Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-05
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.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Colfax is planning great Fourth of
July celebration.
After % years residence in Spokane,
Mrs. Louis Ziegler died Sunday night.
State Tax Commissioner yesterday
has rendered his resignation to Gov
ernor Mead.
The drillers on the oil well two miles
south of Rockford are down 700 feet
and have struck a good vein of OIL
Mrs. Olive r. Hammer, aged 55
years, died at her home, seven miles
east of Colfax, Sunday of heart trouble.
Victor Johnson, aged 10, came to a
sudden death at Freeman on the o. r.
& N. railroad by being run over by
cars.
At a special election at Toppenish
the proposition to bond district 40, for
1923 900 to build schoolhouse was car
ried by large majority.
E. H. Stanton & Co., packers, will
build within the present year a $780,
900 packing plant adjoining their
present abattoir at Spokane.
After netting about 100000 in the
restaurant business at North Yakima
during the last six years, John Lax
and family will sail June 20 for Paris.
The A. Selheim ranch of 800 acres,
few miles below Newport, has been
sold to ]. Coalson of Kalispell, Mont,
for $15,500. Mr.. Coalson will improve
the farm.
The plant of the Seimon Lumber
company on the water front at Bel
| bingham burned recently, entailing a
loss of 100000. The fire started in
the engine room.
The delegates to the third annual
convention of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles wound up the business of the
state aerie in Spokane last week by
choosing Everett, Wash, for the state
convention next year.
According to the estimate made by
Columbia County Assessor w. S. Hunt
whose deputies recently completed a
canvass of the county, the wheat yield
this year will be approximately 80 per
cent greater than last.
knights of Columbus from all parts
of the northwest were in Spokane
Sunday to attend the first exemplifca-
ton of the fourth degree ever held
west of the Missippi river, outside of
Los Angeles and Denver.
At Walla Walla Charles Eagle, dead
from a blow ON the head, lies in the un-
dertaking parlors, and Black Eagle is
in hospital as the result of a drunken
fight at Pendleton. Both Indians were
travelling with a circus.
The state supreme court, by a vote
of 4 to 3, has decided that it has
original jurisdiction in the matter of
divorce cases and may enter orders di-
recting the payment of alimony and
attorneys fees in pending cases.
Wool growers of the Yakima valley
have over 100000 pounds of wool
stored at North Yakima and under in
surance which they will hold, or at
tempt to hold, until there is an i'm
provement in the market conditions.
Robert Carroll, under arrest at Wal
la Walla, suspected of being the man
wanted in Ritzville on horse stealing
charge was identified. Carroll con-
fessed to his crime, which was COM
mitted in 1905. He had been in Walla
Walla but two days.
]. NJ. Ashton of Tacoma, who was
temporary chairman of the republican
state convention held in Spokane a
few weeks ago, was thrown from a
horse in Tacoma and had his Shout
der dislocated. He was to have been
chief marshal of the Decoration day
parade.
S. Wade Hampton, one of Tacoma S
capitalists, interested in Douglas coun-
| ty land along the line of a new rail
road, has returned from a trip to that
section after having been served with
midnight notice by masked men to
get out of the country. The notice
also warned others to stay out.
The lid went on promptly at mid
night Saturday night at Colfax without
any protest on the part of the saloon
interests, and for the first time in four
years Colfax experienced a really
closed town; and for the first time in
the entire history of the place are the
saloons closed by order of the mayor.
Through the courtesy of the North
ern Pacific Railway company the state
college, under the direction of Pro
fessor Elliott, is planning to run a
farmers educational train over the
Northern Pacific lines in the eastern
part of the state similar to those re
Gently run over the lines of the other