East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-08

NORTHWEST NEWS.


Gibson 6 Smith have the contract
for the new high school building at
Yakima. 1t Is to cost $84,999 and be
completed ty December is. next.
Chewelah, WASH, by a unanimous
vote, has decided to expend $4,000
upon an electric light plant and wa
terworks. Not vote was cast against
the joint proposition.
The Washington state library asso-
citation has voted, after protracted de-
bate, that the alleged comic" sup
plements Of newspapers should be
barred from public libraries.
During the month of May at Sc
attic, 242 births were recorded as
against 147 In May Of last year. The
record for May exceeded that of any
one month in the history Of the place.
At Cranbrook, r. c., Frederick w.
Stringall, a Canadian Pacific switch
foreman, caught his foot between a
guard and fixed rail- Before he
could extricatc 1t he was run down
and killed.
II Quackenbush and John Weir,
sheepherders. are under arrest
charged with holding up and robbing
Albert Jardi and Frank Riaz at
South Mountain, near Jordan Valley,
Malheur county.
The contract for the erection of the
Wallowa county high school building
has been let to Contractor Hayworth
for $4,000. The structure will con-
tain five rooms and basement and be
ready to occupy October 1, next.
Near Turner, Columbia county,
Wash, Forest Pryor, aged is years,
was riding en- the sweep of horse
power which was operating a well
drill, when his foot slipped and
was crushed to pieces in the ma
chinery.
John Fleming, a Montana buyer
has purchased $4,000 head of sheep
in Baker county. Eight thousand,
seven hundred head will be shipped
to Montana fer feeding. The re-
mainder will be fattened in Baker
county.
Louis Lciscr. aged SO years, resi-
dtnt of tlnk. county. Wash. living
few miles east of Vancouver. was
killed by a bull which made saw
age attack upon him as he was walk
ing across pasture where the ami
NAL was kept.
Fifteen thousand, five hundred
head of fat sheep were shipped from
Pomeroy, WASH, to Spokane and
an equal number of stockers also left
the same place during the week 10 be
fattenei in Montana.
Thomas McKenna and A. L. Til
lisch, both foremsn Of departments of
city work in Spokane, were riding
rapidly in a. buggy when a tullet,
coming from no one knows where ex-
cept possibly the man who fired 1t,
cut McKtnna's pipestem, slightly
grazing his lips.
While F. H. Coates and family, who
live on Wolf creek, Columbia county.
Wash, were eating breakfast they
discovered the upper part of the
house to be etlaze. They saved a
chest of tools ard some household ef-
fects, but the building and all its
heavier contents were total loss. No
insurance.
The first corporation license fee
ever paid to the state of Idaho was
received June by State Treasurer
Hastings. The payment came in the
form of check from the Fall Creek
Sheep company and was for the
amount of $3.50. It was sent in
compliance with the law passed by
the last Idaho legislature.
Two hundred twenty-eight thou
sand grain bags were manufactured
last month at the jute mill in the
Washington penitcntiary, which
makes nearly 100000 sacks on hand
for the coming harvest, which the
state will sell at Q cents each. The
report shows 90S convicts on the rolls
at the end Of the month, as compared
with SS3 May /.