The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-09-11
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
Plaee-Crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Negotiations are pending for the
sale OF the Gawley Mill companv
across the bay from Tacoma.
While operating his threshing ma.
chine near Pullman Friday John Stein.
burg was probably fatally injured.
The death of Nathan Keith, aged Sc
years, occurred at Waitsburg recent
ly. He was a pioneer of the west.
The Spokane b~artenders' union has
purchased a large burial plot in Fair
mount cemetery, paying $500 for the
plot.
II. M. Ludlow, 6S years old, fell to
1is death down the elevator shaft of
the Oriental building in Seattle Sun,
DAY.
James Ragsdill, aged about 60
years, was fatally injured near
Springdale Saturday in a wood haul
ing accident.
The hardware store of McClintock
& Simpson at White Salmon was en-
tered recently and about $500 worth
of cutlery carried away.
Harry Long and an unknown assist
ant, groundkeepers of the Seattle Ten.
mis- club, were a~sphyxiated in their
room at the clubhouse last Sunday.
The Hazelwood company, ltd, has
sold its cattle to John l.. Smith, the
veteran superintendent of the live
stock department at the Interstate
fair.
A harvest hand giving his name as
James Boyard was given a Jail SEN
tence at Oakesdale for being drunk.
Soon after he succeeded in hanging
himself with a towel and breaking his
neck.
E. +. Daily has been arrested at Sc
attic on the charge of stealing about
$4,000 worth of iewelry from a trunk
In the room of Mrs. Carrie S. Erne,
proprietor of the Ertyl hotel, a fash
ionable ToOming house in Seattle.
Joseph A. Bloch, a rich Pacific
coast banker and real estate broker,
wanted in Portland on the charge of
deserving his wife, who is destitute,
with Mrs. Y. Weiss, an attractive
brunette, with whom he eloped, were
arrested in Seattle.
Fire early Saturday morning at
Starbuck destroyed property valued
at $40,0 00, two stores, the odd Eel
lows hall, and other buildings being
a complete loss. The blaze started
near Sprout & Barnhart's store, pre-.
sumably from a match thrown into
the rubbish.
Eight thousand dollars was paid
Saturday to the 500 Indians compris
ing the Occur d'Alene tribe, by Indian
Agent c. o. Worley, at Tekoa. Each
person, including men, women and
! children, received SIG. The money
is a payment due on reservation lands
sold some years ago.
A recent statement made at Wash
ington. d.. c., by the surveyor gen
erals Office shows that on July ]
there were 2,347, S25 acres surveyed
and 2.2S7.176 acres u~nsurveyed, unap
propriated and unreserved public
.ands in Washington and 36S,021 sos
acres left in Alaska, all unsurveyed
Spokane, Columbia & Western
Railway company is the name of the
|. new electric and steam road which
the Graves interest will build from
Spokane into the Big Bend country
Articles Of incorporation for the new
railroad were filed recently at the
county courthouse, the capital stool
being $4,000, 900.
The Protestant Episcopal churcl
has 50 bishops, including the presiding
bishop, in the United States; two il
China. two in Japan and one each il
West Africa, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil ant
Mexico. The Methodist Episcopa
church has 10 bishops and seven mis-
! sionary bishops. The Methodist Epis
} copal Church South has II bishops,
While T. J.. Maynard was threshinI
at the Ranch of H. A. Spills, west O
Cotton. in moving from n settlni
to another, along a steep hillside, tn
se%parator overbalanced and role.
down the hill. 1t turned completed
over three times. Mr.. Maynard dis
charged his crew, left the wreck lyin.
where it was and gave mp thresdina
There are more than 100000 chi
dren of school age in this state, &C
cording to the census taken in July
This is a gain of about $4,000 owe
the previous year. The 286O school
houses in the state in July, 1908, an'
sites. libraries and other school proI
artv are valued at an aggregate o
about $780, 900, as against but 81,
448.291 the previous year.