Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-29
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 STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
While working in sewer trench at
Tacoma recently Aaron Anderson, a
plumber, was buried under a cavein,
which crushed him to death.
w. Woodard, restaurant man at
Tacoma, recently drowned himself in
a peculiar way. He hired boat, and,
rowing out into the sound, tied the
rope around his neck, tied a heavy
stone to his feet and jumped over
board. When the boat drifted ashore
the body was found.
A combination of the Sunnyside Sun
and the Sunnyside Valley Republican
and an affiliation of this paper with the
Toppenish Review, the Granger News,
Mabton Chronicle, Grandview Press
and Prosser Republican-Bulletin is a
plan now on foot which promises to
result in a great change in the news
paper situation in the Yakima valley.
Charles Wheeler, the section fore
man at Elk who has been praying for
assistance to locate $500 which he
confessed he stole from the Great
Northern depot at Elk, has had his
prayer answered, but in a most I'M
expected manner. Wheeler is now
free. The thief was Harry Russell, a
miles from Elk.
Senator Levi Ankeny of Walla Walla
has sold to Peter McGregor and ]. E.
Taylor of Hooper the Ankeny ranch
in Adams county. The ranch consists
of $500 acres of decided land and TO-
500 acres of leased land. The pur-
chase price is said to have been $780,
900. Included in the deal were 500
head of Hereford cattle.
While playing near his parents
home at Ellenburg the 20 months old
son of Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson
fell into the creek and was drowned.
Spokane has been selected as the
next meeting place of the eighth mis-
sionary department of the Episcopal
church and the international clericus.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows for
the state will convene in Walla Walla
June 1 for four days session.
Manager P. c. Holland is out of the
Washington Printing and Bookbinding
company, Walla Walla, and the recent
strike is over
William Grady, a laborer, who was
employed in the mines at Clealum,
was instantly killed recently by a
train.
General orders, covering, among
other things, Memorial day parades,
have been issued from the office of AID
jutant General Ortis Hamilton.
The power plant and the pumping
machinery which will irrigate the Han
ford project, under construction for a
year, are practically completed.
At a recent meeting of the We
natchee commercial club a large sum
of money was donated to advertising
the valley.
A preliminary test will be made
this week at the Charleston Canning
company, the cooperative association
which has built a large canning plant
on the Charleston side of the Snake
river.
James Cummin, a rancher living
near Lind, was struck by train and
instantly killed.
Marcus Aurelius Sick, former I'M
dertaker and laundryman at Washtuc-
ma, was the hero of a great fire at Buff
falo recently, saving several lives
during a big lire.
Crushed under five feet of sand and
clay, Aaron Anderson, a plumber, was
smothered to death recently at Ia
coma while working in a sewer trench.
The work of the county assessor
shows the towns in the county and
the official count shows that Cash
mere has 535, Wenatchee 3075 and
Leavenworth 1862. This is the popu-
lation strictly within the corporate
limits, there being large population
in the valley contiguous to the vari-
Gus towns. Wenatchee has a subur-
ban population of 1000.
The Cheney State bank, organized
into a national bank, and will begin
business tomorrow as the Security
National bank of Cheney,
Oscar Hicks, employed on the farm
of Nat Bryant, is at the Pullman hospi-
tai in a critical condition, the result
of a fall from the hay NOW of the
Bryant barn to the floor beneath. In
falling Hicks struck on a platform,
lighting astride of it, and he received
injuries which may prove fatal. Moth
ing is known of any relatives of the
injured man.