Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-07
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON And OREGON.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fan outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

key, diamond drill men in the Walter
Scott mine near Northport, lost their
lives Sunday from bad air.
After nearly so years of varied pic.
neer life, George w. Conrad passed
away at his home, Loon Lake recently.
Luther George Hager, a member of
the Post -lntelligencer staff, employed as
cartoonist, recently married Miss Beat
rice Holbrook Dearborn, heiress in her
half million dollars.
The Palouse river is covered with ice
six to eight inches thick, and teams are
at work putting up supply.
Nick Brunski committed suicide at
Spokane.
January was the coolest New Year s
day ever officially recorded in Seattle,
the temperature having fallen to ~
above zero.
G. w. Waters, receiver Of the defunct
PalOuse State Bank, has announced that
he will pay the creditors a dividend of
20 per cent on their claims as a New
Year S remembrance, the payment to be
made January 5.
Preliminary plans for fighting frost
next spring have been perfected and
nearly every orchard along the Column
bia river from White Bluffs to Hoover
will be equipped with smudge pots be-
fore chill nights of early spring come.
The first Union Pacific train to enter
Seattle arrived Sunday afternoon.
The town of Cunningham has let the
contract for sinking well for city and
fire use.
K. G. Kohler, Ellensburg, F. M. Roth
rock, Spokane, and r. A. jackson, Day.
ton, have been appointed by Governor
M. E. Hay as delegates to the National
Wool Growers association, which meets
at Ogden, Utah, January 6, and 8.
The pOstofice department is sending
out warnings to the public and to its
offices in regard to money order blanks
from the town of Ostrander, this state.
These orders were taken in a robbery
of that office ON July 10 last and their
numbers run from $3.50 to 64OO, inclus-
i've.
j. M. Bennington of Ritzville pleaded
guilty to a charge of forgery and was
sentenced to Walla Walla for not less
than three nor more than 20 years.
Spokane bank clearings for 1909, were
$500, 1904, 1884, showing gain of $50 ,619,-
093 over 1908, an increase of "a per
cent.
The Walla Walla wireless telegraph
station is in operation and already the
operator, John F. Titus, has succeeded
in getting into communication with a
point in the Pacific ocean within 500
miles of the Hawaiian islands.
7. H. McGown, a farmer living near
Garfield, was recently fined SIS and
costs for violation of the compulsory
education law in that he refused to send
his two sons, aged 8 and IS years, to
school.
The health officer has posted notices
at Chewelah forbidding any public gath
erings and schools on account of scarlet
fever.
E. f. Lambirth of Davenport sold
$4,000 bushels of wheat for $1.1O per
bushel net, after paying all warehouse
charges.
Revised estimates of the Alaska and
Puget Sound salmon pack for 1908 place
the total at 3,917,OOO cases, valued at
ST., 206,000 The Alaska pack was worth
$2,0O0,0 900 more than that of the Sound
The Odd Fellows of Wenatchee are
preparing to erect new building.
At Ephrata a commercial club was
organized recently with membership
of 25.
At Dayton William A. Crossler, we'll
known farmer, was granted decree of
divorce from Mamie Crossler on the
grounds of incompatibility of temper.
According to recent statistics of the
state railway commissioner, 1910 miles
of new railroad is projected to affect the
Inland Empire and the state of Wash
ingtOn in 1910.
For the second time within 20 years
case of leprosy was recently discov-
cred in Seattle and the victim ordered
deported to the government leper col
Ony in the Hawaiian islands. He was
Crock Govern, a Scandinavian.