Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-18
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

a total of $4,000.
State Senator r. A. Hutchinson of
Spokane is improving slowly from his
recent sickness.
Cheney's water supply was cut off
Saturday, as torrents from nearby hill
sides submerged the reservoir.
Mrs. Wilhimina Lawson, whose mind
became deranged over grieving over the
death of daughter, committed suicide
at Seattle Sunday.
Bishop Lemuel H. Wells of Spokane,
who has been i'll in New York, is again
at his work raising funds for western
Episcopal missions.
Hay will be scarce between now and
the first cutting of the new crop in
May. The entire Yakima valley is
pretty well sold out.
Ali the bodies of the victims of the
Wellington disaster will not be recov
cred for month, according to state
ment made by Superintendent o NELL.
Charles Marsey, the 14-year-old son
of Dwight Marsey, a farmer living
three miles west of Touchet, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed by younger
brother.
The body of L. D. Schwartz and
Maurice O'Brien, drowned at Oakesdale
on last Tuesday, were found in the
creek mile below the scene of the ac-
cident.
John Stokes, who killed his wife, has
been sentenced to from 10 to 20 years
in the penitentiary for manslaughter
by Judge Yakey in the superior court
of Kitsap county.
The body of the late William Win
tiers of Spokane, who died recently in
New York, will be brought to Spokane
for interment, and will probably arrive
there the last of the week.
Without an instant s warning Henry
j. Mayer, chief night dispatcher of the
Northern Pacific, was crushed to death
Sunday morning while attempting to
couple a coach and baggage car at
Spokane.
The parade of about 1000 working
men through the streets of Spokane
Tuesday night was an event novel in
the history of that city. They want
the city to raise the scale of wages
from $2.75 to So for eight hours.
Harry B. Hanford, youngest son of
Judge G. H. Hanford of the federal
court, has been placed in a padded cell
at the Seattle city Jail, becoming viO-
lently insane, and his father lies pros
l., - bo
All of the Industrial Workers of the
World disturbers who have been do
ing time on the city roekpile at Spo-
kane will be released before the end of
the present week, according to Chief
of Police Sullivan. They all agree to
keep within the city's ordinance.
DR.. Ralph Matson, city bacteriologist
of Portland, has made public the fact
strychnine in a small portion of the con-
tents of the stomach of Mrs. Edith Pc
pooh, whose husband, George Pepooa,
is under arrest at Northport, Wash, on
charge in connection with Mrs. Pc.
poon IS death.
Backers of the horse against the
automobile rejoiced recently at Walla
Walla. Some of the councilmen pulled
in a fire alarm to test the relative
speed of the horses and the new auto,
mobile chemical engine. The horses
made it in a minute and a half and
were calling for a second helping of
oats before the automobile pulled into
sight.
Jacob Furth, president of the Puget
Sound Electric Railway company, op
Grating the interurban railroad between
Seattle and Tacoma and other lines radi
ating from the two cities, announces
that the company will not accept the
recent order of the state railroad com
mission ordering it to make certain re
auctions in its fares, but will carry the
case into the courts.
The state law of 1898, requiring rail
roads at their own expense to conduct
and maintain crossings, gates and bars
where their grades bisect land owned by
farmer, is now held to have beer
repealed by a decision of the state
supreme court in the case of 1. N. Huff
man against the Oregon Railway & Nav
legation company, thus reversing the de
cision of the lower court. The supreme
court says that under the law of 1907
the landowner must pay the expense
of such crossings.