Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-07-23
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-Spring Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Records for fast harvesting in south
eastern Washington this season were
broken one day last week when steam
threshing outfit, operated by Josh
Barnes in Spring valley, near Waits
burg, cut and threshed 194S sacks of
barley between sun-up and dark. The
record is remarkable on account of the
necessity to move the machine twice
during the day and that two headers
supplied the grain for the run. 1t goes
80 bushels to the acre.
J. w. Thompson, superintendent of
parks at Seattle, with his wife and two
daughters, had miraculous escape
from death Saturday afternoon while
driving in the automobile near La
Grande. The car ran off the mountain
road and down an embankment so feet
high. Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson were
both painfully injured, but their two
daughters escaped by jumping from
the automobile.
At the recent meeting of the Wash
ington State Pharmacists association
at Seattle, James W. Macarthur of
Spokane was elected secretary and DR..
w. M. Beach of Shelton president.
Now that the issues have been Joined
in the Schively impeachment case and
the preparations for the trial are under
way it is possible to make same esti-
mate of the time required for the trial,
and the cost of the trial to the state.
AS calculated by men in touch with the
situation the trial will take from six to
IS days after~the legislature recon
venes, and the total cost to the state
of getting Schively out of office, if
indeed it succeeds, will be between $780,
600 and $4,000.
Reports from the Palouse and Big
Bend wheat countries say that harvest
ing will begin there in about two or
three weeks, and the crop prospects are
splendid. Hay harvesting already has
begun in the country about Walla
Walla, but little wheat has yet been
cut.
Ed Powers has invented and applied
for patent on a grain sacker. The
mechanicism does away with the hand
ling of sacks by hand and saves the
labor of one man. The continuance is
said by machine men to be great sue
cess an dto do away with all handling
of sacks by hand.
John P. Ramsey, farmer living two
miles south of Lamont, has purchased
for $4,000 the "Hoodoo Billy" place,
which adjoins the town of Sprague on
the east.
At its meeting Saturday the farmers
union at Walla WalIa ratified the ac-
ton of the Pullman convention, agree
ing to sell no wheat except at gross
weight, that is, including the weight
of the sack, and, further, it chose H.
H. Mclean, president of the Walla
Walla local, as agent for southeastern
Washington in marketing the crop.
County Auditor J. P. Buchet has
completed his financial exhibit for Gar
field county for the year ending June
80. The number of acres assessed is
305,701. The value, including improve
ments, is $3,O6O,933. The value of city
lots, including improvements, is $417,-
sos, and of all taxable property $685.
sol. The aggregate value of all taxable
property in the county is $4,267 ,539, as
equalized by the county board. AS
equalized by the state board it is re-
duced to $4,1O2,576. The unsolicited
taxes on July 1 amounted to $21 OFT,
and the taxes collected on the 1908
roll amounted to $66,5S5.
On board the steamer Milwaukee,
running up the Occur d'Alene river,
Arthur B. P. Smith, wanted at Spokane
for the killing of. Eth Hoffman near
Fuher IS mill ON Beaver creek, 10 miles
north of the city, July 10, was captured
Saturday night by Sheriff Bailey of
Shoshone county, Idaho, and Deputy
Sheriff Matt Ryan of Spokane county.
The Washington wheat crop for 1909
will be 100000 bushels greater than
that of 1908, and within 100000
bushels of the bumper crop of 1907, &C.
cording to preliminary estimates made
by Chief Inspector King. Although the
official crop estimate will not be made
by the commission until some time next
month, Mr.. King thinks this years
crop will total 100000 bushels,
Prosser will ship larger quantities of
wheat this year than was anticipated.
according to the reports of wheat grow
ers of the Horse Heaven and Rattle
snake hills, who have started to mar
ket their crops.
Bootlegging received its first jolt at
Dayton Saturday, when George Thomas,
arrested for unlawfully selling LIQUOR,
changed his decision to stand trial and
pleaded guilty. The minimum fine of
$50 fixed by the council was imposed,
which, with costs, amounted to $55.
IDAHO ITEMS.