Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-07-08
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


elected grand patron of the Eastern
Star of Washington.
The Tacoma school census for 1910,
just completed, shows that there are
2O,O45 children of school age.
Sixty convicts employed ON the state
road south of Bellingham, who went
on strike for an eighthour day, have
won their strike.
The first apple-p packing school in
Prosser, made necessary because of the
heavy crop of fruit this year, is being
conducted in that city.
While working ON trestle spanning
Box Head canyon Theodore Sicora fell
100 feet today and was instantly killed.
The body was taken to lone
The enrolment of the summer sci
ence school, Pullman, for teachers has
| passed the $50 mark and new teachers
are being enrolled almost daily.
President Taft has sent to the SEN
ate and that body confirmed the nomi-
nation of Frank A. Twitchell, as re-
ceiver of public moneys at Seattle.
Installation of six high-tension power
wires of the Yakima-Pasco company
from Kennewick to Pasco, together
with two telephone wires, has been COM
pleted.
The bodies of A. R. Needles and his
stepdaughter, Miss Blanche German, of
Tonopah, New, who were drowned in
| Swan Lake cou+hwoS+ &c Coo++1o - g..
days ago, have been recovered.
Charles M. Carr, a resident of Spo-
kane, recently applied for a patent on
device to be used on mail pouches
Several demonstrations of the model
has shown that it will fulfill all the
expectations of the inventor.
Cash in the state treasury Monday
aggregates $2,543,S13, according to the
weekly report of Treasurer Lewis. Of
this $7S7, 965 is in the general fund
$551,354 in the highway fund and more
than $1,o63,OOo is in permanent funds
to invest in bonds.
A. D. Mitchell, aged "a, a reporter
for Bradstreet g Mercantile agency, was
drowned in Lake Union, Seattle, Sun
day afternoon. With j. w. Mexican he
had gone out in a sailboat and he dived
in for swim. Soon Mitchell cried out
in distress and sank just as Mex can
reached his side.
What is regarded by State Geologist
Henry Landes as the richest deposits
of tungsten existing in the northwest
has been partially developed on state
lands in Stevens county, 10 miles north
of Deer Park. Prof. Landes was sent
by State Land Commissioner Ross to
investigate and make report on these
lands.
White Salmon-With day laborers
demanding $2.75 day and man and
team Sc a day and board, future or
chardists are finding it very costly to
clear their land, and some have quit
development work for the time being.
Japanese labor was advanced to $2.25,
the highest that oriental day labor has
ever received.
To aid the work in Washington of
the national irrigation congress and at
the request of President Fowler, Gov
ernor Hay has appointed the following
advisory committee: R. Insinger of
Spokane, Professor o. L. Waller, Pull
man; w. w. Hindman, Spokane; w. T.
Clark, Wenatchee, and DIR. N. G. Bla-
lock, Walla Walla.
President H. H. Mclean of the farm
ers' union at Walla Walla, says that
three, and perhaps more, farmers grain
warehouses will be built in the county
this summer. These Independent farm
ers' warehouses have realized a profit
of Is per cent for their owners and
their erection is considered by the farm
ers one of the best investments.
Jesse L. Chapman, aged rs years,
a native of Ohio, who crossed the plains
in 1882 and took up a homestead at
the mouth of the .Nisqually river, is
dead. Warned by Chief Leschi of the APP
preaching Indian uprising in 1855
Chapman's mother, with the younger
members of the family, went to Olympia
for safety, young Chapman remaining
and enlisting with the settlers for the
Indian war of 1856.
Out of the million dollars worth OF
work now being done on the highways
in the state of Washington, $125,OOO is
being spent in Spokane county alone
There are now three state aid roads
being constructed in and around Spo
kane and by the time winter sets il
the facilities for getting in and out Of
this city will be equal to or better
than those of any other city in the
northwest.
After suffering for 80 years with {
fractured skull, during which time hi
was subject to frequent fits of acute
insanity resulting from the pressur,
of splinter of bone upon the brain
Robert Lynch, a plumber of Walls
Walla, has been relieved of his Attic
tion by an operation. The patient wa
changed almost in twinkling from
morose sufferer into a clear-minded ant
unusually bright man.
The funeral of former Governor Johl
H. MeGraw, who died Thursday even
ing, June %, was held at the famil,
\ residence, Seattle, Saturday afternoon
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