Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-19
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.

A railroad agent has been installed
at Irby, six miles east of Krupp.
George T. Crane of Spokane has pur-
chased the Brewster nurseries of w. j.
Doust, also of Spokane, for $4,000.
The jury in the case of Joshua Klein
at Tacoma brought in compromise YER
dict of guilty of an assault with
deadly weapon with intent to do bodily
harm, and recommended him to the
clemency of the court.
Water was tapped this week in the
fifth artesian we'll on the Blalock fruit |
farm at Walla Walla. 1t flows about
3 900 gallons a minute and is larger |
than other wells sunk on the farm. The |
fountain pitches eight feet into the air
in a stream 10 inches in diameter.
Fire in the Oroville Lumber company
stable destroyed the stable, all the
dressed lumber 100000 shingles and 10
tons of hay. The barn and contents
were valued at $4,000, with no insur-
ance. The Office and livery barn saved
by the chemical engine and bucket bri-
gade.
Thirteen spars for Emperor Will
liam's new racing yacht have been
shipped to Hamburg from Hoquiam.
j. B. Yerger, an Oregon lumberman,
has purchased the plant of the insolvent
Everett Lumber company at Everett
from the receiver for $4,000, and oper
atoms at the long idle mill are to be
resumed Immediately.
Emmett Bagley, a patient at the
Steilacoom insane asylum, suicided re-
Gently.
Word has just come from Washing
ton, D. c., that the reclamation service
has taken action with regard to al
legged locators, who have been locating
homeseekers on land withdrawn from
entry at North Yakima. The machin-
cry of the government has been set to
work and the practice probably will
be stopped very quickly.
Patsy Jonas, we'll known sprinter,
was arrested recently at Colville, on
the charge of having robbed the safe
of the Colville feed store of $50. He
Immediately confessed to the robbery.
| Auul6 OSuHlGy al 1uuIduy living Will
in few miles of Renton, Wash, where
she was born, died last week after
living 100 years.
A company has been organized to
build cold storage plant at Lind.
Whitman county's fourth grand jury
since 1899, convened by order of Judge
Garfield March 2, Saturday made its
final report and was discharged. AS the
result of the deliberations 80 true bills
were found.
The Mabton siphon, which has been
under construction for nine months, is
finished. This siphon is numbered
among the great engineering feats OF
the west. The water is taken from the
Sunnyside canal and runs on a gradual
incline almost three miles to the Yak
ina river. There it makes a sudder
drop of 1875 feet. The water is ther
run under the Yakima river, distance
of $50 yards, with a pressure of tons
; on the walls of the siphon. The ex
posed parts are all constructed of ce
ment pipes, five feet in diameter. The
completion of this siphon brings large
tract of irrigable land under cultivation
At a recent meeting of the Yakima
Horticultural union, President w. N
Irish was elected general overseer anC
Ray Paddock sales manager. The off
GERS were elected because of the resigna
ton of E. E. Sampson, general manager
who leaves here April to become man
ager of the Okanogan Fruit union O.
Vernon, B. G.
The eleventh legislature authorized
the expenditure or disbursement of So,
565,290, as compared with 1884, 349 ap
propriated for all purposes by the legis
l. lature of 1907 and 1868, 300 in 1905
In addition, this legislature has author
lied the sale of the capitol land gran
for the erection of new capitol a
Olympia according to- plans which i
was estimated in 1895 would have cos
a million. While no recent estimat
has been made, it is probable that tn
cost of the building now would excee
a million and half and perhaps reac
two millions.
Judge yesterday of Tacoma issue
the call for grand jury to meet Nor
day, April 5, to investigate the Jamie
son charges against Mayor Linck an
Chief of Police Duley in connectio
} with the operation of the restricted di'
l. trict and to conduct an inquiry int
municipal affairs in general.
l. A. Horton, a poor man, recent a.
l. rival at Tacoma from the east, has T,
ceived the news that his share of a 81
4 s estate was $4,000 in cash, whic
would be Immediately sent him.
a. Plans for the new $4,000 knights {
Pythias building which is to be erecte
E. at Spokane are nearly completed.
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