Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-18
NORTHWEST NOTES
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
And WASHINGTON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country Numerous Acct
dents ane Personal Events Take
Place Business Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

During 1909 there were 80 cars of
hogs shipped from Uniontown, IL cars
of cattle, three cars Of horses and one
car of sheep.
S. Mcdonald, an aged farmland of
Nelson, hanged himself in the barn at
the rear Of the Nelson market re-
Gently.
C.A. McCabe, the oldest settler of
Garfield county still living in the
county, is in serious condition from
ptomaine poisoning caused by canned
salmon.
The farmers of Rockford report crop
conditions the best ever at this time
of year. More wheat was sown last
fall than usual and it has not suffered
from freezing.
Charles Favia, rancher living near
Chelan, Wash, committed suicide re-
Gently by turning ON the gas in a
room which he was occupying in a
lodging house conducted by his wife
an Seattle.
Waitsburg local No. l. Farmers Edu-
cational and Cooperative union, have
had carload of -four ground by Cor
bett Brothers of Huntsville. Farmers
say by this method they gain one sack
OF Hour Of rs pounds on every barrel
+. i. Mcneil, well known printer
of Spokane, has purchased the Lehman
Hot Springs in the Blue mountains in
Oregon for a consideration of about
$4,000 Ten thousand dollars will be
spent on an automobile stage and other
improvements.
William Jones of Bales & Jones, cat
tlemen Of Grangeville, who last sum
SneT bought a stock ranch in the Big
Hole basin, in Montana, where they
nave already shipped several trainloads
of cattle, is here again arranging for
the purchase of several head more.
Robert Mechanic, middle aged man,
died recently at North Yakima as the
result of being run down by train
an the Northern Pacific yards. Both
aegs were cut off and he was otherwise
badly smashed up. Mechanic has been
IN the employ of the reclamation serv-
ice, Nbut nothing is known of him here.
The search for Mrs. Alice Eaton, who
so mysteriously disappeared last week
from the Odd Fellows home in Walla
Walla, was given up 1t is thought if
the body is in one of the ponds of the
city or in one Of the pools of Mill
creek it may rise to the surface, and
at is felt that any further search of
she country is useless.
Prosecuting Attorney c. A. Pettiiohn
of Lincoln county has submitted his an.
nual report to Governor Hay The
total number Of criminal cases in the
superior court last year was SO, and
of this number there were 20 convic-
tions, with only two acquittals. Four
cases were dismissed before coming to
trial and three cases were pending
January l.
There are fewer empty houses in
Dayton than for 20 years, at this sea-
son, according to property owners
This condition exists despite the fact
Hhat 1909 was record breaker in point
of the number of new dwellings
erected. In view of the scarcity of
houses this spring is expected to be
unprecedented in building activity.
Prosecuting Attorney Campbell fled
Snformation in the superior court at
MOntesanO recently, charging William
Gohl, agent of the Sailors union at
Aberdeen, with the murder of Charles
Hedberg on the night of December %,
Hast. The information follows the
asual form and alleges that Gohl killed
Hedberg with revolver. It does not
name the place where the crime was
committed.
At the annual meeting of the
Yakima County horticultural union re-
Gently it was decided to erect a new
$4,000 warehouse to practically double
the capacity of their plant and also to
purchase $500 site. Reports pre-
scented showed that liz cars of produce
aggregating II5,Os9 packages of all
Kinds had beea shipped from North
Yakima in 1909. This is falling off
from the previous years. mark because
of the short crop.
More than two miles of plank side
walk has been built in Oroville this
spring, a $4,000 city hall is to be con-
structed, the streets have been sur
Eeyed preparatory to grading, and the
city council has passed an ordinance
calling for an election to bond the city
for $4,000 for more efficient water
system. The city attorney has been
asked to draw up two ordinances to
provide for a poll tax and an occupa-
tiOa tax.
The state railway commission has
adopted rule regarding railroad cross
ings of highways that will be enforced
thereafter that steam or electric line
asking permissions to cross a highway
must, at its own expense, so grade the
road as to give it level grade at all
grade crossings for a distance of 90
feet each side of the center line of the
track, and that the grade of the high
way approaching the crossing shall be
graded to not exceed per cent unless
greater grade now exists on the