The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-05-17
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Plaee-FaII Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
At the home of Andy Riddle, an in
dian, near Toppenish, recently, Joe
Flinne, a Sioux halfbreed, shot his
wife and himself, killing both instant
ly. The trouble Is supposed to have
occurred over the fact that Mrs. Flinne
has left her husband and gone to the
Riddle home to live.
The state railroad commission, it is
stated, has decided to abandon the
Joint wheat rate order made last
year, and is working on a new one.
which will include the electric as
well as steam roads.
1t is said to have been discovered
that many boys in the Tacoma high
school, instead of spending their
money for their lunch at noon, put
in the time of intermission in play
ing poker and penny ante.
On charges of having fraudently
converted to their wi use timber
from government land, Peter McMar-
tin, D. A. Martin and Walter Fair
banks have been fined in the aggre-
gate sum of $31, 213 by Judge Hanford
in the federal court at Seattle.
The rivers of Yakima valley are
gradually assuming flood proportions
states a recent report.
Most of the restaurants in Spokane
have advanced the average prices
to the from 80 to so per
cent on every order.
Indians and negroes were employed
in Seattle on the docks in place of the
longshoremen who were recently lock-
ed out.
Memorial services were held Sun
day by Spokane Aerie No. 2, Fraternal
Order of Eagles.
Homer N. Kennedy, chief clerk In
the office of Henry Blakeley, general
western freight agent of the NortherN
Pacific, has been appointed to the po-
sition of general agent at Spokane to
succeed George A. Mitchell.
James Anderson, a farmer and
stockman living nea Pullman, lost a
valuable driving stallion recently. An
other horse kicked the stallion, break
ing his leg. Efforts were made to get
him up and set the broken leg, when
1t was broken in another place and 1t
had to be shot. The horse was a valu-
able animal and the loss vas a heavy
one.
Farmers in Pierce county by the
mislnterpretation of a recent decision
by Judge Smell of the superior court
declaring the city poll tax law uncon-
stitutional, have refused to pay the
state poll tax, which is constitutional.
Struck by a Occur d'Alene electric
train while trying to cross the track
ahead Of it, r. e. Gable and his
daughter Sadie, were thrown from a
buggy and hurt, the former fatally in
jured, late Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Cable Is a rancher living near Moab,
and was driving his daughter to the
station at Spokane Bridge so that she
might take the inbound train to Spo-
kane. Cable died early Monday norm
ing at a hospital in Spokane.
The labor problem is causing much
uneasiness in the Palouse country.
The recent rain was welcomed by
the farmers, for the surface of the
ground was getting hard and dry and
needed to be softened in order that
late sOwn grain might come up.
According to the decision of the SUI
preme court, it looks as though Whit
man county would be deprived of a
fruit inspector.
An effort is being made to have the
lincoln county commissioners and the
mayor of Davenport agree upon a day
for strawing the roads leading into
Davenport.
Examinations for carriers and
clerks in the postal service will be
held May 81 in Colfax. For clerks
and craftsmen in the land offices,
June 10 and 20 at Spokane, Seattle,
Tacoma, Walla Walla, Port Townsend,
Bellingham; same places June 5 for
apprentices for the bureau of stand
ards.
The state treasurer certified that
there is 81, 036, 900 cash on hand to be
apportioned this quarter to the school
districts of the state.