The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-07
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boys who resented his attempt to
punish one of them.
The debating contest at Walla
Walla last night between the Whit
man and the Pacific university
teams was won by the former.
Ole Goodmanson has been grant
ed a pardon by Governor Mead. He
was sentenced May 23, 1905, to
three years for embezzlement.
Farmers are paying $35 and $40
per month for farm hands as the
result of the great amount of rail.
road work being done in that part
of the state.
In an address at New York last
evening Senator Beverage vigor-
ously defended Roosevelt's policy
Of strengthening federal power as
opposed to states rights.
The city council at Standpoint,
Idaho, has ordered the Bell Tele-
phone Co. to vacate the streets and
alleys of the town. which it has &C.
cupied without franchise.
Hartman has decided to return
to Wall st. and stop talking for
publication. He refuses to confirm
the report of his purchase of New
York Central interests in the
Reading road.
AS the result of the time lock
of the strong box having become
deranged, the bank of Seward had
to send its safe to Seattle. dis
lance CT 1900 miles to have it open
ed The safe contains $500
General Neplueff, in command of
the fortress at Sebastopol. was
slightly wounded while driving
through the city last night by an
exploding bomb which had been
thrown under his carriage.
Two King county school di-
rectors recently elected are unable
to read or write. They are mother
and son belonging to tie Weller
family in remote district and the
teacher had to sign their election
returns.
A sliding wage scale governed by
the price of copper has been offered
Butte miners. 1t provides maxi
mum Of 81 per day with copper
above IS cents. and $3.50 as a mini
mum. Committees are working on
an agreement.
In the federal court at Portland
Judge Thomas H. Crawford and d.
w. Bailey, opposing counsel, got
into a fight. Judge Thomas Craw-
ford seized Bailey by the throa;
and hit him. They were let off
with an apology.
Saloonmen and cigar merchan
of Tacoma say GO per cent of them
must go out of business since slot
machines were banished. The
amount put into the machines in
the county is estimated at from
$500 coo to $1000000 per year,
The Union Pacific will soon be-
gin work upon its Seattle tunnel as
IA request from the Oregon e Wash
ington railroad for permission to
make number of boring along the
proposed route. was filed with the
board of public works at Seattle
yesterday
A court at Nantes, France, has
fined q nuns and mother SUI
perior for refusing to leave their
convent in accordance with the law
dissolving church establishments
They will be elected if they per-
sist in refusing to abandon the
property to the state.
A ruling that aliens can have nc
standing in United States courts
unless treaties with foreign coun
tries are amended has been mad.
by Judge Ewing at Pittsburg. The
decision was made in the case of a
Hungarian, who sued the Pennsyl
vania road for $4,000.
| A $l,O00.00 saw mill dplant will
be built at Sanders beach near
Occur d'Alene by the Weyer
| haeusers. The site includes 500
acres lying southeast of the city
| The company now holds over 5000
600 feet of timber besides options
that have not been taken up.
Through the carelessness of Mrs
]. A. Lowe in leaving her three
months old child in a baby buggy
near the stove in Seattle the little
one was burned to death. Other
children accidentally pushed the
buggy onto the stove and set il
afire.
| Counsel for plaintiffs in the &C
ton to COMPEL an accounting o
Mrs. Eddy's property have de
cided to being a second suit il
Massachusetts unless defendants il
that state join in the New Hamp
shire case. Four prominen
Christian Scientists have beer
named as defendants.