Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Indian Wants His LOsings Back
Wendal Hall in TrOuble-ShO-
shOne County Bonds to Be Tested
Suicide From Il Train at Albany
Falls.


more detective work.
The board of county commissioners at
Colfax has on file a letter from Governor
Rogers in regard to the keech pardon
case which was written to w. W. Sarn-
ders of Spokane, attorney for Mrs keech,
of the record of the case. The letter is
dated at Olaympia. May 10, and is as
follows: Your letter of May Is at
hand. Relating to the keech pardon |
can only reiterate what has been said
now a number of times. The pardon
was granted keech Internationally. 1t
is a matter of record in the executive
office. 1t was, however, sent to Judge
Mcdonald to be by him delivered to
Keech. | do not desire to be drawn into
a squabb having difficulties of my own
to look after, and therefore must beg to
be excused from signing the certificate
which you enclose. Yours very truly,
j. r. Rogers"
Mrs Eliza Mcclure Alexander. who
has been a sufferer for six weeks from a
paralytic stroke, died last week at Hill
yard. Deceased was born March 4, 1919,
in Sanford, Browne county, New York.
In 1912 she was married to Peter =. AL
exander. In 1856 the family removed to
Iowa county, Wisconsin, which was then
a wilderness, living for several years in
Avoca, and later i'll Vernon county. The
husband died in 1881. Mrs. Alexander
came to Spokane in 1887, and has re-
sided in Hillyard four years. Her de-
scendants now living consist of six sons,
90 grandchildren and four great grand
children. Two sons and daughter pre-
ceded her to the grave. Her sons are
Charles ID. of Tamora, Neb.: f. w. of
Virginia, Wis: Frank Nj. of Watervile
Wash, and S. L., f. f. and Fred Il. of
! Spokane. Two brothers and a sister in
Browne county, New York, survive her
Indian Commissioner Snowden has sue
ceeded in saving for Sarah Wannochin a
| balance Of about $500 remaining of
moneys for land owned by her son on
the Puyallup reservation. She claims
she was influenced by the former commits
sioners to sign power OF attorney to sell
the land upon the representation that it
was probate paper. The land was then
sold and $24oo Of the purchase money
given to Mary Taylor who claimed to be
/ the wife of Joe Wannochin. The old
woman will get the balance left.
/ Abraham sequa, an Indian living on
/ the Occur d'Alene reservation, was in
Tekoa last week to see if he could get
legal aid to collect a gambling debt from
Louie Arapa, another Indian. The story
| told by Abraham is that he visited Louie
Friday night and engaged in a friendly
game of poker The former was lucky
and won Il sum of money, gun and
saddle from the latter, but it appears
that the articles were not delivered to
the winner at the time. The next morn
| ing Abraham returned to Louie's house
ter refused to deliver them, and Abra-
ham came to Tokoa to get legal advice.
He seemed much disappointed when he
found he could not collect the debt.
Measles are raging in ColfaX, and a
large per cent of the children who have
/
are no serious cases and the weather is
ideal for this disease. Pullman is afflict
ed the same way, and a resident OF Pull
man declares fully one-half the youthful
population of the town have the disease.
Bent on rigid economy Rockfords
school board employed but one teacher
for the summer term of two months. but
when at the end of the first month there
were nearly 80 names on the roll, Mr..
Brewer declared an assistant must be
furnished him, and Miss Hilga Hanson,
one of this years graduates, was ap-
pointed to that position.
Chris Ennis has just returned from
trip to Ireland, whittier he went to see
relatives and friends, says the Walla
Walla Statesman He reports having
had delightful time, and was especially
impressed with the beauty of the Emer-
aid Isle. One thing particularly was no.
ticeable, being the profusion of flowers
that grow along the roadsides, making
the thoroughfares appear more like parks
than public highways. Mr., Ennis says
that there is splendid prospect for
crops in Ireland, but the little fields look
ed to him like playing farming.
May, little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Lowary of Sprague, who are Wis
iting near Walla Walla, ate several NOR
phine tablets the other evening, and the
child's life was only saved after three
hours hard work by the physicians. The
I little girl thought the tablets were can
DIV. She ate grain and a quarter of the
drug
Strawberries from the Old Mission are
in the market here in Wallace, before the
middle of June, and it accents the diff
ference in climate between there and
here, for in this neighborhood the vines
are just fairly in bloom. The distance
between the two places by the river is
only 25 miles, and considerably less in an
air line, while the difference in elevation
is only some 600 or 700 feet.
AS the eastbound express on the Great
Northern railway was crossing the
bridge at Albany Falls ten days ago, +.
Schemelye of San Francisco, sprang
through the window of passenger coach
with the evident intention of plunging
into the river. His body struck some OF
the timbers on the side of the bridge and
fell back under the wheels of the train
Death was almost instantaneous.
E. E. Harris is a new arrival in Gen
esee from Oklahoma Mr. Harris was
sooner in that country during the mad
rush of a few years past, but like the ma
jority of those who went there tired of
trying to exc out an existence. He states
that he has induced a large party who
are travelling overland in nine wagons
to follow him to Genesee. He states
that "if many other settlers in that God
forsaken country knew of the opportuni-
ties and openings for industrious people
in the Inland Empire they would follow