Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-24
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
q 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 party of mountaineers of Belling
ham with members of the Seattle
Mountaineers' club will leave Wednes-
day afternoon for an ascent of Mount
Baker, with new scientific purpose in
view, that of ascertaining how much
of the old mountain can be broken up
and shipped away.
While swimming in the Hanford
pond, IL miles above Hanford, John P.
Pearson, recently of Moscow, Idaho,
was drowned recently.
While riding up steep incline at
the new Milwaukee bridge at Tekoa
recently, three workmen were injured
by the parting of the cable, letting the
car rush to the bottom of the incline.
1t is thought none of the men are
fatally injured.
Williams & Co., who have been in
vestigating the accounts of the county
officials of Franklin county, are said
to have found several shortages. The
shortages are believed, however, to be
largely due to bad bookkeeping
Over a quarter of million dollars
was paid to the teachers of Spokane
during the last year, the exact amount
being $293,25313.
While swimming in the river at Spo-
kane Edward Smith, %, a negro la
borer of 324 Bernard street, was
drowned Sunday.
Looking to the necessities of the
grand lodge of Masons of the state OF
Washington, Grand Master Royal A
Cove has appointed a committee con
sisting of Daniel l. Cornell of Tacoma
William V. Reinehard, ST., of Seattle
and William w. Witherspoon of SpO
kane, to report at the meeting of the
grand lodge next June upon the de
STABILITY and practicability of erect
ing a building for the grand lodge.
C. T. Erickson of Seattle was the
lowest of five bidders whose proposals
were opened at the navy department
for the construction of a granite ant
concrete drydock at the United States
navy yard Puget sound, for which
congress appropriated 100000.
The Wenatchee Valley & Northern
the new railroad building from Leav
enworth toward Wenatchee lake, ha:
received permission from the govern
ment to continue it's road through the
forest reserve, and work will be start
ed Immediately to finish the line.
That the country tributary to Pull
man will produce almost as mucl
grain as last year and that, with thu
increased price, the farmers will re
ceive nearly as much money as the.
did for the crop of 1907, is believed
by those who have Investigated condi
tions.
A rancher named Rose lost his lift
in the Columbia river near Grays land
ing recently, having been thrown il
the water violently by a runawa!
team.
The wheat market has opened il
Walla Walla, and new grain is slowl.
finding its way to the warehouses lo
Gated along the two lines of railwa,
at intervals of few miles
Charleston is to have f1rst-class DO,
factory.
The people of Quincy are maxim!
a fight to get the government inter
ested in a plan to irrigate the Quinc.
flats
The Cashmere Fruit Growers uniol
has decided to have a Representative
in the east to aid the growers in find
ing market and has selected Georg
N Johnson to visit the larger place
IN the Dakotas and middle western
states.
Work on the Asotin county exhibi
at the lewiston Charleston interstate
fair will begin this week, with William
McCarrol in charge 1t is expected
shown there.
The grand lodge of Masons of Wash
ington will lay the cornerstone of tn,
new executive mansion at Olympia Oh
August l.
Lewis d. Craig has been arrested a
Tacoma on the charge of burglary
He has confessed that he is wanted
in Oregon for breaking his parole.
Mrs. John Kisler of Hatton, tn,
other day threw some boiling waite
out of window directly on the heat
of her 2-year-old child, who she sup
posed was in the house. The chilli
was so badly scalded that he diet
shortly afterward
IDAHO NOTES,