The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-07
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, Oregon
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the U
rounding Country-Numerous AeeI-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Fall Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Oh llE SCI lOAo PA~DA~A
fronting Spokane dairymen.
It has been carefully estimated that
at least 1900 acres Of fruit trees will
be nut In by the farmers in and close
around Brewster.
It is reported gambling dens are
again running wide open in Tacoma.
Not the slightest effort is being MADE
to conceal the fact.
Jacob johnson, a Northern Pacific
Waterman at Toppenish, was fright
fully mangled at North Yakima re-
Gently by being run over by a freight
train.
The State asylum at Medica! Lake
has advertised to receive bids for 27OO
cords Of wood for the asylum. The
bids will be opened Saturday, Deem
Der 8, at 2 p. m.
The state superintendent announces
that III teachers certificates had been
issued to Spokane applicants and 16 to
Stevens county applicants as a result
of the recent examinations.
Chinese and Japanese are to be pro
tected in Tacoma hereafter. Judge
Linck recently gave a white man and
a negro 30 days on the chain gang for
beating Chinese restauranteurs.
Fire in the interior of the Grand
opera house at Seattle recently caused
$4,000 damage. 1t is believed to have
started from a lighted match or a
cigarette dropped by stage hands.
Special memorial services were held
in the First resbyterian church in
Seattle Sunday afternoon in honor Of
the victims of the steamer Dix dis
aster. Many prominent divines assist
cd in the services.
Conductor F. Z. Hatton of the Ida
no division of the Northern Pacific
fell from the top of a boxcar recently
while his train was pulling into the
siding at Selah, 2S miles east of Ell
lensburg. His injuries will not prove
fatal.
DR.. Levi L. Sutton, a farmer and
practicing physician, and one Of the
first settlers in that part of the coun-
try, died at his home, seven and n
half miles east of Hatton, recently. He
was born in Orleans county, New
York, September /. 1885.
J. N. Iompkins, president and found
ell of the Farmers & Mechanics bank
of Cashmere and Wenatchee, died sud
denly last Sunday in Seattle. He was
Sc years of age. and until a few hours
before death had been In what he be
lieved to be excellent health.
Governor Mead has summarily re-
moved Oil Inspector J. l.. Canutt of
Colfax from office for misconduct and
unfaithfulness to the duties of the
Office" and appointed +. A. Clark of
Snohomish county, who has been dep
uty inspector, to the POSITION.
c. B. Dunning, department com
mander Of the department of Wash
ington and Alaska of the Grand Army
of the Republic, accompanied by Ad-
jutant General William H. Wiscomb,
has returned from a visit which they
were making to the posts of western
Washington.
Major A. N. Brown, Governor Mead's
private secretary, is working to Sc
cure a state rogues' gallery to be used
by the police departments of the state,
says a west side report. The gallery
will probably be kept in Seattle when
completed, and pictures will be added
to It constantly.
After a Thorough inspection County
COMMISSIONS Meter of Tacoma es-
Inmates that it will cost $4,000 to re-
store bridges and roads of Pierce
county to the condition they were in
before the floods. This does not in
clude the loss in the Stuck river val
ley, where the diversion of the White
river has caused endless havoc.
A trio Of cracksmen crawled through
a window Of Blackburn & Burrows
general store at Ridgeheld recently,
unlocked the door. rolled a 700 pound
safe two blocks and a half down the
street into a cut, punched of the com
bination. blew the safe open with
black powder and got safely away
with $500 in money.
Tacoma has 14O saloons, exactly the
same number as before the present
saloon ordinance went into effect
about six months ago. There is ap.
~parently no tendency to decrease the
number of the increased fee. from
5000 to $500, as the opponents of the
measure urged at the time Of its pas
sage.
January will be a busy month in
Pullman. There will be three big con.
ventions under the auspices of the
Washington State college. The first
of these will be the annual conven.
ton of the Washington State Bee,
keepers association, January Z, and
continue two days.
Beginning Tuesday, January S. the
Inland Registered Stock Breeders as
sociation will hold its annual session
and live stock show in the college
chapel and pavilion. respectively,
Wednesday morning, January 8, the
stock show and sale will be held.
Thursday morning, January 10, the