Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-13
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 NEWS.

n new JoWn nan Is W DC DullC aI ralr-
field.
The annual state convention of the
Knights of Columbus, was held in Van
couver Monday and Tuesday.
Fire in the barn and dry kilns of the
Ideal Lumber company, at Spokane,
Sunday, destroyed property valued at
$4,000.
Burglars who broke into the house of
Earl Poleen, Seattle, Sunday night, got
away with silverware and jewelry
worth $780,
John Fisher, said to have been
thrown from a moving Northern Pacific
freight train, died in Spokane from in
ternal injuries.
p. Moran, foreman in the W. F. Lin.
giles pole camp, five miles east of
Laurier, was instantly killed by tree
falling on him.
All survey work on the Ritzville-
Ellensburg cutoff of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad has been completed and
construction work has been started.
The jury at Tacoma in the case of
Mrs. Martina Kvalshaug, on trial for
completely in the murder of her hus-
band, disagreed and were discharged.
F. P. Greene and B. o. Nelson of
Spokane have organized the Spokane
Audit and System company, incorpo-
rated, of Spokane, and will do a gem
eral auditing and systematizing bust
ness.
Death recently removed James E.
Bergman, pioneer farmer and discov-
erer of the Florence Idaho) gold mines.
Mr. Bergman died on his large farm
at Bergman, Is miles from Walla
Walla.
Charles J. Kershaw, aged 70 years,
one of the best-known pioneer citizens
of Tacoma and for many years prom
inent figure in grain circles of Chicago
and Milwaukee, died Sunday in Ia
coma o. an acute attack of jaundice and
pneumonia.
Link by link the state is forging it's
chain of evidence around William Gohl,
accused Of the murder of Charles Had
berg, whom John Klingenberg confessed
he killed on the morning of December
% at Indian Creek at the alleged COM
mand of William Gohl.
Alfred Beamer of Spokane, who has
been superintendent of the Idaho divi-
sion of the Northern Pacific for several
years, has resigned and will be sue
.ceeded by j. NJ. Rapelje, now superin-
-tendent of the Yellowstone division,
with headquarters at Glendive, Mont.
Police Sergeant Bunker and Police
man Hunt of Spokane have arrested
two young men whom they believe to
be members of the gang of pickpockets
which has made two rich hauls lately
The men gave their names as Victor
johnson and Andrew Louey, from Min.
neapolis.
Auke A. Miley, an architectural en-
gineer, leaped from street car at Sc.
attic, Sunday afternoon and, rushing to
the curb, fred a bullet from an auto
matte revolver through the head of q
A. Morrison, tile filter, who was walk
ing company with Miley's wife and
6-year-old son Donald.
The bodies of the two children
drowned at Touchet recently, were
found there Sunday on the bank Of
the river. The boy, Jacob Schiffner,
years old, was drowned April 80, anC
little 2-year-old Audrey Grigsby one
week later. Both drownings and the
findings of the bodies have occurred OF
successive Sundays.
Charles Irwin, janitor at the court
house at North Yakima, was painfully
burned by an explosion in an ante-roon
of the building recently, due to hi
lighting a match in the gas-flled room
His body, from the waist is blistered
Charles Nickle, who was with him, wa
also burned, and both men were knocked
TO the floor by the explosion.
A state board of charities, 1aving I
limited supervision of the societies o,
Washington which have for their pur
pose the alienation of the needs of the
distressed, was advocated by Governol
NJ E. Hay in his address which was de
livered at the opening session of the
fourth annual convention of the state
conference of charities and corrections
He stated also that as a result of al
investigation of the penal institutions
of the state large portion of the in
mates gave as the reason for their pres
ence there their inability to control the
desire for liquor.