The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-17
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GENERAL NEWS.

| The new Texas law regulating in
surance companies, went into effect
July IA and 10 companies Closed up
| their offices and quit the state on that
date.
The Washington Mining, Milling &
Smelling company will at once pu, in
| a five stamp mill at it's Marshall Lake,
| Idaho, mines. Very rich ore has been
found.
| sold newspapers upon the streets and
! played a cornet in the Milwaukee
Journals newsboy band. has been
awarded the grand prize for cornet
work by the Conservatory of Music at
Paris, Frances
Frank Whitson, aged %. was
drowned in the Grand View irrigation
canal near Mountain Home. Idaho. The
canal is IA feet wide, 10 feet deep and
with precipitous sides and a swift
| current. How Whitson came to fall
in is not known.
The court martial of 100 Russian
soldiers who participated in a revo-
lutionary meeting on June II, after
the dissolution of the duma has been
concluded at Kiev. Six of the men
were sentenced to death and the
others to long terms of imprisonment
or to disciplinary arrest.
SJt y-o1
mining property in the Thunder
Mountain district, was found dead on
the trail between Warren and Roose-
welt. On examination it was found he
had been shot through the head. Mr..
Sutton was a very quiet man and was
never known to have any enemies. 1t
| is the opinion of his friends that he
was murdered. as he usually carried
several hundred dollars on his per-
| son.
1t is very probable that NeZ Perce
| county. Idaho, will not accept the
| records transcribed by Shoshone coun-
| ". relating to the south Shoshone sec
| ion annexed to Nez Perez. The law
|
cents per folio for transcribing the
records and the latter have just been
received by the county. accompanied
with bill amounting to s7.911.20.
An autopsy upon the remains of G.
| H. Crandall, a telegraph operator at
! Billings, Mont. discloses that the man
was foully murdered. Crandall was
| brought in a dying condition to n
hotel conducted by Chinese by two
| unknown men, a room was engaged
| md the unconscious form of Crandall
hrust into it on the floor the per-
oetrators of the dime then fleeing.
Crandalls head was crushed in by a
| blunt instrument
! John w. H. Geiger has been found
guilty at Baltimore of misappropriat-
ing funds of the Canton National
bank at that city. He was cashier.
! Mrs. Addie Davies was electrocuted
at Fort Collins. Col. as she was
turning on an electric light which was
| very heavily charged and the insula-
ton defective.
The largest sum of money ever pail
cor a collie was paid recently to an
=: English breeder, Mr. Mason of South
port. when he received s6250 for the
champion Squire of Tytton'
The residence of Charles Weber on
Little Bear creek, near Kendrick. Ida
no. burned, supposedly from defec-
tive flue. Nothing was saved but a
sewing machine and some bedding.
Peter Nelson. fisherman residing
in scow near Astoria, was browne {.
near his home by falling overheard
while intoxicated. The man was so
years of age and, so far as known,
had no relatives in this country.
Edward A. Cudahy. the millionaire
Kansas City packer, was fined s25 and
costs for automobile scorching. While
/ seeking pardon from the mayor. nit
) timus papers ordering Cudahy to Jail
! were issued by the police court clerk.
The fine was paid.
The clip of wool on the Nevada
ranges this season is the greatest that
the state has ever known. More than