Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-10-28
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

years, died recently at Colfax.
w. D. FILLMORE, aged 70, resident
of the central part of the state for 81
years, died recently.
Tacoma is to have the exclusive use
of naval cutter for the Tacoma di-
vision of the naval militia.
The late Julia Ward Howe owned 25
acres of land near Tumwater for more
than quarter of century.
The 6OO-foot tunnel one mile east of
Rosalia caved in about the middle Sat
urday delaying traffic for five days.
DR.. J, G. Gundlach, pioneer physician
and G. A. R. worker of Spokane, died
recently of paralysis. He was 81 years
old.
A monorail railroad line connecting
Bellingham, Mt. Vernon, Port Town
send, Irondale and Port Angeles is
planned.
Governor M. E. Hay and State Au-
ditor G. w. Clausen are ON a 10 days
hunting trip to Kitsap county, along the
shores of Hoods canal.
! h. A. Hutchinson, state senator from
Spokane county, goes November 10 to
the City of Mexico and will return to
Washington in time to be at Olympia
January IL, 1911.
Ralph Close, formerly deputy collector
and clerk of the United States customs
service at Northport, has been appointed
to similar position in the Spokane
office.
w. j. Doust has been appointed by
Mayor N. s. Pratt of Spokane, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Captain John T. Sullivan as head of
the police department
M. C. Gray of Pullman recently sold
to the Bales-Jones company of Big Hole
Basin, Montana, the largest consign-
ment of pure bred draft stations ever
sold in the Inland Empire.
Prosser, Kennewick, Toppenish, Zil-
lab and Sunnyside, in the Yakima coun-
try, will all have district exhibits at
the National Apple show, and nearly
every part of the section will have dis
plays.
Articles of incorporation of the
Spokane, Portland & Northern rail
way of Spokane have been filed with
the secretary of state at Olympia, the
capital stock of the company being
named at $1O,OOO,OOO.
Lester Blaine, who was on trial at
Colfax on the charge of having killed
James Silvey at Palouse July 8, last,
was convicted by the jury of second
degree murder and was recommended to
the leniency of the court.
If Wesley L. Jones accepts the ap-
pointment as federal judge for eastern
Washington it is said that Governor NJ.
=. Hay will appoint John L. Wilson of
Seattle for Jones unexpired four-year
term in the United States senate.
Officers and employees of the National
Apple show are fast arranging for the
third annual competitive exposition in
Spokane November IA to 10, and the
show in First Regiment armory, Chi
cago, November % to December 4.
Property owners of Starbuck pay no
taxes in 1911. A recent statute in this
state provides that the council make
list of resources and probable expenses
before the first Monday in October, the
years taxes to be based on this re-
port. They failed to do it in Starbuck.
Believing that naught will come from
the recent conference with the railways
at Walla Walla when farmers of Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho asked for
25 per cent reduction in wheat freight
rate east, officials of Big Tri-State or |
ganization of the Farmers union are
to carry the fight to the in
terstate commerce commission.
The report of the Western Washing. |
ton Power company of Spokane, cover |
ing the % miles of electric line To !
Cheney and Medical Lake for the wear
ending April 30 1910, shows that but |
378,607 passengers were carried as
against 396,761 for the previous wear.
The report also shows deficit for the |
year of $3,751, after paying operating
expenses, interest ON bonds and divi. |
dends.