Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-10-16
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 ITEMS.


A club for ad men has been organized
in Spokane.
Whitman county's wheat this year is
worth $6,0OO,OOO.
The crop of honey in Yakima coun-
ty this season is over 100 tons
Spokane has won the 18th National
Irrigation congress for next year.
Whitman county fair closed at Col
fax Saturday with big attendance.
Construction crews are busy throw
ing up grade for the North Coast road
in Kennewick.
Jaems Hopkins, a Spokane attorney,
has been disbarred on account of I'M
professional conduct.
The state fair closed Saturday after
noon and was generally regarded as the
most successful in the history of the
state.
| Joseph Lucas, one of the most promi-
nent citizens and pioneers of Spangle,
died recently from neuralgia of the
heart.
A big coyote and rabbit drive is be-
ing planned to be pulled off in Douglas
county, opposite Wenatchee, the week
after election.
The search for the body of Helen
| Wood, who committed suicide recently
by jumping off the Division street
bridge, Spokane, has been given up.
James Kelley, for the past 20 years
known as one of the most notorious
smugglers on the Pacific coast, is dead
near Port Townsend He was nearly
60 years of age.
Spokane county will this year be
called upon to pay approximately $780,
600 in state taxes, or nearly 10 per
cent of the total sum levied for all
state purposes.
Clerk G. S. Reinhart of the state su-
preme court has completed the calen-
dar for the term which will begin Mon
day, October ~. There are 1877 cases
on the docket
By the creation of 10 new districts
within the last year Douglas now sur
passes any county in the state in re-
gard to the number of school districts
in operation.
His life saved by a shot in the face
intended to kill him was the peculiar
good fortune of j. w. Sacks, a rail
road contractor, who was robbed and
wounded at Pasco recently.
w. w. Powell of the Tacoma CONNER
eial club recently inspected the exhibit
room at the Spokane chamber of com
MERGE, with the idea of establishing a
similar exhibit at Tacoma.
Lonnie Cawley, a 13-year-old boy,
while handling a 32-caliber revolver in
his home, three miles south of Rex, &C
eidentally fred it, the ball taking effect
in his forehead, killing him.
Grief over the death of his wife
three weeks ago is believed to be the
cause of the death of Arthur Kirkman,
a pioneer of Whatcom county. He was
found dead in bed Wednesday.
Thomas Carstens, president of the
Carsten Packing company, Tacoma, has
returned from eastern Washington and
Oregon, where he purchased 5000 head
of sheep, paying from SO to 81 each.
Lumber and building material are on
the rise again. Shingles are up 35
cents on the thousand, which is IA per
cent, dimension stuff is higher and fin
ishing wood is "scarce, with the nat
ural result.
The Okanogan County Fair and Rae
ing association closed a three days
meet at Riverside last Saturday. Ideal
weather prevailed and the attendance
was by far the largest of any occasion
in the history of the county.
President Wright of the Okanogan
Water Users association reports that
there are now fully $500 acres of land
under the new Okanogan irrigating pro-
ject, and the work of redeeming the bal
ance of the 10000 acres under the pro-
ject is progressing rapidly.
w. d. Cotter, member of the Puy-
allup and Sumner Fruit Growers asso-
citation, but formerly large hop grow
er of the Puyallup valley, says that in
his opinion the temperance movement
which has been sweeping over the coun-
try has had large part to do with
the wane of the hop industry.
Suit has been brought in the supe-
rior court by attorneys for Lieutenant
Governor Charles +. Coon, who asked a
writ of mandate to compel the state
canvassing board to disregard second
choice votes, which would nominate M.
E. Hay for lieutenant governor, and
certify the nomination of Coon for that
office, who received the highest first
choice vote. Argument on the writ was
set for Friday.