The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-16
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Glen Rays, 11-year-Old son of j. r.
Kays, Sprague, was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting with a 90
caliber rife.
The Benton county Alaska Yukon
Pacific commission has been organized
at Kennewick and began making plans
to have the county suitably represented
at the big Seattle fair.
The Dayton fair last week was a
winner.
l.. F. Wood of Bellingham has pre-
sented to the Carnegie library a pewter
mug which was formerly the property
of Roger Williams, founder of Provi-
dence, R. l., and which was brought
over to New England by the historical
Hazard family on the Mayfower.
An History hotel is to be erected at
Spokane by Spokane and eastern CAPT
talists on the block bounded by Sprague
and First avenue, Post and Lincoln
streets. The big structure will occupy
all Of the block excepting Davenport s
restaurant, which it adjoins on the west.
1t will be 155x200 feet, and the build
ing alone will cost about 81. OOO. 0
1t is estimated that the furnishings will
cost $3.50 900, and the site about $780,
900, making a total investment of ST.
10000.
Tag day at Spokane yielded close to
$4,000, all for charity.
With Saturdays attendance esti-
mated there were 1O3, 911 paid visitors
to Spokane's 18th annual interstate
fair, which came to an end at midnight
last night, an average of 1913 per
day. The paid attendance for the first
six days of last years fair was but
7O,927, an average of 1881 per day,
and the total paid attendance for the
full two weeks of last years fair was
1884, SO and that for the fair Of 1906
1 1888.
Henry Danforth, with several aliases,
who was arrested in Tacoma several
days ago, has confessed to a number of
sensational rObberies, and the officers
believe they have one of the nerviest
all around thieves in the country.
At Everett, Policeman J. K. Sturgis
recently shot and instantly killed Frank
Lenox, a young man who was found
prowling IN the yard of the Cascade
saloon and who fed when commanded
to halt.
The largest and most powerful set
of water wheels in the United States,
with the possible exception of a set
recently installed at McCalls Ferry, Pa,
will be placed in the new power sta
ton of the Washington Water Power
company at Little Falls, on the SPOKANE
river. '
Shot down in the performance of his
duty, F. E. Hand, so years of age, a
patrolman employed in Seattle, was in
stantly killed by a burglar whom he
interrupted while attempting to break
into the Federal bar, at Third avenue
and Pine street. The murderer is at
large.
Michael Campbell was acquitted at
midnight Saturday at Cathlamet of the
murder of John McClelland. 1t was one
of the most bitterly contested and cost
ly murder trials in the annals of south
western Washington.
The Walla Walla fair gates opened
Monday of this week.
w. A. Weckter, a brakeman on the
Spokane Falls & Northern branch of the
Great Northern railroad, was killed Sat
urday night at Deer Park.
W. H. Shafer, Seattle agent for the
Seattle-Tacoma interurban, is in the
Seattle jail charged with the embez-
element of between $4,000 and $4,000.
Shafer admitted his defalcation. He
blames the races.
At the recent meeting of the state
federation of women clubs in Belling-
ham, Mrs. H. W. Allen of Spo-
kane was reelected president; Mrs. Fl.
c. Blair of Spokane, secretary, and
Mrs. John Trumbell of Port Angeles,
treasurer.
Harry F. Ettlich, age 81, whose par
ents live at Pine City, committed sui
eide recently at Colfax by swallowing
carbolie acid.
The first case tried under the en-
ployer's liability act in this state was
decided in a sealed verdict brought in
Saturday at Spokane by the federal
court jury in the case of Charles N.
Roush against the Great Northern in
favor of the plaintiff. Roush sued for
$4,000 damages and got a verdict for
$4,000.
A franchise has been issued by the
commissioners of Douglas county to o.
A. Kuek, representing Seattle capital,
for the construction of an electric road
connecting Adrian, Ephrata and Soap
Lake.
The cholera continues to decrease in
Russia. There are at present 1881 pa
tients in the municipal hospital.
The fruitgrowers at Leavenworth are
taking steps toward the organization of
a Leavenworth horticultural society.
The Columbia and Okanogan Steam
boat company will have to suspend the
steamboat traffic on the Columbia river
if the present drouth is not broken
soon.
IDAHO NOTES.
People who have been dragging the