Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25
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
Place-Crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The registration for the IA wards of |
Seattle totals 40,262.
Whitman college will open for the fall
semester September Is, when the con-
vocation address will be delivered by
Judge Burke of Seattle.
Judge Cullen is dead. He was pion-
eer of the northwest and had been a |
resident of Spokane since 1900, NOV
ing there from Helena, Mont.
The heaviest registration in the his |
tory of Spokane was chronicled Satur-
day night when the books closed for the |
primaries. The total was 1898.
E. E. Price died at Reardan after
brief illness. Mr.. Price was one of the
oldest of the pioneers of this vicinity,
having come to this state in 1881.
Following fit of dependency after
having last $50 at the races at Seattle,
Frederick F. Dahl, first class private
in the hospital corps at Fort Lawton,
committed suicide.
There are now 1909 prisoners in the
state prison at Walla Walla, who manu-
featured during August 136,4O0 grain
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each to the state.
The council chamber at Olympia re-
Gently was the scene of a 100000 bond
fire. They were the old 6 per cent
bonds issued in the early COS and re-
funded for bonds bearing 81 per cent
interest.
Fruit growers at Charleston are feel
ing the need of strongly organized
association and before another season
an organization including every grower
in the place will without doubt be
formed
The wheat ranchers in the Big Bend
country have disposed of 175,000 bush
els of wheat, which they had pooled to
sell to the highest bidder. The price
received was SO cents at Seattle being
the highest price received in the Big
Bend for years.
All railroad property in the state is
assessed at $119,525, 433, telegraph com
panies at $422,S34 and street railway
companies at about $25, 100000 by the
state board of tax commissioners, ac-
cording to figures given out by the COM
: missioners.
Upon petition filed in behalf of
the Dubois faction of the democratic
party, the Idaho supreme court has is
sued an alternative writ of mandate
directing Secretary of State Lansdon
to appear at Boise Wednesday and
show cause why he should not file the
Dubois ticket and certify it to the cOun-
ty clerks as the legal democratic
ticket.
1.-THE action of King county commits
sioners in making a horizontal cut Of
20 per cent in the assessment will moi
reduce their state taxes one penny,
declares Tax Commissioner ]. E. Frost
The next sale of state school ant
granted lands and tide lands owned
e by the state of Washington takes place
= on the first Saturday in October. The
- lands to be offered, exclusive of tide
> lands, are appraised at nearly 100000
> A shark between ten and twelve
= feet long which has been swimming
/ about the beach at Stones landing a
Tacoma for several days past, ha
produced such, a panic among tn,
) campers that bathing in the sound ha
been abandoned.
There is a marked decrease in tn
number of head of live stock in Whit
&c man county as compared with the as
sessment of last year. The report 70
g 1907 shows 29,715 horses owned in tn
70 county and they were valued at 1915
=. 40. This year there are but 27,26
~ horses, valued at 1891, $50, a decreas
II of $500 in number, but they are of
&c better class and more valuable.
10 John Gachter, Creston farmer, wa
i smoothly buncoed out of $50 Will
al sitting at the N. P. depot at Spokan
az recently. A slouchy dressed individus
y approached Mr.. Gachter with the oil
- bunc game. The stranger like the vii
~ tim, was en- route to Kansas City, {
course. He needed $55 to get his bal
gage out because he could not get
800 check cashed right away, wante
"a to borrow and he got it. He and tn
nc victim then went to the post off1c,
~ and while the farmer was taking
n the sights the bunco man did a di
IN appearing act.