The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-01-04
NEWS NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO; OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numereus Aeel-
dents and Personal Events Take
pIaoe-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON 7

officers of Spokane county nave ar
rested Frank Havlin and Thomas
pIair expert safe blowers. The prison
ers were caught with the goods on"
having a grip filled with $4,000 worth
of plunder secured by blowing open
the safe at Troyer & Engels' jewelry
store at Tekoa three days before.
Five violent deaths occurred in Spo-
kane county in the past week.
Near Holcomb, in Pacific county, re-
Gently two Japanese were killed and
three were so badly hurt that they
will die. by a dead tree which fell
across their bunk house. All were en-
ployed by a lumber company.
A gigantic subway project, costing
nearly a million dollars, to connect the
freight and passenger terminals of the
Spokane & Inland Railroad company
has been submitted to the Spokane
CITY council and a franchise asked. The
proposed tunnel would be nearly a
mile long, would follow beneath Front
avenue for nearly the entire distance,
and the floor of the tunnel would be
about 30 feet from the surface of the
street. The franchise asked for pro
yides for a double track tunnel from
the passenger station at Main avenue
to Front avenue under Lincoln street,
thence under Front to about Center
street, between Bernard and Browne,
thence diagonally from Front avenue,
coming out into the freight grounds OF
the company at. some point between
Division and Sheridan streets, with the
right to carry power lines. for the
operation Of it's electric railway sys
TEN.
Two men were killed, one fatally
injured and a fourth badly scalded in
a collision near Spokane between q
light engine and a freight train on the
Great Northern
EllensbuFg met defeat at the hands
Iof Prosser on the ship subsidy de
bate. Prosser defended the negative
while Ellensburg supported the afirm
ative.
From u acres of apple trees in his
orchard at Zillah, j. R. Zimmerman
sold this fall 5000 boxes or $5,54O
From 1s1 Winesap trees he obtained
1.O5 boxes and from IT'S Yellow New
ton trees, 1000 boxes. He sold thes'
apples at $1.25 a box. a.,
Andy De Young, a young man abpu
25 or 80 years of age, supposedly iron
Pullman. committed suicide at Spo
kane recently.
because Christian F~redriksen hal
not bathed in three years, Mary Fred
riksen, his wife, obtained a decree o
divorce in Seattle.
Charles Buckingham has been ar
pointed to succeed Charles j.. Bake
for the unexpired term of two years.
A young woman known as Maggi
! Dooley took carbolic acid in an al
| tempt to commit suicide at Spokane.
= Washington, Idaho & Montana en-
l CINE No. 2, hauling a construction
train, ran over William Burgan at tn
D. gravel pit switch, one mile west o
Harvard, near Palouse, killing him In
stantly.
Many Lincoln county residents ar
s interested in the Yuma country an
e the freakishness of the Colorado. river
who are closely watching the effort
ITO keep the river from doing irrepal
able damage.
The floods in the Palouse are sui
d siding. The streams are going dow
rapidly and the damaged RAIDS wi
soon be in condition to repair.