Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-03
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.

committed suicide at Seal Rock, near
Olympia, recently.
The bodies of p. ]. Burns and Miss
Maud Parker, drowned at Liberty lake
last Sunday, were recovered.
The Palouse Hardware and Imple-
ment company's large store at Palouse
was recently burglarized of $3.50 worth
of cutlery.
Bowman Espey, living near Palouse
has threshed his crop of college hybrid
wheat No. 1913, and got an average of
As bushels an acre
Fire that broke out in the old west
ern car barns at Hoquiam Saturday,
destroyed eight buildings and did dam
age to the extent of $4,000, partially
insured.
A dangerous forest fire is raging
near the town of Woodland, near Ia
coma, and threatens to destroy the
Long & Hill Logging company's camp
and other valuable property.
Fire, starting, it is believed, from
oiled cloths which had been used in
polishing floors, destroyed the $4,000
residence of Henry Vincent, together
with furniture, etc, valued in all at
$1,000.
Mrs. Susan Jones, who was perhaps
Asotin county's first white settler, com
ing to this part of the state during the
year 1875, and who has lived at Aso.
tin during all of that time, died Sat
urday.
In attempting to board the caboose
of freight train which was backing
into the o. R. & N. yard at Tekoa,
Robert Mortimer slipped and fell, and
his right leg was run over by one of
the trucks
From 2 o clock Sunday morning until
dawn the town of Goldendale was
threatened with destruction by fire
which started in the Armory building,
owned by N. B. Brooks. Total loss is
about 100000
M. t. Akers, assistant professor of
electrical engineering in Washington
State college, and Miss Helen Fairfax
Rogers, daughter of the late John r.
Rogers, formerly governor of Washing
ton, were married in Seattle, Monday
afternoon.
One life was lost, 10 horses were de-
stroyed and a block of frame buildings
on Western avenue, between Univer-
sity and Seneca streets, Seattle, was
wiped out in fire Sunday. The body
has not been identified. The property
loss is less than $4,000
Difficulty is being experienced by
the contractors working on the Con
nell-Adrian cutoff west of Hatton,
Wash, in keeping men ON the work,
as the soil where they are working is
so light that the workmen are almost
sutfocated when they work,
Attorney De Wolf of Tacoma and
Judge j. w. Robinson of Olympia, it is
expected, will be called upon by Attor-
ney General Bell to show cause WHY
they should not be punished for con-
tempt of court in making charges
against the supreme court of the state
of Washington.
Governor Hay has appointed Kate
Turner Holmes of Seattle, Senator ].
ID. Bassett of Ritzville, w. E. Henry
of Seattle, and F. F. Hopper, of Ia
coma, members of the advisory board
of the state library commission.
Their terms will expire on August 81.
1913. Kate Turner Holmes is reap.
pointed.
Miss Maude Stearns, who was partial
ly paralyzed recently by an electric
shock received while using a telephone
IN her home is reported extremely weak
at Tacoma and in a much worse con-
dition than at any time since the acct
dent. The young woman has no feel.
ing in either her left arm or left leg,
and the numbness appears to be spread
ing rather than decreasing.
Risley 6 Rowe, proprietors of the
Electric flour mills at Palouse, have
dissolved partnership. J. M. Rislev,
the senior member, taking over the
interest of his partner. The deal rep
resents $4,000. A valuable farm of
100 acres south of Palouse, owned by
MI Risley, was traded in as part of
the consideration. C. A. Rands, the
head miller, and Oliver Heitzman, also
an employee, bought an interest in the
mill.
At Trinidad, serious freight wreck |
occurred Saturday between freight
train westbound and work train load |
ing gravel. The work train pulled up |
the main track and placed torpedoes
and hagman, but the freight was
unable to stop and crashed into the
work train five or six cars behind the
engine, clearing the track of the ears
and the work engine, then leaving the
track itself. The engineer resigned bv
wire.
Friday the senate committee on ir.
rigation visited a government project
completed and in operation, that in the
Sunnyside valley, and Saturday the par
ty inspected canal under construc.
ton, the TetOn, west of North Yakima.
First driving over the lands to be ir-
rigated by the Tieton, the senators
then visiting the main construction
samp in the TetOn canyon, and had