East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-22

NORTHWEST NEWS.


A humane society is being organ
against cruelty to children and ami
mails are enforced.
What is called the Selah canal, in
the Yakima valley, is being enlarged
to carry enough water to irrigate g.
200 acres more than at present can
be covered by It,
Mrs. Susan f. Malbon is dead at
Walla Walla, aged ~ years. She had
lived in that place 81 years and leaves
husband and son. The body will be
cremated at Portland.
Peter Dekinder, an aged recluse.
shot and killed himself at Portland,
presumably because his houseboat,
his only home and possession, had ac-
cidentally burned to the waters edge.
The legislative committee appoint
ed to investigate the Washington state
| old soldiers home, recommends many
changes, improvements and enlarge
ments to make 1t a really desirable
place for old soldiers to live.
| The forest rangers of Montana have
received advices to permit the free
gathering of wood ON the forest re-
serves, for the purpose of fuel. This
move is taken on the part of the de-
partment of forestry as a measure to
relieve the fuel famine existing in
various sections of Montana.
]. L. Stafford, the wardner, Idaho,
mining broker who last fall wrote a
ttTa arti nla H. 4 -. IL,
the mountains preparing for a hard
winter, is receiving the congratula-
tions of the skeptfcs who doubted the
reliability of the. animals to foretell
the nature of the winter.
At Chehalis Alien Fink beat ]. A.
Wallis on the head with an iron bar
and killed him for no other reason
than because Wallis lay down on
Flink's bed in boarding house and
did not arise quick enough to suit
Fink when the latter called him
Fink made his escape, at least fol
the time being.
! Another artesian well will be bored
In La Grande by julius Roesch, tn,
brewer. The contract has been giver
to the Hunt Artesian Wen company
, The we'll is to be bored at the brewer,
building and is to be sunk to a depti
: of 400 or 500 feet and as much fur
ther as may be necessary to secure al
abundance of pure water.
At Spokane Charles Filpot has beei
convicted of the murder of Mes Cole
an old man who lived alone a few
miles from the city. on a ranch. Th
verdict was of murder In the first de
gree. 1t Is supposed Filpot's only OBJ
ject was robbery, though whoever di,
the deed could have gotten but a pit
tance. Cole had been beaten on tn
head and then thrown off a 90-foo
cliff into the Spokane river.
At Seattle "Curley" Conley, pro
prietor Of the Hurry Messenger Co.,
has been convicted of supplying mes
senger boys with cocoaine and teach
ing them its use. 1t Is positivel
proven that Conley has ruined a mum
ber Of boys, several of whom hav
become hopeless dope fiends and ar
now detained in the city Jail takinl
treatment for the habit. Yet Conley'
only punishment is SO days on tn
chain gang, the limit of the law.
Willie Kamaramen, a Finn, was pu
off a Northern Pacific passenge
train by the conductor, near Eagl
Gorge, WASH, because he could no
find his ticket. He was almost in
stantly struck by train going in tn
opposite direction on a parallel track
and was instantly killed. After tn
accident the ticket was found In an In
side pocket, the poor fellow not be
ing able to find 1T, leaving the con
| ductor to infer he was irving to bea