The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-09-28
! Re" Interesting Items Gathered
from Cur Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
9Iaee-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Hall.
The big roller skating rink at Nata
forum park was burned to the grount
recently.
me school house in district No. IS
Snohomish county, was burned a few
nights ago.
Seattle Odd Fellows may. before
long have a capacious and handsome
lodge building for their own use.
II is said freight trains will be NOV.
ing over the Spokane international
railway by the first of November.
Judge Huneke of Spokane has set
october 8 as the date of trial of Sid
ney Sloane for the murder of his IA
Their.
A logging train and a special freight
on the Interurban line between Seattle
and Tacoma, collided at Milton re-
Gently.
Warehousemen say that IS bushels
Of fall and 30 bushels of spring whee.
an acre is a fair estimate for the dis
trict around Tekoa.
So rapidly is North Yakima increas-
ing in population that about a dozen
more teachers will be employee in the
schools this year than last.
John c. Ross. aged 60 years. fell
from the upper deck Of his steamer.
the Mizpah, in Oyster bay, near Ia
coma, recently and was drowned.
The secretary of the interior is adj
ver,ising for bids for the construction
of the main canal for the Tieton irri-
cation project near North Yakima.
At a meeting of old settlers held at
Wenatchee steps were taken which
will lead to a permanent organization
of the old settlers of Chelan county.
Avis Ray, the II year old son of e.
B. Ray of Tacoma, was fatally injured
at North Yakima by being thrown
from a horse. His skull was fractured.
Peter Foley, the man who was IT.
jured a few days ago while working
on the Spokane & Inland grade, died
at ColfaX without regaining conscious
ness.
Sam Marsh of Lamona was killed a
short distance out of Downs on the
Great Northern track Friday night.
He had been conducting a saloon at
LamOna for NJ. S. Hugh.
Charles Gottschalk, % years of age,
was run Over by a Northern Pacific
freight train in the yards at Spokane
Saturday night and received injuries
that may result in his death.
The Waverly sugar factory has put
on a largo forap opd ic n,oEipn brOurn |
out of syrup held over from last
year. This brown sugar is to be work
over into white sugar later.
The horse men are again securing
the range for stock which was not
gathered in the big round up last
and several shipments will be
made from Wilson creek in a few
lays.
William Peterson, aged 81 years,
builders apprentice at Moran & Co.'S
ship yard, Seattle, was instantly kill
I'd in the tool sharpening room recent
Y by being struck on the head by a
of emery wheel that had broken. :
The hop house owned by Charles
IcAllister at Yakima City, containing ,
0 tons of hops, was completely lie
troyed by fire recently. The loss is d
stimated at $4,000, with no insur-
nee. The fire was caused by an over, =
Gated kiln.
The state convention Of Hibern- q
ans on Sunday elected the follow e
lg officers: President, John Cannon
f Seattle; vice president, James Il
1artin Of Walla Walla; secretary,
d. Gleason of Tacoma; treas n
rer, p. Fitzpatrick of Seattle; chap \
lin, Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Dea Of Seattle
hey will meet next in Walla Walla. n
A bloody murder was revealed Sat h
rday morning at Sprague when the
Initiated body of an unknown man
found in a boxcar on an N. p.
eight train. The dead man is de- 2
ribbed as small, 5 feet AZ inches in !,
eight, apparently about 80 years old, :
ark complexion and black hair and :
ustache. On the left arm the letters -
w" are tatocod. The end of the y
.umb on the left hand is missing. -
Auditor Burch has complated an alb -
ract of the assessment of real and =
srsonal property of Garfield county ,,
the valuations fixed by the .
,ard of equalization. Exclusive of "
wn and city lots there are 135,922.95 -
res of improved land, the value of -
hich is 50, 4 ,44O. The improve
ents are STAG, 955. The average val
Ltion per acre of improved land is =,
$50, and the average value Of the -
lprovements is 40 cents an acre. :,
IDAHO NOTES. 81
H. NJ. Narl was struck by a rock hi
ON a blast near Stevens and serious be
injured. in
c. D. Sherman, aged so years. for IN