Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-24
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Aecl-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook lie Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

1t is reported r. A. Ballinger of Sc
attic has resigned as commissioner OF
the general land Office at Washington,
D. c., and will return to this state SO
that he may make the race for the re-
publican nomination for governor.
A full grown cougar has made its
appearance in the vicinity of the Lew
is Cochran farm, six miles northeast
of Colfax, and is terrorizing the people
of that community.
After celebrating about two hours
the jury in the Gertie Griffin murder
trial at Ritzville returned verdict Of
not guilty.
The Spokane high school debating
team Friday night outpointed the
Wenatchee high school team in the
state interscholastic contest
Graduates of the Spokane high
school who have completed the four
years course satisfactorily will in the
future be permitted to enter the Ar
mour Institute of Technology without
first taking the examinations.
John Half of the cruiser st. Louis
is dead at Vallejo, Cal, from the eff
fects of drinking wood alcohol. Half
is the third sailor to succumb, two 9TH
ers are totally blind, and five others
will never again be fit for active SER
vice.
AS result of the tong war being
waged in San Francisco, Lung Chow
was fatally shot recently. Two assas-
sins attempted to kill Jung Dang,
whose life was sought, but the bullets
went wild and killed Lung Chow.
The new cruiser California went to
sea from San Francisco recently for
her final trial. The navy trial board
was on board and it is intended to
keep the cruiser at hard work for two
days before an official opinion is
formed.
China has just placed an important
rush order for quick firing guns in
Paris
John I. Handley, supreme vice presi-
dent of the Fraternal Union of Amer
lea, died Friday at his home in Den
yer, Co., of appendicitis.
Police Inspector Edward S. Whit
aker of New Orleans, who, accom-
panied by five men, recently attempted
to kill the editor of the World, has
been suspended, together with the
men who accompanied him to the
newspaper Office.
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, in a ser
mon in the Congregational church at
Cincinnati last Sunday, argued that it
was not wicked to play ball on Sun
day, and stated that if he were mayor
he would not try to enforce the law
against Sunday ball playing.
The New York police and private
detectives have been asked to look
for Horace w. Randall, vice president
of the Hoquiam Lumber company of
Hoquiam Wash, who went there sew
eral weeks ago to visit friends, and
seems to have mysteriously disap-
peared.
Work has been started on the new
steel bridge crossing the Methow
river at Pateros, 80 miles below
Twisp.
Henry Brook, a Spokane pioneer,
died on the steamship Roanoke on the
Columbia river, January 16, while on
his way to California.
First chloroforming A. c. Finley,
who was asleep in his room upstairs,
two yeggmen recently dynamited the
safe in the j. G. Calder general mer-
chandise store at Silver Beach, a sub.
urb of Bellingham, and escaped with
1858 in cash and checks.
After a five year lease of state land
has been once renewed for a similar
period, no more renewals are permits.
= sible, under the law, according to an
opinion rendered to the state land
commissioner by the attorney general
The Exchange bank of Blaine has
closed it's doors.
; Tacoma jobbers of feed announce
/ reduction of l ton in the price OF
/ oats and alfalfa and timothy hay. Oats
are now quoted at $50 and $31 ton
/ and alfalfa at $14 and SIS and timothy
. at $24.
) The problem of the unemployed has
: already begun to trouble the public
authorities in Seattle.
The board of health unanimously
adopted a resolution that hereafter nc
city will De permitted to empty sew
; age into any body of water or stream
used for drinking pourposes by other
: municipalities until such sewage has
r been rendered harmless by some proc
l ess to be approved by the state board
I of health, This affects a number OF
cities.
George Price and Homer Richardson
of Dayton have the ideal system OF
/ handling and shipping grain. They
have large bins scattered throughout
their fields and the grain is taken di
, rect from the thresher to these bins
> where 1t is held until they are ready
t to ship. Then 1t is carried to the cars
: in bulk. They figure that the cost OF
D the tanks is not so great as the cost
' of sacks.
0 An elaborate park system to fur
: nish Walla Walla with one of the
: most complete recreation equipments
t of any city of similar size in the
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