James p. Goodhue, one of the Oldest
Odd Fellows in the northwest, a pio-
neer steamboat man and railroad
agent, died recently in Walla Walla.