Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-07-02
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.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Bert and Rich Weber, prosperous
young ranchers of Conconully, with
their hired man, the ferryman and
20 head of horses, were drowned in
the Columbia river at Wild Goose Bill 8
ferry recently while attempting to cross
the river.
Recently Bill Allen, a notorious In
dian outlaw, recognized as one of the
worst men in the upper country, was
killed by Little Tom, another Indian,
in fight.
Water from the Mabton siphon is be-
ing used by land owners around Nab
ton and new orchards and alfalfa
fields are rapidly taking the place of
the sagebrush.
President E. A. Bryan of Washing
ton State college has bought the Star
buck electric lighting and power plant
for his son.
Francis j. D. Wolff one of the first
settlers of the northwest, died at the
Vivian ranch, near Meyers Falls, Thurs
day from senile decay.
A meeting of all old settlers of Pom
eroy and Garfield county is called for
July 10 at the courthouse in Pomeroy
to organize a pioneer association. Those
eligible must have resided in Garfield
county continuously since 1884.
NiotOr n (tolhu wool 1aS-
man, aged so years, who came to Sc
attic with his family from Quincy, Fla,
six months ago, committed suicide Sat
urday.
With the arrest near Winona of three
horsethieves, two of whom have since
confessed, the authorities have made
what they consider one of the most i'm
portant captures in recent months.
Mrs. Mary F. Weber of Tacoma, aged
81, shot herself through the right
temple Saturday.
The plant of the Tacoma Gas Light
company has been purchased by Chi
cago syndicate headed by H. M. Bylles-
by & Co.
IL ~ L 1Ou ID SCAAOuoAJ III az
his residence in Spokane.
Only bottled milk will be sold in
Tacoma hereafter
The South Tacoma car shops have
received orders to at once begin the
construction of roo freight cars for
the handling of increased business of
the Northern Pacific system.
Soliciting contributions to a fund to
make test case of the anti-cigarette
law, dealers interested in having the
measure declared unconstitutional have
placed subscription papers in 80 cigar
stands in Spokane.
The trial of Mrs. F. M. Fitzsimmons,
charged with assaulting James Null
larkey with a horse whip, was held
at Issaquah Wednesday. She pleaded
guilty and was fined $50 and costs,
which were paid.
The business men of Othello have
formed a commercial club.
Chris Schoening, a blacksmith, COM
mitted suicide recently at Seattle.
Frank Fortin, an italian foreman of
gang of Italians employed by the
city, was crushed to death in a sewer
cavern at Tacoma recently.
The annual convention of the State
Federation of Woman's Clubs, recently
held at Seattle, covered a broader and
more comprehensive scope and was at.
tended by a greater number of dele,
gates than any gathering in the his
tory of the federation. Topics of every
nature, home, civic, educational, fra.
ternal, charitable and physical, were
discussed, reports given of the prog,
ress of movements under way, and
recommendations made for future con.
sideration and action. In the closing
session the federation took a stand
against cigarettes, urging the local
clubs to action causing the enforce
ment of the new law, and also con
demned the Changing" system and
other methods of handling criminals.
Henry eraser, IS years of age
while working between the walls of a
newly finished concrete foundation al
Spokane was crushed to death recently
G. +. jackson, a young homesteadel
of the Tunk valley, was drowned il
the Columbia a short distance below
bridgeport and his body has not vet
been found. His father, who lives il
Holland, Mich, has been notified.
The secretary of the Okanogan Prof
eet Water Users assertion has issued
call for a massmeeting of water users
to be held July 7 at Omak, Riverside
and Okanogan, and a general mass
meeting to be held July II in Omak.
IDAHO ITEMS.