Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-20
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 town of Deer Park is growing
rapidly this summer.
Krupp will soon be one of the dry
towns of the county.
President Barend II. Kroeze of Whit
worth college, has resigned.
The National Bank of Palouse has
opened it's doors for business.
President Taft will visit Spokane,
September %, from a. m. to 10 p. m.
w. A. Odlum, aged SO, was fatally
injured in an auto accident recently at
Seattle.
A. H. Crow & Co. g thresher was
destroyed by fire near Oakesdale re-
Gently, due to smut explosion.
The Mabton bridge, spanning the
Yakima river just north of Mabton, was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday.
Another of the early pioneers-Mrs.
Emma Southwell-died recently at Day
ton, aged "a years, from heart disease
A guardian has been appointed for
Alexander Stewart, builder of the law
ishly elegant Stewart resident at Waits
burg.
The North Pacific saengerbund has
closed its sessions at Everett. Seattle
will be the meeting place for the saen-
gerfest in 1910.
The dead body of A. G. Michael, a
bachelor, was found lying on the floor
of his shack, about six miles north of
Colbert, Saturday.
Moro than 100000 bushels of grain
will be harvested in the vicinity OF
Davenport this year and marketed al
Davenport warehouses.
The Northeastern Washington Unio1
Veteran association s annual encamp
ment commences in Chewelah, Angus
: "a, and will end August ~.
Palouse business men have completed
the military arrangements for harves
, festival, carnival and stock show to b,
> held here September IA, Is, 16 and II
The Portland Mazamas, famou
> mountain climbing club, planted al
American flag made of bandanna hand
= kerchiefs on the summit of Mount Ba
, ker, Saturday.
, Both Spokane companies of the ma
, tional guard will be mustered out o
service within the next 80 days, as the
> are below the standard set by tn
> war department.
The H. NJ. Byllesby company of CHI
. cago has begun work ON the new powe
house for the Northern Idaho & MOI
> tana Power Co. at Newport, and grOun
> will be broken at once.
D One of the oldest hardware and in
plement houses in Whitman count
y changed hands Saturday when D.
> Anderson & Sons sold their stock 6
D. Rosalia to Aker Bros. & Paulin.
The Wenatchee business men did nj
- raise a sufficient amount of money
u cooperate with Waterville in an ele
~ trio road. Waterville will now use tt
money for a road to connect with tt
u Great Northern branch.
G The first carload of this season
u wheat was shipped from Palouse, Mo
day to Seattle. The wheat was of IL
~ forty-fold variety and was grown /
!, a j. P. Cleary, who lives a mile east
u town. The price paid to the grow
, was rs cents a bushel.
~ James Smyth of Spokane, receive
70 notice from president of the nation
association that he had been appointt
i, a member of the executive commit,
~ of the national board and for the COZ
- ing year would represent that part
40 the United States west of Chicago
The body of Ross McCord has be-
g recovered from the Columbia river, ty
~ miles south of Bissell, after havi
- been in the water two months, VIII
90 he was knocked from the deck of
- ferryboat, while he and wife We
- crossing from Stevens to Ferry count
R. v. Ia Dow, superintendent
n United States prisons, states that O
"a. of the three big government prise
80 provided for by recent act of congr
'' will be situated on McNeil's island,
n Puget sound, and where there is nov
~ federal prison far too small for
~ needs of the government.
With simple but appropriate Ct
monies the monument erected in Mo
AZ Pleasant cemetery by organized la
On in Seattle, in memory of the Is
oe known dead whose bodies were rec
~ cred from the wreck of the ill-fa
10 steamer Valencia, which was lost
the cost of Vancouver island early
s 1906, was unveiled Sunday afternC
The monument is a field stone 81
seven feet high and was erected by
labor organizations of Seattle at
- of $500.