Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-15
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON and OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Ceuntry-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
A stock show will be held at Union
town Saturday, October 16.
Whitman Counay fair was a great
success, the average attendance being
1900.
Spokane leads the cities of the
United States in increase of building
permits for September.
II. A. Hover of Kennewick and Spo.
kane has returned from an SOO0-mile
automobile tour through Europe.
Benson Cartlich, farmer living fouI
miles east of Colfax, was badly in
cured in a runaway accident recently
Overtaken by a team running with
a load of logs, Thomas Kelly, aged AZ
years, was killed at Davenport, Friday
The supreme court in a decision holds
that the North Coast road may main.
tain mystery as to its real ownership
Milo Croker, the young vaudeville
actor who was shot by Patrolmau
Charles B. Nelson in Seattle died Sun
day. The officer claims self defense.
A. R. Cannon, aged 70 years, one OF
the pioneers of Spokane county, died
Saturday night. Mr.. Cannon came tc
Washington iii 1884 from Monmouth
lii.
Running at almost top speed around
curve on a trestle over Lake Union
at Seattle, street ear crashed into an.
other, injurins several persons Satur.
day.
With his right ribs torn from his
spine and injured internally by truck
load of logs which ran over him
Thomas Kelley died at Hunters last
Sunday.
County Clerk Cal Atkinson of Spo.
kane was indicted by the grand jury
for accepting interest ON trust funds
placed in his custody because of his
official position.
With view of making Pasco the
western terminal for its road, the
Walla Walla Traction company has
filed application for right of way in
the district near the river front.
Mel Nelson, aged 80, a brakeman
on North Coast construction train,
was crushed under derailed locomo-
tive at Granger at noon Saturday, this
being the first accident on that road.
With the going dry of the town of
Prescott there is but one saloon in
Walla Walla county outside of the city
OF that name, that being at Wallula,
an old village on the Columbia river.
In Walla Walla there are SO saloons.
From an nDguarded window of the
city hospital James Goad, police pa
troll driver, leaped to his death Satur-
day morning, at Seattle, the third pa
tient to end his life in this manner since
the new hospital was opened six months
ago.
Never in the history of the Palouse
country have grain prices varied as
little as this fall Less than 3 cents ;
variation has marked the price of
wheat in two months, and now that
there has been an advance farmers are
refusing to sell.
The steel gang on the Idaho & Wash
irgtOn Northern railroad have reached
Tiger, five miles from lone, which will
be the terminus of the road for this
year. Service into lone will be started
November l and two trains making the
round trip daily will be put in service.
The George Watson ranch, one and a
half miles from Cashmere, has been sold
for $4,000. The farm consists of 20
acres of orchard, two acres bearing and
the remainder in and year old trees.
he buyers We're l. E. Levitt and GUY
ii. Burrill of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Binding and gagging the night chief
clerk and his assistant and carving
them to an unoccupied part of the
lone highwayman robbed
the Office of the Great Northern Elk
press company at the King street sta
ton, Seattle, early Sunday morning,
securing several sacks of gold and sill
yer and large amount of paper money,
the total amount running into the thou
sands.
City charter restrictions or provisions
franchises are void accord
ing to a recent decision of the state
court in a Seattle case. The
court says THAI state laws of 1908 and
1905, which give city councils power to
grant street railway franchises and
to prescribe terms and conditions on
which street railways shall be con
are supreme and that no free
holders charter may limit or restrict
such powers.
OREGON sQUIBs.