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WASHINGTON ITEMS.

,fre May COttrell, lorlheiiy MUSE
-. for Colonel d. p. jenkins, the
,Ssalthy Spokane pioneer, recently ar
"oa ad for raising a check for $125
- 80 her by her late employer to
s 500 tried to commit suicide recently.
The Ridgeway theater, the only play
,ouso in Colfax, was destroyed by fre
- o'clock Saturday morning. The
as,sin of the blaze is mystery, but
.soso on the scene first say 1t was
Sausod nv defective electric wires.
Soso s12 900; insurance, $4,000.
Rrooding over the refusal OF his
sweethearts parents to permit him to
T,o,t the young woman's home, Will
ton, Sullivan, rs years old, living near
stevenson. ended his troubles by send
inc bullet crashing into his head.
7 Murphy, who lives northwest
of Almira Is miles, went to the home
of lens Weismann, neighbor, Thurs
dav and having asked permission to
write a letter, was left alone in the
room Mr.. Weismann a short time
after hearing the report of gun, ran
IN the house to find Murphy lying by
b;s chair having taken Weismann's
gun from its rack and shot himself
Murphy died in a few minutes.
Al the special election at Deer
Park it was voted to incorporate.
s. G. Cosgrove, candidate for gov
ernor on the republican ticket, has re-
turned home from an electioneering
tour a sick man and has of late been
confined to his room. He is to make
no more speeches. Should he con
tinue to make speeches. the doctors
say. he will lose his voice perma
nently.
That deposits in the banks of the
state of Washington increased $6,442,
466 between February IA and May IA
is shown by Rogers Financial Record
a summary of the condition of thu
banks of the Pacific northwest, pub
lished after each call of the comptrol
Ter of the currency, by Edgar Roye
of Seattle. The total deposits of tn
Washington banks is given at $13S
06S7S2.
The twenty-first annual meeting @
the Washington State Dental societ
will convene in Spokane Thursda
this week and continue during Frida
and Saturday. ]. Q. Bryan of II
dianapolis will be one of the princip;
attractions and will deliver sever;
addresses during the convention.
The work of the May examinatio
Of toooborc hoe haan oOn1nlptpd III
number of applicants at this exami
alton was 1888, which is 1856 more tha
took the examination in May, 1907.
the 1888 applicants 957 received ce
tifcates. This means that there We
476 failures in the state, 81 per ceI
The state railroad commission HI
announced its first findings on Il
value of railway property in the stat
This shows in round numbers pre-
erty used exclusively for railroad pl
poses by the Northern Pacific, $11
100000; Great Northern, $59,O0O,OO
o. R. G N, $16,000,0OO.
Mrs Julia H. Van Patten of d.
h ton was elected to the position
grand worthy matron of the Order
Eastern Star of the state. Mrs. L
bic ]. Demorest was reelected sec
tary, having held the position for
Il years. The other officers were
h vanced one step.
Robert L. McCloskey of Colfax "
n elected grand high priest of the gra
chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Y
n cey c. Blalock of Walla Walla was
II elected grand secretary. All the otl
officers were regularly advanced.
There will be no more liquor "a
f in the cars of the Spokane Tract
Il company in Spokane after July 1.