Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-06
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 state penitentiary was begun Mon
day and SO convicts put on the job.
In replatting the Dayton cemetery
City Engineer Frank w. Guernsey has
found more than 200 unmarked and
unknown graves.
Following quarrel with Will Morse
said to be her closest friend, Mrs. AL.
mira Moser committed suicide at Spo.
kane by taking carbolic acid.
The result of the Seattle enumeration,
when completed, is expected to be bit
ter disappointment, the total recorded
population being estimated at only
235,OO0.
R. j. Maclean, formerly president of
the board of trade'o of Wilmington, Del,
has taken up his duties as secretary of
the Spokane Chamber of Commerce,
succeeding Levi G. Monroe, who re-
signed.
Observation-Disclosures Mason, one of
the wealthiest Indians in the valley, and
known to old settlers as staunch
friend of the white man, died recently.
His fortune is estimated at from $685.
600 to $4,000.
Firing point blank, at a distance of
IL feet, an unknown person killed
James Boone, rancher, and wounded
Fred Rollen, his hired man, on the Har-
ris ranch, nine miles east of Sprague,
at 8 o clock Friday night.
Mrs. Jenn Sorenson and three chill
dren were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed their home in Enum-
claw recently. Sorenson managed to
save the two youngest children, but
was himself badly burned.
The Twenty-ffth regiment, now at
northwest posts, United States infan-
try, has a new commander, Colonel Will
liam Evans, promoted from Iieuten-
ant colonel of the Eleventh infantry
on March rs, and recently assigned to
his new command.
After paying bounties for so coyote
skins Saturday morning, at the rate of
81 each, Deputy Auditor j. w. Sweasy
at Walla Walla has received a letter
from the state auditor that the appropri-
alton of $4,000 for bounties had been
exhausted and that no more money was
available for reimbursing the counties
for bounty expenditures.
Miss Lottie Herdman, aged "a, and E.
E. Saunders, young man of the same
age, were drowned in Green lake, Sc
attic, Sunday, when a canoe in which
they were riding was overturned by the
swell from passing launch. The young
man IS father, David Saunders, is resi-
dent of Bluefeld, w. Va. Miss Herd
mans parents live in Seattle.
On May l the state board of finance
took up 100000 worth of general
fund bonds, which will reduce the
bonded indebtedness of that fund to
an even 100000, as it is at 81, 400 900
at the present time. On January the
state foated 100000 worth of bonds
TO carry the state over the period until
the spring taxes began to come in.
One passenger was killed, two fatally
injured and Is others more or less hurt |
recently by collision of a passenger
car OF the Seattle, Renton & Southern
Electric railway and a loaded coal car
IN the same road at Rainier beach on
Lake Washington, seven miles from the
center OF Seattle. The man killed was
Judge W. G. Bell of Harrodsburg, KY
Ralph Kilcox of Mitchell has been
notlned that he has fallen heir to $1O,-
OVu In cash. an automobile, a section
u valuable wheat land with horses and
'OCA' left to him by sweetheart of
OyHooo days with whom he had sepa-
a'eu IN lovers quarrel, and of whom
10 nad since known but little. Wilcox,
young man now of % years, and his
enefactress grew up in an Oregon
0"n together, and when they were II
aiS Old became engaged to marry. A
broken. SIS ---0-i' "''0
ine Washougal Dairy and Land com.
81 S " recently made deal involving
-,0OO and LII acres. The G. C. An
h;" Tu ranch, consisting of 271 acres, of
,oo. 80 acres are in full-bearing prune
~ anu mas 160 acres under cultiva-
laa. WIN all buildings and two 1Oo-ton
~ 4; also sufficient water power to run
on anus OF machinery, valued at $780,
wv, was traded to Alfred Glenn for
avn a Walla county wheat ranch,
ona Iull section of fall wheat and
me-. 'er IN spring wheat, This ranch
s s,p. sol OF l,44O acres and the valuation