Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-07-22
NORTHWEST ITEMS
WASHINGTON, MONTANA and
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
Republic Saturday voted to retain
the saloons.
The Ritzyille Commercial club plans
fair this fall.
Washington State college will open
on September 27.
Packages now go from New YORK 10
Puget Sound in 80 hours.
The passenger business is heavy on
all railroads.
Fred Thompson, one of the best
known fruit growers and shippers OF
North Yakima, says that pear blu ht
is attacking orchards in the Yakima
valley.
Her dress catching fire from match
spark flying through the air, trace
Watkins of North Yakima was SO Sc
verely burned at Toppenish that she
died soon after.
The farmers union of Walla Walla
announces that it has won its conten-
ton with the telephone company and
the proposed So year increase in rates
will not be made.
Chelan IS new steel bridge over the
Chelan river, costing $4,000, is COM
pleted. The bridge is an important
section of state road No. 10, which
runs from Wenatchee to the Canadian
line.
Not for some years has the Asotin
part of the state witnessed such
drouth. For three weeks no rain bas
fallen and the weather has been warm,
the mercury ranging as high as 1O4
degrees.
At a meeting of the executive board
of the Wilbur Fair association plans for
the eighth annual Wilbur fall fair, Sep
TENDER 27, 20, 20 and 80, were COM
pleted. The feature will be the live
stock show.
Seven persons were injured at Seat
tie, Sunday, one probably fatally, when
an automobile driven by W. A. Briggs
and carrying party of his friends ran
into another machine, driven by Henry
Miyamoto, a chauffeur.
There is $2,344,OOO cash in the state
treasury, according to the weekly state
ment of State Treasurer Lewis. OF
this 1906, 800 is in the general fund
The week s receipts were $23O,98O, and
disbursements were $107,2OS.
A contract made prior to final proof
by homesteader to convey water
rights or rights of way for water
power bitches is void, declares the state
supreme court, and the courts will not
attempt to enforce such a contract.
Charles Chrisman, a farmer living
north of Trinidad, sent last fall two
samples of wheat to the National Corr
exposition at Omaha, Neb. Saturday
he received a Sc prize and two ribbons
the j. j. Hill prize, for bluestem and
winter wheat.
David j. Hedges, the 16-year-old sol
of S. B. Hedges, president of the Puge'
Sound Bridge and Dredging company
was drowned in the Skykomish rivel
near Monroe by the capsizing of {
canoe in which he and a companion
were moving up stream.
While applying liniment to wound
ed shoulder of his horse, Fred Harmon
young rancher living a few mile
south of Wenatchee, felt an irritation
on his nose and attempted to relieve i
with his finger. Shortly after the nos,
became infamed and blood poisoning
set in, and despite the best of medica
aid, the young man died from tn,
effects.
Snoqualmie falls, in the western par
of the state, have been obliterated, tn,
water now being entirely diverted t,
turn the wheels of an electric plant tina
furnishes power to Seattle and Tacoma
The cataract was formerly world
famous. The Snoqualmie river, 1876 fee
wide, plunged over a precipice 26s fee
high, the water being turned into spra,
during the descent.
The arrival of Congressman J. A
Goulden of New York, president of tn
Chelan Consolidated Copper company
has aroused new interest in mimi,
matters in Leavenworth. His compan,
has capital of $12,OOO,OOO and is con
trolled by prominent New York pee
pie 1t has large holdings at Tude,
as well as in the famous Red Noun
tain mining district and is working a
both places.