Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-13
NORTHWEST ITEMS
NEWS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
washington and Oregon.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaIl Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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J. V. De Laney, who was conductor
on the main line of the Northern Pa
ciic railroad out of Spokane for many
years, died Sunday in Portland
C. B. Halbert of Wenatchee has sold
seven acres to J. R. Taylor of the same
price paid for young bearing orchard
land in the valley.
Revolving against social restrictions
recently placed on them by the faculty,
students of the state university early
Sunday morning organized opposition
that took the form of smashing college
furniture, posting proclamations against
the professors and eliminated in the
burning of an effify of President Thorn
as Franklin Kane on the campus.
The will of James G. Twohy of Spo-
kane, who died in Pasadena, Cal, shows
that his estate is valued at a quarter
of million dollars.
The guarantee of titles will be OBJ
tainable in Spokane in the future. The
merger of all the abstract companies
in Spokane will give opportunity for
the first time of giving absolute title
insurance in Spokane county.
Governor Mead has honored the re-
QUESTION of the governor of Ohio for
Edward Marxmiller, held at Seattle
and wanted at Columbus on the charge
of embezzling funds from the j. w.
Darling Lumber company.
At a meeting of the board of educa-
ton at Tacoma recently it was decided
to cut down school hours for young
pupils half an hour, allowing them to
go home at clock each afternoon.
Roy Tierney, II years old, was ar
rested at Tacoma recently on charge
of burglary.
The Milwaukee track-laying outfit
Thursday morning smashed all records
with the Roberts Bros. tram by laying
$3.50 feet in 2 hours and SO minutes.
The best previous record was three
hours. There were about 100 men en-
ployed in the gang.
Arthur E. Horn, prominent single
manufacturer of Mount Vernon and
one of the principal owners of the 81
wash Single Mill company, was acct
dentally shot and killed the other day
by pulling a loaded gun toward him
from a boat.
Firing through the skylight of "a
| lodging house at 1116 South G street,
Tacoma, an unknown person attempted,
| it is believed, to assassinate guest of
the house, A. C. Wells.
After making thorough investiga
ton into the shipping conditions at
Grays Harbor, British Consul James
Laidlaw has nominated and recon-
mended the appointment of vice con
sui at Aberdeen.
w. H. Gilstrap, secretary of the
Washington Historical society, delivered
an address at the dedication of the spot
ON Four Mound prairie, near Spokane,
where the first governor, Isaac !. Ste
vens, met General George B. Mcclellan
and assumed the full duties of his
office.
The Wenatchee Republic, one of the
best known publications in the north
west, has passed into the hands of H.
o. Stechhan and J. A. Stearns formerly
of Seattle.
Lairds is now the western terminus
of the Washington, Idaho & Montana
railroad, instead of Palouse City.
This week repairs will begin on the
Main street bridge at Waitsburg, which
has been condemned.
Some of the most prominent men in
the country will speak at the educa-
tional congress at Walla Walla No
vember II and IS, in honor of DIR. D. K.
Pearsons of Chicago, who has been a
benefactor to Whitman college to the
amount of $1SO,OOO.
The recent rains have soaked the
ground thoroughly and early sown fall
wheat is coming up well.
Joe Angelus, an Italian laborer in the
employ of the Washington Water Power
company at Little Falls, was struck
by falling rock recently and received
fatal injuries.
Reports from Cusick state that there
are more than dozen cases of small
pox among the Indians in the village
on the opposite side of the Pend
'Oreille river from that place.
Limping painfully from wound re
ceived in running fight with a posse
of deputies, Leo Bexmer, the kidnapel
of Ed English, the wealthy Mount Yer
non lumberman, is making his way tt
Marysville, where he hopes to find shell
ter in the thick woods of Snohomisl
county.