Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-12-04
NORTHWEST ITEMS
NEWS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON And OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fau Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Olympia is to have new Y. M. G. A.
building.
The organization of a state bank at
Colfax is authorized.
w. V. Tanner, Seattle man, is now
assistant attorney general.
The Palouse flour mill, owned by the
Potlatch Lumber company, is being re-
modelled at an expense of $4,000.
Township organization carried in the
following counties at the recent cleo
ton: Clark, Lewis, Skagit and Spo-
kane.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
company has made cash donation of
$1,000 to the National Apple show at
Spokane.
Hosea Wise and Joseph Stennaker,
prisoners, and Private Adolph Sprunkel
have deserted from Fort Wright, near
Spokane.
With most impressive ceremonies the
new Catholic church, Our Lady of
Lourdes, at Spokane, was dedicated
last week.
A terrible beating was administered
by three armed thugs to H. E. Kirk
patrick, a plumber of Latah, Wash, at
Spokane recently.
Leo Bezemer, accused kidnaper of e.
z. English, will not be tried for the
alleged offense until the February jury
term in skagit county.
Hugh Mcmahon, manager of the
American cafe and a well-known bust
ness man, was found Saturday, MUIR
dered, in the front yard of his home in
Seattle.
With her pumps keeping the hold free
of water from the leak in her bottom,
the steam schooner Northland of the
Ketchikan Steamship company has ar
rived in Seattle.
North Yakima, Wash.-J. H. Barnard
was struck by freight engine early
Saturday evening. He not only escaped
death, but two panes of glass he was
carrying were not broken.
The official county of Washington for
president is: Taft 1O6,31O, Bryan 49,
1888, Debs 14,177, Hisgen 24s, Chain
I'OOs Il VI CIV SObSIONCy IGpuU-
lican, ITO, 100; Pattison, democrat, 49,
1876.
Recently Fred Mailloux, a North Yak
ina grocer, placed 1915 in checks, paper
money and gold in the stove with waste
paper. He was able to recover the
gold and portion of the paper. His
loss will amount to about $35.
Tho of %
Office will undoubtedly be investigated
at the next session of the legislature,
owing to j. II. Shively's connection
with the defunct Spokane Livestock In
surance company at Spokane.
AS the result of an investigation of
the records of County Treasurer West of
| Wahkiakum county that official has
been arrested on a charge of embez-
cling sums aggregating nearly $4,000.
He is now under $4,000 bonds.
Representatives of the companies
owning 90 per cent of the oysters in
Willapa bay have organized a sales
agency, to be known as the North Pa
cific Oyster Agency, through which all
the oysters will hereafter be sold.
A gain of $2,O23,72 or 81 per cent,
is shown by the Spokane bank clearings
for last week over the corresponding
week of last year. For the week ended
Saturday the clearings were $5,SS5,4
and for the same week last year, So, 961,-
7O1.
George Brown, alias West, and Viii
liam Brown pleaded guilty at Tacoma
to holding up a saloon recently and
were sentenced to to 20 years in
prison. They were the men who held
up the streetcars at Portland and Ia
coma.
Carelessness on the part of mer-
chants and others in cashing checks for
strangers has made forgery so easy that
the Washington State Bankers associ-
alton has sent out a warning advising
patrons to cash no checks or drafts for
unidentified strangers.
Jealous crazed Fred Swindle, a farm
hand formerly employed on the farm
OF Mrs. Rose Huffman, a widow living
Is miles from Vancouver, riddled A r
Newell, who married Mrs Huffman four
days ago, with bullets and attemptedto
Kill the bride. He then committed sui.
eide.
The Pacific Coast Elevator company 3
warehouse at Tilma, three miles east of
Tekoa, was destroyed by fire with all
It's contents. The building contained
$500 bushels of wheat and us tons of
oats. A. Bittner, a farmer living at
the Cove, lost 100 bushels of wheat,
and several bushels of wheat and oats
belonged to L. Wallner.
IDAHO NOTES.