Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-14
NORTHWEST NOTES
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
and WASHINGTON.
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 ITEMS.

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Medical certificates will be made out
for 81 medicos who took the state ex-
animation at Spokane recently. Many
successful candidates will receive their
certificates at once, while others will
be obliged to wait for at least month,
according to DR.. F. P. Witter, president
of the state board of medical examiners.
The next examination will take place
in Seattle in July. There were 26 I'M
successful candidates in the Spokane
test.
Ten towns in Pierce county voted
Saturday on annexation and the propo-
sition carried by about 20 majority
Several of the towns, including Edge
wood, Lakeview, Reservation and Earle,
voted no by good majorities, but the
other towns in the district, Breckon,
Midland, Parland, Spanaway, Stella
COON and Regents Park were almost
unanimously for annexation and the
total vote is in favor of the PROPOSE
ton. The city council will undoubtedly
take in the towns
Colonel William Ridpath and Charles
B. Dunning of Spokane, who started on
trip around the world on the last day
OF September, are on their way from
Hongkong to Manila.
! Called, he confidently believes, by a
direct communication from Christ
George I. Lord, a well-known dentist
of Tacoma, who has one of the largest
practices in the city, will sell out his
business and devote his life and money
in missionary work in Guatemala City,
Central America.
Freight and passenger rates to south
eastern Alaska, which were reduced
three months ago by the three big com
panies with the purpose, it is alleged,
of driving the steamer Humboldt off
the run, have been restored to the old
figures.
According to the annual report of
State Fish Commissioner Riseland, rs.
100000 salmon fry were liberated in
the streams during the past year by
the II state fish hatcheries This num-
Der exceeds by several millions any pre-
vious year hatch.
SNOo 4OSChClJ ICIuONGu grass from
the rear window of the Reese Hardware
company building at Sunnyside, and re-
moved 10 shotguns and ammunition.
With the rapid growth of Dayton IS
public schools in the last three years,
the problem of new buildings confronts
the directors.
Sealed bids for Indian allotment lands
in hn 1Ioh n1rS
south of Loomis, have been opened by
Captain Webster of the Colville agency
at Fort Spokane. The Sarcarpkin allot-
ment, containing 1881 acres, was pur-
chased by T. Eldest Oates of Portland.
The Comstock Poose allotment of $50
acres, and the Julia Vecil allotment of
$50 acres, were bid in by Mrs. Letta
Larbowich of Portland, A. L. Miller of
Jefferson, Ore, and George J. Hudley
and j. F. Forde of Loomis. The land
is in the narrow valley of the Sinlahellin
creek.
Twenty-seven money sacks, crammed |
with small silver coins amounting in
all to about $500, mysteriously disap-
peared recently from the car bars of the
Traction company at Spokane.
Hay lands have been active on the
Spokane market during the last few
weeks.
The commission plan of government
for the city of Spokane may be voted
upon early this year.
The State Federation of Labor CON
vention convened at Hoquiam this
week.
Approximately one-fourth of Column
bia county S grain crop of $500 900
bushels is being held by farmers for
speculative purposes in the warehouses
at shipping points.
Game Warden J. " Brown of Occur
d 'Alene has received 16 pairs of Chi
nese pheasants to be distributed
throughout Kootenai county. They
come from the preserve at Boise, it
being intended to stock every county
Of the state with Chinese pheasants.
Mr.. Brown will hold the birds until
the weather moderates before freeing
them.
Editor N. W. Durham of the Spokes-
nan-Review is to be appointed minister
to Portugal, according to reports.
Contending that the rapidly increas-
ng cost of living justifes and necessi-
ates larger scale of wages, the union
carpenters of Spokane have decided to
'aise their scale, and after April IL will
demand so cents more per day, making
he daily wages for experienced men SIS
Der day.