Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-08-21
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding CouRtry-Numerous Accl.
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WA0F1INGION ~ EMS
The new union depot at Pasco will
cost $65,OOO.
The building of new houses still
goes on in Odessa.
The state board of education granted
life diplomas to II persons last Satur-
day.
AL Hill, an old resident of Spokane,
died Saturday afternoon from an at
tack of cancer of the stomach.
James Hall, railroad lineman, was
struck by train near Sisco and re-
ceived perhaps fatal injuries.
The town of Valley had 100000
fire last Saturday. 1t started in a
livery barn and swept the east side
of town.
Charles Stanford, horse owner,
was robbed of $2115 and a pair of
trousers while asleep in his quarters
at Seattle.
J. L. Layton, a rancher near Vernon,
was shot and instantly killed last
week by John Anderson in a dispute
over irrigation.
This years fruit crop in the Kit
titas valley will reach more than So
900 boxes is the estimate of men in
terested in orcharding there
Frank Bryant is in the Ellensburg
Jail charged with killing Thomas John
son, real estate dealer at Gle Elum.
The men were fighting over bill.
Fire, caused from the sparks of a
stationary engine, destroyed 10000
feet of lumber at the Odell sawmill on
the Tucanon, near Dayton, last week.
The safe in the Toppenish postoffice
was blown open the other night and
the robbers made a successful get
away. The amount taken is not known.
A dam across Toroda creek, near
Republican, which was constructed to
furnish water for the Byng brothers
sawmill, was destroyed by dynamite
recently.
Six million feet of high grade dress
ed lumber has been ordered in Belling-
ham from Puget sound mills to build
Seattles 20 mile new water supply
main from Cedar river.
R. Warrener, who stopped to button
his shoes when a Vancouver, B. G.
rooming house in which he was living
caught fire, burned to death, and 20
occupants narrowly escaped.
Within a week it is announced over
300 condemnation suits will be brought
by the Northern Pacific railway to get
possession of property worth millions
of dollars for the Point Defiance line,
Tacoma.
Robert Mottau of Tacoma has re-
ceived notification that he has fallen
heir to an $4,000 estate in Germany.
The estate was willed to Mr.. Mottau
by his brother, who died few months
ago.
Four masked men attempted to hold
up a street car Saturday on its way
to Seattle. They were frustrated by
the motorman, who saw the masks
and put on full speed. The bandits
fired at the car.
The record price for wheat at Pull.
man this early in the season was paid
Saturday by the Pullman Mill com
pany, which bought $500 bushels OF
bluestem wheat from j. r. Brown, pay
ing S21a cents per bushel.
Diminutive S-year-old Fred Shaffer
known to the Tacoma police as the
"baby burglar" was arrested recently
by city detectives charged with rob
bling Otto DuevePs grocery of about
500 in cash. He confessed.
Charles Peterson, a Swede, in the
employ of the Potlatch Lumber com
pany in the woods, was killed Instant!
recently while blowing out stumps OF
the right of way for logging road a
Camp z, 80 miles east of Palouse.
1t is announced from the office o
the state fair commission that thi
year there will be no special railroad
excursions from outside points to tn,
} state fair. The charge for transports
ton will be a fare and third, goo,
on all trains.
Walter Hooper, aged 20, son o
Miles T. Hooper, pioneer. farmer an
ex-representative from Whitman couI
ty, committed suicide Sunday mornin
by shooting himself in the head with
revolver. The young man had sc
we're attack of typhoid fever four year
: ago and has acted queerly at time
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