The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-15
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Aee''
dents and Personal Events Take
Place--FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Tacoma's mayor has put himselI
on record as in favor of saloon ana
restaurant boxes.
Excellent work is being done on the
wagon roads leading into COlfax from
the surrounding country.
The Everett Milling company VIII
begin the erection this week OF d
large grain warehouse at Ephrata.
C. E. Briggs, a well to do rancher
of the upper Methcw valley, and a
pioneer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself recently.
The finding Of John CARROTS BODY
in Garrison creek, near Walla Walla,
removes all doubt as to the aged milk
mans death. He disappeared May ~.
Kettle Falls citizens have voted
unanimously that the district be bond
ed for $1,000 to build an addition to
the large school building and establish
a high school
George Taylor, engineer on the
| NcInnis Lumber cOmpany's tug Sa-
retta was killed in an unknown man.
ner on the boat about four miles be-
low Newport.
Governor Mead today granted a
parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles
w. Hamlin, who was sentenced in
" hatcom county on August 6, 1902, to
IA years for robbery.
The prosecuting attorneys of the
state will hold a convention at
Everett on July II, Is, and IA in
connection with the eighteenth annual
session of the State Bar association.
A well dressed man who committed
suicide at the Tacoma hotel has been
identified as William Campbell Beas-
ley, publisher of the Commonwealth
Magazine of Seattle. His former
home was in Peoria, Ill.
Twenty farmers of the Kittitas val
ley have formed an association and
purchased Samson De Thorembrais,
an imported Belgian stallion, from Nc
Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio,
for $4,000.
One of the largest realty transfers
in Yakima county in recent months
was the sale of the Bounds ranch in
Selah valley by P. A. Bounds to Ur-
ban Ditman, a widely known stock
man, for $780, 500.
Theodore Strong, laborer in the
EricksOn-Peterson construction gang
on the o. w. & l. road at Riparia,
met with a serious accident recently
which will n~eccessitate the amputa-
ton Of his left leg above the knee.
1t is announced that Samuel A.
Wells, former receiver Of the Spokane
land office, has been nominated by
President Roosevelt to succeed Eu-
B. Hyde, the present receiver,
who succeeded Mr.. Wells four years
ago.
T~hirty-six of the 81 counties of
Washington were represented at the
first annual convention of farmers
held under the auspices of the Wash
ington State college. Okanogan
county was the only one not sending
a delegation.
One hundred and fifty farmers met
in Cunningham Saturday and voted to
build a farmers elevator. Steel stor-
age tanks will be put up to handle the
crop. All the wheat will be handled
in bulk. This does away with what
the farmers call the sack graft"
Manager Lennox of the proposed
Whitman county fair has been work
ing hard laying plans for the event.
he has about decided to hold the fair
the first week in October. The prizes
will be more valuable and cover a
larger number of displays than ever
before.
Wenatchee valley fruit are
receiving higher prices for fruit this
year than ever before, the prices up
TO date averaging so per cent higher
those paid last year. The We
natchee Valley Fruit Growers asso-
an organization of the grow
ers of the Wenatchee and Columbia
controlling IS per cent of the
trult raised in the Wenatchee valley
IS doing the work.
A. A. Armstrong, who killed Robert
ration near Aberdeen three years ago.
vas hanged at the penitentiary Fri.
lay morning at 5:26 o'clock. The
execution was successful in every de-
an The mans neck was broken bv
ne fall and death came in 10 minutes
although 90 years old he bravely met
leath.
Engineers of the reclamation ser
nee are measuring the area of lands
for the Tieton project. Ap-
'roXimately, $4,000 acres will be re-
tanned by this project, of which about
% per cent has been subscribed. This
; all the government requires, but !,
'one OF the land subscribed NAV be
by engineers to be unsuited
which will necessitate additions 10 the
and already contracted.
OREGON iTEMe