Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-03
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-Fan Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Dressing himself in his best clothes
and putting on his overcoat and rubbers,
A Ross, laborer about 80 years of age,
from jamestown, N. D., and more re-
Gently from Logan, Mont, tried to com
NIT suicide IN Spokane, Sunday.
State Senator j. d. Bassett will here
after manage his string of banks and
other business in central Washington,
from Spokane, where he now resides.
Mrs. Margaret McKibben, Mrs. E.
Bliss, Mrs. James A. Hunter and A..
Bell, conductor, were injured in col
lision of street cars in Spokane, Sun
day. The first named is serious.
The MabtonEuclid bridge was
washed out recently by high water in
the Yakima river. This bridge was in
course of construction, about three
miles east of Mabton.
Wheat bid was $1.O3 at Walla Walla.
The Inland Empire will be mart for
eastern realty buyers next spring is be-
lieved by real estate agents who have
canvassed the situation since the land
drawing last July.
Mistaking medicinal tablets the two
daysold daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. II.
Hess, residing few miles below town
at Bridgeport was accidentally poisoned
and died soon after.
The state board of land commission
ers are at Lake Chelan. They will hold
sessions to determine what price the
Great Northern interest must pay to
dam the outlet of that lake in connec-
ton with the company electric power
plans.
Ed. Hayes employed at Alfalfa was
seriously injured by heavy timber
falling on him.
The most violent gale in years swept
the lower Sound Saturday.
The weekly report of State Treasurer
Lewis shows $71O,217 cash on hand, of
which $177,619 is in the general fund.
The body of Stanley E. Wakelin, aged
26, an English remittance man and said
to be the son of wealthy lord, was
found Saturday in the brush near Sc
attic with a self inflicted bullet wound
in the temple.
d. @. Reed, superintendent of city
schools at North Yakima, has been re-
elected.
The jury to try former Adjutant Gen
eral Ortis Hamilton was secured Mon
day and the taking of evidence started
Tuesday.
Cleanup day for Walla Walla was or
dered by Mayor Eugene Taussick for
Thursday, December 2.
Senator Piles has publicly announced
he will not again be candidate.
Seattle may lose its water supply, as
the present high stage of Cedar river
threatens to break the pipe line to the
city.
The Palouse farmer has received
more money for his hogs this season
than ever before and has grown them
at less expense, because on each farm
there were several acres of heavy
wheat on the ground that the sickles
could not reach. Hogs were fattened
on this after harvest.
Peter Cahlll, resident of Waits
burg for 20 years, died recently.
The state fish hatchery has COM
pleted fish traps in the Twisp and
Methow rivers. Salmon are running well
this fall and it is thought that an
unusual amount of fish eggs will be
secured.
The Sunnyside city well has been
sunk 275 feet.
Construction work on the double
track on the Occur d'Alene division of
the Inland Empire system, extending
from Spokane to Greenacres, is be-
ing rushed.
The Spokane Dental association has
offered to treat free of charge all in
mates of charitable institutions in the
city on condition that the city bear
the expense of fitting up a room in
The city hall or other central location
for the work.
The town of Brewster is the scene
If commercial war that means much
% the development of the Okanogan
country. Three railroad systems are
'eaching after traffic, with its great
future possibilities. Two rival irriga-
ion companies are after the waters
# the Methow river for irrigating the
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