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WASHINGTON NOTES.


the uenitentiary Saturday by Travel
ing guards Esterbrook and Chalott
and Deputy Sheriff Chef Bedding OF
Seattle. There are 819 convicts serv-
ing sentences at the penitentiary and
"a out ON parole.
lay P. Graves of Spokane has pur-
chased the tremendous falls In the Co
nmhia river above Kettle Falls,
Wash. 100 miles north of Spokane,
for $4,000. He expects to develop 1t
into one of the greatest electric prop
critics in America. Although the falls
ara SO immense that it is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the flow, there is
believed to be a minimum of 10000
to 1Oo, 900 horse power at low water.
The supreme court, in a decision
handed down recently, sustained the
lower court in finding L. M. Poole of
Spokane guilty of living off the earn
ings of a fallen woman, and in SEN
fencing him to five years imprison-
ment.
The North Coast road Is not only an
assured fact but 1t has been definitely
stated by President Robert e. Stra-
horn that North Yakima is to be the
main division point between the two
terminals, Walla Walla and Seattle.
While lying fat on the floor of the
first story of the Merle Heany Manu-
featuring company's building, with
their heads projecting over freight
elevator shaft, directing streams of
water into the basement, where fire
broke out recently Lieutenant Charles
Kirk and Pipeman Herman Larson OF
the Seattle fire department, were
caught under the elevator and receiv-
ed serious injuries.
The Tacoma republican convention
has nominated for mayor. R. l.. Nc
Cormick; treasurer. Ray Freeland;
comptroller. John Mead.
In response to a request for an
opinion on the subject, Attorney Gen
eraa Atkinson has advised the board
of control that the grain bags manu-
featured at the Walla Walla peniten
tiary can be sold only to actual con
sumers who are residents of the
state.
A fnI-hedged opium den, with some
Of the paraphernalia still in sight was
discovered in Seattle recently in
Chinese laundry.
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the so-called pedlers
licene law of 1908, under the provi
sions Of which pedlers were required
to pay license fee of 5000 in eaci
county in the state in which they car
ried on bushes.
Judge Moore, mayor elect of Seat
tie, says he will close all forms o
gambling down tight in Seattle.
The supreme court has rendered
decision knocking out as unconshtu
tionai the plumbers license law.
The Lewiston-C Charleston company 1
employing 125 men laying the ney
pipe line from Asotin creek to irrigat
Vineland. Five miles of the work /
finished
Tumbleweeds and Chinese lettuc
which have been long a pest to far
mers of Harrington section, are re
ported to be worse than ever.
The state land commissioners Of
nee has made the regular monthly SCI
Element with the state treasurer wit
total remittance of $137, 459.97, tn
principal items being the curren
school fund collection, $29,38I70; tn
permanent school fund, $50, 40S.71, an
the tide land fund, which goes int
the states general fund, $45,Oe7.4O.
The contract for the constructio
of the new armory building at Spc
kane has been let. Price $4,000.
The supreme court has decided tina
where boundary line between tw
tracts of land has been fixed by mi
tual consent between the owners an
remains the recognized dividing lin
for period of 20 years, in fact
becomes the actual boundary, moi
outstanding a subsequent govern
ment survey finds it is wrongly loca
ed