East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Hay has been advanced in price at
Tacoma by the dealers-S1 per ton on
both alfalfa and tirlothy. Alfalfa now
costs $3.50, and timothy s21 ton.
burglars blew the safe of the bank
at Kettle Falls, Wash, and made
away with s1100 cash. They are said
to have done an expert job, both at
safe breaking and escaping.
At Butte, Mont. Harry Penna, a
smelterman, madly in love with Mrs.
Robert Bryant, whose husband and
two children are living. shot and
killed the woman. Penna gave him
self up to the police
Charles Rousseliere, a Frenchman,
who was a blacksmith until his voice
attracted attention and he was sent to
Paris to study, will appear in the
United States next year and will be
paid $1,000 a night.
At Chewelah. Wash, f. Clarke, Joe
Cole and James Smith were arrested
charged with burglary. The stolen
goods were in part found upon them.
and all were committed without bail.
All are residents of the town.
The British steamer Haversham
Grange collided in the Straits of Ma
lacca with the Chinese steamer Ben
ton. OF 101 Cinnamon on the latter
80 were drowned. The Benton went
to the bottom. The survivors were
picked up by the Grange.
Representatives Jones and Cush-
man, of Washington, are striving for
an appropriation of $4,000 with
which TO have a system of roads built
through Mount Rainier reserve. Pri-
marily the object is the proper enrour-
agement of the tourist industry.
The state fruit inspector of WASH
ington has discovered crown gall in
Stevens county. This is considered as
the most incurable disease that fruit
trees are ever afflicted whit is
comparable to leprosy in the human
system. and is extremely infectious.
William Decker was fording the
Yellowstone river near Forsyth.
Mont. recently, while in pursuit of
a horse thief. Decker was on horse
back. In the middle of the stream
unknown parties shot Decker off his
horse. The body has not been recov-
cred.
Fire at 1890 the morning Of April
29, at Lewiston, Idaho, practically de-
stroyed the stock of the Crescent dry
goods store, owned by w. C. Young
The loss is about $1,000, covered by in
surance. Grice & Foleys furnishing
goods establishment suffered by smoke
and water, but was insured.
C. A. Castle, for over so years q
leader in the Methodist church al
Burlington, Vt, declares the erection
of the monument to Joseph Smith a
South Royalston by the Mormons wa!
a disgrace to the state" He ever
said it should be dynamited and tha
he will be one of a band to do it.
Assistant Attorney General Falkner
of Washington, has advised State La
Dor Commissioner Hubbard that tht
law which prohibits the employment
of children under the age of IS year
during the time in which the publi'
schools of the district in which sucl
children reside, are in session. cxcep
on the presentation of a certificate
from the school authorities, mean
only during actual school hours of tn
day.
Fsed Malone and Dick Peel set sew
eral heavy blasts in the U. S. Gran
mine at Virginia City Mont, an
started up the 70-foot ladder Hal
way up Peel caught his foot an
could go neither up nor down. Ma
lone. instead of hustling to the to
to entire safety, descended and enter
ed upon a desperate struggle to sto
the fuses. He succeeded in cutting a
but one before it had burned to