Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-18
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


will arrive in Spokane the afternoon
of September 25 for a visit
Harold F. Curtis has been appointed |
secretary of the Washington state fair
commission to succeed George A. Ora
ham, deceased.
C. B. Ronguet has been granted a |
license to operate ferry at Bossburg |
and G. L. Maynard license to open a
saloon at Camden.
A burning straw stack caused the
loss of the barn and several outbuild-
ings on the w. s. Peddicord farm, two
miles north of Palouse, recently.
d. c. Reed, superintendent of the
North Yakima schools, reports an at
tendance of 14OO pupils in the graded
schools and 316 in the high school.
A movement is under way on the
part of Fruitvale ranchers to abandon
the Horticultural union at North Yak
ina and build warehouse of their
own.
J. d. Harkins, who resides on a farm
two miles from Waitsburg, will shortly
harvest one ton of popcorn which he
has raised this year for market in
Portland.
The biggest shark ever reported in
Sound waters was seen by about 81
members of the Mountain Climbing
club at Spring Beach, near Tacoma, a
few days ago.
Victor Shafter, aged "a, a native of
Switzerland, died recently in Walla
Walla of senile decay. Mr.. Shafter
was a civil war veteran and had resid-
ed there 40 years.
The store of the Harper Hardware
company of Prosser was entered by
burglars recently and several guns and
penknives taken. Some $50 in the
money drawer was not disturbed.
AS the result of a sudden breaking
of the steam shovel chain, Chris Neil
son, laborer employed by the Spo-
kane, Portland & Seattle near Pasco,
was struck by the chain and instantly
killed.
A meeting of the hotel men of the
state has been called to meet at the
Savoy hotel in Seattle, September 16,
for the purpose of completing the or
ganization which, it is held, is much
needed.
That Yakima can grow corn as well
as fruit was demonstrated recently
when merchant placed on exhibition
four stalks brought in from the ranch
of George Mitchell. The stalks are Is
feet high.
Thomas A. Edison, the noted inven
tor, who is taking a vacation on the
Pacific coast, says that neither the
aeroplane nor the dirigible balloon will
successfully solve the question of navi-
eating the air.
Governor Mead is in Portland to
hold a conference with Governor Cham
berlain of Oregon, to adjust what ap-
pears to be a conflict between Wash
ington fishermen on the Columbia river
and the Oregon authorities.
That the day of mystery in the prac-
tice of medicine and of fear in the
practice of surgery is past was the
expressed sense of the Washington
sion at Walla Walla last week.
Edwin, the year old son of J. W.
Day of North Yakima, was shot in the
eye by boy friend, Willard Bryson,
recently and will lose the use of his
eye. The boys were playing Indians
and the weapon was an air rife.
Under circumstances which almost
seem to indicate deliberate suicide, A.
Nelson, laborer, of whom little is
known, was killed by the locomotive
of a special train on the Kalama
branch of the Northern Pacific railway
near Vancouver.
Harvesting in the Palouse section of
the Palouse country is at an end and
the last thresher has been pulled in.
Never in the history of the country
has the crop been garnered so early in
the season and never with so little de-
lay from unfavorable weather.
The Fidelity Lumber company, Spo-
kane, is preparing plans for a large
milling plant to be built shortly on the
company's property, across the river
from Newport, in Idaho. The plant
when completed with sawmill and plan
ing mill will cost in the neighborhood
of $4,000. The mill will have a ca
pacity of from $4,000 to 100000 feet
in ten hours.
In dense fog at Seattle Saturday
the Chippewa, a large steel steamboat
on the Victoria run for the Interna-
tional Steamship company, crashed into
the Sentinel, operated by the Kitsap
County Transportation company and
bringing about 50 prominent men and
women from Crystal Springs, a fashion
able summer colony, on Brainbridge
island No lives were lost.
The Stevens County Fair associa.
tion has decided to place competent
man in the field to give his personal