The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-01-02

liam Constantine, some time ago,
| has commenced suit in the SUI
perior court there against Constan-
tine, placing his damages at $780,
| 600.
The Great Northern railway is
said to be gradually supplanting its
japanese laborers, especially in west
ern Washington, with negroes. Many
J negroes have been taken to the i
entity of Bellingham recently for this
purpose.
Frank Donohue and Herbert
Baldwin, whose sentences at the
Montana state prison expired Fri
day, were Immediately rearrasted by
J officers from Minnesota, where they
! escaped from prison while serving
Intermediate sentences.
! On the same day that bandits at
tempted to secure $4,000 from the
| Burlington railroad in Montana
| through blackmail. an attempt was
also made to hold up the manage
ment of the Billings, Mont, sugar
| factory for the same amount. Meth
er scheme worked
| While William Cuddihy was in
! speeding a huge crane at the Washoe
smelter at Anaconda Wednesday,
he fell to the floor below and re-
ceived injuries from which he died.
His body was found later, no one
| being aware of the accident for
some time after 1t occurred
| Attorney general Atkinson has
| commenced action to cause to es-
cheat to the common school fund
of the state the estates left By
James Ramsey, who died recently at
Winthrop, Okanogan county; Chas.
| o. Murphy, who died at Aberdeen.
and Edward Callahan, who died in
| Whatcom county.
The trial of c. D. Schmidt at Hell
,,na, Montana, on the charge of kill
Ing his wife. which has just been
| commenced, is likely to be somewhat
sensational, owing to the fact that
letters were found on the dead wo-
man which indicated that she had
| soldier lover at Fort Assinniboile,
who was the direct cause of the
tragedy.
The common council at Rockford
is after the saloons with two new
ordinances which We're itroduced at
the last session. One raises the IL
cense fee from 5000 TO S100 and
the other requires all places
where liquor is sold to close between
II D. m. and 6 a. M, each day, eX
cept Saturday, when they may re-
main open until 11:3o.
\ peculiar feature of wreck was
discovered at Little Rock. Thurs
ION county. the other day \ man.
his wife ana 1S-months-old baby
were riding in caboose when Ii
was struck by light engine and de
molished The father was uninjured
and the mother but slightly The
body Of the child was found in the
smokestack to the engine, burned
TO a crisp.
The work of marking the bound
AIRY between Canada and the Unit
ed States has so far progressed in the
district adjacent to Washington and
Idaho. where operations through a
wild and rugged region have been
going on for several years. that the
: government is now asking for an
appropriation TO continue the work
farther east. states a Washington, p.
&C., report The secretary of the
treasury has transmitted TO congress
an estimate of $50 900 to be insert
ed in the diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bill. il IS proposed to
use this money TO mark that part OF
, the boundary lying between the
lheadwaters of the 81 Cfoix river and
Halls stream.
A stone from a blast in the Last
Chance mine at Wardner struck \.
l.. Brown. a miner. in the back O
the head Sunday morning, killing
him instantly.
The Great Northern Express com
lpanys safe at Sedro-W oolley was
blown open couple of nights ago
and robbed of $3.50 in money The
work bore the marks of an expert.
Walter Chambers has been arrest
ed al Lewiston. Idaho. on the charge
of assault with intent to murder.
The affair occurred last March, bur
Chambers kept out of sight until
Saturday.
The vault in the Falk Mercantile
house at Boise, Idaho. was broken
lopen. probably by professional bur
lglars, Saturday night The intruders