Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-17
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-Fall outlook IS Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

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cidentally killed at Eagle Gorge, Wash,
recently.
A Great Northern train ran into an
open switch near Leavenworth Satur.
day morning while running at the rate
of As miles an hour. No injuries were
sustained by crew or passengers.
While attempting to rescue the IA
year old son of Attorney H. H.
Humphreys from a dangerous trip in
.midstream, Jack Bushnell, a river man,
was drowned in the Columbia. river the
other day.
According to Spokane new city ordi.
nance regulating the size and specify
ing the material for construction of
buildings limit of IS stories is to be
fixed, maximum height of 200 feet be-
ing allowed.
From Olympia comes the returns of
this years school census, showing that
of the 256, 3O7 children of school age in
the state, 1919 7S5 are boys and only
1876, 522 girls. The total gain over 1908
is 1910.
Major James NJ. Armstrong, a pio-
neer of this state and we'll known
financially, died recently at Spokane.
Major Armstrong is survived by a
widow and daughter, Mrs. Donald F.
Kizer The major was born in Wash
ington, Pa, April %, 1874.
A washout occurred on the o. R. & N
railroad between Canyon and Hay sta
lions, in Whitman county, Friday after.
noon, caused by cloudburst, washing
out the track for some distance.
Wilbur has a new postmaster in J
NJ. Parrish, who has assumed his Office
Thomas j. Childs has bought the
1000 acre wheat ranch owned by w. H
Bender, Is miles west of Harrington
for $44 900.
Royal A. Martin, patient at st
Luke's hospital Spokane, committed
suicide Saturday.
A report from Goldendale says tina
E. E. Wright and four others calling
themselves the "Lucky Five" hav,
made a gold strike in Lewis count.
near the Cispus river.
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smut, burned the Walter Kenworth,
combine harvester at Pleasant View
near Dayton, Saturday, causing los
of $500, partially insured
Many students of Whitman colleg
have arrived to find rooms for tn
opening of the term Wednesday.
While playing with a handax recent
| y Gust Vogt, year old son of G
Vogt of Waitsburg, accidentally let tn
sharp blade fall on the left hand of hi
sister, 2 years younger, and the han
was severed near the palm.
During August Secretary of Stat
Howell collected $1O,35O fees, agains
$s6ss in August, 1908. There wa
$4125 collected for filing and recording
$4425 for corporation licenses, $147
automobile licenses, as compared wit
$4s9 and 1924 for certified copies.
After a search lasting almost wee
the body of 10 year old Lawrenc
Bateman, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Marti
L. Bateman, 2O14 Carlisle avenue, wa
recovered from the Spokane river
A number of farmers have begu
seeding fall wheat near Pullman.
Arrangements are being made fc
the entertainment of President w. I
Taft, who will spend the forenoon 8
North Yakima.
A $40 acre wheat farm, two mile
south of Lamont, has been sold by job
P. Ramsey for 500 900. The purchase
was William Bradley of Spokane, a
, sistant roadmaster on the Idaho div
sion of the Northern Pacific.
{ Cyrus Staples brought sack
wheat to Almira recently from his feel
near Almira, which, when tested wei
"a pounds to the bushel, the highe
O test, it is said, ever recorded of blu
stem wheat.
The Ritzville schools opened Monds
morning, with Professor J. w. Smit
-. superintendent.
September Is was the last day Fl
receiving bids for the annual big fru
=. pool of the Wenatchee Valley Fru
> Growers association. The associate
:, handled 300 cars of apples last yea
and it is expected that this year the
will be the same number, with Il
prices about 40 per cent higher.
i M. P. Mccoy, United States exal
liner of surveys, is under arrest at S
attic, charged with embezzlement
. public money, the amount said to
! more than $1,000.
e Word has been received in Spokal
h of the communication by Governor NJ.
a Hay of the sentence of Charles U. F
Y pot, convicted of the murder of N
8 Cole, from hanging to life impriso
l. ment,