The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-07-20
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Esther Mitchell, the ~1S-year-old girl
who cruelty slew her brother George.
is in the King county Jail, penniless
and deserted by her family. Mrs.
Crefield, who, to avenge the Staying
by George ..4lchell of her husband, the
notorious holy roller" induced Esther
to kill George, is also behind the bars,
with only her father and brother to
befriend her.
The funeral of the late Judge George
Meade Emory, shot and killed by
Chester Thompson in Seattle, was
held Sunday morning at the family
residence Two hundred prominent
lawyers and members Of the Elks and
Loyal Legion attended. The body was
cremated.
1t is said that Colfax is in need Of
carpenters.
In a running fight with officers near
Zillah. an unknown young man, want
ed for horse stealing, was wounded
three times and will probably die.
A hurricane passed three miles
northeast of Valley recently. A vast
amount of valuable timber was blown
down. crops were beaten to the ground
and fences destroyed and telephone
wires dismantled.
The farmers in the cove east of Pa
louise have during the recent hot
weather been turning night into day.
Those who arc blowing land tor sum-
mer fallow, instead of working teams
in the heat, pillow during the night.
That North Yakima is singularly
free from fevers of all descriptions
this year is attributed to the care
taken by the authorities in keeping the
city clean.
Three grain warehouses are under
construction in ka-.lotus.
Secretary of Wal Tart will visit
Fort Wright, American LAKE and
fort Lawton and other Washington
posts next October for the purpose of
locating a brigade post at one of the
places.
Spokane has captured the 10th an
nual convention of the Baptist Young
Peoples union for July, 1907. ais was
decided at Omaha, NeJ.
DR.. S. B. Nelson, professor of vet.
Urinary science at Washington State
college and state veterinarian, has Of
fered a sold silver cup for the best
team Of mares or geldings, or mare
and gelding, at the Interstate fair in
Spokane. The team must weigh not
less than $500 and be driven to a
truck or wagon.
That the American lake site will be
selected by the government for the
location of a brigade post is vouched
for by a government surveyor.
The supreme court has decided that
a man who goes on unsurveyed gov.
ernmen lands and builds a cabin and
opens a coal mine is entitled to the
cabin and mine and necessary land for
MS improvements as against n other
person that may come along in his
absence and take possession.
The Hessian fly, the most dreaded
wheat pest, has made it's appearance
Clarke county.
Micheal Burns, one of the men con
lined IN the county Jail at Asotin on
charge of burglary committed at
Charleston and who with his compan-
ions escaped from Jail but was later
captured, has become insane as the
result of his experience while endeav-
oring to evade the officers.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
adjusted the allotments for the
various irrigation projects in Wash
.ngton as follows: Okanogan, SS500,-
poo; Tieton, $780, 900; Sunnyside,
Il 100000; work in the Indian reser-
'aIlon' 100000; a total of $2,950,0OO.
Contracts for the purchase of land
iIoDg the Columbia river for the right
d way for the branch of the Great
Northern between Wenatchee and
Irovllle are being signed up, the con-
racts including the purchase of this
crop.
Inc body of Krisjan Johnson of On
arlo was found beside the railroad
rack in a secluded nook near Seattle.
4 orlck Is supposed to have been used
" MS assailants. He is supposed TO
ave been killed in a drunken brawl.
Inc total expense for the Spokane
schools proper was 1916. 1854.
ADDED to this is S7,767.96, interest on
variants, and s32, $3.50, interest on
,onds.