Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
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.

w. b. Campbell OF Ioppenlsh mas IN |
vented a new wheel for generating
power. The feature of this wheel is
that in operation it is submerged in
the stream and part of its paddlers
open to receive the current, while the
others close to cut through it.
Probably one of the most methodical
prisoners ever confined in the Spokane
county Jail is Edward Scholl, convicted
Saturday of killing Henry Foulstraw
near Colbert last July.
Dennis D. Twohy, one of the best
known railroad contractors and bust
ness men in the northwest, died at his
home in Spokane Sunday afternoon.
The contract for the addition to the
Palace hotel at Pullman has been let
for ST., 900.
Reclining on his squalid couch and
inhaling the fumes of opium, Lee
Chung, IA Chinese cook of Walla Walla,
set fire to his room and persisted.
Fred Lugenbuhl, 43 years old, la
borer employed near Cashmere, com
mitted suicide Sunday by cutting his
throat.
The resignation of f. M. Denton as
manager of the Kerr Clifford company
at Waitsburg has removed from the
ranks of pioneer grain dealers of the
Inland Empire a prominent figure.
1t is reported the combine wants no
union grain, as the cold line" agents
at Washtucna decline to buy from
farmers warehouses, but decline to say
whether the concerns have entered into
an agreement.
Ephrata is to have new bank soon.
Marshal Middleton, Is year old
boy, was thrown from a wagon during
runaway near the gate of the state
fair grounds, North Yakima, and died
few minutes later.
Governor Hay has appointed Mayor
Mitchell Harris of Olympia to succeed
the late colonel Fred d. Huestis of
Olympia as member of the state cap
itol commission. The commission is to
cruise the state granted lands and sell
them to pay off the debt and build q
new 81 100000 state capitol.
William j. Bryan S day at the Alas
ka Yukon-Pacific exposition October l.
is to be made a memorable occasion
The principal feature will be Mr.. Bry
ans address to 10000 or more people
in the Natural Amphitheater.
The woodworking plant of the L
Gamer Manufacturing company, Ia
coma, was destroyed by fire Saturday
Loss, $4,000 to $4,000; insurance
81 900.
The sugar beet movement to tn,
Waverly scales has begun. Between 81
and As cars Will be taken to the scale
daily. 1t is estimated that so days will
elapse before the entire crop is moved
The Simpson Mill company of Sc
attic has purchased from the Por
Blakeley Milling company 1900 acre
of timber land in Snohomish county
located near the mill town of Bryant
for 100000 cash. The property pun
|, chased cruised recently 130,0OO,00O fee
of standing timber. Two-thirds of tn
trees are Douglas fir and the remainde
chiefly cedar.
Declaring that the defendant ha
/ waived the statute of limitations, tn
supreme court at Olympia has reverse
the decision of a lower court IN Whit
man county against w. B. Stevenson.
, Although they have traced dow
every clue, flooded the country wit
photos and descriptions, the police d.
partment of Tacoma is about read
} to admit its inability to solve thre
5 brutal but mysterious murders whic
have taken place in Pierce count
within the past few months.
e Laundrymen from Washington, Orr
$ gon and British Columbia met at Sp,
= kane this week in annual convention.
After being out for two hours I'll
jury in the case of Charley Phillips,
halfbreed, who in july 1908, shot an
killed Roll Siebert, brought in a We
; dict of murder in the second degree {
+ COnconully.
The bank clearances in Spokane f,
: the week ending Saturday were 81
907, 997, an increase of Al per cent ov,
the same week last year.
State School Superintendent Dewt
has apportioned the current scho
fund among the various counties of tn
state as follows: Adams, $5,146.1;
. Asotin, $3,5s7.92; Benton, $3,704.st
Chelan, $7,191.15; Columbia, $4,14O.5
: Douglas, $4,5O5.17; Ferry, $1,577. 81
Franklin, $1,s76.56; Garfield, $2,371.2
Grant, $4,597.3s; Kittitas, $7,9746
: Klickitat, $4,367.69; Lincoln, $1(
67O.54; okanogan, $4,497.74; Spokan
$52, Grass; Stevens, $1O,319.62; Wal
! Walla, $12,64s.93; Whitman, $19,2 1891
Yakima, 16,227.42; total, $466, 1892, s
: Rate, .016.