Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-02-05
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-Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
An epidemic of humps, which is
gradually growing to alarming pro-
portions, is sweeping among the school
children of Bellingham.
At Tacoma, while the fire depart
ment was answering a call truck was
struck by streetcar and the driver,
j. W. Taylor, was seriously inquired,
and Dan Noonan, truckman, was hurt
so badly that he will die.
While blasting rocks five miles north
of Prosser, Austin Gibbons was terri
bly, injured by premature blast.
The joint commission appointed by
the Washington and Oregon legislat-
ures have reached an agreement on the
Columbia river salmon fisheries ques-
ton. The agreement calls for a spring
closed season from March 1 to May 1,
fall closed season from August 25
to September 10, Sunday closed sea-
son from May L to August 25, the re-
peal of the two initiative laws passed
by Oregon June, 1907, and also the
mutual recognition of floating gear
licenses.
Operations have started on the model
farm, four miles north of Kiona.
By the records of the superior courts
of Spokane county for 1908, 4S0 di-
vorces were granted.
Farmers to the number of 25 or 80
Of GorHa1d bovo forr,ad tho Novo+ q
club. The object is protection against
the ravages of the little wolves.
The peach crop in the Columbia river
valley in the vicinity of Wallula has
not been injured by the late frost.
w. L. La Toilette, the fruit king of
Whitman county, states that the recent
cold weather killed all the apricots
and rs per cent of the peach buds at
his Wawawai orchards on the Snake
river.
No trace has been found of Lewis
Rummel, the Tukanon farmer who dis
appeared from the ranch of his broth
er, George Rummel, recently.
G. P. Bissett, who recently pur-
chased an orchard tract on Lake Che
Ian, is a Lincoln student, and has in
his library over 800 volumes relating
to the emancipation.
Acting under a telegraphic order
from the superintend mt, Agent George
Blake of the o. R. & N. this morning
laid off the section foreman and en-
ployes at Washtucna. All the agents
on the Cornell branch received similar
orders.
G. 7. Booth has resigned as postmas-
ter for Washtucna after eight years of
service.
The new town officers have been
giving their attention to Kidding Con-
nell of it's undesirable citizens.
The assessors of the state will urge
the legislators to increase the salaries
of assessors, making them equal to the
salaries of county auditors. Auditors
now receive $4,000 and assessors $4,000
year.
Surveyors are now approaching the
mouth of Deadman creek with an ex-
tension of the old Cox survey running
out of Colfax and terminating at Will
cox, in Whitman county. These sur
veyors have brought the line to the
north side of Snake river, at Pene-
wawa, crossed the river at that point
and now have almost reached the mouth
of the Deadman stream, which empties
into Snake river at Central Ferry, in
Garfield county.
Farmers of Columbia county, at
| asst 20 in number, will attend the
state convention of the farmers I'M
ion at Spokane, February to 9.
The new North Yakima depot will
cost 100000.
Police Chief Thomas Story of North
Yakima has issued orders that all dis
orderly women must leave town.
James Dawson, for many years one
of the best known attorneys in Spo-
kane, is dead.
There is a coal famine in Kahlotus.
Three tourist cars, Pullman sleep
er and a dining car carrying 100 or
more Spokane business and profession
al men and ministers as a bodyguard
to Billy Sunday, left Sunday night for
Olympia. Sunday addressed two mass
meetings in the Olympia theater and
spoke to a joint session of the house
and senate.
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
Sound surveyors have run a line from
Plummer, Idaho, by the way of Rock
creek, to Rockford, this state.
Two mill hands, Moros Schefin, aged
IS, and Arthur Gestland, aged 80, be-
came involved in quarrel at saw
mill near Oakville, on the west side
and Shefin seized Gestland and forced
him onto the edge of the saw. Gest
land was literally ripped open, suffer
ing terrible injury, from which he
expired in few minutes.