Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-22
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON and UREGON.
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.

WA064NG1ON STATE N6WS.
The Wilbur high school now issues
a paper.
The Odessa Telephone company has
added 80 new phones.
Wheat has taken jump at Mohler,
the price now being 30 cents.
Whitman county farmers are getting
out of debt at lively rate this fall.
Completed, the new school building
at Washtucna has been turned over to
the district.
Last Saturday Henry Fields, Great
Northern brakeman, was killed in an
accident near Winchester.
In the railroad yard at Leavenworth
early Saturday morning two engines
met head on, both being badly wrecked
The mystic order of Enakops will
open the National Apple show at Spo-
kane with a street pageant on the
night of November Is.
The 3-year-old son of Dan Kidwell
met a tragic death Saturday near his
home at Peola, He was riding ON load
of hay and fell under the wheels.
The convention of the State w. c. T..
u, which closed Friday evening at
Spokane, was an interesting one and
has aroused new enthusiasm among its
members.
E. A. Carpenter, aged ~ years, a
wealthy retired tanner of the Kittitas
valley, is lost in the mountains near
the head of Wilson creek, 25 miles from
Ellensburg.
The Colfax -four mill, owned by G..
H. and II. H. Warner, has been sold
to Mark P. Miller of Moscow and c..
E, Wood of Genessee, who will take
charge October 1s.
Joseph Nessell, who has fve-acre
bearing orchard near Wenatchee which
has produced heavy crop of Winesap
apples, expects to show a carload at
the National Apple show at Spokane.
The highest price ever paid for land
in Garfield county was marked Satur-
day when Charles Watson bought 40
acres, three miles north of Kirby, from
J. T. Mcqueen and the heirs of Eliza
Mcqueen, for $4,000, or $50 an acre.
James Warmoth has sold his home
and orchard tract at the edge of Gar
field and, with Mrs. Warmoth, will
| spend the winter, in Portland. Later
he expects to make his home at Hood
, River.
Sunday schools of North Yakima
! paraded in that city Saturday 1900
strong in procession over three blocks
: long. The occasion was the last day
of the county Sunday school conven
ton.
The attorney general now rules that
where the court appoints an attorney
to defend prisoner charged with &
state offense the county, not the state
must pay the statutory allowance Of
l $40 day attorney fees.
Tacoma Saturday adopted the com
: mission form of government by a VOTE
I, of about Az to 1. The new chartel
provides for the election of a mayor
four councilmen and comptroller, ant
Q the first election will be held mex
9 April
At the home for veteran soldiers a
Orting there are now registered Go
9 inmates and there are 420 at the in
d stitution, the balance being out at thi
time on furlough In a very shor
time some $50 to 200 of the veteran
will be removed to Port Orchard.
!. The Franklin county organization o
Q the Cornell farmers unions held
picnic and basket dinner Saturday. TIL
feature was the discussion of the mai
keting of the wheat grown by the farm
= ers and the cheapest way of handlin
= the crops.
Lum Sickles, an alleged gambler, n
:, Gently discharged from the county jai
: climbed to the top of telephone pol
!, at North Yakima recently, and, shou
= ing the words, "This world is not fl
10 me-" dove to the street. He struc
on his head, breaking his neck, an
a died without regaining consciousness
- At the recent bar examination, 4
e of the SO who took part in the test
were successful and were granted pc
= mission to practice law before tt
- supreme court of this state. In ever
= instance the applicants were men, NJ
=. woman seeking admission to the bi
at this time.