Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-11
WASHINGTON sTATE NEWS

| SVoHAcy, san Juan
county.
The Farmers union and the grange
are taking an interest in the question
of taxation this year.
The depot safe at Clear Lake, skagit
county, near Mount Vernon, was
robbed recently, the thieves getting
$155 in cash.
The state of Washington, according
to the latest statistics, has the unen-
viable reputation of granting more di.
vorces than any other state in the
union of equal population.
j. A. Kellogg, pioneer business man,
ex-mayor of Dayton, former auditor of
| Columbia county and state representa-
tive from that district, committed sui
eide at Seattle recently. He was
respondent.
Former United States Senator George
Turner will be the principal speaker at
memorial exercises which will be held at
Whitman college Tuesday November Is
in honor of the late Ex-Governor John
II. McGraw of Seattle.
| State Bank Examiner J. L. Mohun-
dro says that in future the state bank
ing department will refuse to charter
banks in communities where they are
not needed, and will urge a change in
the state law so as to make $4,000 the
lowest capital permitted.
| In the Palouse many farmers are SOW
ing their fall wheat crop despite the
dry condition of the soil. Summer fall
lowed fields that were cultivated are
in good condition for fall seeding, but
those not cultivated are hard and dry
and it is impossible to get the seed in
the ground.
DR.. A. A. Tozier, state oil inspector,
has filed with Governor Hay his report
of business done during the first six
months of his term of office. His Re.
ceipts exceed those of the same period
of 1909 by $6,419. During that time
he inspected 9,7s4, 6ss gallons of oil and
collected $19,5s7 in fees.
William L. bigger and others who own
land abutting Lake Washington, Sc
attic, have secured a permanent iniunc-
ton restraining the state, county and
contractors from lowering the lake level,
from putting the property in an assess
ment district and from issuing bonds or
adopting any method that will cloud the
| title to the abutting property.
Work on the irrigation project in the
north central part of Okanogan
county by the Okanogan Irrigation and
Improvement company, which entails an
expenditure of 100000 for placing I'M
der water 1920 acres of land, will
be started November Is, according to
Colonel A. M, Dewey, a director of the
company.
In making up the material for
students directory at the University
of Washington it has been found that
men and women students in several
cases are rooming in the same house,
direct violation Of the rules of the
institution. Those students who do
not change their rooming quarters at
once will be asked to discontinue their
work at the university.
A delegation from the chamber of
commerce will attend the Pacific Coast
congress, called by Governor Gillett of
California to meet in San Francisco,
November II, 18 and 10. The Northern
Pacific railroad is issuing special tickets
and return certificates at a fare and a
quarter from all points in Idaho, Wash
ington and Oregon, in conjunction with
the Southern Pacific at Portland, which
may be had from November z to 10,
the return to be up to and including
November 20. The fare from Spokane
will be, going, $31.20; returning, $1O.4O..
The mining town of Wilkeson, in
Pierce county, will make no tax levy
this year for either city or school
taxes, and the mining towns of South
Prairie and Rushton will only make
6-mill levy for school purposes. 1t is
said the liquor licenses in these towns
is sufficient to met all municipal ex-
penses.
II. M. Colvin, instructor in Spanish in
the University of Washington, eat moth
ing for 20 days. Mr.. Colvin has suf
fered with stomach trouble, and is act
ing upon the hypothesis that what his
stomach needs is good rest.
The Amalgamated Band of the lower
Yakima valley is the name that has
been selected for the band being drilled
by Bandmaster H. w. Hare, preparatory
to visit to the National Apple show
in Spokane this November.
General James A. Drain, at the Ma
tional Capital, former adjutant general
of Washington, is strong advocate
of the bill recently approved by the ma
tional guard convention at st. Louis,
providing that the federal government
shall pay the militia of the states.
The Rev. H. o. Kerns, better known
throughout eastern Washington as
"Father Kerns," recently returned
from Kansas with a pride. He is n
years old and his bride &c years. The
couple will reside in Dayton, where
Father Kerns is pastor of the United
Brethren church.
C. Hettel, orchardist near Walla
Walla, claims the record yield of apples
for this valley. He reports a yield of
5000 boxes from two and one-half
acres, or an average of 1900 boxes an
acre. The apples are of the Gano va
riety The fruit is large and well