The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-31
NORTHWEST States
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON AND OREGON.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchar gee Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fau Outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The main line of the Northern Pa
cifc from Spokane to Tacoma and Sc.
attic is to be shortened 100 miles dur
ing 1910.
The Sound steamer Columbia, a yes
sci of 120 tons, was rammed and sunk
by the steam schooner Tiverton a. the
Standard Oil ~company's wharf at Sc
attic.
One of the largest land sales made in
Sprague district was contaminated re-
Gently when T. N. Lynch sold his farm
Of 500 acres for $4,000. The land is
eight miles south.
Charles S. Voorhees,, prominent Spo-
kane attorney, for two terms terri
torial delegate from Washington to the
United States congress, one of the pio-
neer residents of the city, died at his
home Sunday. Heart failure is given
as the immediate cause Of death.
Eastbound mail train at Odessa Sun
day struck the buggy of John Schimke,
seriously injuring the three occupants,
John Rougust and Ruth and Talbert
Schimke, the latter two being the chill.
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel E. Schim-
Ike of Odessa, aged 9 and 6 years re-
spectively. The driver died the same
day.
Ben. Bergunder, one of the Oldest
and most prominent residents of Col
fax, fell recently on an icy sidewalk
and is confined to his home in a seri-
Gus condition.
The Seattle National bank and the
Puget Sound National bank, two large
banking houses, are to consolidate.
Governor Hay signed final discharges
the gath which gave liberty to 25
convicts who have been working all
summer on state road work in the
Cascade mountains.
In the Is banks and trust companies
of Spokane, with a population of
$4,000, there is a larger aggregate
capital stock than in the 10 similar in
situations of Denver, Col, a city with
about 100000.
A Washington nurseryman has closed
a contract to furnish 5000 fruit trees
to be set out on 500 acres at Priest
The order will contain 1000
apple trees and $4,000 peach trees.
A stabbing ARRAY occurred at lone
recently in which a lumberjack by the
name of Kirby was seriously if not
injured.
With wheat at a dollar and higher,
wheat men believe the high prices will
be not only maintained, but are de-
stined to go to still greater extremes
by spring.
Convicts at the state p~enitentiary
gave their minstrel show Christmas
afternoon, and gave it well. A stage
erected in the dining room and
set with scenery furnished by the
theaters in the city. The actors and
audience, with perhaps a dozen
exceptions, were all prisoners.
Judge R. s. Lovett, successor of E.
d. Hartman as head of the great Har-
system of railroads, has already
steps to meet the effort of the
Seattle Commercial club, acting, it is
believed in New York, with the back
ing of james J.. Hill, to divert the
China trade to the northern port, SO
it is said in Wall street.
Whitman county won the grand
sweepstakes prize in the boys corn
growing contest inaugurated by Wash
State college and the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company last
spring and set a pace for older corn
growing states in the yield. Four coun-
ties competed in this contest and the
winner of the sweepstakes prize of 500
had the yield of 90 bushels an acre.
This was Warren Love Of Garfield,
whose two brothers are graduates of
Washington State college and whose
father is a prominent farmer.
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