Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-30
WASHINGTON, MONTANA and
IDAHO HAPPENINGS
ARE BRIEFED.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding COuntry-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON.

From Tacoma comes the report that
home builders can buy lumber at actual
cost or a little below and those who in
tend putting up buildings will be wise
to begin Immediately. The condition
is abnormal, however, and will last but
a short time.
The new First Christian church of
Palouse was dedicated recently.
Jake Hunt, the oldest Indian in the
northwest, reputed to be 10S years old,
who has son n years of age, is sick
in bed at White Salmon.
G. w. Walker, well-to-do retired
farmer living in Pullman, shot himself
in the head Christmas day.
The new Colville high school is being
completed.
Declaring it utterly useless and worth
less, thing without good, Warden G.
S. S. Reed of the state penitentiary has
formally consigned the prison lock-step
and striped suits to the Oblivion from
which it came. He made it's abolition
Christmas present to his prisoners.
M. Walser, Fairfield s oldest business
man, has retired from business.
The Northport Republican has sus-
pended publication.
John B. Meeker, one of the early pio-
neers of the state, died recently at
Walla Walla at the age of Sc years.
He passed away at the Odd Fellows
home, where he has been resident for
the past three years. He was brother
of Ezra Meeker of ox-team fame.
The efforts of State Treasurer Lewis
to enforce collection of delinquent taxes
due the state from various municipali-
ties as it's 10 per cent share of all
liquor licenses, have succeeded so well
that the only outstanding claim for
which arrangements for payment have
not been made is against North
Yakima for $2,645. Suit will soon be
instituted on this claim.
The Indian agency at Fort Simcoe
has received notice that new rules for
the disposition of deceased and non
competent Indian lands on the Yakima
Indian reservation have been promul-
gated at Washington. Hereafter the
installment system of selling the lands
will be permitted. Bidders who are
successful will deposit one-tenth of the
purchase price, the balance to be paid
in annual installments.
The third session of the short course
in forestry in the University of Wash
ington is announced to commence Jan
uary 3 and continue until March "a.
State Game Warden Ref has estab-
lished farm in King county for the
breeding of Hungarian partridge, Chi,
nese pheasants and cartridges.
The students in the Seattle high
schools have submitted to the newt
able and dropped all their fraternities
c. w. Werman, who started the first
newspaper in Uniontown in May, 1887,
the Washington Journal, is now farm.
er near that place.
The Maiden council passed an ordi,
nance granting license to three saloons
at $1,000 year. The territory will be
restricted in which they can operate
and the regulations are strict.
The government has large force OF
men and teams at work widening the
main canal and other improvements
near Grandview.
The legislature will be asked to sub
NIT an amendment to the state consti
tuition increasing the home-rule powers
of the cities of the first class, as a re-
suit of the meeting of the newly organ
lied Washington League of Municipali
ties, which met in Seattle recently. The
desired amendment is to remedy the
frequent difficulties arising from the
conflicts between general legislation Of
the state legislature and the provision
of city charters.
James Woodley, the Whitman county
pioneer who dropped dead at his country
store at Dusty, Is miles southeast OF
Colfax Thursday, was buried by the
Masons of Colfax Saturday.
| Inc NORTHWESTERN SaQdlery aSSOcla
ton, composed of harness dealers OF
Washington, Oregon and Idaho, will
hold its annual convention in Spokane
January s to IL inclusive.
State banks in Washington increased
their deposits more than $4,000, 900 il
the period between September 1 ani
November 16, according to the report Of
the state bank examiner, Just issued
The increase in total deposits was nearly
$10,O00,00O. Spokane county was a goot
second to Seattle in the toal standing
with 81, ss6,711, while Pierce county, o.
Tacoma, came third with deposits o.
$7,314,352. Seattle had $34 ,9s6, 1898 a
the same time.
The Oak Park high school clever
demonstrated the superiority of Chicag,
football over that of the Pacific coas
Monday by defeating the Wenatchet
| (Wash.) eleven 90 to o. Wenatchee wa,
outclassed at every point by the Chi
cago boys.
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