Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-10
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-Fall outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
The fruit crop in both Stevens and
Ferry counties this year will be light,
owing to the large number of trees
which were killed during the past win
ter, states Fruit Inspector A. F. Crow
ell.
Until the epidemic of cholera is I'M
der control the quarantine placed upon |
hogs of Yakima county Friday by |
Deputy State Veterinarian C. B. Jones
will not be removed. All sick hogs
will be killed.
The attorney general rules that I'M
der the new marriage law licenses will
cost So, being So for issuing the license
and ST. for filing the certificate with
the county clerk.
His jacket sleeve catching in the
shaft of a threshing machine, John
Galnesser, an IS year old boy, had his
arm torn from its socket near Colfax,
Friday. Fears for the injured boy s
life are entertained
Robert w. Hill, real estate dealer
in Seattle, has been selected as super
visor of the census for the First Wash
ington district, which is composed of
the counties of King, Kitsap, Snohom-
ish, Skagit, Island and San Juan.
Two trains entered opposite ends of
block at the same instant and Engi-
neer Warren of Tacoma received fatal
injuries in head-on collision at Olym-
pia Saturday at east portal of tunnel.
The weekly report of State Treasurer
Lewis shows 81 ,237 ,453 cash on hand.
The Ladies Floral association of Pa
louise has announced its annual flower
show to take place Saturday, Septem-
Der 1S, in the Helm building, on West
Main street.
J. J. Browne, pioneer capitalist of
Spokane, was injured in runaway
Saturday night
Taking of evidence on Spokane s
supplemental petition to the interstate
commerce commission to secure the in
clusion of all commodities in the re-
duction ordered by the commission last
spring will begin in that city before
Commissioner c. A. Prouty on Septem-
Der 30. The entire commission will sit
there on October and arguments in
the Spokane case will be presented
then
The largest attendance in the history
of the school is expected at the Ellens-
burg Normal this year.
A fire originating in the kitchen of
the Crescent building, Oroville, Satur-
day, came near making a clean sweep
of the northern part of the business
section
This week and the harvest will be
over in the Wilbur section. Thresh-
ing, however, is still in full blast and
will not be over for two weeks.
Long distance telephone connections
have again been established by the
Reardan exchange, through the local
and long distance telephone company,
and the Interstate Telephone com,
pany.
Thirty-six carloads of fine cattle
were shipped from Coulee City to Sc
attic Saturday morning. This ship
ment will probably end the shipping
of cattle for this season.
State Pure Food Inspector Adams has
filed information against three butch
ers at North Yakima for using preserv
alive in hamburger steak.
General James M. Ashton of Tacoma
is the Pierce county candidate before
the second congressional district con
vention.
Saturday afternoon R. c. McCroskey
called a mass meeting of Whitman
and Latah county farmers to order al
Garfield, the chief object being to lay
the foundation for an effective cam
. paign against smut. The intention nov
is to stimulate the wheat growers By
circular letter to every farmer in tn,
community to make notes of every
thing done by him to prevent smut, t,
keep careful record of the same, ant
of the results of those efforts, as show
by his crop, and to give an account o
his stewardship at the next annua
meeting.
But for the heroic work of B. F
, Knapp, motorman with the Spokan
Traction company, two lives woul
probably have been lost in fire whic
Quilted the two upper floors of tn
Karney sanitarium, Spokane, at abou
O'Clock Saturday night.
The Sisters of Charity would bull
new hospital at North Yakima som
time within the next Is months.
With eight warehouses, the Farmers
Warehouse company thought it was full
equipped for all storage at Waitsbur
that would be needed. However,
) finds every house full and overfowine
5 A. Peterson, aged 80 years, wa
drowned in Lake Washington, near Fol
!. tuna park, Seattle, Sunday, while tn
people on the shore refused to go t
his aid, thinking that his calls for he'll
< were meant only to brighten them.
8 At Hoquiam the single weavers
r union has decided to strike in respons
!. to the refusal of the mills to increas
3 wages. All single mills in Chehali
county will be affected.
IDAHO ITEMS.
The worst tragedy in the history o
, BoyiIl the terminal of the Wasbino