Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-20
NORTHWEST ITEMS
WASHINGTON, MONTANA and
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
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 NEWS,


A strengthening crew is at Hooper
shearing McGregor Bros sheep.
The first crop of alfalfa is now be.
ing harvested by the people living on
the Acreage near Asotin.
Benjamin David Crocker, for 80
years prominently identified with bust.
ness interests, and known throughout
the state as an able politician, died
Sunday at his home in Tacoma of
Bright's disease.
I. III. Steenstra, one Of the Oldest
pressmen in the northwest and Spo.
kane pioneer, died at his residence Sun
day night. He was a member of the
G.. A. R. and Knights of Pythias.
Peterson Dana, physician from Ia
coma, recently purchased section of
land adjoining the town of Othello and
intends to establish sanitarium there
for tuberculosis patients.
Mrs. William Gohl is attempting to
raise fund in Aberdeen to assist
her husband, convicted of the murder
of Charles Hadberg, to defrayS the ex-
penses of an appeal to the supreme
court.
The declamatory contest held in
connection with the interseholastie
meet in Pullman was won by Earl
Mari of Wenatehee.
The Pacific Coast Elevator company
of Portland has closed it's Office in
Waitsburg.
At Bellingham Sheriff S. B. Van
zandt was found guilty of assault in
the third degree on the person of Glenn
Dirrim, a street car conductor, and
fined $50 and costs.
After being out less than 20 minutes
jury of the Spokane superior court
returned verdict of guilt against
Vincenzio Rolandi, the young italian
boy accused of shooting at Mrs. Phil
omena Bruno April 2, with intent to
kill.
Arrangements have been made to
hold memorial exercises in honor of
the late Representative Cushman in
the national senate on May 21. Sem
ator Piles has charge of the matter.
He and Senators Jones, Chamberlain,
Burton, Hughes and Beveridge will de-
liver eulogies.
Death has claimed III. G. Hutchinson,
pioneer of the early '7Os, at Dayton,
aged 65.
The 1,OOo-acre farm of John De
Young, two miles west of Thornton and
several miles south of Rosalia, was
sold at auction recently and brought
an average of $S3 an acre. One tract
of 800 acres, with the buildings,
brought $101 an acre. The land was
sold in tracts of from 40 acres up.
About $50 people were there.
Commencement week exercises for
the Tekoa High school will be held
May 25 to May 81, the class year.
Wenatehee's Fourth of July celebra-
ton this year will be one of the big
gest affairs of its kind ever pulled
off in north central Washington.
Reno and Sedgwick posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and also
General Charles King camp, Spanish
War Veterans, Spokane, have decided
to celebrate Memorial day, May 80,
with parade at 1870 O'Clock p. m.
followed by exercises at the Armory.
The population of North Yakima is
estimated at 1880.
Evidence at the inquest in Seattle
over Bert Hardin, who was stabbed
to death by Raleigh M. Faulkner, has
convinced the prosecutors office that
Faulkner, calling to see his divorced
wife, on a peaceful errand, was set
upon by Hardin and James Lewis, and
used his blade in self-defense. No in.
formation has been filed against
Faulkner.
The army transport Dix, which ar.
rived in Seattle Sunday from Manila
via Hongkong, was so greatly dam
aged by storm and a fire in her coal
cargo that two months will be required
for repairs.
Maintaining the public highways in
Washington by a tax of 81 for each
horsepower on all automobiles, trucks
and motorcycles operated in the state
is advocated by Governor Hay.
Struck down by the terrific impact
of a 3Oo-pound wire support falling
from the top of building on Sprague
avenue, Spokane Saturday night, Mrs.
Violet Stokes, age 20 years, and her
baby daughter, Dorothy, probably were
fatally injured.
The strike situation of the cooks and
walters in. spokane's biggest restau.
rants shows no change.
Bent and gray and weakened by his
prison terms, Lawrence (Larry) Kelly
70 years old, pioneer opium smuggler
of Puget Sound, was released from the
federal prison at McNeils island re-
Gently for the fourth time. Altogether
Kelly has served seven years in the
McNeils island and other penitentiaries
IDAHO NOTES.