Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-12
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.

WA0E14NGION STATE NEWS
Colonists are now arriving In this
state.
William Brown, age? IS years, COM
mitted suicide at Aberdeen by taking
gas.
The home of Mrs. A. Fletcher, on Col
lege hill at Pullman, was destroyed by
fire recently.
Hamilton Dew, former resident of
Missoula, Mont, was killed in Seattle
by falling from trestle.
Edward l.. Allen, who is working
for the Kettle River Mining company
Laurier, was seriously injured re-
Gently.
The 2-year-old son of c. M. Evans, a
merchant of Charleston, was killed Sat
urday evening by falling from it's high
chair.
Ten new passenger engines have been
ordered by the Spokane, Portland & Sc
attic Railroad company for use between
Portland and Spokane.
Indian Gus who, it is supposed, was
intoxicated and went to sleep on the
track, was killed by a train a mile
south of Northport last week.
With but little opposition the bill
appropriating $4,000 for the improve
ment of the upper Columbia river
above Bridgeport has passed the SEN
ate.
The roundhouse of the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle railroad company in
Vancouver is now being used. The cost
of this roundhouse, storehouse, coal
chutes and machine shops will amount
to more than 100000.
Donald F. Kizer has been appointed
chief deputy prosecuting attorney FOL
Spokane county. He will take the
place of J. Stanley Webster, who has
just been appointed superior Judge of
Spokane county by Acting Governor
Hay.
One of the highest figures Of eff
cheney ever made in target practice
has been reached by the Eighty-ffth
company coast artillery corps, at Fort
Casey, Wash, according to a state.
ment given out by the war depart.
ment.
Lewis M. Ringer, aged "a, pioneer
of the Inland Empire and early-day
legislator of Washington territory, died
at Spokane Sunday. He was "a years
of age and for the last 10 years had
been a resident of Pullman, where he
was buried Tuesday.
The plat of survey of township IS,
north, range Al, will be fled April IA
in the Office of the register of the land
office in Spokane. Applications for en-
try may be made afte. the date OF the
fling of the plat. Actual settlers and
residents will be allowed three months
from April IA to offer their filings.
Extravaganza ran riot in the senate
Saturday and that body passed bills
appropriating 100000 for state roads
$5s5,Ooo for state aid roads, $4,000
for Improvement of the upper CoIum.
bia river, $4,000 for improvement of
the Puyallup river and $4,000 for at.
torney's fees in the boundary suit 1iti
CATION, increasing the salary of the
supreme court reporter from $4,000 to
$4,000 year and creating a commission
of insurance men to prepare new code
of insurance laws.
Senator Paulhamus has introduced a
resolution asking for the appointment
of special investigating committee to
investigate the Office of Insurance Com
missioner j. H. Schively and covering,
in general terms, all other state offices,
and will back it by preferring direct
charges against the conduct of the in
surance commissioner IS Office under
schively and Secretary of State Sam
Fl. Nichols, charges supported by the
written statements of persons who
have had dealings with the Office.