Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-09
NORTHWEST ITEMS.
WASHINGTON, MONTANA and
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
Prom Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding Country Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

WASd1NGION STATE NEWS
Seven hundred acres of land abon+
10 miles from North Yakima has been
sold for $35O,OOQ.
The municipal election on bondino
Leavenworth for $4,000 was carried
by large majority.
Voters of North Yakima IS school dis.
trict decided Saturday to issue $4,000
worth of bonds for school purposes.
A thief got away with 81 money or
der forms recently from the Hillvard
postofice. The forms number from AZ
313 to 4s,400.
Ethel Hostetler, daughter of N. Hos
teller, farmer at Palouse, died re.
Gently as the result of burns caused bv
the explosion of lamp.
1t will be five weeks before the
census bureau is able to announce the
population of all cities and towns in
the state of Washington.
Merchants at the city market at
Spokane have made arrangements to
have band play at the new large mar
ket building every Saturday night.
The demand for grand jury at Spo-
kane has been needed by the judges of
the superior court and the investi
gators will be called together to meet
January 16.
Judge Ernest Peck of Oroville.
OkanOgan county, one of the youngest
men on the superior bench in the state.
died at Spokane Saturday morning,
after brief illness.
F. H. Hulburt, railroad man, in at
tempting to alight from train while
passing through the yards at Pasco
Saturday fell below the wheels and
both legs were cut off at the ankles.
A. Reeves Ayers, for 35 years clerk
of the United States circuit court for
the western district of Washington,
has resigned and Samuel D. Bridges
of Tacoma appointed to the position.
Property owners in residence dis
trict may, by injunction, prevent the
operation of a hospital for consump-
tives in that locality, according to a
recent supreme court discussion in a
Seattle case.
The Grand Trunk Pacific dock, the
most conspicuous object on the Seattle
waterfront and the Pacific terminus
in the United States of Canada IS new
transcontinental railroad, was dedi-
Gated Saturday with appropriate cere-
monies.
When it comes to a competition for
aged students Washington claims
world S record. It has enrolled in the
chemistry department one seeker after
learning who was 80 years of age last
August. This venerable collegian is
j. P. Frazer.
Appropriations of either $3,421 ,216
or $3,6O0,657 for state institutions un-
der its control, exclusive of the appro-
prlatiOns asked for the higher educa.
tlonal institutions, are requested of the
next legislature by the state board of
control in it's biennial report.
One person in each 23S in the state
Of Washington is insane, criminal or
ieeble-minded and a charge upon the
state. The insane and Predetermined
In private institutions and the criminals
IN the county and city jails are not in
Guided in this count by the state board
Of control.
That the o. R. & N. company was
responsible for the death of c. Roy
Lamphere, in that it left it's crossing
gates open while trains were switching
was the finding of the jury at Tekoa;
and the city was also found partially
responsible because of poor lighting
IN the vicinity of the accident.
The Washington Conservation associ-
alton, at its annual meeting in Seattle
saturday, went on record as favoring
lne utilization of forest waste as a
PRACTICAL means of conservation. 1t
was also set forth that this would open
settlement much land at present un-
available, thus tending to decrease the
cost of living.
AFTER lingering since Thanksgiving
n l0N'SSh AA4O anu uGdln LIZ IL ~
ration of North Yakima died Satur-
Jay last as the result of poisoning that
resulted from eating home-canned as
pafagus. He is the third victim, the
usaths of his daughter, Mrs. Kuehn,
slu his mOther-in-law, Mrs. Fulkerson,
having occurred November 80.
!. 10 care for the 3,845 average popula
uOn IN institutions under the state
ooo OF control, the state spent $2,311,-
soO the two years ended September 80,
sayS the boards report, This included
ipod clothing, drugs, light, heat and
salaries of officers and employees.
co.., ,uV average is $17O.55 per annum as
impaired with last years average in
''] York state of $177.53 The Wash
, as.on daily per capita cost was 46 7-1O