The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-10
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous ACCT
dents and Personal Events Take
PIsce-Fali Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

OF the boy IS IELuIHNA W III
the reward will be $50.
On retiring from active service as
adjutant general of the national guard
Of Washington, after almost six years
service. James A. Drain addressed a
circular letter to the officers and men
Of the national guard of Washington.
Adiutant General Ortis Hamilton an
nounces the appointment of Captain
Matt II. Gormley Of Seattle as lieu
tenant colonel of the Second Washing
ton. N. G. w, to fill the vacancy
caused by his own appointment as
adjutant general.
Mrs. Eli K. Gage and her 6 year old
son have left Seattle with the body OF
her husband, e. A. Gage, who com
nitted suicide at a hotel.
Fire which broke out in the draught-
ing room of the Great Northern depot
at Spokane damaged the building to
the extent Of $4,000 and destroyed
maps and Office drawings and furni-
ture valued at several hundred dol
lars. The cause is unknown.
The steamers Flyer and C~heechacko
burned recently at the dock at Lake
sled. The fire started in the boiler
room of the Cheehacko. Hard work
saved the Lady of the Lake. Charles
Wolverton, sleeping on the Flyer, had
a narrow escape. The vessels were
a total loss, with nc insurance.
Thitry-lve deeds for rl~ght-of-way
in Kittitas county have been filed by
tho Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway. These are between Ellens-
burg and Easton. In each instance
the consideration given is nominal.
The joint wheat rate order promul-
gated by the railroad commission has
been served on the defendant rail-
roads and will become effective in
IS days. Under its provisions the
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern,
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company and the Washington &
Columbia company will be Obliged to
interchange wheat traffic between
eastern Washington and Puget sound
Torts at tho request of the shippers.
The points Of transfer as between the
railroads named are fixed by the COM
mission at Spokane, Wallula and
Hunts Junction.
The assessed valuation Of property in
Chelan has made n decided jump. The
reports of the county assessor Just
completed shows that there is an in
creas Of $2.OO0,0 600.
Work has been started on Palouse's
new cooperative creamery, and the
cement foundation is practically COM
pleted.
Walter L~ingfelder, for FIVE years
editor OF the Evening Statesman, at
Walla Walla. resigned to become
editor Of the Daily Union, Carl Roe
having been promoted to business
manager of the Union. VIII Guion
was advanced from the reportorial
stan Of the Statesman to editor in
chief.
Andrew Ingerman, an expert cleo
trician met a horrible death while at
work on a line near the w. & G. r.
depot at Walla Walla. In descending
n pole he slipped and fell across a live
wire, killing him instantly.
According to the annual report of
w. B. Price, treasurer of Kittitas
county, the total receipts for the year
ending June 80 were s214,7O3.
Alfred Labor, son of Philip Laber,
was drowned recently in Sheep lake.
a small body of water two and a half
miles EAST of Creston.
Fifteen thousand boxes of Bartlett
pears were purchased recently by C
r. Onner. from fruit growers OF
Parker bottom, near North Yakima
The average price a box was slightly
over 81.
The town of Clealum is soon tc
have a modern water works system.
According to late reports from the
wheat fields Of Eureka fiat. 1t is esti
mated that the average yield will
reach in the neighborhood of % tc
% bushels to the acre. Grain dealers
estimate that the shortage in Walla
Walla county will reach in the neigh
horhood of ESQ, 900 bushels.
At a special meeting of the Wilbur
town council the Sunday closing ordi
nance. which has been in force for the
past three months, was repealed.
"hile trying to get his dog from
under a freight train standing on the
Northern Pacific railway trestle over
Madelia street, Spokane, Max Gady, Z
years old, was instantly killed Sunday
afternoon when a switch engine
bumped into the dead" train, moving
II three feet and mangling the lad al
most beyond recognition. The dog es
capped injury, and when the shunted
train had come to a stop, the anima'
gazed at the mangled remains Of his
little master, growing whenever any
one approached the body.
IDAHO NOTES.