Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-05
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-Outl0ok Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Work has started on the telephone
line between White Bluffs and Kenne-
wick.
The typographical strike at Walla
Walla is ended by new Union-States-
man deal.
Yakima IS county commissioners an
nounce that $4,000 will be spent for
good roads in the coming summer.
Postoffice Inspector A. F. Watson
was trampled upon recently by the
hoofs of runaway team at Spokane.
The state senate passed bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the irrigation con
gress to be held in Spokane next sum-
mer.
An exodus of women from Tacoma s
tenderloin is on this week, since the
closing of the district by the authori-
ties.
John Halter, aged about 40 years,
of Rockford, was instantly killed at
Spokane while attempting to board an
electric train.
An epidemic of spinal meningitis that
battles the veterinaries and already has
caused the loss of several horses is
sweeping Whatcom county.
Negotiations are on with North Yak
ina commercial club for the establish
ment of a permanent exhibit in. New
York city of Yakima valley products.
A Spokane concrete company carried
off large share of the prizes just
awarded in the concrete exposition
which opened in Chicago January 16.
If Spokane shippers can not receive
justice from the Hill Hartman rail
roads, at least they are in position to
retaliate by refusing to ship over these
roads.
The record of Spokane bank clear.
ings for the month of February exceed
ed that of any previous February in
the history of the city by more than &c
per cent.
Sunnyside, boasts of rest room
nearly year old now, where visiting
ranchers and their wives may readjust
their toilets and pass their leisure time
while in town.
A. 7, LaClair has sold his 720-acre
ranch north of Oakesdale to F. M
Sever, residing near Colfax, for $36 800
The LaClair ranch is one of the finest
in the Palouse country.
Senator R. G. McCroskey has re
turned to Garfield from an inspection
of his 25O0-acEe wheat farm and re
ports prospects flattering for one of the
biggest crops the Inland Empire has
ever had.
Surveyors are at work mile from
Kiona, plating the new North Coast
railroad town of Benton. The building
of this town will mean practically a
new depot for Kiona and is expected
to increase values and tend to make this
town grow rapidly.
The Colfax high school will debate
the Dayton high school for the cham
pionship of the Eastern Washington
High School Debating association, the
winner to meet the west side leaders
for the state championship. Colfax de-
feated Spokane Friday.
A representative of the Northwestern
Fire Apparatus company has closed a
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installation of a fire alarm system, ia
cost $500. Mr.. See has also closed a
deal with the authorities of Cashmere
for 800 feet of fire hose and other
equipment for the new fire department
at that place.
Acting Governor Hay has appointed
John 7. Ronald of Seattle superior
judge for King county, to fill the va
cancy caused b ythe appointment of
Judge George E. Morris to the supreme
bench. Ronald is democrat, former
mayor of Seattle and law partner of
R. A. Ballinger, who is to be secretary
of the interior.
Joseph Healy and Horace Richie
pleaded guilty to a charge of attempt
ing a Jail delivery at Mount Vernon
of two suspected counterfeiters, James
Kelly and Joseph Veeil. The two lat
ter, curiously, were acquitted since the
attempted Jail break, and their would
be hberators will probably spend at
least five years in the penitentiary.