Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-27
NORTHWEST STATES
aWASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
y A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
A flour mill is planned for the town
of Ralston.
Chief of Police c. w. Wappenstein
of Seattle rendered his resignation.
The lowlands between Puyallup and
Tacoma are again in danger of over
flow.
The president has nominated Will
liam R. Baker to be postmaster at Col
vile, Wash.
Washington and Oregon flour mil
lers have reduced the price of flour Is
cents barrel.
Floods are threatened in the Puyal-
Iup, White and Stuck rivers by the
excessive rains.
The new gas producing power plant
of the Wenatchee Electric company
has been put in operation.
Operations of the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle railroad commenced from
Vancouver to Pasco Monday.
Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered in the schools at North
Yakima by Health officer Helton.
English sparrows are to be exter-
minated in Walla Walla if this much
desired result can be brought about.
Crazed with liquor and grief be-
cause his wife would not return to
him, James Cosgrove of Bellingham
killed himself.
The strike in the Potlatch Lumber
companys big mill at Potlatch is as
Stunning large proportions and much
uneasiness is felt
Moyar Lott of Orting will not permit
school to be held in the school build
ing unless the structure is properly
protected against fire.
Three girls were born to the Rev
and Mrs. Henry Brockman of Kenne
wick recently. Two of the little girls
died IL hours after birth.
Dutch Jake" of Spokane has takel
an option on land at Bremerton, nea
Seattle, upon which he intends to cree
a hotel and vaudeville theater.
j. o. Ostby, president of the de
funct Citizens State bank of Brewster
has been arrested on charge of re
ceiving deposits after the bank wa
insolvent.
Peter Wagenaar has sold his farr
siM miles west of Ritzville to j. W
Anderson, a farmer of Pullman, Wash
for $33,29O. The land comprises 128
acres.
After disposing of $4,000 boxes c
apples, the surplus of the Yakima Va
ley Horticultural union, E. E. Samso
has returned from trip to the middl
west and south.
Not for years has Walla Walla face
so serious a situation as it does TIL
week from foods, which come frol
the Blue Mountains and have mad
Mill creek a roaring torrent.
Mrs. Margaret Glidden, wife of He
~ Glidden, formerly a broker of S
attic and the son of the late S.
Glidden wealthy Spokane banker, We
found dead in her room at Seattle Sa
urday
Charles D. Curry and wife of SIP
kane, who were mysteriously sh'
early Thursday morning, are reporte
to be on the fair road to recovery ar
no fear concerning their condition
expressed.
DR.. D. B. Harrison of Palouse hi
left for the Philippine islands to clio
a deal whereby four Inland Empi
men will come into possession of 8
900 acres of valuable land located
the islands.
At Renton, - miles from Seattl
part of the town is under water, al
the river is within two feet and hs
of the flood mark made in 1906. Bt
tom land farms along both rivers ha
been changed into lakes.
The farmers of the wheat belt lyil
south of ColfaX, between there and t
Snake river, have organized CO
pany for the construction and OPT
alton of the most extensive system
rural telephone lines ever attempt
in that part of the northwest.
William Maxwell, former auditor
the Potlatch Lumber company, plet
ed guilty in the Whitman county
perior court of obtaining money I
der false pretenses, and was given
indeterminate sentence of not le
than one year nor more than fl
years in the penitentiary.
A special train equipped with
hibits and a lecture platform will
run over the Spokane & Inland Mar
q and 2S, and if the plans of the co
mittee in charge of next Decembe
big apple show are carried out SINH
trains will be run over the o. R. d
and into Stevens county. The tral
will be accompanied by number
men trained as specialists in fri
growing, who will deliver lectures
each stop. These will include Prof
sors A. L. Melander and Walter
Thornber of the Washington ST
college.
OREGON SoUIB3.