The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-02-28
NORTHWEST STATES
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
PIaee-crop Outlook is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of
Washington will meet in Wana Walla
June 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Captain w. r. Thomas says the
water in the upper Columbia has
never been so low.
Spokane high school defeated Ell
lensburg Friday on the initiative and
referendum debate.
Charles V. Roberts has sold 400
acres of land one mile west of Elber-
ton for $24, 900 to an eastern man.
Colfax and Walla Walla high school
state league debating teams met in
debate recently at Colfax, Colfox VII
ming.
DIR. Maurice M. Dodge, aged &c, a
graduate of Ann Arbor and Hahne-
mann, died recently in Tacoma of
paralysis.
With the advent of spring it is es-
timated that about 500 acres of young
fruit trees will be set out in the vicin-
ity of Brewster
Whitman college won the debate re-
Gently over willamette university on
the Japanese immigration question by
a unanimous decision.
The annual military ball given by
the cadets of Washington State col
lege Friday night, was the most bril-
liant social event in the history of
Pullman.
The death of Mrs. Susan S. Hyde,
aged 81 years, mother of eX-Congress-
man s.. C. Hyde, and a resident Of
Spokane since 1881, occurred in Spo-
kane Sunday.
The once powerful Methow tribe Of
Indians is extinct, the last survivor,
known as Methow George, having been
drowned in the Okanogan river at
Okanogan a few days ago.
John Wade, aged 20, residing at
Touchet, Is miles west of Walla Walla,
deliberately walked into the street
and shot himself with a rifle Satur-
day, dying instantly.
William Foley, who posed in Spo-
kane as a nephew of H. II. Rogers,
the Standard Oil magnate, has been
convicted in the superior court at
Walla Walla on the charge of forgery.
w. L. Mcdonald, for many years
one of the leading cigar dealers of
Tacoma and past exalted ruler of Ia
coma lodge of Elks, was committed to
the hospital for the insane at Fort
S~teilacoom recently.
The carpenters union in Spokane
will not ask for a raise of wages dur
ing the present year, it is now assert
ed, nor will the union accept any re-
duction at the hands of the employ
ers.
Although the Grand Army of the
Republic is rapidly decreasing in mem
bership, the state organization is
growing larger in numbers each year,
according to Department Commander
w. H. Mock of Bellingham.
The meeting of the next state bar
association will be held in Seattle
August "a. The American Bar asso-
citation will meet ia Seattle, August
25, 26 and 27, and prompted the
change in the state meeting.
The three year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. A. Fontaine, of Dayton,
nearly lost her lif' While poking paper
into the front of the stove. The
names suddenly leaped forth and fired
her dress. She was enveloped in
flames.
Will Lanning of Aberdeen has dur
ing the past few weeks killed four
fishers in North Aberdeen. These ami
mails are very scarce in this section of
| the country and are the first that
have been brought in by hunters for
some time. The pelts at present sell
at from $40 to SIS.