The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-23
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
q Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIaee-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The Columbia county tax is 10 mills
1t is reported that there are about
Is cases of smallpox in Pullman.
Irwin w. Mathews Of Watervile is
dead, after a short illness with pneu.
monia-
The Idaho Trust company and the
National Bank of Lewiston are to be-
come one in the near future.
From ~ to Is cars of apples a day
are being shipped from Wenatchee to
different sections of the United States.
The Spokane rate case will not be
decided for a month, according to the
secretary of the interstate commerce
commission.
The generous rains recently are of
inestimable value to the country. The
rain has been general and came in the
nick of time.
Harry E. Gordon, a pioneer resident
of Spokane, where he has resided con
tinuously since 1885, died of locomotor
ataxia Saturday.
Madeline King, who confessed to hav
ing burned the body of her aged hus-
band, was acquitted of the charge of
murder by a jury at Port Orchard.
Walter A. Davenport of Colfax ha
| accepted a position with the Seattle
branch of the Foster & Kleiser Adver-
Using company, in which he is a stock
holder.
Spokane postofice receipts for the
month ended September 80 show an in
crease of 10 1-2 per zen over the re-
ceipts Of the corresponding month last
year.
Work on the New Ridgeway theater
building at Colfax is progressing rap
idly and the superintendent thinks the
structure win be ready for use by tn
first of December.
Ed Green, a recent arrival from
northern Michigan, was killed recently
near Sedro-W oolley while at work as
brakeman for the Puget Sound & Ba
ker River Railroad company.
A movement has been started to put
new life in the Spokane Playground as
ISOLATION, to increase it's membership
establish and equip Fairgrounds il
every school district in the city.
John Hanson of Everett, for the pas
six months a member of the board Of
pardons of the Washington state re
formatory at Monroe, has been ap
: pointed for the long term ending july
IT, 1918.
Exclusive of the 10000 900 that ha
been paid for the site to be occupied
t by Spokane s new IL story hotel, prop
t erty on Sprague and First avenue ha
sold within the last two weeks to tn
= amount of nearly 100000.
e The loyal parishioners of the All
tanum church, North Yakima, cam
down on their pastor, the Rev. Owe,
Umstead, recently, and now the pal
ochial henroost is loaded till it bends
t The Rev. Mr.. Umstead was given
e chicken shower.
A report from Tacoma says that tn
n state executive committee of the SC
cialist party has decided not to pa
the fee demanded of its candidates o
the state ticket, but to make the rae
by means of stickers and the writin
of the names of the candidates upo
the ballots.
Robert Serempus, 20 years old, prt
prietor of the Star dairy at Rigney Hill
Tacoma, was shot and killed Sunday o
d his dairy ranch by Fred Abel, IS year
d old, who, with Roy Comfy, two years h
% junior, was hunting upon the dair.
20 man s land. The boy murderer claim
IT the deed was done in self-defense.