Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-17
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
from Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Mrs. c. II. Pomeroy, 81 years old, |
wife of a well-known lawyer, and a
popular. hostess of the houseboat col
ony at Lake Washington, was drowned
in the lake recently.
The second day of Sunday closing in
North Yakima found the saloons tight
ly closed.
Bitten in the throat by vicious
young horse, j. H. Adams. farmer, II
miles from Kirkland. bled to death
within two hours after the attack.
Murdered, the body Of Keevil AL
bring. the 20-year-old son of A. J. AL
bring, a rancher, living three miles
northeast of Mead. 10 miles north of
Spokane, was found recently.
Fire broke out early Sunday morn
tng at the farm residence of Joseph
Kelly, 10 miles south of Walla Walla,
resulting in the death of BENJAMIN, the
17-year-old son. and the severe burning
of William A. Kelly OF Spokane, an
uncle of the dead boy.
The Wenatchee Milling company re-
ports that it has shipped $50 cars of
flour during 1907. This represents
close to 100000 bushels of wheat.
Three sets OF twins and six other
children have made Henry Clay Max
well of Wapato one Of the proudest
fathers In the state.
State general fund warrants need
not be discounted. declare members of
the state board Of finance, although
some state banks are shylocking on
these President Lord of the Capitol
National bank announced today he
wlll cash at par all such warrants, as
ne has done since mo fund" warrants
were issued.
Promptly at IL o'clock last Satur-
day night every saloon and variety
theater and restaurant In Spokane
stopped the sale of liquor. in compli-
ance with the order of the mayor The
shows will not reopen.
More than ZOE young and middle
aged men have registered in the Jen-
kins' institute. the Y. M. G. AS edu-
cational department just opening.
Mary l.. Anderson of Rosalia has
petltioned the superior court of Whit
man county to admit the will of her
late husband, d. f. Anderson, who
died at Rosalia recently, to probate,
AS a result of agitation by the
sheepmen using the Rainier forest re-
serve, more sheep will be permitted to
Craze on the reserve.
Two powder houses at p. WEIGH &
Co.'S camp No. 3, near Cheney, were
blown to atoms by a dynamite explo-
sion recently,
BY an overwhelming vote, following
three hours Of heated discussion, the
state federation of labor went on rec
ord as opposed to the Sunday theater.
A disease that is supposed to be hog
cholera has been the cause of the
death of more than 100 fine porkers
in the immediate nelghborhood of Pa
Iouse
]. W. Vessey and John Peters,
wealthy sheepmen with interests
around Prosser and North Yakima,
and G. A. Goggin of Seattle, state
manager for the Loyal Americans,
who left Seattle on March 49, 1907,
bound for Durango, Mexico, to pur-
chase land, have not been heard from
for many months, and it is feared they
have met with foul play.
The state Federation of Labor
unanimously voted to put the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition in Seattle on
the unfair list.
Rural route No. 1 has been ordered
established April l at st. Andrews,
Douglas county, serving 800 people
and &c families.
Forty loaves of bread for one dollar
at Spokane is the new wholesale price
at which the stan of life is now being
offered.