The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-06-28
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
PIace-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NO
N. NJ. Hart, superintendent OF the
Rutte. Mont, public schools, has been
elected principal Of the Spokane high
school. His salary was fixed at $4,000
a year
The fifth annual Lincoln County Pi-
oneer and Historical associations pic
mic was the most successful in the his
tory of the association.
Hundreds of carloads of harvesters
are being brought to Tacoma for trans
shipment to V~ladivostok, whence they
are sent by rail to Manchuria.
A Great Northern railway passenger
going west was wrecked about eight
miles UP the Tumwater canyon west OF
L~eavenworth Saturday night. The
train was a d~ouble-header. The first
engine spread the rails, falling on its
side. The second engine was thrown
from the track into the Wenatchee riv-
er. carrying the mail car along with 1t.
There was nobody injured except the
fireman. who was slightly injured
about the head.
The large blast near Kahlotus on
George Chew's contract on the Port
land & Seattle line was exploded sat
urday night. This blast consisted OF
10000 pounds of powder, which rep
r~esents an outlay of over $4,000 for
powder alone.
State Horticultural Frank E. Hunt
ley and his deputy, P. s. Darlington,
are in Wenatchee to investigate the
condition of the orchards and the fruit
crop. Mr.. Darlington will make We
natchee his headquarters and have I'M
der his official observation the coun-
ties of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan'
]. E. Nessly of Pullman is not gull
ty of maintaining a nuisance n
Judge Chadwick instructed the jury TO
return verdict.
jennie McLain has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla. The crime for
which he was arrested and to which
he pleaded guilty was that of the muir
der of William Cameron, a white man,
on the Colville reservation about two
weeks ago. McLain is a halfbreed
Indian.
) The Stevens County Pioneer society
= will hold its regular annual meeting
and picnic at Chewalah next Sunday.
+, The body of William Gustavus Adolf
: plus Schoening, formerly a student at
e the University of Washington, was
t found floating in the bay near the
I fire boat at the foot of Madison street,
Seattle. Wash, Coroner Carroll be-
Heves that Schoening committed sui
t eide while temporarily insane. The
body had lain in the water at least
two weeks.
s Ernest f. w. POolton, aged Is, a
student in the freshman class of the
e Seattle high school, died Monday as
y the result of burns received from an
exploding lamp.
Under the name of the Young Mems
g Buddhist association Of Seattle, Japa'
n nese of Seattle have raised a fund OF
% $4,000 and have purchased a site fol
a temple.
George w. France, for over sever
d years postmaster of Hoquiam, sue
n cumbed to a lingering illness from can
Re Ger of the stomach and other organs
Ie which was too far advanced to be re
y moved.
- WnllG MIS-. buIu6diuACA oIN nv
daughter Clara were assisting the fer
* ryman in crossing the Central ferry
er recently the real wheel, which they
er were operating, got beyond their con
'h troll, and, catching in the clothes o
In the woman, threw them overheard
IN Mrs. Bumgardner caught in the rope!
h and was rescued, but the younger WON
IN an, being less fortunate, was thrown
o far out in the stream beyond all pos
sible help and was drowned.
Saul Louie, the Indian charged will
M murder in the first degree for brutal!
beating the life out of his sweethear
on the reservation April 10, because
she lavished her affections upon an
n. other red man, was sentenced to i
years in the p~enitentiary at Wall;
OF Walla.
IL Complete returns from the specia
OF election held in school districts No.
10, 25, 3S, 40, AZ, 81 and 11e Whitman
he county, to decide whether or not the.
should organize into a high school dis
trict show that a large majority votet
against organization.
l-3 The wreck which happened on tn
l-3 Spokane & International recently at
point neal Spokane Bridge, killet
l-3 George e. Kendall and w. H. Waters
IhOth train men.