Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-28
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.

0pokanes city market is a big sue
cess.
Near Cornell, T. O'Connor, a labor
err, was killed on the Northern Pacific
railway recently
John lnkster Sr. died Sunday after
noon at Davenport. Mr. Inkster was
born in the Shetland islands, Septem-
Der 6, 1928.
Mrs. Mary Olsen, aged &c, tripped
and fell, impaling herself on a picket
fence at North Yakima recently, sus-
tanning serious injuries.
The Columbia River Orchards COM
pany of Kennewick Monday morning
uncovered 100000 of the first brick
burned with oil in Washington.
The saw and single mill, dry kilns
and five cottages owned by Daniel
Cain at Bow, ten miles south of Bel
bingham, were burned recently.
At Seattle recently, Rev. Richard
Miller, a retired Congregational min
lister, fell down stairs at his home,
as result of which he died. He
was Sc years of age.
A new Buick sixteen-horse power
automobile, seating three people, be-
longing to Claude M. Seeley has been
stolen while standing in front of the
Union club at Tacoma.
The 4-year-old daughter of H. M.
Gum of Cashmere was fatally burned
Saturday. The little girl was playing
with matches in the front yard when
her clothing caught afire.
William Smith of Pasco, once of
Fannan county, Texas, who was rs
years old last Christmas day, has ap-
piled to Washington for a pension. He
is a Mexican war veteran.
One of the features of the Spokane
Interstate fair this fall will be live
stock sales day, or days. At present
it is proposed to hold an auction sale
of sheep and hogs on Friday afternoon,
October 9.
A sensational incident occurred at
Lakeside Sunday forenoon, when Will
liam White fired a revolver at H. R.
Kingman twice, when less than a rod
away, missing him both times. No ar
rests.
The King county board of equaliza-
ton made a fiat reduction of 20 per
cent on the assessed valuation of real
estate improvements, franchises and
all other classes of personal property
throughout the county at a recent ses-
sion.
While lying in a state of semi-con-
seriousness with his left leg almost sew
cred from his body below the knee
by a passenger train. J. M. Smith of
Sumner, SO years of age, was robbed
last Sunday by two tramps, one a
negro and the other white.
Fifteen deputy sheriffs are guarding
IS Japanese laborers sent to Auburn
to take the place of striking Italians.
The Italians have threatened violence
and upon their refusal to leave the
boxcars in which they lived were
hauled to Seattle by order of Northern
Pacific officials.
Identified by Fireman Sturger as
one of the men who boarded North
ern Pacific passenger train August IA,
near Spokane, and, at the point of a
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neer and fireman to stop the train,
J. Murphy is being held prisoner
in the Franklin county Jail.
State Land Commissioner E. w.
Ross has received a report from the
county auditor at Seattle that the
recent safe lands sales there this
month brought bids aggregating $780,
443.55. Timber near Eagle Gorge,
which had been appraised for sale at
about $4,000, brought no bids.
Mrs. P. E. Mundinger, who resided
near Baird, Wash, but was employed
as a cook on the Davis ranch, IL miles
northwest of Wilbur, was killed re-
Gently in a peculiar manner. She was
in the act of entering the cookhouse
when a gust of wind violently blew
omen the door of the house, the bolt
used as a latch striking her in the side
of the head. She died soon after,
The six bodies of the Schultz and
Fix children, whose lives were sacrl
feed in the burning of the Schultz
home near Palouse, were buried IN
Spokane Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. FIX
lost all four of their children. Mr.. and
Mrs. H, w. Schultz have two left
Alma, age IL, and Rosie, age IL, both
of whom were burned, the latter being
still in the hospital. 1t is believed
the fire started from lamp left burn
ing while the children were alone II
the house.