Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-11-12
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS 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-Fall Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
At recent meeting of the Garfield
County Poultry association it was de-
cided to hold poultry show at Pom
eroy. The date was set for December
Is, 16, II and18.
A new move was made in the local
option fight when the Palouse local of
the Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive union unanimously adopted a reso-
luton condemning the liquor traffic,
putting the union on record officially
favoring local option and advising its
members to trade in towns and with
persons who openly stand for local
option.
The Alexander Stewart guardianship
case, wherein the Preston family of
Waitsburg had a legal guardian APP
pointed for Mr.. Stewart and his in
valid wife, has come to a close upon
an agreement.
Albert Wheatley, aged &c, of North
Yakima, committed suicide recently.
He was respondent.
The Charles r. Spencer private bank
at Glenwood has been opened.
Fire caused by the explosion of an
oilbox in the cereal room of the Gem
tennial -four mills, Spokane, destroyed
property estimated at 100000 at 1895
Sunday morning.
Nine cars of steel for the North
Coast railroad has been unloaded at
Alfalfa and 10 more are now on the
way.
State Treasurer Lewis report for the
week shows the total cash balance Mon
day, $766,731.91, of which amount
$3.50, 617O3 is in the general fund.
With the opening of the new extern
sion down the Pend Oreille river from
Newport to lone Monday the Idaho &
Washington Northern railroad has
placed in service new Baldwin loco
motive, said to be one of the finest
built engines ever sent west from the
Baldwin locomotive works.
With the apple crop of the Touchet
valley more than half harvested, it is
evident that an estimate of 40 cars
of apples made earlier in the season
is to be realized
George Hilton, the nephew of James
F. Logan, both of whom are held in
the Stevens county Jail as suspects
pending full research of the circum-
stances surrounding the tragedy which
ended the life of Agnes Jansen, who
was murdered and her body burned to
ashes in lonely spot near Bssell
week ago, refuses to be drawn into
the plot by any search for information
touching his relations with Logan.
Patrick Cavanaugh had his throat cut
from ear to ear with fatal results by
Jones McDoyle at Pasco recently.
The supreme court, by a recent de-
cision, holds the city of Seattle can
not recover from the contractors the
moneys they paid Former Comptroller
John Riplinger, which Riplinger is al
legged to have stolen.
A. f. Erickson, president of the So
called milk trust, otherwise known as
the Seattle Retail Milk Dealers associ-
alton, was taken to the county Jail
Saturday to serve a term of 10 davs,
Imprisonment for conspiring to increase
the price of milk. Erickson was tried
and convicted two years ago and SEN
fenced to the Jail term and fine of
$500 imposed.
The Eastern Washington & North
ern Idaho Baptist convention, in SEES
sion at Grace Baptist church las week.
closed Friday evening after a most sue
cessful meeting.
The contest for draining the Colville
river from Valley to Addy has been
let. a
Steve Devenish, pioneer stockman
and Indian fighter, resident of Cal
gary, Alta, for more than 40 years.
died in that city recently of pneu-
monia.
George w. Ferguson, of Charleston,
district horticultural Inspector spent
last week in and about Palouse inform
ing the farmers on the requirements
necessary to grow fruit successfully in
the Palouse country. Mr.. Ferguson
urges that the farmers should organ
lze and have uniform system of pack
ing fruit, which is always an induce
ment to get cash buyers into a district.
He advocates a central packing house,
where all the apples of the surround
ing territory can be packed under the
supervision of competent man.
Rain has been falling over the Pa
louise country for five days and nights
and the ground is thoroughly soaked.
Since September l about seven inches
of rain has fallen.
The poll tax law, which has caused
much trouble in Pullman, has been re-
pealed
IDAHO ITEMS.
Women may enter any saloon in the