The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-24
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Aecl-
tents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop o"+'~ok Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


the general land Office at Washington
D.. c., and will return to this state sc
that he may make the race for the re
publican nomination for governor.
A full grown cougar has made its
appearance in the vicinity of the Lew.
is Cochran farm, six miles northeast
of Colfax, and is terrorizing the people
of hat community.
After celebrating about two hours
the jury in the Gertie Griffin murder
trial at Ritzville returned a verdict of
not guilty.
The Spokane high school debating
team Friday night outpointed the
Wenatchee high school team in the
state interscholastic contest.
Graduates Of the Spokane high
school who have completed the four
years course satisfactorily will in the
future be permitted to enter the Ar
mour Institute of Technology without
first taking the examinations.
John Haff of the cruiser st. Louis
is dead at Vallejo, Cal, from the eff
fects of drinking wood alcohol. Half
is the third sailor to succumb, two 9th
ers are totally blind, n five others
will never again be fit for active SER
vice.
As a result of the tong wal being
waged in a Francisco, Lung Chow
was fatally shot recently. Two assas-
sins attempted 10 kill Jung Dang,
whose life was sought, but the bullets
went wild and killed Lung Chow.
The new cruiser California went to
sea from San Francisco recently for
her final trial. The navy trial board
was on board and it is intended to
keep the cruiser at hard work for two
days before an official opinion is
formed.
j. J. O1Connor of Wenatchee drove
the first team and rig across the big
Columbia river bridge at Wenatchee.
1t consisted of a sleighload of people,
among whom was Judge R.. S. Steiner
of Wateryille.
George Lucas, a well known pioneer
Of central Washington, died at Cheney !
Saturday night. He located on Cow
creek, southeast of Ritzville, so years
ago, and resided there until four years
ago.
Richard David Harrington, aged So. :
died at the hospital at Fort Stella .
COON recently, where he had been !
since his health failed some two years
ago. Mr.. Harrington had lived 81
years of his life on the Pacific coast,
At the annual meeting of the State :
Bee Keepers association at North =
Yakima recently, H. II. Cole was elect =
I'd president; l.. r. Freeman, secre- y
airy; August Sipp, treasurer. and Z
Jesse w. Thornton, vice president. I
The recent assessors convention II
vas the most important gathering of
in the history of the state. G
t records the first determined step d
oward a uniform taxation system for g
he entire state. "
An increase in the jobbing business D.
Walla Walla for the year 1907 ovoG n
9O6 amounting to 25 or 80 per cent is
eported. &c
The plant of the suspended morning ic
dition of the Seattle Times has been II
ought by r. f. Radebaugh of Tacoma, I
'HA NhS W mat pldCCs
The body of Lillian Pratt. aged %. W
Tho mysteriously disappeared from in
er home in Tacoma on May 81 last.
'as found in a dense thicket on the
utskirts of the city recently by a sur
eying crew. M
China has just placed an important 10
ash order for quick firing guns in ~
arts. m
John |. Handley, supreme vice presi-
ent of the Fraternal Union of Amer &C
"a, died Friday at his home in Den &C
er, Co, of appendicitis. bl
Police Inspector Edward S. Whit re
Ser of New Orleans, who, accom- nc
lnied by five men, recently attempted al
kill the editor of the World, has OF
suspended, together with the 90
en- who accompanied him to the
ewspaper Office. as
Work has been started on the new ~
eel bridge crossing the Methow
yer at Pateros, 80 miles below To-
wisp. Wa
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, in a ser We
on in the Congregational church at Du
ncinnati last Sunday, aiEued that it lie
as not wicked to play ball on Sun pa
", and stated hat If he were mayor
would not try to enforce the law N'
ainst Sunday ball playing.
The New York police and private Fr
tectives have been asked to look
r Horace w. Randall, vice president
the Hoquiam Lumber company of no
1quiam, Wash, who went there sew det
al weeks g to visit friends, and 80
to have m~ysteriously disap- Go
AIRED. =
Henry Brook, a Spokane pioneer, f,,
on he steamship Roanoke on the wo
river, January 16, while on tr,
5 way to California. L.
First chloroforming A. C. Finley, no
10 was asleeD in his room, ups+,tr, :.