Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-04-30
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON and OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numercus Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Casual estimates based upon the
statistics of the insurance department
and the evidence thus far collected by
the legislative committee and con-
frmed in part by the admissions of In.
surance Commissioner Schively on the
witness stand, indicate that Commits.
sioner Schively and Secretary of State
Nichols have collected and divided be.
tween the min the alleged illegal and
extortionate fees nearly if not quite
$4,000 year.
Colonel J. r. Brown was found dead
recently at his sister g home at Farm
ington. Heart failure is the supposed
cause.
James w. Foster, aged 81, pioneer
of the Walla Walla valley, died recently
of blood poisoning.
With 1000 people gathered at Dayton
from southeastern Washington, Day
tons annual horse show was held Sat
nrday.
The business men of Toppenish are
considering ways and means of build
dng an electric railway from that town
to zillah and back to Toppenish via
Wapato. Those interested have held
many meetings and are investigating
the problem.
The Western Pine Manufacturers ,
association will hold its first quarterly
meeting this year at the assembly room
of the chamber of commerce all day
Tuesday, May A. Lumbermen from all
points in the Inland Empire will be
present at this meeting and an unusually
interesting meeting is anticipated by
Secretary R. A. Kellogg
Alex Poison of Hoquiam, the largest
single logging operator in the state, has
made cut of So thousand feet on all
grades of logs, which cut has democrat
'ized the log and lumber market. Buyers
demand that lumber go down $3.50 for
every 81 cut on logs.
State Insurance Commissioner Schive-
ley was brought into the Spokane coun-
ty superior court Saturday afternoon in
custody of Sheriff Grafton Of Thurston
county. On the indictment for embez-
element from the Pacific Live Stock
association his bonds were fixed at &c.
goo, On the perjury charge the bond is
81, 500.
A crusade has started in Tacoma
against dogs.
Three fires were started few days
ago in Dayton and one in Huntsville by
locomotives.
Mrs. D. s. Beardsley Of North Yakima
is said to have taken three coal hods of
honey from her chimney this week. The
chimney was not used since last sum-
,mer. The bees were driven out by the
thousands.
R. II. Kipp, formerly prosecuting at
torney of Whitman county, has re-
moved to Spokane.
At the Starbuek election called by the
school board to vote ON issuing bonds
TO erect a $4,000 school building the
issue carried almost unanimously.
Squirrels, commonly known as ego
downs are destroying the grain crops
an some parts of Columbia county.
Prosecuting Attorney George F. Van
dervere of Seattle has filed an informa-
aion charging Kenneth C. Beaton, editor
IN chief of the Seattle Daily Star, with
criminal libel.
Accidentally soht through the left
side, just above the heart, by her 12-
year-old daughter, Mrs. Carrie Everett
lies at the point of death at the George
Price ranch, near Dayton.
G. e. Beach, now serving his second |
term as superintendent of schools of
Kitsap county and recently appointed
member of the state board of education,
has been chosen superintendent of |
Olympic city schools.
Governor Hay has appointed as the
board which, under the new law, will |
examine and license nurses, Miss Mary
Heating of Spokane, Miss A. F. Way
mire of Pullman, Marguerite Campbell
of Tacoma, Mrs. Mary Hawley of Seat
tie and Miss Cora Smith of Anacortes.
Samuel Loney of Walla walla has
been awarded the contract for 500 bar
Fels of Golden Gate cement for use at
the penitentiary at $2.75 barrel +. o. b.
Walla Walla.
There are large number of Japanese
now employed as chauffeurs in Seattle,
and if the Mullen amendment is incor.
porated in the new ordinance it will
throw them out of job.