Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-20
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-Fan Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
ma is to have electric lights.

Pullman is soon to have large new
general merchandise store.
Grain is moving from the Asotin
warehouses at the rate of 1000 bushels
day.
1t has been decided to make the at
tempt to have Yakima entered as
second-class city
T. Mosier sold his o. K. livery stable
at Tekoa to Samuel Shirley and W.
Graham for $500O
The wheat crop about Ephrata is as
sured, as the soil is in perfect eondi-
ton and fall sowing shows green.
Professor A. M. Whitaker, who ac-
cidentally shot himself while out hunt
ing near Klaberville, died few hours
later.
While the Palouse country is enjoy
ing delightful weather, there is need
of more moisture and soaking rain
would be welcomed.
The Prosser city council has passed
an ordinance to the second reading
raising the saloon license to $1,000 a
year and plans for taking census.
The state of Washington will carry
over from last season nearly 10000
grain bags, which did not find a mar
ket in the state during the harvest
months
d. R. Smith, the 1S year old boy who
shot and killed Walter de Cordova in
the Hotel Calvert at Tekoa Wednesday
a week, was later released from jail by
Sheriff Ratliff.
Work has commenced on the main
ditch line of the Mabton project, which
reaches from the outlet of the siphon
on this side of the river to the reser-
walton line west of town.
In commemoration of the date of
the admission of Washington to the
sisterhood of states the members of
the Whatcom County Bar association
held banquet Wednesday last.
Frank Campbell, a pioneer farmer of
Latah county, sold his homestead of
24O acres, four miles east of Palouse,
in Latah county, to Reuben Hill, re-
cent arrival from Oregon, for $4,000,
or $50 an acre.
Twenty philosophical citizens of
Garfield have subscribed fund of $500
with which they will take an option
for the city on tract of land near
the 0. r. & N. depot, which it is their
intention shall be made a public park.
With the possibility of the construc-
tion of a railroad from Dayton to
Walla Walla and ON to Wallula to con
meet with boats on the Columbia river
comes the possibility of an immense
electric plant on the Tukanon river,
some Is miles above Dayton.
wagon wheel, which is believed to
have been started by boys, ran down a
steep hill in the south part of Pullman
and crashed through the house occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs w. Hail. completely
wrecking the kitchen and demolishing
the dining table, kitchen stove and
other furniture.
North Yakima is to be the power city
of the Yakima valley and within four
months plant will be in operation
there transmitting 10000 horse power
throughout the valley over line ninety
miles in length on the main line and
with many branch lines. To this end
100000 will be expended.
M. j. Gordon of Tacoma, formerly
counsel for the Great Northern at Spo-
kane, alleged to be short $4,000 in
his accounts, who perhaps with one
word could say whether the state su-
preme court has been corrupted, has
again refused emphatically to discuss
the case involving the integrity of
Supreme Justice Root.
Carrying one of its occupants to her
death an automobile in which were
seven people plunged over the precipi-
tous bluff overlooking the river at Ide
avenue and Walnut street at Spokane
shortly after 6 O'Clock Sunday night.
The party in the machine was composed
of William A. Nichols, well-known min
ing broker and president of the Nichols
Investment company; his three sisters,
Mrs. H. G. Swami, Miss Mary L.
Nichols and Miss Mona Nichols; H.
G.. Swami of the ann-McCain Elec-
trical company; Chauffeur Charles
Chambers and William Falk of the Dull
mage-Rose Automobile company. Miss
Mary L. Nichols died three hours after
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