Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-06-10
WASHINGTON, MONTANA and
IDAHO news NOTES.
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 STATE NEWS.


pany, is preparing to erect large grain
warehouses at Alstown, Douglas, Sup
plee, Withrow and Mansfield.
Carefully sealing each crevice and
opening in his room in cheap lodging
house, man believed to be w. II. Lund
of Everett, Wash, committed suicide in
San Francisco by inhaling gas.
AS yet the Seattle police and the mil
itary authorities at Fort Lawton have
been unable to identify the negro who
made brutal attack upon Mrs. j. w.
Redding at her home in the neighbor-
hood of Fort Lawton, Saturday.
Floods and Washouts last year cost
the Northern Pacific in this state $751;
2O2.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of 2. II. Sautbein, a mer-
chants police officer of Spokane, miss
ing since March 10, has been solved by
the finding of his body, Saturday, in
the Spokane river.
The Elberton picnic will be on in
all its glory June is, 16 and II.
William Register, aged 40, brake
man on the Tacoma Eastern railway,
was run over by freight cars going into
siding seven miles from Tacoma Sat
urday night.
There are 26O oranges in Washington,
an increase of 1O1 for the year. Last
month the membership aggregated
1906.
Ray Colburn, Frank McCanse, Will
liam Wilson and Frank Ford, the four
young men who held up Seattle street.
car May 10, and robbed the passengers
of 800 in money and jewelry, entered
pleas of guilty in the criminal court
and were sentenced to serve from FIVE
to 20 years each in the state prison
The robbers were arrested in Portland
and the streetcar company paid $500
reward to their captors.
Yakima county will produce in 1910
the most bountiful harvest ever
known in the history, in every branch
of horticulture and agriculture, accord
ing to present indications.
The expected yield in the Yakima
valley this year is 1900 carloads of
pears, peaches, plums and mixed fruit,
and 1900 carloads of apples.
The prospects for hay crop in Ben
ton county are favorable. There ais
about 5000 acres in alfalfa, and timothy
and clover, probably rs per cent is in
alfalfa. The alfalfa yield will be about
eight tons per acre for the season.
The crop outlook for Lincoln county
was never brighter than this year.
1t is estimated that Garfield county
has 143,7O0 acres of improved farm
land, which this season is devoted to
lOO,49O acres of wheat, $4,000 acres of
barley and in the neighborhood of 900
acres of alfalfa.
IL. M. Boone, a former state senator
from Whitman county, a former state
bank examiner and former president of
the Palouse State bank, was found
guilty of the alleged embezzlement of
$4,000. Boone was indicted and tried
for the embezzlement of $4,000,
Boone's attorney moved for a new trial.
Judge Garfield fixed the bond at $1O.-
900, which was furnished.
n Aodl Gnu colllslon occurred at the
west end of the railroad yards az
Prosser Saturday. A heavily loaded
freight train of 6S cars was on the main
line, just pulling onto a siding, when
without warning train No. 4, a mail
train, crashed into the caboose. The
caboose was crushed to kindling wood
and two cars next were badly wrecked.
The passenger had slowed down to
about IL miles an hour.
The Chelan county commissioners
have Joined hands with Wenatchee and
now have a sprinkling wagon for use on
country roads adjoining that city.
The wheat crop of the Walla WaIla
section is placed at 10 per cent less
than normal this year.
BY vote of about four to one the
citizens of Walla Walla at an election
Saturday, decided to vote a $4,000
bond issue to build an addition to the
Sharpstein school.
Duncan Pierce, a farmer who lives
near Seattle, arrived in Palouse Friday
having walked the entire distance from
Seattle to attend the meeting of the
Washington State Grange, in Pullman
next week.
Pullman will celebrate this July for
the first time in several years.
Tacoma has population of approx
imately 11O,24S.
Henry L. BOwlby, state highway COM
missioner, arrived in Spokane Tuesday
to prepare for the removal of ign -
vlcts from the state penitentiary at
Walla Walla to the state roek. crpsbinn
plant at Marshall, nine miles southeast
of this city.
While over 1000 people gazed in
horror, A. Meyers, former emplove of
the Milwaukee railroad, was ground to
bits beneath the wheels of switch en-
kline in front of the Othello station Sat- |
urday. 0'
IDAHO NOTES.