Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-11
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.


nomeha which the people of the Inland
Empire may be permitted to see for
many years will be the eclipse of the
sun ON Thursday, June II.
The body of j. L. Powell of Van
couver, B. c., who wandered away from
the North Yakima sanitarium Saturday
night, was found floating in the Yakima
river Sunday.
Fruitgrowers of Columbia county
have adopted this resolution, proposed
by J. L. Dumas, president of the state
horticultural society: "We express our
disapproval of the manner Mr.. Whit
ney was thrust upon us as district fruit
inspector, without our consent or ap-
prevail, and further, that we express our
confidence in the honesty and integrity
of E. w. Alcorn."
The skipper of vessel which reached
port at Tacoma recently has caused a
stir among local members of the Ma
sonic order by exhibiting an aged Ma
son IS sheepskin apron, believed to be
1000 years old, which he found on a
Luuuuly III 1Or6lSu ldHuS.
Sunday at the Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition saw one of the largest crowds
of the week in attendance. The main
exposition halls were closed, but the
Pay Streak was running in full blast.
Band concerts furnished amusement for
those who did not care to patronize the
concessionaries attractions.
cit is not likely that the special ses-
sion of the legislature will last more
than 10 or 10 days, and as for going
over any old legislation or taking up
any new legislative work, that is hardly
possible, " says Governor NJ. E. Hay.
Principal H. M. Hart of the South
Central high school, Spokane, will be
appointed a member of the state board
of education July 1, announces Gov
ernor M. E. Hay.
What j. H. Schively, state insurance
commissioner, facetiously referred to as
his "sliding scale" of fees charged
newly organized companies will be the
principal fact against him in the i'm
parchment proceedings at the special
session of the legislature, according to
George A. Lee, assistant attorney gen.
eral, who has been working with the
investigating committee.
Fire has destroyed the old Second
regiment Washington National Guard
armory at Terry avenue and Stewart
street, Seattle.
Apparently afraid to meet the scores
of people to whom he has sold "life
investment bonds" C. H. Hesseltine,
president of the United Securities com
pany, has disappeared and temporary
receiver is in charge of his Office at
Spokane.
]. D. Farrell, mouthpiece of the Har-
riman lines in the northwest, says he
plans to have Union Pacific trains run
ming into Seattle by July 1.
Milton Newhouse won the Stearns
medal at the debating contest at Pull
man.
Sheep shearing in the Palouse section
is practically finished. The wool clip
this spring is heavier by several pounds
average than for many years, and in
some instances it is the heaviest ever
reported in Whitman county.
One of the deepest wells sunk in the
Big Bend was completed recently on
the ranch of Seth Stookey, a stock and
wheat rancher, three and a half miles
southeast of here. The well is approx
mately $50 feet deep, with water 100
feet from the surface.
Surveyor H. c. Camp, with crew.
has begun surveying allotments on the
Wapato Indian reservation, eight miles
northwest of Chelan.
Oakesdale is preparing for the larg-
est and most elaborate Fourth of July
celebration ever held in the town.
Wilbur's market day Saturday was
success from every point of view.
Fire recently destroyed many build
lngs on Tacoma avenue, Pasco-almost
an entire block. The loss is placed at
$4,000.
The supreme court has reversed the
verdict of the jury in Snohomish county
that awarded Mary NJ. Campbell a de-
cision against the Order of Washington.
an insurance organization. She sued to
collect $50 burial fees and $25 a month
for four years, and judgment was rem
dered in her favor. Her husband. while
in Bellingham, died under peculiar cir
cumstances, as an autopsy showed
that he had swallowed carbolic acid
in whisky. The coroner's verdict and
that of the jury was that he did not
"die by his own hand" or was not a
voluntary suicide" The supreme
court finds that the lower court erred
in giving its instructions to the iury
relative to voluntary suicide" and
instrueting the jury to bring in a yer.
dict for the woman if the 10 men found
he did not die by his own hand.
While working contrary to orders
his cant hook slipped and Louis Touln
aged 20, fell back into the Kettle river
at Godfrey recently and was drowned
IDAHO ITEMS.