Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-04
NORTHWEST NOTES
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
and WASHINGTON.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
I From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place Business Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The farmers unions of Grant and
Lincoln counties are arranging to
form a mutual insurance company.
Clair Inkster Of Davenport, nearly so
years DID, met with a painful mishap
when wood fell on him in the wood
house, crushing his foot and ankle.
After being without pastor for
several months Grace Episcopal church
of Dayton has secured the services of
the Rev. John S. Cole of Waverly, Iowa.
Clyde Otto Lee, waiter wanted in
Whitman county on a charge of wife
desertion and nonsupport, was brought
back from Tacoma recently by Deputy
Sheriff Sargent of Colfax.
J. NJ Heller, arrested several weeks
ago at Walla Walla for selling mort
gagged property, pleaded guilty before
Judge Brents in the superior court re-
Gently and was sentenced to six months
IN Jail and fined 5000.
At Pomeroy Robert R. Santo, another
of Garfield county's pioneers, was bur
led recently. He was born at Fort
Madison, Iowa, in 1862. In the spring
of 1882 he came to Garfield county,
where he has since made his home.
The fruit growers of North Yakima
have appointed committee to see
what can be done in the way of i'm
porting such song birds as eat worms
Thrushes, linnets and fnches are
considered good birds for the fruit
growers
James Conway, who has been CON
fined in the county Jail at Walla Walla
for two weeks, was found insane re-
Gently and will be committed to Med,
zeal Lake. During the Spanish Ameri-
can war Conway enlisted for service in
an Oregon regiment.
The Yakima and Kittitas Cattle and
Horse Grazing association was organ
lied at North Yakima recently by $50
stockmen operating on the Racher re-
serve. The object of the organization
is to cooperate with the government
forest service
Three girls of Sydney johnson, a
haybaler of Wapato, were found in dis
tressing circumstances recently by the
Rev. A. w, Laningham of the Washing
ton Home Finding society. They will
be taken to North Yakima and cared
for until sent to the children s home
in Seattle.
The police Of Seattle have been un-
able to identify the man who was mys-
teriously shot and killed in lodging
house in the lower part of the city re-
Gently. Grace White, a woman who
was in the room with the man prior
to the shooting, is being held for fur
Their questioning.
Mayor John F. Miller of Seattle has
appointed commission of seven mem
bers to revise the city charter, it be-
ing the intention to present charter,
providing for semicommission form Of
government, abolishing all ward lines,
and reducing the number of councilmen.
The commission will have % months
In which to complete it's work.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph W. Pope,
residing five miles northwest of Cou-
lee City, awoke yesterday they found
Harold Ray, their son, aged 2 years,
dead by their side in bed. With the
exception of slight cold the child
was in its usual good health when
they went to bed. The cause of death
is mystery, though it is thought
snembranous Group.
The weekly statement of State Treas
urer Lewis shows cash on hand in all
state funds of $455,O46, with receipts
for the week of $126,912, and disburse-
ments of $1O7,9O3 There was $4,000
received during the week for the gen
eral fund, most of which came from
King county tax collections. General
fund disbursements were about $72 900,
leaving about $45,6 600 on hand.
John James Graves, father of Jay P,
Graves, president of the Inland Empire
system, and of Frank H. Graves and
Will G. Graves, attorneys, died at Spo-
Kane recently. He was born in Boone
county, Kentucky, October 16, 1919
and at the age of 16 years moved with
his parents to Hancock county, Illinois
living there until the fall of 1889, when
he came to Spokane