Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-07-15
NORTHWEST ITEMS
WASHINGTON, MONTANAaAND
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 STATE NEWS

The Moeser Lumber companys saw
mill at Newport has begun the season S
cut. They will cut about 100000 feet.
Their planning mill has been in opera
ton for a month.
Benjamin Gallentine, at one time
regular in the United States army and
an Indian fighter of repute from 1870
to 1876, is now living in peace and
contentment in a low cabin on the
outskirts of Husum He was fighting
Indians with General Custer when the
historical Sioux war broke out in Da-
kota in 1876, and was on the battlefield
the day following the disastrous Custer
massacre on June rs, 1876.
1t has developed at Asotin in con
nection with the investigation into the
system of bookkeeping IN use by the
county made by representatives of the
state accountancy board, that the ac-
counts of various tee otnees in the coun-
ty have not been checked nor audited
for years, and there is no record of
their having ever been audited, and a
county official is authority for the state
ment that until the office of treasurer
was taken over by the incumbent, E. IL.
Dammarell, the accounts in that office
had not even balanced for number of
years.
Former State Senator H. M. Boone
was given an indeterminate sentence of
from one to 10 years for embezzlement
from the Palouse State bank, of which
he was formerly president.
Attorney General Bell has declared
vacant the office of former Attorney
General w. F. Magill, who, in company
with County Coroner H. N Sticklin of
Olympia, disappeared suddenly three
weeks ago. He has named R. E. Camp
bell of the legal department of the
Great Northern railway in Seattle to
fill the vacancy.
A large forest fire has been raging
north of Inchelium on the south half
of the Colville reservation.
The union machinists in five Spokane
plants are on strike for an eight-hour
day.
The Leavenworth State bank, new
institution, opened it's doors Saturday.
President e. A. Bryan s prize-win-
ming herd of Berkshires, known gen
orally in livestock circles of the state
as 'fThe Pussy Willow Herd" suffered
"A reverse by the loss from the excessive
meat of Baron Premium, the prize boar,
Pullman Princess Second and Pullman
Princess Third, the leading sows in the
.shOw ring.
The total corporation tax collected
up to Saturday night for the state o.
Washington is $168,300
That fully $7,oOO,OOO is being spent
this year on improvements in the four
irrigated counties of central Washing
ton-Yakima, Benton, Kittitas and
Franklin-is indicated by Statements of
various contractors who are building
railroads, electric lines, irrigation ca.
mails, stores and office buildings and
residences and making municipal i'm
provements
The first cutting of hay is not com
ing up to what was expected.
A telephone line is predicted for
Ephrata.
SO far the farmers of Walla Walla
county have received 100000 grain
sacks for the coming crop, half of which
have been furnished through the Farm
ers union, according to President Nc
Lean. 1t is expected the crop will
make it necessary to secure 100000
more sacks, most of which are now
ordered.