Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-19
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. Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Wenatchee now has $500 population.
Scores of counterfeit S. and $40 gold
pieces bearing 1901 date have appeared
in Seattle the last few days.
From present appearances Newport
will have two electric railway lines
within the next year or two. One of
these will make Connection with Spo-
kane and the other tap the rich Priest
lake country in the northern end of
Bonner county, Idaho.
| The annual report of the Yakima
Horticultural union shows that 264, 800
packages of fruit were handled by the
union the past season. 1t is an increase
of 10000 over last year Owing to
lower prices, the value of the business
was $21, 1868 less than in 1907.
Governor Hay has signed house bill
No. 2 and announced the appointment
of M. L. Clifford of Tacoma as superior
court Judge to fill the position created
by the bill.
For the organization of a grand jury
to supplement the investigation of the
state bar association committee into
the alleged misconduct of former Su
preme Justice Milo A. Root and M. j.
Gordon, attorney for the Great North
ern railway and former chief justice
of the state supreme court, an order
was issued in Spokane county by Judge
j. D. Hinkle, presiding judge of the
superior court, and the names of the
prospective grand jurors were drawn
by the jury commissioners.
Grain and feed prices in Whitman
county are steadily advancing. All rec
ord prices are broken. Bluestem wheat
is wanted for milling purposes, 81 pei
bushel being offered. Warehousemer
say the total amount of wheat owned
by farmers in the county is about rs,
600 bushels, while the warehouses con
tain from 10000 to 100000 bushels
which is being called for at rapid
rate and may not last 10 days.
Alexander Anderson, chief deputy
state grain inspector, says statistics
show that this state produced 41,00O,
900 bushels of wheat last year, against
26,OOO,O0O this year, and that recent
canvass by j. w. Arrasmith, the CHIEF
grain inspector, would indicate tha
there is little wheat in outlying dis
tricts.
How much wheat is held by Seattle
grain and mill men for exorbitan
prices is question asked many time
by millers and grain dealers. One firm
boasts of having sold, only two day
ago, $4,000 bushels of bluestem whea
to Spokane milling firm at $1.18
bushel. Bluestem is freely offered a
$1.17 bushel.
Four inches of snow fell in Tacom,
Saturday night.
With five weeks gone and but tire
and half weeks remaining of the It'll
legislature, there have been PSI bill
introduced in the senate, of which sew
en- have become laws, and 276 intro
duced in the house, of which three ar
laws.
P. R. Parks of Colville has been an
pointed postmaster at that place.
Mr.. Hunting, one of the larges
prune and apple growers near Chehalis
says the prune crop was not hurt b,
the cold weather in January, as far a
he could ascertain.
With the extension of the Idaho
Washington Northern railroad to Meta
line, Wash, and the certainty of tn
development of an electric power plan
with 10000 horsepower by the Lehig
Valley Cement company of Pennsyl
wanna, the Metaline mining district
which was known to be rich in lea
ore before the discovery of the Coeu
d 'Alene deposits, is assured of railroa
facilities this summer.