Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-01
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.
"The sixteenth annual Spokane Inter
state fair was one of the most success
full ever held, and, despite the threat
ening weather of the early part of the
week and the cool evenings, the at
tendance was excellent said Robert |
H. Cosgrove, secretary and manager, re-
Gently.
Two hundred convicts at the state
penitentiary are rushing work on the big
brick warehouse in which is to be stored
1000 bales of raw jute for next year s
output of bags and the completion of
the new jute mill, to have capacity
of $4,000 to 10000 bags a day.
William Edmunds, well known fruit
grower who will go to England next
month with apples from the Wenatchee
valley, has received advices from that
country that because of severe weather
| fruit is scarce and the demand is greater
than anticipated. Mr.. Edmunds is pre-
pairing to take two big train loads of
Wenatchee apples between October 20
and rs.
October 49, IA, Is and 16 are the dates
fixed for the Palouse carnival and har-
vest festival.
While riding on top of household
furniture which his father was moving,
Hermann, year old son of j. R.
Pritchett of Touchet, fell to the ground
and was crushed to death by heavy
steel range which tumhled from the
load on top of him.
Mrs. Winnifred Frazier Nichols, aged
%, restaurant waitress, whose parents
live in Mt Vernon, Wash, died Satur-
day morning from injuries received
when joy-ride automobile was wreck
ed at Seattle This is the third death
from the accident Axle Anderson is
still alive, but his recovery is doubt
full.
Frank M. Dallam has rendered his
resignation as confidential secretary to
Acting Governor M. E. Hay to take
effect as soon as a suitable man can be
found to fill his place.
Peter Ashley, aged 70, who is cred
tied with having driven the first loco
motive over the Northern Pacific tracks
INTO the Pacific northwest, is missing
from Spokane.
The Tieton Water Users association
met at North Yakima and rejected a
plan to raise 100000 to loan the gov
crnment for use in completing the Tie
ton project by 1911. The meeting ad
iourned with the motion before it. The
plan is one of many recently sug
gested.
The wheat crop near Adrian is near
~ all in the warehouses. The crop has
been of a good quality. About 5000
. bushels have been shipped to date an(
about $4,000 bushels remain in tn,
hands of the warehouses and farmer
Tor shipment.
w. A. Nicholas, who has been super
lntendent of Colfax schools for fy
years, has resigned, effective October l
and R. A. Payne, who has been princi
Fal of the high school since 1907, ha
been appointed.
Charles Bennett, aged IS, an old sol
, der and an old settler at Valley, wa
r thrown from a hayrake, suffering
. broken shoulder blade and arm.
n Homer L. Rouse of Garfield has jus
+ harvested from about 90 acres 100 ton
f Of hay, worth $4,000, and $500 bushel
v Of oats worth $1100, total of 1910
a from the tract. Part of the timoth
IS hay made nearly three tons to the acre
Many sales of farm personal proper
l. ty are to be held in the vicinity O
e Pullman during the next two months.
). The fair held for the past four day
Il under the auspices of the Klickits
m Fair association closed Saturday. TIL
,e fair and race meeting were a success.
e State Treasurer Lewis reports cas-
l. ON hand of $1,O43,157.
,e Thomas Haslan, editor of the Gal
IS vile Cruiser, Chehalis county, has file
is petition with the secretary of stat
ly announcing himself as an independeI
at candidate for congress in the Secon
district, to succeed the late Francis '
Cushman.
, Jean Fortier, who killed his broth,
# and sister in law in their home G
a Green Lake, Seattle, May 8, was four
10 guilty of murder in the second degre
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