Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-23
WASHINGTON, MONTANA And
IDAHO HAPPENINGS
ARE BRIEFED.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

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At Rosalia A. j. Harris, an old pio-
neer, died recently.
During 1910 Prosser nearly reached
the 100000 mark in it's building of
business blocks.
The first snow of the season fell at
Ritzville Saturday, bringing the first
sleighing of the winter
Washington death rate for the year
ending October was 9.97 per 1000
people, according to the annual report
of vital statistics.
With five cases of smallpox and sew
eral cases of measles among the CON
yicts, health authorities have placed
quarantine on the state reformatory
at Monroe
Alleging that the present location
of the state capitol is unsatisfactory
and inconvenient, Everett residents
have launched a proposition in favor
of removal to this city.
James McCredie,~ aged ~ years, a
pioneer stockman of the Yakima val
ley was killed at Mabton recently by a
fall from derrick, in the removal of
which he was assisting.
Washington wool growers will be in
lterested in the annual convention of the
National Woolgrowers association, to
be held in Portland January 4 to z, and
the big sheep show in connection
with it.
Mrs R. R. Brown, a sister of General
STERLING Price, former governor of Mis-
souri,, died in Seattle Saturday. of blood
poisoning, resulting from a scratch on
her hand from a splinter of wood four
days ago.
The contract for supplying the farm
ers of Walla Walla section with grain
bags was not let at the annual grain
sack meeting of the farmers union as
none of the 10 bids submitted were
considered low enough.
| At Seattle G. P. King, juror, and
Adam Zickler, the complaining witness
in forgery case, were sentenced to so
and 10 days, respectively, in the county
Jail for having violated the court IS
instructions and discussed the case out
side the courtroom.
Mrs. Matte A. Thomas, reputed to be
worth 81, 100000 in land holdings in the
state of Washington, has won her suit
in Seattle for the annulment of her
marriage to J. w. Phillips in Victoria,
B. c., and for the restoration of her
individual property, accumulated before
the alleged union.
The Tacoma & Eastern railroad has
paid to the state treasurer the sum of
$1,000 the amount of judgment is
sued against it in the superior court
of Thurston county in a suit brought
by the state board of railroad commits
sioners for the formers failure to have
its frogs, switches and guard-rails prop
erly blocked.
| With a heavy fog hanging overhead
North Yakima was plunged into semi.
darkness Saturday night by a washout
in the upper Naches valley, which
wrecked 60 feet of the fume feeding
the Naches power plant. All of the
lower valley as far as Kennewick was
cut off all day and until late at night
as were residence parts of North
Yakima.
Fred Llewellyn, formerly of Spokane
has been appointed adjutant general by
Governor M. E. Hay to succeed George
B. Lamping, resigned. Major Lew
ellyn is now a resident of Bellinghan
and has been serving as major in the
national guard. Major Harvey J. Moss
of the coast artillery reserve corps will
be appointed assistant adjutant genera
of the state.
Showing Columbia county's property
| valued at $6,697,615, exclusive of rail
roads and other public service corpora
, tions, County Auditor Jack Swart hal
r completed his abstract of tax rolls fo
4 1910. The number of acres of assessed
1 land is 400,151, which shows that agri
: culture is increasing here. Valuation
9 placed on all lands is $4,S64,145, Will
e the value of personal property i
f 81, 079,S70.
An enterprise which involves the for
nation of circuit of theaters cover
a ing the states of Washington, Idaho
IOregon and Montana is announced b,
:, Raymond Bell of the Bell Theatrica
: . company. This company, known as tn
Vino Theatrical circuit, will attemp
> to do for the smaller towns of fron
! 900 to 1000 population, what the Cor
: circuit of Seattle does for the large
cities. The main offices will be a
. Wenatchee.
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