Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26
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.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Governor S. G. Cosgrove is improv
ing so rapidly he will be able to leave
for Washington state by May to as
sumo the reins of government is the
opinion of DR.. F. w. Sawyer.
The regular annual meeting of the
board of regents of Washington State
college will be held in Pullman April Z.
The aeroplane being built at Hatton
| by Charles A. Zornes is attracting much
attention. Out-of-town visitors are
drawn to Hatton daily. Two Seattle
men visited town today to investigate
the work.
With record of giving 10 gallons
of milk every "a hours for several
weeks, a 3-year-old Shorthorn cow
owned by A. L. McCauley of Dayton
promises to become the most famous
COW of this breed in the world. Mr..
McCauley says by April 1 the COW will
have made record of IL gallons daily.
The new depot of the Spokane, Port
land g. Seattle road at Kennewick is
now completed and in use.
Beginning March %, the single mills
will begin resuming operations and by
April / all the shingle cutting plants
in the northwest will be running.
The Spokane spring building record
is still climbing beyond all precedent.
Saturday morning the total value of i'm
provements for which building permits
have been taken out amounted to $904,-
$50.
A few minutes before the time set
for surprise party on her, Emil Carl
son IS daughter, age IL, living near
Ferndale, went for a bucket of water.
In some manner she fell into the well
and drowned. When the party of
young people arrived to surprise the
girl, they found her dead.
The little 3-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Musolf of Bellingham
was burned to death recently.
In the arrest of Joseph Gladney, j.
E. Davidson, Mrs. Grace Gilman and
H. Hardy, Sheriff R. T. Hodge of Seat
tie says he has in custody the ring
leaders of an organized band of con
fidenee operators and passers of worth
less checks.
County Auditor F. P. Green of Spo-
kane has been rendered and will accept
!, the position of chief accountant of the
commission to be selected by the gov
ernor to devise and put into effect a
uniform accountancy system through
a out the state. Bob Butler, the base
ball "fan," will probably get Greene Is
D job.
Cattlemen of Columbia county are
rounding up their herds on the winter
ranges and during the next few days
nearly 1000 head of cattle will pass
! through Dayton on their way to sum
y mer ranges in the Wenaha reserve.
; Alice Griffin and Mary Miller, Mount
Vernon girls, each 16 years of age, dis
i appeared from the University OF Puget
Sound.
:, GA mans thirst is not regulated
= by the size of the town in which hi
= happens to be Sundaying," is a senti
- ment expressed by acting Governor
o Hay in vetoing senate bill No. 81, thu
a Potter Sunday liquor license bill. He
refuses to veto clause in new crimina
y code banishing cigarettes.
= Falling rs feet and striking on hi
- head at the foot of the Great Northern
4 trestle west of Spokane, G. L. Lam
Il phere, a private in Company L of thu
Il Third infantry at Fort Wright, was in
!. stantly killed.
n The growth of population and prop
b erty values on the Yakima Indian res
ervation is shown by figures that hav'
=, just been compiled from the assessed
= valuation of the school district, whicl
Il includes the greater part of the res
a. ervation, was $453,OoO, not enough t.
% permit bonding the district for neV
"a school building. This year the as
a sessed valuation is $1,042,0S5.
n The supreme court has sustained tn
q manslaughter verdict against Charlie
Churchhill, who, October Z, 1907, sho
and killed Mary Ziegler in a saloon a
North Yakima.
Nick Petrick, convicted of murder
ing Marshall Harry Miller at Kent o
2 April 10, 1908, was sentenced at Seat
tie to be hanged at the state peniter
Is tiary at Walla Walla on May 21.