The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-06-25
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The SUI. orior court at Portland, Ore,
has s1st2:ned the Sunday closing law,
holding it to be constitutional.
James Mortimer was seriously
stabbed in a barroOm fight at North
Yakima, Saturday night, by Dick Der
ry. The latter was arrested.
Ed Lewis has been sentenced at
Helena. Mont, to a year in Deer Lodge
penitentiary on his plea of guilty to
the charge of stealing a valise from
Northern Pacific depot.
John McLain, the Okanogan county
bad man, has pleaded guilty to the
murder of William Cameron and has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
! at the WaIla Walla pententiary.
George w. France, postmaster at
HOquiam, Wash, died Sunday after a
| lingering illness from cancer of the
stomach. He had held the office of
| postmaster for over seven years
Anton Capps, German. was killed
near SnohOmish, While attempting to
board moving train. The dead man
was 40 years old and is said to have
! four children in an orphanage at ST.
| Paul.
j. f. Bolden was killed az the saw
mill at Elgin, near Waitsburg. Wash,
Saturday. He was assisting in load
ing timbers when one fell striking him
across the back, breaking the back.
He died shortly afterward
Two of the gang of boxcar thieves
who were arrested at North Yakima
last week, and who pleaded guilty to
| t1n III, To
McGinnis have turned states evidence
and told of many of the crimes COM
mitted by the gang.
| Ernest F. w. Poolton aged IS, son
of Rev. G. c. Poolton of Seattle. was
fatally burned Saturday night by the
explosion of a lamp. He was on his
way to bed when he tripped and fell,
the lamp exploding on striking the
floor. The boy died Sunday
The provincial police in the vicinity
Of New Westminster, B. c., are kept
busy chasing log stealers Almost
every mill is complaining about the
disappearance of logs from their
booms, and the thieves are getting so
bold as to tow them by launch.
Mrs. j. c. Furman and her two little
sons were drowned in Simms' creek
near Great Falls, Mont. Sunday after
noon. The woman attempted to drive
across the creek when the swift cur
rent caught the wagon and threw the
three into the water The BODY of Mrs.
furman was recovered
In collision four miles west of
Billings, Mont, Saturday morning.
Conductor Harrison and Brakeman
Durfee of the Northern Pacific were
instantly killed. The accident was
caused by the obscuring of the light on
the rear of freight train, by the
picking up of another car
John MontgOmery's road house in
the vicinity of Agate. six miles from
Medford. Ore, was blown to frag-
ments with dynamite Wednesday night
The authors of the outrage are be-
l1eVed to be persons who were elected
for making disturbance in the place
a few days ago
Alfalfa growers in the vicinity Of
North Yakima are pooling their inter-
ests for the purpose of keeping the
price of their product up. They ex-
pect to hold it at Sc a ton in the stack
| At me lowest, ana $40 baled. With
the increasing demands for alfalfa in
Seattle it is believed that they will be
able to carry their point
August Millrath. a farmer near
krupp, WASH while suffering from
the result of an accident which crushed
MS breast. succeeded in saving his
-FOUR small children when his house
caught fire Saturday morning. His
wife had gone for a bucket Of water
and on her return the building was
in flames. The house and all the per-
sonal effects of the family were de-
stroyed.