Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22


At Walla Walla Saturday l.. V.
Lawton was convicted of obtaining
goods under false pretenses and SEN
fenced to serve from one to five years
in the state penitentiary.
Several cases of cattle stealing have
occurred in the vicinity of Grangeville,
Idaho, recently, and the farmers are
circulating a subscription paper to
raise funds to drive the rustlers out of
the county or to bring them to Justice.
At Laurel, Mont, Friday night AL
ONO Fitzpatrick went into the oil house
at the general store of w. X. Spencer
with lighted lantern, when the gas
oline tank exploded, killing Fitzpatrick
instantly and seriously injuring Mr.
/ Spencer.
J. A. Sorrel and w. P. Pugh, who
escaped from the Douglas county jail
at Waterville on December 5, have
been recaptured at Ephrata. They
at once admitted having escaped from
the Jail and are apparently ready to
return.
The Cinderella opera house at Star
buck was burned to the ground Satur-
| day night. The building was owned
by F. M. Rogers and was valued at
$500. A barn and contents owned by
j. G. WOodend. was also destroyed
The loss is estimated at $500 In ad-
ditlon to the loss on the opera house
Mr.. Rogers loses about $1,000 on skates
and paraphenalia.
The Kettle Falls sawmill at Kettle
Falls was destroyed by fire which
was set several days before to burn
debris around the building. The loss
is several thousand dollars. with $4,000
insurance. The large flour mill is in
great danger, as the fire is running
under the derbis.
Friday night the high school build
ing at Edwall was destroyed by firie,
supposed to have been started from an
explosion of gas accommodating in the
furnace. which caused an explosion
The loss on the building is $4,000, with
$4,000 insurance. The loss on library
furnishings and school books is placed
at $500.
A woman who registered at hotel
in kalispell, Mont, Friday night as
Dorothy Anderson of Spokane, has
been arrested for Seattle parties. who
claim she robbed a man there of sever
al hundred dollars. 1t is also said she
is wanted in Portland for stealing in
hotel. On the coast she went by the
name of Marion Young.
In the case of Tillie Schon VS.. the
Modern Woodmen. in which Judge
ment was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff. in the Spokane superior
court, the supreme court has affirmed
the judgement. Suit was brought to
recover insurance on the life of the
husband of the plaintiff.
n. c. Pecnel an old man who took
up his abode last month in deserted
cabin in secluded place Immediately
north of Chehalis, was found few
days ago in starving condition and
nearly frozen as the result of the re-
cent cold weather. The aged man
has two daughters in Spokane, but he
has been unable to hear from them
recently, and took refuge in the de-
serted cabin.
Bert Williams, employed in the
Bridge restaurant at Belilngham, has
confessed that he and Dave Sears rob-
bed the place of $65 at 3 a. m. last
Monday. Detectives at first accepted
Winters story that highwaymen had
held up the eating house. Winters
was finally "sweated" and broke
down. Both robbers are in Jail.
The state supreme court has decided
that the law passed at the last session
of the legislature providing for the
apportioning of state common school
funds for the normal training schools
is illegal and unconstitutional, holding
that the Legislature has no authority
TO make a normal school a ommon
school and that the school funds be-
long exclusively to the common
, SCHOOLS.
= A strange case of double murder
and suicide comes from Seattle. The
bodies of w. L. Seeley. his wife and
daughter. were found Sunday in the
bath room of the residence in the fash
ionable CapitolHill district Sunday af-
ternoon Mrs. Seeley and her daugh-
tar Mice Rose bod ayidap4lv baop