Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-05-21
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.

ms week VIII marx IHe clooc VI IhC
Palouse schools and Is pupils will
graduate
The Sprague roller mills have closed
down, as they have ground up the sup
ply of wheat.
The mayor of Bellingham has issued
an order that all saloons and the cred
light" district must close at midnight.
At the request of the saloonkeepers
of Tacoma, the city council has abol-
ished the free lunch feature of saloons.
The Washington State Board of EN-
balmers will meet in Seattle, June IA.
Two examinations will be held at that
time.
The next annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples union of the
state of Washington will be held in
Spokane June %.
The supreme court at Olympia has
Intire, who was held at Walla Walla
for horse stealing.
Husum-The much talked-of Can
field ditch, which is to supply water
for irrigating the Lyle section, is to
be pushed to completion.
A masked man held up the Jefferson
saloon, Tacoma, recently and held eight
customers at bay while he robbed the
till and made good his escape.
At the record price of $1.05, Karl
Johnson, living four miles east of Day
ton, has sold 1900 bushels of red chaff
wheat to the Portland Touring mills.
H. o. Eames, president of the Eames
Land company, Tacoma, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded his wife and
then swallowed a quantity of carbolic
acid at Seattle.
Deputy Auditor Claude F. Gage of
Seattle Saturday issued marriage
license to Masao Kuky, Jap, aged "a
and Mayme Jeffrey, aged 81, both of
Denver, Col.
George Ingrim, 10 years old, re
Gently killed a 6OO-pound black beal
near his fathers camp, four miles
east of st. Mary's mission on the Col
vile Indian reservation.
Under the last ruling Of the inter
state commerce commission rates af
fecting Spokane will be simultaneously
announced by the railroads affected
and by the commission on June l.
While playing in the back yard a
his home near Pine City, James c
Hodgens, the 2-year-old son of Mr.. ant
, Mrs. Arthur Hodgens, fell into
= barrel sunk in spring and wa
drowned
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. ant
: Mrs. o. M. Anderson was burned t
death while playing around some burn
y bell, seven mil, west of Hatton, re
Il Gently.
e Governor Hay expresses both SUI
prise and displeasure that during hi
l. absence the legislative investigator
y committee had abandoned its origna
d plan to make special report of tn
l. insurance department.
l. The victim of conspiracy entere
It into between his wife and Charles /
,e Newcomb, a laundry wagon drive
Y. Martin Kvalshaug, 81 years old, wa
shot down about midnight, just afte
# alighting from a streetcar at Tacom
a Saturday.
X Cigarette smokers are dismayed owe
h the discovery that the new Grimm;
r code contains a paragraph which NJ
60 only prohibits the sale of cigarette
40 but makes it misdemeanor for an
IL one to be found with the "makings
,r in his possession.
The first official act of Governc
III Hay on his return Saturday was to a.
PC prove the official bond of Secreta1
n of State l. NJ. Howell, who at one
,a took office. Ben Fish was reappointC
IF assistant secretary and the others
A. the Office force are continued.
TX The postofIice at Bremerton, situate
he in building close to the Puget sour
tn navy yard, was entered recently
10. professional cracksmen, who drilled Il
as safe and took away it's strong bC
containing $4,000 worth of stamp
diamond ring valued at $3.50 al
nearly 5000 in cash.
"a The tax commission has received 7
81 ports from all express companies d
ing BUSINESS III IhlS SCaIe showing the
~ gross income for state business for Il
IA year ended March 81 last aggregate
95 $9O2,617 as against about $4,000 t
It. previous year. At the per cent t;
the companies pay $751; to the stat
The closing features of the int
scholastic meet at Pullman was he
10 in the college gym Saturday when t
H' contest for the four oratorieal med;
was won by Sprague. The first med
AS- was won by Gray Greenwood
Sprague; second, Dudley Hagan, 81
kane; third, Ortis Harris, Dayton, a
an. fourth, Allen Phillips, Prosser.
si. IDAHO ITEMS.