Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-01
6RTHNEST 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
Place-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
A grand total Of $135, 400, 223 in d,
posits was held in all the state an
national banks in the state of Wasl
ington at the close of business O
February IA of this year.
The Pacific & Southeastern Railwa
company, capitalized at $1,000, OO(
has filed articles of Incorporation TIL
company will have a terminus at Tia
coma and extend across the state O
Washington, tapping the richest part
Of the state. Ultimately the line will
form part of transcontinental sys
tenn Branches will be built to Spo
kane, Seattle, Portland and British
Columbia.
The Is months old daughter OF
George Gerlitz, a farmer near Dusty
died after nearly three weeks intense
suffering as the result Of an accidental
scalding which occurred to the child
April g
The fifth annual horse show at
Waitsburg Saturday was by far the
best yet held, $500 people being here
and liz well-bred horses on parade.
The Lincoln County Pioneers and
Historical association has decided to
hold the picnic this year on June %,
"A and rs, owing to advantages to be
derived by the Davenport and Wilbur
fairs, which will be held directly fol-
lowing
Laying 90pound steel at rate three
times as fast as was ever made by
the same number of men with rails
half as heavy and pursuing old-time
methods, is the daily performance of
"a gang Of 125 men using tracklay-
ing machine on the Chicago, Malwau-
kee & st. Paul extension west of
Qthello. Douglas county.
Twenty horses and mules of the
finest breed and ranging in cost from
seyeral hundred dollars to $4,000 were
in the parade of the first horse show
ever held at Ritzville Saturday. Over
400 people were in attendance.
Pullman is to have free delivery Of
mai August /, when two carriers will
be put to work In the city.
The sensational disappearance of
Fred Hays, teamster of North Yaki.
ALL in the Black Rock hills is
believed to have been cleared up by
the finding Of body in the mountains
few days ago.
Fourteen prisoners from Spokane
county, including two women, who
have been sentenced to indeterminate
sentences IN the state penitentiary
ranging from to 20 years, were sent
70 Walla Walla prison this week.
5aek ri 6 Milwaukee railroad la
borer, aged 3S years, attempted to
commit suicide in the Tekoa city Jail
Sunday afternoon by cutting his throat |
with pocket knife, and succeeded in
inaicting wounds that will undoubted-
" prove fatal
United States Senator Samuel H
Piles Of Seattle has been put in pos
session Of one-half interest of the
John Sullivan estate, valued approx
mately at 100000. This ends liti-
eklon that has extended over perioa-k
2 eight years and which has Neon
proiine in having the histeSv ~ tba
q ~ s. ssmliy IN Leland well aired
p,,ll,,,. ~ c5arts of this state.
~. ~ Is to have big conVen-
en- TIE first convention Of the
Var s. Eduetional and Cooperative
unit For the Inland Empire is held
theH JUNE IS and 16.
We. Gage, railroad contractor. re-
po8 th@ no heavy railroad construc-
tiof on the North Coasts proposed
li9 is likely to be undertaken within
the next six months.
"a message from Watrous, N. M.
safCes that Willis and Burt Cooper.
crown sons of Mrs. Zacharias TAYLOR
Cooper of Rosalia, were suffocated al
he bottom of 6O-foot well they were
Juggling on their mothers ranch, by
sudden flow of natural gas which
hey Unexpectedly tapped.
The Great Northern and the North
I'm Pacific contributed $1,000 tc
he fund fer The entertainment of the
Atlantic battleship feet when it ar
ives in Seattle May %.
Spokane's new postoffice gets $75,-
700 in sundry civil bills reported Sat
friday. The Columbia river appropri
ltion was cut from $1,700 900 for i'm.
'royements at the mouth estimated
" engineers to $1,45OOOO and from
100000 for the Three Mile rapids al
Cello to $SS6,OOO, both on continuing
contracts.
The senate has passed bill for the ,
rection Of public building at Ever
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