The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-10-26
WASHINGTON NorEs

E. F. Mcclure has purchased
George F. stivers 2S2 acres Dea, IUa
field for $3.50 an acre. or SIS D., val
1t is said work is soon TO No..
the 100000 building with wbicS 20
ust Paulsen is to replace the Ia.
block at Spokane. There arc bnDa
ings either completed during thu nv
ent year or under way which VIII
tai in value fully SO, 0O0, 900.
The unwilling of the Monaghan uor.
ument took place October 25.
No further developments have No.
out in the case Of Reno Hutcb,nsou
general secretary of the Young No.
Christian association, who was mr'
dered Monday night at Spokane
In celebration of the most nro.,..
Gus year in the history Of the W.
natchee valley and Chelan county ~.
residents of the counties of Doro,a.
and Chelan Joined in a harvest feat,
val and race meet at Wenatcbee on
Wednesday. Thursday and FRIDAY !,
this week.
Sheriff Painter Of Walla Walla has
in custody Nelson Melander. susnAct.
ed of being implicated in the mprdo,
Of an unknown man near Simmons
Siding on Snake river, about two
weeks ago. So far as known there &c
no direct evidence connecting Melan.
der with the crime.
The contract for the construction q,
the new city hall building at Walls
Walla has been let. The building will
be of Tenino stone and will cost $50.
900.
Two collisions on a piece of track
20 miles long, occurring within an
hour of each other, Is the record made
Saturday evening by the Great North.
err at Malaga and at Trinidad. As a
result two men, both engineers. are in
the hospital in Wenatchee, Engineer
James E. Barr with a crushed foot
which it is feared will necessitate am.
putation and Engineer Harry Halter
injured in the back so seriously that
bis life is in danger, and a fireman is
injured more or less seriously.
To prevent an invasion Of Seattle
during the winter months by the
crooks now said to be operating in
San Francisco and the northwest
Chief Wappenstein declares that he
must have 80 additional patrolmen at
once and If necessary he would ask
the public to subscribe $4,000 to pay
their salaries for six months.
Safe crackers got in their work at
Tyler early Saturday morning. Two
safes in the store of S. Wolf and com.
pany were blown and 1925 belonging
to the postofice taken.
Dates have been settled for the sec.
ond annual school Of music of the
Washington state college for May 2,
r3 and 4, 1907.
The Potlatch fire department has
been organized with a membership Of
100.
The first horse show ever held in
Franklin county took place in Cornell
Saturday.
A cave-in in a sewer recently at
North Yakima caught Newt Green and
Dick Noreen, two laborers, and before
they we're rescued both had died.
Great quantities of rocks and loose
dirt fell upon the men.
William Constantine, worth $780,
900, who shot and wounded his son.
in-law, Jesse Hall, on October 2, at
Seattle, because of stories of domestic
~infelicity told him by his daughter,
has been re-arrested and placed in
jail. He had been out on bail but the
prosecuting attorney feared that he
would make an attempt to leave the
city should Hall die. Hall is not ex'
pected to live.
NJ. E. Kincaid of Seattle, chairman
Of the state board of control, has re-
signed that position and was appoint
ed superintendent of the state peni'
tertiary at Walla Walla in place OF
A. F. KEGS. Governor Mead has an
nounced the appointment Of Mathew
Piles of Olympia, brother of the Unit
ed States senator, as member Of the
state board of control to succeed NJ.
E. Kincaid.
While going to Coulee City recently
with her husband and his mother
Mrs. Mary G. whitley was accident
ally killed in a runaway.