Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
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
P,ace-crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Fire recently swept portion of the
business district of Tenino, and before
it had been extinguished had caused
a loss of $4,000, with very little in
surance.
Samuel l.. Wharton, familiar fig
ure among mining men of the north
west and resident of Spokane for
the last Is years, died recently.
A 100000 increase of stock for the
further development and improvement
of its property in eastern Washington
was voted by the stockholders of the
Hanford Irrigation company at spe-
cial meeting.
The third annual convention of the
Stevens County Sunday School aso-
citation will be held in Colville June
30 and July 1.
An election was held at Pennington
recently by the school district to de-
eide as to issuing new bonds. The vote
was against issuing new bonds.
Throwing up her hands with a pierre
ing scream, Mrs. Elizabeth Gauvitte,
wife of Joe Gauvitte, former proprietor
of the Bodega saloon, Spokane, fell
dead Saturday night. being shot by
her husband who has confessed. They
had had domestic troubles.
To cross the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul line and cut Seattle and Ia
coma out as wheat shipping points for
the central Washington fields, are de-
clared to be objects and results of the
plan of James J. Hill to build another
railroad extension in eastern Wash
ington.
1--WE, the jury, find the defendant,
Hezelxiah w. Barnes, guilty of murder
in the first degree" was the verdict
of the jury in the trial of Budd Barnes
at Walla Walla for the murder OF
Mrs Anna Aldrich, whom he killed
with pick handle in the mountains
near Dixie May l.
F.. P. Greene, auditor of Spokane
county, was elected president of the
state organization of county auditors
recently in session at Mount Vernon
Tacoma was selected as the next place
of meeting.
The Washington State Dental 50
ciety, at it's annual election of officers
at Spokane, selected George T. VIII
Iiams, Seattle, president. The associ
alton this year begins active opera
lions under the new constitution adopt
ed from that Of the Illinois society
The association will meet next year
at Seattle.
At the annual convention of the
state nurses association at Tacoma
recently it was decided to ask the next
legislature for the passage of bill
providing for the licensing OF all
trained nurses of the state, provision
being made in the bill for an examin
ing commission or board.
Word was recently sent to Secretary
Of the Treasury Cortelyou notifying
him that the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific ex
position has complied with the con
gressional requirement that 81 600, 00C
be raised by subscriptions, nomina
lions, ETC., irrespective Of any state oil
federal appropriations, before the con
I: gresional appropriation of 100000 Ii
made available.
Fire destroyed the dry kilns of the
Johnston-Dean Lumber company al
Robe, near Granite Falls, recently.
William Cox, who killed his step
father, Major Whitfield, near Rex
Douglas county. recently, gave himself
up to the officers. He claims to have
fred the shots which killed Whitfield
to protect his mother. He is in the
county Jail at Waterville.
Five saloons, a barber shop and
restaurant were burned at NORTH
Hooper, on the line Of the s., P. & S
railway, near Kahlotus, recently.
General Manager Claghorn of the
Northwestern Improvement company
states that no troops had yet been re
quested for the mines at Clealum ant
Roslyn, and that he did not fear tbs
strikers would become violent. He
said. however, that the strike was mo-
ended and that officials of the unions
would perhaps arrive from the cas-
to settle the dispute, as the local off
cials of the union are unable to con
troll the sfrikera