The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-07-27
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS,
A Few Interesting Items Gathere
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous ACCT
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

u Hastings lhuuSbllal OoNNPJ
Chicago will put in an 500 COW cream
cry at Palouse City.
Three barns. containing lis tons oil
nav. were destroyed by fire recently
on the Mike Jennings ranch, four
miles from Spangle.
A. L. Bassford, a switchman on the
Great Northern, was killed at Leaven-
worth recently by being struck by a
freight engine.
Henry Dill, an aged farmer of Span
gle. was found dead in the road recent
IN. He had evidently been thrown
from a load Of lumber which he was
hauling. and had been run over by the
wheels of the wagon.
Congressman Francis w. Cushman
with his wife and mother have arrived
home in Tacoma.
The country schools of Washington
face a famine of competent teachers
FOR the work next winter.
c. ]. Anderson, cashier of the First
Bank of Kiona, was drowned recently
while swimming in the Yakima river.
Colonel f. Jackson, n of the most
prominent residents of Prosser died
Saturday morning after an illness OF
about two weeks. He was a promi-
nent member Of the Grand Army.
Grain is seriously hurt, say farmers
about Davenport.
The lid is on at North Yakima, as
chief of police has ordered ali the
games to close.
While playing along the bank of an
irrigating ditch in North Yakima Geor-
gia Richmond, the two and a half year
! Did daughter of V. S. Richmond, fell
INTO the stream and was drowned.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1906, the Spokane postofice shows an
increase of 1877 per cent.
Governor Mead has committed the
sentence of death passed upon Oscar
Bradshaw to life Imprisonment.
Over $1,000 acres of land near Alma
and ~Conconully, which were with
Drawn from entry on account OF the
Okanogan irrigation and reclamation
project. have been restored to entry.
Filing cannot take place until after
notice has been posted 80 days. R
ne IllIlg-bGNthA oAAAAhbA ~ ANAa
ion of the Grand Lodge of Washing
.on. Independent Order of Good Tenn
olars. in session at Yakima, elected
James r. O'Farrell of Orting past
grand chief templar.
Work on all other buildings provid-
ed for by the omnibus public buildings
appropriation bill, which became a law
at the last session of congress, will
, probably not begin until late next
spring and possibly not until June.
Adolph Kirchner, a prominent must
clan of Spokane, is at the head of a
movement to organize in Spokane the
7 Spokane Aschenbroedel society, which
will include professional and amateur
Y musicians and singers in the Inland
+ empire, the purpose being to hold g
musical festival in Spokane next May
!, The factory inspection law makes
inspection compulsory, and does no
leave it to the option of the factory
+: owners, according to Charles f. Hub
+ BARD. state labor commissioner.
The annual convention of the Inter
rational olage Employees at Boston
y elected John Suarez of st. Louis pres
ident. s.. H. Metcalf of Spokane i
c among the vice presidents chosen.
IDAHO NOTES.
The sale of Idaho state timber a
Rathdrum proved a total failure, a
.umbermen consider the appraised va.
. ues too high.
The government has set the time Q
: he sale of town lots in Hepburn an
Rupert townsites in southern Idaho
. Cor August 90 and q respectively.
Idaho has built five beet sugar fat
=. tories during the past five years, cos
ng $1,000, zoo each, and two more ar
q now under construction.
: Senator and Mrs. w. B. Heybur
have arrived home in Wallace.
! A bad fire occurred at Standpoint r,
Gently, destroying the armory built
ing. 1t was unfinished and the los
will reach $4,000.
. George Wheeler was brought to
= hospital at Boise from Mountai
Home suffering from an accident;
: pistol wound. He was taking a saI
lie from a horse, when the pisti
q, lropped from the holster and was di
charged. The surgeons found his i
= testines perforated badly, and his CO,
lition is critical.
Walter Helfrich. whose mother CO.
b, ducts a dressmaking establishment
a Nampa. was thrown from a bugge
"a near Boise recently and sustained
fracture of the skull. He is in a da.
n yerous condition. The lad is S yeal
In old.
w It is reported a number Of wome
e Of Blackfoot, incensed because v
Earl Smith, editor and proprietor
The southern Idaho Mail and justice
the peace. had secured a divorce fro
&c his wife and married again, rotte
w egged him recently and ordered hi
~ out of town. His former wife is pc
he ular and highly respected, and II
nc demonstration was due to sympatt