The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-20
WASHINGTON 7

WASHINGTON NOTES
Patrons of the Tacoma Railway &
Power company's lines are not permit
ted to stand on the platforms.
Tacomans are up in arms against
the navy department for resembling
its orders for battleships to visit Ia
coma on account of the depth of the
harbor, as reported.
A lack of refrigerator cars to
handle fruit caused a calamity, North
Yakima leading shippers invited the
aid of the state railroad commission
for relief.
An Angora goat farm, to be started
with 500 animals by L. H. Alger, OF
Detroit, Mich, and Charles Davis, OF
Atlanta, Ca, is announced for Wood
lawn, Whatcom county.
The Yakima valley Is expected to
produce from so to IS per cent OF a
full crop Of apples.
George w. Barnes, purser OF the
steamship Watson, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid while In
Seattle.
At Tacoma Frank Harvey, who shot
and killed Gertrude Yall July /, plead
ed guilty 10 manslaughter.
Hinderk Busman, proprietor OF a
North Yakima saloon, fatally shot him.
self through the breast recently.
The fire department of the city of
Davenport has received a new HOOK
and ladder truck with 70 feet of ladder
and 10 buckets for fighting fire. This
is a long-needed addition to the fire
lighting apparatus of the town.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. E. StockwelPs 1S
month-old baby was fatally burned al
Hillyard recently by carbolic acid from
a bottle that fell from a shelf. The
child suffered five hours.
II has beer discovered hat w. H
Watson, now in jail in Seattle 10
stealing $4,000 from the Californii
Saw works. was a poker iend.
1t cost King county SIT 900 to hn'
that Chester Thompson was insan
+ when he shot Judge Emory. One Q
the insanity experts presented a bil
r for $4,000. j..
Washington's attorney general wi
appear before the Oregon suprem
f. court to defend the fishermen arreste
Il and convicted of violating the Orego
fishing laws, and if the court decide
p against the fishermen the attorney gel
-e eral will appeal to the supreme coui
le of the United States. The case arise
lie because Washington authorities pc
NIT the use Of purse nets in the Co
a umbia river, while Oregon laws pr
he hibit purse seines.
The new steam heating plant Il
the Colfax high school building ID
rs arrived.
We The new law provides that when
be shipper shall make application to
railroad for cars, not to exceed lO
of one day, the railroad shall furnish u
an cars within six days or pay a demu
No rage charge to the shipper of 81 p
or day for each car asked for.
"a Bonds offered by North Yakima a
not considered legal, so there will
ma no paving now.
or George Lebebvre, a frst-class fl
AZ man on the. battleship Nebraska, W
nv fatally shot by Marine Guard Steve
at the Puget Sound navy yard recent
cd Thomas benson, of Davenport, di
nd recently at the age of so years.
for The wheat harvest is p~rogressi
rapidly, but reports received say Il
ion not more than one-third of the crop
ant threshed. The market remains n
ith and quotations were advanced IL CO
per today on all grades.
the Twenty-Five men fought a fire Il
to destroyed a dry kiln containing 6OO,C
yer shingles owned by Rule & Miller,
Dewey, Wash, near Bellingham.
re The 4~-year-old son Of w. H. Nulf
Jeh Aberdeen got hold of a loaded % C.
as Der rife the other day and while pl
me. ing with it the weapon was discharg
and the ball striking a 16-months- old bs
and inficting a wound which is exp
yer ted to prove fatal.
ont- Earl d. Douglas, who was emplo!
,ert as a carpenter on the dock at Gre
an Bros new mill at Raymond, fell
was the river recently and was drown
) in Mrs. Plat NJ. CORDIALLY Of Wenatcl
died recently from the effects Of a
rere from a hammock.