Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-05-28
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-Spring Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

1t is understood that the Great
Northern officials are favoring making
Wenatchee the division point instead
of Leavenworth
"Jack the hugger," who has terror
ICED women on the streets in Tacoma
for the last two months by springing
upon them on the sidewalk, has been
identified in the person of George Han
son, aged FL years, teamster for q
local furniture company. He was ar
rested last night clad in a fantastic
woman g garb, which he said he had
donned as a joke on his sister. He ad.
mitted to the police that he was "Jack
the hugger."
Permanent organization Of district
10, Washington State Christian En-
deavor union, was perfected . at the
meeting at Spokane Saturday and ar
rangements made to hold regular con-
ventions, similar to the one now being
held, every two years. The officers
elected are:
G. F. Cowan, Spokane, president.
A. b. Carr, Potlatch, vice president.
Miss Minnie E. Taylor, Latah, secre-
tary.
Parry BOrgstrom, Cheney, treasurer.
H. s. Palmer and A. E. Bass of
Charleston held a meeting Monday and
organized a fruit growers association
for Asotin.
Governor Hay has appointed Ben
Sheets additional superior Judge of
Chehalis county, as authorized by the
last legislature.
The summer science school for teach
ers will open in Washington State col
lege Monday, June 81, for six weeks.
Arrangements are being made to give
a wider range of instruction for teach
ers than ever before and the prospects
are good for large attendance.
The Ritzville Warehouse company
has let a contract to s. s. Schuler for
the construction of one of the largest,
IT not the largest, grain elevators in
Adams county The elevator will have
a capacity of over 10000 bushels.
May Kruger of Seattle has been ap-
pointed a member of the national com
mittee of the American Humane So
ciety.
eyes, the failure of the PaIouse
State bank of Palouse will bankrupt
me, but l have made it a rule of my
life to pay every cent / owe, and 1
shall try to settle all indebtedness on
the present catastrophe with the finan-
cial institution with which 1 was for
merly Connected said Deputy State
Bank Examiner H. M. Boone of Pa.
louise.
DR.. Barkley, the new Presbyterian
moderator, has notified Presbyterians
of this state that he will visit Seattle
about June 10.
The surveyors employed by the Bry-
ant Land company of Seattle to find a
feasible route from Kamiah to timber
holdings being purchased by A. M.
lngersoil, vice president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, have
located line with maximum grade
of per cent, the road to be only 16
miles long, in order to tap the timber
holdings of the Milwaukee official.
With the arms folded and one leo
crossed over the other as though some
one had placed the limbs in that posi-
ton, the body, with a bullet in the
brain, of Anton Mortenson, a farm
hand reported as missing from the G.
Edberg dairy farm, five miles north of
Spokane, was found in a lonely spot
near the farm recently. It is now be-
heved that Mortenson was murdered.
Joseph H. STORES, Harvard graduate,
brilliant campaign orator and lawyer of
Lincoln, Neb., is under arrest at Sc
attic as fugitive from justice. Stores,
who was known in Seattle as Joseph
M. Mccarthy, is wanted in the Ne
braska city to explain the disappear.
ance of $4,000 in cash and diamonds
valued at $1,000, which were placed in
his care when he was appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Mrs. Helen M.
Horn, an aged widow, who died under
somewhat peculiar circumstances.