The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
WASHINGTON NoTEa.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
David E. Cloyd, principal of the Spo.
kane high school, has formally accep-
ted the position for next year.
John l.. Kaiser, a pioneer of Whit
man county, aged SO years, dropped
dead recently at his home in Colfax.
The Walla Walla lodge of Elks at its
last meeting took initial steps toward
the erection of a home for the order.
George Meredith was struck by a
circus train as it was pulling from the
North Yakima depot and sustained in
juries that will result in his death.
]. H. Young has sold the Charles Ed.
wards farm, of 800 acres, three miles
northwest of Colville, to David Phil
pott of Lind, for $2O,25O cash.
The date of the meeting Of the
Washington State Press association
has been fixed for July oath, 25th and
26th.
Richard Fredrickson, in an encoun
ter with a holdup man at Puyallup was
shot through the left shoulder. His
wound is serious. The holdup man es.
capped.
The knights of Pythias in the state
of Washington are soon to have a
home where old and INDECENT knights
are to be cared for in their declining
years.
The fourteenth annual commence
ment program of the state normal
school at Cheney will begin Friday,
June 1st, and close on Wednesday,
June 9th.
Robert Wilson has been paroled from
the state penitentiary by Governor
Mead. Wilson was sent from Cowlitz
county, in November, 1902, for 10 years
for robbery.
Some of the townsite residents Of
Toppenish are addressing a protest to
the real estate men requesting them
not to sell or lease property on the
townsite to negroes.
The digest of the laws of Washing
ton which has been compiled by Ar
thur Remington, the supreme court re-
porter, is believed to have been lost in
NE San Francisco disaster.
hONGIuOI NlCdu mas IGCGlNtu anu az
cepted the resignation of State Sena-
tor Walker A. Henry of Spokane coun-
ty, who has accepted the appointment
to the federal land Office at Waterville
William Malcolm, who is charged in
Passaic, N. j., with embezzling $780,
600 of the funds of the Passaic Build
ing & Loan association, was arrested
in Seattle recently at his mercantile
store where he has been in business
for fOur years.
At the banquet given at Spokane in
honor of the visiting members of the
Portland Commercial club, Theodore
B. Wilcox, chairman of the executive
committee of that club, reused keen
enthusiasm with his plea for opening
the Columbia river,
Jones & Nicely, purchasers of the
large Babcock ranch at Trinidad, are
having 5000 feet of 16-inch pipe laid
to carry 5000 gallons of water a min
ute to a reservoir on the high ground
They are putting in many trees and
placing the land in good condition.
Charles Arneson, a North Bend sa-
loon man, is under arrest in the county
Jail at Seattle on suspicion of having
murdered P. H. Ross, a rival saloon
man, and his wife last August at Ker-
istOn.
Representative Humphrey has intro
duced a bill in the house authorizing
King county to construct a ship canal
along the government right of way
connecting the waters of Puget sound
with Lake Washington.
While seated on a chair on the porch
of the family home at North Yakima
the 10 months old child of Henry An
derson fell into a boiler of warm water
the other afternoon and was dead be
fore discovered.
Warden A. f. KEGS, in response to a
suggestion that il would be well to re
turn to the pro rata system of distrib
uting grain bags manufactured at the
~penitentiary, among other things says:
This system has been tried fully and
the farmers do not want any lore Of
it. They say generally it resulted in
their not knowing what amount of
sacks they could depend upon"