The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-07-06
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
And OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Ct the Sur.
rounding country-Numer0us Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
PIzce-FaIl Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

recently. Twenty-three cars piled u.
in every direction, the main track ant
all sidings being entirely blocked.
In the presence of a packed court
room al Davenport Judge Miles Poin
dexter Of Spokane rendered a deci
sion that Attorney H.. N. Martin
against whom disbarment proceedings
had been brought because of alleged
attempt to bride the court commits.
sioner, had not been proven guilty.
The Tacoma strike, declared a short
time ago by Italian laborers and sec
ton hands employed by the street rail-
way company, was declared OF to-
night.
The Inland Empire Railway com
pany has started development of its
power site at Nine Mile bridge on the
Spokane river about nine miles below
town.
The omnibus public building appro-
priation bill as enacted into law car
ries the following Washington pro-
visions; Tacoma and Spokane, $780,
900 each; Bellingham, $40, 600, and
North Yakima $4,000. The last two
provisions represent outlays for build
ing sites.
The funeral of o. o. Peck, a Spo-
kane pioneer and one of the original
owners of the Bunker Hin & Sullivan
mine, occurred at Spokane Sunday.
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment Of the King county superior
court which held that the election OF
A nPil % IN dafaru,Ern uyL,.l.- -
property should be annexed to West
Seattle was null and void.
Three men, whose Identity is I'M
known, are believed to have lost their
lives by drowning in Lake Washing
ton, Seattle, recently.
Lieutenant Governor Coon was elect
ed president of Eagles at the state
convention in Seattle.
e. F.. Waggoner, grand master of
the Masons, has been requested to
convene the grand lodge at Davenport,
July 3, and lay the corner stone of the
$4,000 courthouse there.
The farmers at Dixie, who are
among the heaviest stockholders of
the new company formed to develop
the oil fields in their locality, are ne
gotiating with an experienced oil well
drlller from Los Angeles to come here
with his outfit and put down a test
well. I
There are now grazing in the Cas-
cade mountains, mostly in the vicinity v
~Leavenworth, about $780, 900 head of Il
sheep. These have wintered in the
counties of Douglas, Adams and Frank v
lin and are driven there for summer
q
Mrs. Sallie Caller of North Yakima
a verdict for $4,000 against r
James Mcmahon and his wife, Gather n
Mcmahon, which sum is alleged to Ii
nave been stolen from the plaintiff by a
he defendants during a fire at her il
home about a year ago.
The prospect for wheat In Franklin I'll
county is the best by far since the land 81
las been under cultivation. 81
Attorney General ]. d. Atkinson. in &c
n opinion rendered recently holds -
the railroad commission has full h'
uthority under the law creating II to
reciprocity demurrage" as the
light OF a shipper to demand empty
ars within a reasonable time after We
application to the railroads for ["
hem, and that the commission also m
as authority to fix n enforce penal ny
es on a reasonable reciprocal demur- S'
age rule or regulation. OF
The members of the Washington II
ate Beekeepers' association have de- ny
.ded to hold the next meeting at
ullman in January. ar
The wheat harvest has begun on hl'
mountain neal Wenatchee. co
Ie farmers in that locality having III
'mmenced to cut winter wheat. The an
heat now being harvested is well be
led out and will thresh from % to NC
bushels to the acre. an
Governor Mead has received an off,
al announcement of the National Ir. 20
cation congress to be held In Boise. 20
aho, September 3 to s inclusive. with ,
request to give it wide publicity. 80
a%shington is entitled to 10 delegates ,i
be appointed by the governor, 10 4r
to be appointed by the 20
lyor of each city having 10000 or nn'
and In addition TO the delegates :
IN commercial clubs. dc
Blind drunk two Indians drove on n
: railway track neal Yakima city mo,
nday afternoon while the west ~
md North Coast Limited was ap- Tbo
'aching at high speed and were Voc
uck. The engine threw them so usb.
distant to a barb wire fence and mar
h were instantly killed. The men az =
re badly nutilated. Their names WI,
e not been learned. In
representative Jones will stop en- u
te at Chicago and st. Paul. arriy- tenc
none ABOUT July l. hanl
ohn Hodan, age 81, was run over Cha
cars and killed at the town of mitt.
IT, last Saturday. He was EN- Mrs.
ed as brakeman on a private rail- victe
operated bV the Codfngtor ,u H.