The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-10-05
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
I Re. interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-NumerouS Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIaee-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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Gently, has resigned.
The Washington State College ex'
cursion train over the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation company to Spokane
was Cancelled as the project met win
frost.
The bank clearings at Spokane for
the last month are the second largest
in the history of Spokane, second only
to the month of May this year. Inc
clearings for September amounted to
~s1S,114.896.
]. M. Perry, who was taken to North
Yakima a month ago from kenneWlck
suffering from an attack of lumpy Jaw
died Saturday.
It is reported William Jennings Bry-
an, presidential possibility, and sam
uel Gompers, labor leader, will stump
this state for the democratic congress
-sienai ticket.
That the allied Hill lines, through
the Portland & Seattle railway, will
extend their road down the north bank
of the Columbia to the Pacific ocean,
is now practically certain.
Work on the Spokane & Inland Elec-
trio railroad is being rushed within
the city limits of Colfax.
The largest apple crop in the history
of the Wenatchee valley is now being
harvested.
In honor of the beginning Of 6
o'clock closing in business houses and
to celebrate the victory of Wenatchee
at the Spokane Interstate fair in Sc
curing the $1,000 prize offered for the
best permanent exhibit, the CONNER
cial club held a jollihcation Tuesday
evening.
J.. N. Bowes, an undertaken of Aber-
deem, is asking that Mrs. Tweedy be
notified that Myrtle had died.
Five Of the largest locomotives In
the world are now in the Great North
ern shops at Spokane, and are being
set up for use On the line between
Leavenworth and Skyhomish.
Wilsoncreek is shipping more wheat
this season than ever before, and
warehousemen report that they have
handled twice as much grain as at the
same date last year.
The homeward movement of sheep
from summer to the winter ranges is
under way.
Lumber manufacturers at a recent
meeting of the Southwestern Washing
ton Lumber Manufacturers ~associa-
ton in Centralia made a kick agains:
the alleged discrimination Ia FAVOR of
shippers from eastern Washington,
Idaho and Montana, who are said to
tie receiving all the cars they need for
shipments.
Shipments of hay in carload lots
from Waverly and Fairfield to Spo-
kane will be charged for at the rate of
five cents a hundred pounds hereafter,
a reduction of over so per cent.
D. G. Penney has sold his interest
in the Lincoln County Times to his
partner, J. A. Prudhomme.
Work on the new sewerage system
at Waitsburg is progressing rapidly
and it is thought will be finished with
In a week.
1t is estimated that out of a total
output of zoe, 900 busheIs Of barley
raised in Columbia county this season,
10000 to 10U, 900 sacks have been sold
at IS to so cents a hundred. About
200 900 sacks have been pooled and
held for $1.O0 a hundred.
The body Of an man about
10 years of age was found recently in
a reef of rocks in the Snake river
about As miles above WaIlula, near
Scott station.
James McAuliff, one Of Walla Wal
las most prominent pioneer residents,
is dead.
Following is the quarterly statement
of cash balances in the hands of the
state treasurer at the close of business
September 80:
General funds, 1913, 601.S5; military,
$50, 705.19; permanent school, $685.
2S4.37; current school, $50, 991.31;
harbor. $3S96.73; special land deposits,
$186.4O; revolving (penitentiary),
$1~69, SS2.25; grain inspection, $40S5.62;
fish hatchery, $19,756.3O; university,
permanent, $~38,110.30; United States
soldiers home, $13,1 O2.S7; state H.
brary, $11 ,O61 .05; scientific school, cur
rent overdraft, $12, 0S0.2S; scientific
school, permanent, $40, 839.s5; capitol
building. SS45.59; agricultural college,
current. $3101.54; agricultural college,
current. %S3101.54; agricultural college,
permanent, $33,SS9.9O; c. E. P. and R.
institutions, current, SIG, 2 SO; c. e.
p. and X. institutions, permanent, $751;
SS4.37; normal school current,
S~6825.75; normal school, permanent,
SIS, S99; game protection, $579.11; fac
tory inspection, ~$49S4.32; oyster,
S4951.1S; Spokane armory, 2S,333.O6;
Seattle armory, $26,66S.75. Total, ST.
o1s, 640.29; less overdraft Of S12, 0sO. %.
leaving a balance On hand of S1,0O7,-
560.o1.