Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-05
NORTHWEST ITEMS
WASHINGTON, MONTANA AND
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
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 STATE NEWS


WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
A new fire station is to be built at
Yakima.
A farmers rest room for Wilbur is
now assured.
There are 1928 school children in
Walla Walla.
The total of children of school age in
Whitman county is 10,347.
Spokane bank clearings for the
month of July amounted to 1885,
222.
The body of Sam Fern, who was
drowned in the Cowlitz river, has been
recovered.
The Yakima Indians will hold their
annual potlatch directly after the state
fair at Yakima.
The "wets" of Dayton are out with
petition, the third in 10 months, for
another local option election.
All trains on the Northern Pacific
were delayed Saturday, owing to the
burning of bridge near Kennewick.
olga Margaret Holmberg, aged 4
years, of Tacoma, was burned to death
recently while playing with matches.
With grand parade of troops in Ia
coma Saturday, about 1000 in line, the
military tournament closed success
full week.
Assessor Galbraith finds that Spokane
county has property subject to taxa,
ton of the assessed value of $102,346,
1873 this year.
The business district of Yakima City
the Oldest town in central Washington
was wiped out by fire Saturday at 9
loss of $4,000.
The annual session of the Pacific
Coast conference of the German M. E
church will be held in Walla Walls
August 25 to 20.
While the mother looked on help
lessly, Alma Hildebrand, aged 81, ant
Irving, aged IS, were drowned in Lake
Whatcom Saturday.
Residents in the vicinity of Oakland
addition to Tacoma have reported tt
the police that wild man is terroriz
ing the people in that district
A fine program has been prepared TO
the Columbia River conference of tn
; Methodist Episcopal church, to be helt
in Spokane August 80 to September
m of
Martin of Spokane marked the pass
ing of one of the oldest pioneer womel
of Washington. She came to this stat
in 1877.
e w. ]. Clarity, paymaster's clerk o
: the receiving ship Philadelphia, is III
+ der arrest at Bremerton in connectio
with the robbery of $4,000 from tn
ships safe.
t s. NJ. Steele, aged 80 years, die
! Sunday morning at Spokane from
t broken neck, the result of a fall froI
/ second story window of the Emel
gency hospital.
Professor w. G. Beach, head of tn
department of economic science an
e history in Washington State colleg
has resigned to go to the Universit
y of Washington.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston will d
i liver an address at the fourth annu
picnic at Hayden lake, Thursday, A
gust II, under the auspices of the Ne
England club of Spokane.
<, Florence Strobe, 80 years old, w
u shot and killed at the home of h
Z, former husband, Charles Lyts, Seattl
~ Sunday. Lyts says the shooting W
80 accidental. He was not arrested.
: G. c. Thomas, aged IS years, for
- years a resident of the Yakima vale
was caught between hay rack and
gate post Wednesday and so severe
crushed that he may not survive.
RI Forest fires, thought to be under &C
troll, have broken out with renewed flu
Ia in the township north of Deer Park q
are causing thousands of dollars of da
age in the cordwood and white pine.
William Overman, about "a years o
an employee at the Patten quarry in
Ter East Selah valley, was crushed to dea
Sunday morning about 1880 clock
er' the presence of his wife and two so
~ whom he had asked to warn him of
ne pending danger and who had called j.
ng as great rock toppled over on the b
49, band and father.
ife