Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-04-29
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 ITEMS.

The SpfluSudle podAu has uecAueu TO
nurchase a new site for school build
ing.
The first crates of Kennewick IS straw
berry crop are expected in market this
week.
The Ellensburg chamber of commerce
has indorsed movement for county
fair in Kititas county.
J. F. Gall of Douglas has an auto
matte potato planter, and is planting a
large acreage of potatoes.
North Yakima s handsome new de-
not, that of the Northern Pacific rail
road was occupied for the first time
Saturday.
Superintendent J. W. Smith of the
Ritzville schools has signed contract
to take a similar position at Genesee,
Idaho.
The Ritzville band boys have reor-
ganized and played at the opening of
the Adams house, the new $4,000 ho-
tel, April rs.
Rosalia is without a newspaper as
the result of a $4,000 fire which com.
pletely destroyed the Citizen-Jo Journal
building Saturday.
Marion Morrison, aged ~, of Seattle,
died Sunday as the result of drinking
earbolic acid from a bottle she thought
contained medicine.
After an exceptionally cool spring the
+bor ~ tho 10 OF hoe
and every detail of the weather this
spring has been ideal for the wheat crop.
Judge J. w. Rose, one of the best
known lawyers of the Pacific northwest,
died on his home farm near Lyndon,
Whatcom county, recently of Bright IS
disease.
While smoking in the town jail at
Granger, a man known as Griffin set
fire to the bed clothes and was burned
to death in the fire, which occurred Sun
day night
While no state appropriation has been
made for a national guard armory in
North Yakima, the members of Com
pany and Company M, national guard
of Washington, are considering head
quarters and drill hall.
John Benson, aged As, fatally shot
himself through the head while in bed
at his home in Ballard, Sunday, because
he believed that the closing of the shin
gle mills by the manufacturers presag
ed long siege of hard times.
In honor of Dean Reed, Dean Cooley
and Wilfred B. Shaw, secretary of the
alumni association, who are visiting
Spokane on a tour of the west, the
University of Michigan Alumni asso-
citation of Spokane Saturday night gave
a banquet.
The sheriff's office of Portland is sat
lshed that in the arrest of a gang of
alleged crooks at Spokane, headed by
Eddie johnson, that a gang which OPP
Grated in Portland and the northern
part of Oregon and the southern part
u washington has been apprehended.
Forty-fve convicts have exchanged
'ne somewhat combining life inside the
prison walls for work outside. Fifteen
60 TO work on the roads at Lyle on the
washington side of the Columbia in
Anekltat county. The others will work
IN rock-crushing plant at Meskell,
near Chehalis.
Oomp letely unnerved and weeping
llytencally, Charles j. Weller, extra
uiteu from San Francisco in connection
WIN the murder of Mrs. Fredika
nCnulz, near Tacoma, April 4, made a
Sug'ny confession, admitting his guilt
ana throwing himself on the mercy of
the courts.
Inc eoroner's jury that investigated
.pe Killing of Dorothy Walters, 6-year-
,no Killing of Dorothy Waters, a g.
yeaf,old child, at Seattle, by the auto
mobile up! of DR.. j. H, Lyons, prominent
PHYSICIAN, brought in verdict that
lug lug machine was proceeding at an I'M
lawful rate of speed.
twenty electric signs now aid in light
r "enatchee avenue, while "a arc
a! sn'S hang in different parts of that
Ivy ,.9. The population was estimated at
NV one year ago, while now the esti
mat mS'e places it at 5000. The school en-
F tSilinen now is 1900, while a year ago
'ue record shows 900 enrolled.
,.t a comparative table prepared by Sec
sio 'afy hoOrs of the state tax commits
fo1 showing by counties all taxes levied
A.. the state in 1908 and 1909 shows
a. G e,d Alng county, which in 1908 paid
n 800 90 per cent of all the taxes, dropped
fl. $3.50 per cent, while Spokane, in
NJ. nay same period, increased from 1O.432
s sm cent to 11.211 per cent. Pierce
tba al. ~ dropped from 1885 per cent of
- STATE total in 1908 to 1883 in 1909.
5sto, TEST the grain inspection law to
~ iHiihe what is meant by "public
b ,oraIIuSe, " the attorney general has
sn. asnt suit in the Pierce county court
han ,u'' the Merchants Warehouse com
dav asking for Judgment at $50 per
bas ~, iCr hye days because the county
tbo FUSED to take out a license under