The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-05-31
Washington, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the sur
rounding country-Numerous ACCT
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

in the United States military acaueny
animal pbysical examinations will be
held.
Eastman, Ga.-Miss Sallie Feeney,
q widow charged with the murder OF
w. p. Hargill, was found guilty. Inc
Jury making a plea for mercy.
Evansville, Ind.-The streetcar
strike. which has been on in this city
10 days, has been settled.
ST. Petersburg.-The lower house
of parliament has appropriated $S''oO'-
OOO for a famine relief fund.
John Bell, the Brooklyn trolley car
conductor accused of the murder OF
DIR. Charles w. Townsend, a prominent
nbvsiclan of Staten Island, who had at
tended Bells wife in childbirth, IN
which she died, was convicted or muir
der in the first degree and sentenced
to be ele~ctrocuted on July 1.
Five workmen were killed ecehtly
bv an explosion of amOnia in Armour
& Co.'s packing plant at Chicago.
The national conference of Dunkards
at Los Angeles has passed a resolu-
ton condemning the wearing OF neck
ties.
Walter ONeill. II year old son OF
a prominent resident Of Superior, WIS,
was found dead recently in a boXcar
at that place.
Theodore Tilton, the American edlt-
or and author. who has been i'll In
Paris for several days past OF pneu-
monia, is dead.
No actors name will be among
those inscribed in the hall of fame at
New York university this week.
Binghamton, n. Y.-James O'Con-
nell, president of the international
Association of Machinists, has called
out the entire force of union ma
chinists upon the Erie railroad, about
5000 men.
The Columbia river is now 30 feet
above low water mark.
Captain H. L. Bennett of Spokane
was elected colonel of the Uniform
Rank of the knights of Pythias, re-
Gently held in Tacoma.
In a drunken fight on the Nisqually
reservation, about flour miles from
Roy. Ed Jackson-was dubbed to death
by Paul Leschi.
1t is understood steel has been or
dered by the o. R. & N. to lay ll5
miles of it's Washington division with
75-pound rails before July l. 1t also
intended to reballast this section of
the road this season and place it in
the best of condition.
The Edwall horse show which was
held last week was a great success.
The wheat crop at Quincy is looking
fine.
Pullman is to have a connection be-
tween the Oregon Railroad & Naviga-
ton and Northern Pacific railroads.
Fred H. CASTOR, city editor Of the
Spokesman-Review has been selected
by the board of managers of the Spo-
kane 10000 club as secretary of the
club, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Rem H. Rice, the new
chief of police.
What is rated as the largest audito-
rum in Spokane was opened to the
public Sunday. 1t is declared to be
the finest Methodist church on the Pa
cifc coast.
w. H. Fouts is credited with being
the Oldest school teacher in the state.
He resides at Bellingham, is 81 years
of age and recently took the state ex-
animation for teachers, receiving a
certificate.
Chesaw was visited by a $4,000 fire
recently.
The ministers of Everett are making
a warm fight against the gambling fra
ternity.
The bodies of Miss Edith Vogt, 10
seph F. Goshorn and Glen Jaquith, the
three college students who were
drowned in Lake Washington Sun
day, were recovered.
The grain bag shortage promises to
be a serious to the grain grow.
ers this fall.
Two hundred shingle mills in Sno-
homish, Skagit and Whatcom counties
are shut down to remain closed
until July 10.
The things you don't say cause you
less grief in this life than almost
anything else.
The ferry across the Columbia al
Trinidad vas swept down the river
recently.
The Cheney Commercial club is ar.
ranging to take a census Of that place
Wilbur Virgins of Cotton, who was
accidentally shot in the hand a short
time ago, is dead from lockjaw.
Veterans of the Civil war and theil
defendants and of the Spanish-Amer
lean war at Spokane have organized
a regiment of the Union Veterans
union.
Spokane retail grocers and meat
dealers will hereafter close at s D. m
Saturday evenings.
All brands of flour manufactured IL
this state jumped up rs cents a bar
rel this week.
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