Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-10
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acel-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


From 5000 to 10000 people partici- il
pated in the "oldtimers' celebration
at Colfax Saturday. t
Crowds numbering between 5000 and {
1000 people filled North Yakima to at
tend the Fourth of July celebration.
The annual picnic of the Inland
Association of the Deaf and Dumb
was held at Spokane the Fourth. Not !
withstanding that it's members were |
bereft of the power of speech 1t is h
doubtful If there was a happier gath
ering in the city during the holiday. +
With an initial membership of near
| ly $50 former residents of Michigan,
the Spokane Michigan club was or
ganized recently.
Thirty or thirty-ive thousand people
took advantage of special rates and
excursions the Fourth to leave Spo-
kane for the day.
Frank Fine, a Prescott farmer, was
hurt by the explosion of giant crack |
err, which tore off the ends of two fin.
gers on his left hand and lacerated
the palm of his right hand.
State Railroad Commissioner }. s.
} Jones was the victim of female pick
pocket while in a Tacoma department
store recently. He missed has wallet,
which contained $27 in cash, 4 couple
t of rings valued at $3.50 and some pa
:. pers. The woman could not be found.
S Robert Pfueller, resident OF Sno-
J, homish, blew his head off with dyna-
q mite recently because his wife scolded
him for drinking. He was 65 years OF;
q age. =
h S. P. WickstroYn of Seattle was
h struck by train between Wilson
d Creek. and Krupp Friday and terribly
injured.
IS Harry Cross died at Longs, near
e Dayton, from the effects OF the bite of
n an insect, causing blood poison.
y George M. Wright, the city marshal
n at Woodland, who accidentally shot
p. himself in the head on the night Of
le June IS, is dead.
er A six-inch artesian well only 50 feet
n deep and furnishing 10000 gallons OF
water daily, has just been completed
by the East Tacoma Manufacturing
n company.
y During fire drill at Port Townsend
II on board the steamer Chippewa ]. F
Walsh, Vancouver messboy, l!
years old, fell overheard and wa:
m drowned.
~ Frank Hoskins has completed hi
private irrigation plant for watering
100 acres of bottom few miles be
low Dayton, and water will be turnet
into the main in a short time. MI
an Hoskins plans to cut the land int
AIr tracts of FIVE acres and have it plant
ed to orchard by men who desire t
"O build up the fruit business.
IA One boy with his hand nearly blow
off by blank cartridge, one man wit
his hand injured by a dynamite cracl
er, several boys burned by powde
to- from pistols and a number of mino
o, accidents constitute the record
Bellingham the Fourth.
In a fire which broke out at GA
ue O'Clock Saturday night in the kitche
NJ of the Spokane Club building, at Sp
kane, and was stubbornly fought b
aS' the city's entire fire apparatus fC
les three hours before it was controlle
lnu Dwight c. Johnson, an ore buyer, we
tue known to mining men in the mort
ieu west, was killed by dropping from
fourth story window. Property los
-, - a. $4,000; we'll insured.
10 After dressing himself in his be
Co. clothing, brushing his hair shawn
,oI and shining his shoes, man know
~. as Jack Thompson, spread blank
~, out on the floor of his room in Seatt
80 and sent bullet crashing into b
a. brain.
Two million grain bags are bell
lot delivered to farmers in the Wal
the Walla section, making shipments a
vor- gregating 20 carloads. The bags a
On largely from Calcutta, only a SIN;
, of portion being manufactured in Il
ned state penitentiary. The date Of t
cen allotment of grain bags to the whei
rom growing countles having expired
of July 1, C. s. Reed, superintendent
the state penitentiary, announces tn
ook he is authorized by the state board
hal control to sell the remaining sacks
lied hand to any one applying for san
Fl The warehouse contains about $500
he'd grain bags unsold, and delivery will
ugh made to those applying, in the order
yere which their application is received,
cash at $500 per 100 t. o. b. Wa
hal. Walla.
ord Floyd F. Wilson, son of John F. "
oh. son, son of John F. Wilson, ranch
Chi. residing near Riparia, was drown
ties in the Snake river recently while to
Ibia ing a raft of driftwood.
,ert, A sensation was created in Pas
rio; Sunday when Robert Shioter of
Itch. coma, 81 years of age, committed s
eide by shooting himself through
body just below the heart.
III IDAHO NOTES.
600 A tragic murder occurred at the
hich tunnel of the Chicago, Milwaukee