The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-15
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-NumeroUs Acei-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON VOTES.

sion Monday at noon.
Two laborers were killed and one
badly injured by a huge blast at VI.
Phin's raIiroad construction camp, six
miles out of Kahlotus, SUNDAY after
an Australian; Milo Marritis, an Aus
strian.
That construction work on the yari-
Gus extensions of the Inland Empire
system will be pushed forward the
coming spring is shown in the an
nouncement Of President Jay P.
Graves, of the placing OF a large con-
tract for steel to be delivered during
April, May and June. The contract
is for 1000 tons of so pound and 70
pound steel rails, and means that
nearly IS miles of road viii be added
to the Inland Empire system in 1907.
Driven t o extremes by the scarcity
vicinity of Washtucna are burning
corn on the cob.
Lying face downward on the snow
covered sidewalk, near North Forty
third street, the lifeless form of Eben
Pierce, one of Tacoma's pioneer citi-
zens, was discovered Sunday night.
His death is believed to have been the
result of a stroke OF apoplexy, and in
dications are that death was instan-
taneous.
The people of Monitor and Browns
flats. near Wenatchee, are said to be
practically hemmed in by snow slides,
which have blocked the roads.
The Sound steamer Alice Gertrude,
owned by the Puget Sound Naviga-
uon company, struck on the reef at
the entrance to Clallam bay. She is
lying 200 yards from the beach and
the heavy swells are pounding her to
pieces.
Plans and specifications for the
new federal building at Spokane have
completed,
The Great Northern has ordered 25
Mallet compound engines of very
heavy build for freight service in the
Cascades. The locomotives are to be
delivered within the coming year.
r. c. Bare, the alleged horsethief
who broke Jail Thursday night with
Kid Barker, the Kennewick murderer,
has been captured at Sunnyside by
Constable Young.
While coasting down a 'hiil on
Peone prairie, nea Spokane, Adolph
Back, the Is year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Beck, was almost instant
ly killed by a heavy bobsled which
ran over him.
Martin Meuli, a wealthy rancher,
has contracted with Arthur Branson
to erect a three story 50x120 foot
brick hotel building at Lewiston, Ida
no. The building is to be completed
by August /, and will cost $4,000. 1t
will be up to date and modern in
every respect.
Such a mass of business has collect
ed in the land office at North Yaki-
ma on account of the presidents fail
ure to appoint q receiver to succeed
II. F. Nichols, deceased, that it is es-
timated it will require four or FIVE
months after a receiver is appointed
found in the Sudan.
For 10 days the coolest weather has
prevailed in Spokane in IA years.
DIN Worden, aged 10, who con-
fessed to stealing $500, was commit
ted to the state reform school by
Judge Rigg of Pasco.
Nearly a million and a half pounds
of fruit were shipped by express from
North Yakima alone during 1906, the
exact amount being LAZY $50 pounds.
The private library of Rev. Myron
Eells, who died at Union last week,
was bequeathed to Whitman college,
and RSV. Mr.. Eells also recommended
representing 80 years careful toll
and research, be given to the institu-
ton. z =
Senator Dubois has offered an
amendment to the Indian appropria-
ton bill, appropriating 81, 500, 900 in
payment of $500, 900 acres of Col
vile Indian land opened to settlement
under the act of 1892.
An examination of the records in
the county auditors office of Walla
Walla county disclosCs that an unusu-
ally large number OF real and chattel
mortgages have been placed on record
the past two months.
There is a movement on foot among
the large wheat producers Of East
srn Washington to devise some method
20 cope with the high prices demanded
by the grain bag trust for grain bags.
The proposition to combine and send
4 representative direct to Calcutta to
purchase sacks from the producer has
been suggested as the most e~ffectual
solution.
Reports from the Bellingham en-
cheering department show that al
most SCI 900 was expended for street
improvements in that city during 1906,
md that the work is not to lag in 1907 |
s shown by estimates of improve
nents now contemplated ~aggregating
n the neighborhood of $500, 900.
OREGON soUIBs.