The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-30
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acel-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIaee-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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The heating plant at the Whitman
county courthouse has at last been com
pleted.
Three cases of smallpox have broken
out at the Stevens county poor farm
near COlville.
Dan Lee, an old resident of Winlock,
and formerly proprietor of Lees livery
barn, committed suicide recently.
At Tacoma Sarah R. Carey, aged 70,
died recently from inhaling flames when
her clothing caught fire in the kitchen
stove.
Everett Titus, a IS year old boy liv-
ing enc mile north of Nooksaek, shot
three fingers and the thumb from his
left hand.
The McInnis Brothers livery barn
and So head of horses at Harrington
was burned Sunday. Loss between $780,
900 and $4,000.
A. j.. Hurst, a Wholesale huckster of
Seattle, killed his two children and
wife and then committed suicide. Do
nestle troubles the cause.
m lhAVAANuICu HAa ahAN 4AlChbOu
was killed in front of the station at
Kanasket while trying to board a fast
moving westbeund freight train.
j. C. Livingstone is lying at the hos
pital in Anacortes seriously injured and
may die as a result of a bullet wound
accidentally received while hunting.
R. A. Patton, the 19-year-old SON of
William Patton of Gate City, was acct
dentally shot and instantly killed by his
younger brother, William, last Sunday.
+. B. Halves, prohibition candidate
for the legislature from the Forty
eighth district, died recently as the re-
suit of injuries received He was run
down by q Great Northern train at
StartaP.
The Selah Valley Fruitgrowers' asso-
citation was organized recently by ranch
ers of that section. An expert packer
is to be employed and the association
expects to ship about 10000 boxes of
apples this fall.
George Murukami, japanese, has been
arrested at ~Bellingham, charged with
smuggling wine and tobacco from the
United States to British Columbia and
bringing japanese into this country on
the return trip.
After the hardest and most sys-
tematie days work by 40 experienced
woodsmen, not a single clue to Klober
and Kumle, who were lost while hunt
ing in the mountains near Hot Springs,
has been unearthed.
The army wireless signal service sta
tions in Alaska, Eagle City, Circle City,
Fairbanks and Fort Gibbon are hand
ling the commercial and press matter
ordinarily carried by the land wires
without interruption.
Frank Pinkham, an employee of the
Tacoma Mill company, has disappeared
and officials of the concern have asked
the assistance of the police in locating
him in the belief that he is responsible
for a shortage that may amount to
$50, 900.
Accused of having robbed the regis
tered mails at the ~Bellingham postofice
for the past three or -four months, A. W.
Hadley, so years old, for the last three
years a letter carrier OF Bellingham, was
recently arrested and placed in the city
Jail.
Tive masked men entered Bassett Is
merchandise store at Fairbanks, on the
& Inland, Saturday, held up
the proprietor and two women who were
n the room, took the purse of Mr.. Bias
'ett, containing about SO, and success
fully made their escape.
The proposed coyote and jackrabbit
hunt, which is to take place neal Wei
1atehee On November 0, is destined to
the biggest event of it's kind ever
pulled off in the northwest, preparations
already being made for about 1900
participants from different parts of the
tate. ;
A special officer has been detailed in
everett to investigate the claim of the ,
ire chief that three-fourths of the d,
Tres which have occurred in Everett
Turing the past few months are of in :
endiary origin and that the fires were
ct to satisfy a grudge against owners
f the property. '
The body of Julius Kumle, the chef =
I the Hotel Hot Springs and com {
anton of Fred W. Kloeber on the dis .
hunting trip recently, was :
ound Sunday morning lying on the ;
orth slope near the extreme top of the :
Comb mountain, about four )
tiles north of Hot Springs. He died :
t heart disease. Fred Kloeber has not :
cen found. .