Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-08

point, 10 the charge OF forgery and
has been bound over to 70 district
court for trial.
Joseph Wanas was found DEAD on
the car tracks in Portland Thursday
night, and the officers after an inves-
tigtaion, are satisfied that he was
murdered and placed on the track to
cover up the crime.
While running to escape from an
officer at Butte, Mont, Tuesday night,
Clarence Verdon, burglar, bled to
death from wound in the leg, which
severed the femoral artery.
Mike Butler, who was arrested
several weeks ago on the charge of
dynamiting saloon in Butte, Mont,
has been discharged, the officers decid-
ing they did not have sufficient evil
dence to convict.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Robinson, of Sites, Idaho, fell
head foremost on hot stove few
days ago, terribly burning the child
A piece of skin the size of dollar
was burned off the forehead and its
arm badly burned.
The entire five members of the
family of Mr.. Jennings, living on the
Elk Creek country, in Idaho, are down
with the smallpox. An effort is being
made to confne the disease to the one
family.
The Great Northern depot at Mel
hart, Mont. was Tuesday night de-
stroyd by fire which caught from an
overheated stove. The building was
entirely consumed. with all its con-
tents, and it was only by hard work
that the Neinhart passenger train,
standing at the station, was saved.
The baggage car was burned.
Receiver Walter Neider of the de-
funct Farmers and Traders National
bank, has announced that on March /
dividend of 30 per cent, amounting
to about $S5. 10000 would be paid to
creditors of the bank. He also stated
that he believes the bank will paw
back about 65 perc ent of all deposits.
In the superior court at Dayton, !
Thursday morning, Butler Bowers was
convicted on the charge of receiving |
stolen property. 1t is alleged that he
encouraged boys to steal and bring
him truck. He is also charged with \
having set fire to the Kaesemeyer
warehouse in Starbuck last summer. r
Corporal Robert A. Cost of the Il
One Hundred and Forty-ninth COM n
pany. coast artillery, was instantly r
killed Tuesday by the accidental dis I
charge of his gun while duck shoot u
ing on WILDLY island. The gun was "
discharged as he was drawing it to-
ward him across a fallen log. Cost u
was rs years of age, native of Ala b
bama, and had been in the service h
year.
James Daggett, H. P. Daggett and Il
George Miller pleaded guilty to bur O
glary in the superior court at Tacoma a
Wednesday after noon and were each t
sentenced to from one to IA years in I
the state penitentiary. The sentence U
marks the beaking up of gang of a
criminals that has been infesting /
the southern part of that city. includ- 7
ing the Nothen Pacific railroad wards. I
A warrant has been issued at Port
land, Ore, for the arrest of A. f.
Knause, on the charge of murder. 1t
Is alleged that while working on the
rock pile he became angered with
Grover Duffy, another prisoner, and
STRUCK him, the result being that
Duffy died few days later. The
present where abouts of Knause is
unknown.
Ranchers in and about the Yakima
district are talking of asking the leg
islature to pass a law forbidding the
use of rifles by hunters except under
unusual conditions, an asking for gun
tag law 70 every fowling piece in use.
Valuable sock has been slaughtered in
that valley this winter by hunters.
usually those with high power rifles.
hence the sentiment.
A man giving his name as William
Coleman, and who says he came from
Spokane, attempted to cash forged
check in clothing store in Helena.
Mont, Tuesday night, but was de-
tected and made his escape. He ran
several blocks when lie was captured.
He is believed to have cashed several
checks in Helena within the past few
days.
Oscar Bradshaw, who is serving a
life sentence in the state penitentarv