The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-17
BRIEFS OF THE NORTHWEST

The building of the Nye Canning
company and the cotton shingle mill
at Vancouver, B. c., were destroyed
by fire Saturday. Loss in each case
about $4,000.
Jess Heiser was struck by a falling
Tree na." ia. ge-il Saturday, and
severely injured. No bones were
broken, but he was terribly bruised
and lay for five hours in n unconscious
condition. He will recover.
Hugh P. Schievley, some of State
Insurance Commissioner John H.
Schievley, has been appointed to a
cadetship at West Point military
academy and expects to enter the
academy about March 1 next.
kid" Preston and Carl Dunn, two
prisoners in the Wallowa county
(Ore.) Jail at Enterprise. escaped Fri
day night by cutting a hole through
the floor and digging under the stone
foundation. They have not yet been
recaptured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Haden. who
live four miles southeast of Wilbur,
Wash. celebrated their golden we'd
ding Sunday. Their wedding took
sickness the anniversary was not cell
ebroted until Sunday.
John Holden. pioneer of King
county, set fire to his home few
do
stroyed. In the house was about $4,000
in gold and silver coin, all of which
was melted into a shapeless mass.
Holden has been taken to the county
jail and will be tried for insanity
Arrested on the compla mt of his
wife. c. F. Reams. district agent for
the Standard Oil company. is now in
jail at Everett. Wash, charged with
adultery. Mrs. Della Moses is the
second woman in the case. She is a
pretty widow and is the organist in
the First Presbyterian church.
In row at Wallace. Idaho, Monday
evening Ellis Hale, master mechanic
for the Federal Mining & Smelling
company, was stabbed in the stomach
by a man named Duncan. The exact
cause of the tragedy is not known.
Hale is in the hospital and may re-
cover. Duncan made his escape.
The King county hospital has on IT'S
hands a case of leprosy. the sufferer
being J. Hanse, a Japanese, who ha:,
just recovered from a bad attack OF
smallpox. 1t is said that the leper is
allowed to mingle with the other pa
tients in the hospital. but this is de-
MED at the hospital. An investiga-
ton into the case is being held.
Wild blackberries are ripen1ng in
the woods in the vicinity of Raymond,
Wash. The crop is unusually large,
the vines being fairly loaded. Ranch
ers and their families residing in the
favored districts are reaping a harvest
by picking the delicious fruit and
shipping it to nearby towns, where a
ready market, al high prices, IS
found.
An attempt was made to blow the
sdie III TIE pOStOIIlce at 81. Mares
Idaho, Sunday night, but without sue
cess. The door had been drilled and
at least one charge of nitroglycerine
had been exploded, as the door of the
safe was badly sprung. Several sus-
picious characters have been about
recently and they are being CLOSELY
watched.
Mrs. A. Albertson of Hamilton.
Mont, disappeared Sunday night and
Monday afternoon. her husband found
her dead body under the floor Of an
clubhouse with a terrible cash in the
throat and bottle of carbolfc acid and
razor in her hands. The woman had
evidently committed suicide, although
there is no apparent reason for the
action.