Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
NORTHWEST NOTES
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
and WASHINGTON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

w E4N444ING OH i 1N4Ss
The oldest woman of the Occur
'Alene tribe of Indians died at the
age of 112 years, recently, on the res
ervation near Rockford. She was the
mother of Fat Anque, Spotted Louie
and Mrs. Susan Reaquis, the latter hav-
ing recently died, aged 10.
The wheat convention which closed
Saturday in Pullman was one of the
best in the history of the association
and was attended by large number
and greater per cent of farmers.
II. B. Queener, aged 70, one of the
pioneers of the Palouse river country
in Idaho, died recently.
The special election held in We
natchee for the purpose of voting OF
the issuance of $4,000 in bonds result
ed in vote of 81 for and against
This money will be used for refunding
city warrants and also to carry on pro
posed municipal Improvements.
The Oroville city council has author.
lied the erection of two-story con.
crete city hall to cost $4,000.
Because of scarcity of live stock, the
retail price of all cuts of beef in the
local markets has advanced ~ cents
pound, and another rise is looked for
within two weeks.
Sheriffs of Washington met in North
Yakima Tuesday for three days SEES
sion.
The Knights of Pythias of Pasco have
decided to build a home for the local
lodge. The proposed building will be
erected on the lodges property on
Third and Lewis street and will cost
$4,000.
The farmers of the Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho unions met at the Walla
Walla meeting this week.
C. NJ. Fassett has been elected presi-
dent of the Spokane Chamber of Com
merce
The three small children of Mrs
Oscar Backman, living at Winlock, neal
Chehalis, were incinerated in a fire
that destroyed the Backman home al
Winlock recently. The origin of the
fire is not known.
Of the 4S2 applicants for teachers
certificates who took the recent exam
nations 70 were natives of Washington
As were born in Iowa, 80 in Illinois
81 in Wisconsin, 80 in Missouri, % il
Nebraska, % each in Ohio and. Mich
gan, 81 in Kansas, 10 in Indiana, fou,
in Oregon, 10 were foreign born, 1;
did not state their nativity and thu
others were natives of 81 other state
of the Union.
L. w. Soth, proprietor and editor O.
the Kennewick Courier, died recently o
typhoid fever.
Death surely has exacted its full tol
from the unfortunate Stephenson fam
lily of North Yakiba, which has los
four children since December 2.
Fifteen telegraph wire men are string
ing special leased wire in this stat
from Chicago to Portland, which will
be used by commission houses each aft
ernoon for the market reports. Afte
4 o'clock it will be used by press as
sociations.
I. Garthy of Kettle Falls has ney
use for his automobile by lacking u
the drive wheels and using it as a motto
power for running a circular saw.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Wenatchee Valley Frui
Growers association will be held Jan
uary 81.
No better testimonial of the eff
cheney of Washington State college ha
been shown than that men come direc
from England and Scotland to ente
the college for the special course
taught. There are nearly 80 subject
of the British empire enrolled and sew
eral of these came direct from thei
homes across the Atlantic for the sol
purpose of enrolling.
The Worcester Fruit & Land company
composed principally of Worceste
(Mass.) capitalists, has purchased 25Ol
acres in the outskirts of the Hors,
Heaven country, near Luzon, on the s.
P. & s., and will install an irrigation
system. Electrical generating plant
will drive large pumps, forcing $500, OOt
gallons each day from the Columbia riv
err through pipes.
Juergens Bros, Newport, are nego
tiating with the government for sew
eral tracts of timber in the Ranks,
reserve which they will log off thi
winter if the purchase can be made
The logs will amount to about $500 ,OOt
feet, nearly all of which is white pine
The timber will be converted int,
match stock at their mill there ant
disposed of to the Diamond Match Co
AS yet no movement has been mad
to choose a successor to Dean Lock
wood, formerly of All Saints Episcopa
cathedral, Spokane, who recently re
signed to go to North Yakima.