Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-13
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-Eall Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The Dayton schools open Sept. 8.
The death of Levi Carter at Browns
vile, Ore, removed a prominent figure
from the ranks of Columbia county
pioneers.
At Pasco the anti-cigarette law is
practically dead.
A. j. Marsh, II. Wolf and J. w. Gar
lington, members of the Soldiers home
at Orting, have petitioned the state leg
islature to sanction the removal of the
home from Orting to Port Orchard.
Three buildings, valued at $4,000,
were destroyed at Anatone recently
The loss was partially covered by in
surance. The fire originated in a pile
of rubbish.
Thomas Connolly, the forger, who
was captured at Spokane, was given
from one to 20 years in the state peni-
Tertiary.
a new gusher has been tapped at
College Place, near Walla Walla, yield
ing flow of 500 gallons minute.
The Telloa city hall is now completed.
1t contains Offices fire department, Jail
and council chamber.
Several steam threshers will begin
the season s run this week around Pull
man.
Senator w. L. Jones has departed
for home, and S. H. Piles will Join the
national waterways commission at
Strasburg, Germany, in September.
Half of the little town of Snoqual-
ME, situated at the falls of the same
name, famous for their beauty, was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday, entailing a
loss of 100000. Snoqualmie is IS miles
from Seattle on the Northern Pacific
branch
Mrs. j. A. Bailey committed suicide
at Spokane Saturday
That unit No. 1 of the Tieton project,
near North Yakima, will have Iaterals
built and water on the land ready for
the rnachers by next spring is the an
nouncement of +. 2. Newell, chief Of
the United States reclamation service.
Lake Union shore lands, Seattle, two
thirds of which are submerged or semi
submerged, and with an appraised valu-
alton of not more than $4,000, sold on
the courthouse steps at public auction
this morning for 100000.
From noon Friday to midnight, when
the weekly close season commenced,
1,739,O00 sockeye salmon were taken
from traps and by seiners and landed
at the canneries of Bellingham, Blaine,
AnacOrtes and the lower Fraser. Rec
ords of all previous catches have been
broken.
Every combine in Asotin county is
now in the fields and will operate for
the next three weeks. The reports are
that the grain on Asotin fiat is aver.
aging 35 bushels
Spokane Odd Fellows are planning to
charter a special train to attend the
Sovereign Grand Lodge meeting of the
order which convenes in Seattle from
September 20 to 25.
The sheepmen of Asotin county as
well as other counties are this year
keeping close watch for signs of for
est fires
captain Charles N. Clark, until re-
Gently janitor at the courthouse at Spo-
kane, died yesterday at Wayside, Wash,
at the age of SO years.
l.. Darneille, pioneer of Whitman
county, aged SO, died recently. Mr..
Darneille lived for years on farm be-
tween Oakesdale and Rosalia.
Two masked men boarded an. out
ward lake trolley car at Tacoma re,
Gently and held up the crew and three
passengers, securing approximately $50
in cash and two gold watches.
1t is said work On the Lake Wash
ington ship canal designed to give Sc
attic fresh water harbor will be be-
gun within 60 days
Mrs. Anna Quick, a pioneer of New
port died at SScs..ss from cam
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