Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-10
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop outlook 10 Good.
WASHINGTON STATE nEws.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
The resignation of Robert Knox. den
uty collector of customs at Belling-
ham, has been received by Collector
of Customs Harper at PORT Townsend
The public schools at ColviIle have
been closed for a week on account of
the large number of cases of diph-
liberia in the city
Thomas Troyer, woh has been on
protracted spree, shot himself at Seat
tie recently, dying instantly.
The workman who was killed the
otehr day by electricity on trestle on
the c., M. & st. P. railway. which
crosses the Spokane & Inland electric
line near Rosalia, was William S.
| Jameson.
Clarence, the 14-months-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. z. Drains of Seattle. died
of strangulation as the result of an
effort to swallow four ordinary soup
beans that he picked from the floor of
the kitchen.
Despondent because he was unable
to secure steady employment, James
Lesner, who recently returned from
Alaska, shot himself in his room in
Seattle
A nude man, supposed to be men,
tally unbalanced, is lowering about
the outskirts of South Tacoma.
Timber cruising in Kittitas county
for assessment purposes will begin
this week.
Full crops of fruits from the or
chards that are now planted in the
state would yield from $5O,OOO,OO0 to
100000, 900, and if we continue to plant,
| it is only a question of time until
Washington will be the greatest fruit
producing district in the world.
The report of the state hospital for
the insane at Medical Lake for the
month of March is as follows: Per
capita, % cents; number of patients,
| 597; number admitted %; number of
deaths, Z; number discharged, 8; daily
average, 562.
| Thomas H. Horner of Seattle and
L. w. Martin of West Virginia have
preferred charges of malfeasance in
office and misconduct of business
against j. Henry Smith, register of
the Seattle land office.
John Delmire, or Hanson, was run,
over by a train near North Yakima
and his right arm was cut off just be-
low the elbow. His head was also cut
open with an ugly cash and he was
badly battered and bruised
News of the passage of the act by
the United States senate granting to
the Benton County Water Power COM
pany right to dam the Snake river
was received with joy over the state.
A fatal accident occurred recently
on the ranch of L. c. Franks, near
Oakesdale, resulting in the instant
death of his 14-Year-old son, Clifford,
who met death by being struck by a
doubletree hitched to a running team
breaking his neck and otherwise
mangling and bruising his body.
Wenatchee's new fire tower, with
the new bell, went to the ground re-
Gently during a severe gale that swept
over the town.
On April 20 and "a examinations will
be held in Wenatchee for the position
of forest ranger.
About 250 delegates representing
, the Ancient Order of United Work
men of Washington are at Spokane
this week holding a three days bust
ness session here.
The week from April 10 to April IS,
inclusive, has been set aside as clean
ing week at Spokane.
Blown 24O feet by blast of dyna-
/ mite and literally torn to pieces was
the terrible fate of Charles Norman
: and Theodore Hofstad, who were
r working in, 40-foot cut at Spokane
} camp on the Spokane, Portland 6
Seattle excavation.
5 The result of the accidental ex-
A plosion of an acetylene gas tank at
2 Princeton, Is miles east of Palouse
. Saturday, is the village schoolhouse is
q in ruins, one mans hand is nearly
blown off and a woman is seriously in
jured.
No more shall the familiar click OF
the pool ball be heard in Waitsburg on
a Sunday, nor shall the card game be
r allowed to tempt the unwary youth
The city council has stopped it.
l. One of the biggest wheat sales made
j in Adams county this season was made
r recently, when b. L. Sutton of Rattle
snake fiat sold to the Pacific Coast
: Elevator company $4,000 bushels Of
j buestem wheat and 10000 bushels Of
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