Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-27
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 STATE NEWS

Ritzville had 500 pupils at the close
of term.
| G. NJ. Banker, prominent resident of
Cashmere, died recently.
The outlook for the grain crop in
Whitman county is not SO good as was
expected.
Wenatchee citizens have already SUBJ
scribed 81, 1s0 for Y. M. c. A. build
ing in that city.
The estimated wool clip of the Colum-
bia country this year is approximately
100000 pounds.
The state grange meets in Pullman
on June Z, 8, 9 and 10. There will be
several. hundred delegates.
Pasco is to have cleaner streets or
fewer hobos, if the present plan of the
police department is success.
Conconully.-No convictions were Sc
cured by the state in criminal cases in
the present term of superior court.
There will be three times as large a
fruit crop this season as there was last
year throughout the Palouse country.
One car of fruit to every acre of
bearing orchard is estimated as an aver
age for 1910 in the Toppenish vicinity.
William Kennedy, deck hand on the
steamer Inland Empire, was run down
by switch engine at Kennewick and
killed.
Mrs. Frank Leo, Walla Walla, the
white wife of DR.. Leo, Chinaman, has
returned to him after an absence of
several months.
The supply of jute bags at the prison
this year has been exhausted, accord
ing to Warden Reed, and no more or
ders will be taken.
Work has started on the reconstruc-
ton of the Union Iron works machine
and boiler shop, destroyed Friday after
noon by fire at Spokane.
The Walla Walla Farmers Warehouse
company will not join the combination
of cooperative grain warehouses in this
state, Idaho, Oregon and Utah.
A farmers institute will be held at
Husum May %. The meeting will be
addressed by professors from the State
Agricultural college at Pullman.
D. L. Gillespie, publisher of the
Brewster Herald, wants to be register
of the land Office at Waterville, and
has gone to Washington in the matter.
Lumber industries in Chelan county
are enjoying a prosperous year and
the demand has been so great that local
dealers find it hard to keep up supply.
j. E. Martin of the government
reclamation service, has taken up the
matter of draining the Toppenish wheat
country, for which $25O,OOO has been
appropriated part of which is now
available.
The Okanogan Publicity league is the
name of new organization formed by
the real estate men of Omak, CONGO
nully, Okanogan and Malott. Large
sums of money are being pledged for
publicity use.
Dean A. w. Hendricks of Whitman,
who has been in Washington, D. c., in
the interests of the bill to allow Whit
man to purchase the Fort Walla Walla
property, has returned and declares the
bill will eventually pass.
The formal transfer of the holdings
of the lewiston Charleston company to
the Observation-Disclosures Improvement
company through Spencer, Trask 8 Co.,
was made Saturday at noon when it's
temporary president, George W. Bailey,
received telegram from New York to
assume control. The deal involves
So, 10000
That fruit produced in the Yakima
valley this season will be unusually fine,
provided orchardists do not neglect i'm.
mediately spraying for codling moth,
is the opinion of Fruit Inspector T.
o. Morrison, who has been watching
eggs Of the moth carefully, and re-
ports that they are about ready to
hatch.
Prosecuting Attorney Chamberlain of
Whitman county has issued a warrant
for George Bafus, charging him with
murder in the first degree. Bafus is at
large on the coroner's warrant. On
April 10 George Bafus killed his
brother-in-law with a stick of stove
wood following a quarrel. He was
bound over to the superior court and
afterward released on $4,000 bonds.