Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-16

pot. The accident happened at night.
The victim was probably intoxicated
when 1t occurred.
A syndicate of farmers unloaded 90.
600 bushels of wheat the other day at
Uniontown, Wash, selling it to Mr..
Covert, manager of the Tacoma Grain
company, at 3S1a cents per bushel.
There has been shipped to the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington
large bundle of wheat on the stalk,
which is to form the center piece of the
American grain display at the Paris ex-
position. The grain was raised on the
0. r. & n. experimental farm near Wal
la Walla, under the supervision of the
| United States department of agricul-
ture.
In the Walla Walla land Office for the
month of November 100 homestead en-
| tries were made covering 1906. rs
acres. In this month more entries were
made than in any one month since the
establishment of the land Office in Wal
la Walla.
The sugar factory at Waverly has
begun work. The enterprise is ready
for business after several years of eff.
fort. AS it is well equipped plant,
four hundred acres of beets were raised
and one hundred and fifty men will be
employed.
MONTANA.
1t really looks now as If brand new
smallpox epidemic had started in at
Butte.
A. H. Benkendorf of Smith Valley,
has lost his residence and household
goods by fire.
John Bigando, an employe of the Bell
mine, at Butte, was painfully injured
while at work in the mine.
A. W. Swaney has been appointed
deputy sheriff at Kalispell to take the
place of Laban Thompson, resigned.
Will Engle, of the lower valley, lost
his granaries and grain by fire the 9TH
er day. About 2600 bushels of wheat
and 1000 bushels of oats were burned.
The loss is partly covered by insurance
c. NJ. Weidemann of Butte has been
| arrested for not renting $112 he re-
ceived for the Colliery Engineer com
pany of Scranton, Pa. This is a com
pany which teaches engineering by cor
respondence.
This year the payment of tax money
has been heavier than ever before in
Butte. Out of the $485, 600 due, about
$4,000 have so far been collected.
leaving less than $4,000 to which the
10 per cent penalty must be added. Yes
terday, the last day to escape the 10
per cent addition, over $4,000 was paid
in, keeping the clerks busy.
Three mining accidents which, while
not fatal, are very painful, occurred in
| the mines in Butte recently. p. ]. Hol-
land, was thrown backwards against a
timber, injuring his back seriously.
John Mccarthy, a station tender at the
Bell mine, had car fall on his left
! leg, crushing it horribly. John Harch
at the st. Lawrence, was setting up a
machine drill when the machine fell,
catching him underneath it. His left
leg was broken.
The police of Butte have received
some information which is to them one
and all disquieting. 1t is stated that
Jew Jess, the mistress Of Robert Shad-
well at the time he murdered Red
| O'Connor, has returned to Butte, and
is in hiding. She was wanted as a wit
ness, but kept away until sentence was
pronounced. And worse still, she is
accompanied by the equally notorious
and dangerous Black Pearl, who de-
parted from Butte last spring after rob
bling well known business man of
$1,000.
Professor Malachy Dwytr, an old res
ident of Butte, formerly of Ogdensburg,
n Y, during heated religious discus
sion with j. S. Charlebois, the divine"
healer, attempted to strike the latter,
and Charlebois called on God to pro-
tect him, and Dwyer dropped dead.
! The men were in the public library at
the time. Charlebois, who is from Hell
ena, and once lived in Spokane is a
religious zealot, with reputation as a
divine healer, and is editor of publ
cation called THE Living Truth" Dur
! ing his discussion with Dwyer he made
| the statement that he had read the fig
ures 1866" which were marked on the
forehead of the pope. Dryer said they
had an anti-Christ significance, and
called Charlebois liar and made a
rush for him with appraised hand to
strike him. Charlebois says he stood
up and called on God to protect him,
and before Dryer could strike he drop
ped dead. Dwyer was 68 years old
| The coroner's inquest this evening de-
veloped the fact that death was due
to heart failure, produced by excite
ment.
OREGON.
Judge Fraser has decided that Will