Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-03-26
THE NORTHWEST

near Port Townsend was instantly
killed few days ago. He was crushed
beneath rolling logs at a landing.
Fire totally destroyed the general
merchandise stock and store building
of Thomas Hardy. the principal mer-
chant at Midway, BIC, last Thursday
morning. The loss is estimated at
Sl3, 600, with insurance of $4,000.
At the risk of her life Mrs. C. C.
Albright, &c years old. rescued her
two grandchildren from a fire which
destroyed the family home in Seattle
a few days ago.
4 Superior Judge G. E. Morris of
Seattle. sentenced Phillip Caplin last
week to hard labor in the Walla Walla
penitentiary for from 10 to Id years.
He called the prisoner a deliberate
and a thief.
While Mrs. Gaspard Ella of Tacoma,
was drawing water to prepare some
soup the other day, an eel fell from
the faucet. The eel was six inches
long and for few moments produced
a panic in the Ella kitchen.
Reports of the washing out of the
Hauser Lake dam, now being rebuilt
Is miles from Helena, Mont. were
exaggerated. A fume half mile
long, $50 feet deep was washed out
and few feet of temporary Golfer
dam.
John A. Tabor was found guilty on
Thursday night at Lewiston, Idaho.
for killing Daniel Rowan near Gilt
Edge, February 10 last. Tabor and
Rowan were friends and were travel
ing on the stage from Grass Range,
when they became engaged in a quar-
rel, Tabor shooting Rowan through the
back.
1t is announced that the work of
construction on the Pittsburg ano
Gilmore railroad near Dillon, Mont,
will be begun on April l. This
road will connect with the Oregon
Short Line at Armstead, Mont, and
extend to Salmon. Idaho, distance
of l20 miles. Pittbsurg and New
York capitalists are said to be behind
the project.
Two more saloons in Wenatchee
went out of business on St. Patricks
day, their licenses expired and no re-
newals were asked. This makes four
saloons that have gone out of business
there since January /, and leaves six
more that will run until June, ] when
the ultimatum issued by the city coun-
ell goes into effect. ordering all
saloons to close.
Josep Bang was found dead in his
room at Frances one day last week
WITH his throat cut. He was en-
ployed in the sawmill and the suicide
ended weeks debauch. He was
fine musician. and native of Geneva.
Switzerland, where he leaves a sister.
He lost everything in the San Fran
cisco earthquake, and has ever since
been respondent.
The Kalispell Mont. branch of the
anti-saluon league of Flathead county
decided at meeting a few days ago
to place full municipal ticket in the
field for the spring campaign. More
than 1900 names have been secured to
petition for special election on
local option questions, and an effort
will be made to close up the matter
before the recent bill creating Lincoln
county take effect.
Joeph Bown. charged with murder
in the first degree by an information
filed direct in the district court at
Missoula, Mont, by County Attorney
Mulroney. has been arraigned and
pleaded not guilty. His trial was
fixed for March 80. Brown is accused
of having shot and killed Robt. Gill
ruth near Lolo, February %. He
claims self defense and will be de-
Tended along that line by Attorney
C. M. Hall.
Last week the sheriff's Office at
Prosser received word that two
"jungle stiffs" had been seen in the
railroad yards. Deputy Sheriff Bean
and Night Marshal Winter unearthed
one dozen suits of clothes and two
dozen pairs of oxford shoes after a
systematic search of the river bottom
east of the town. The officers arrested
three men in whose possession the
goods were found. 1t is superstition
that the men broke the seal of the box
car billed from some point west and
took the goods.