The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-10-29
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON AND OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fau Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

congregational church at Lamont has
started.
The Baptist church society has de-
cided to build a church of their own at
Cashmere.
Lamont s new water system is now
in operation and the town is now sup
piled from two splendid wells.
The state supreme court has sus
tanned the validity of the state license
peddling law passed BY the legislature
of 1909.
Sloan Sanitarium, an eastern Wash
ington health resort at Soap lake, has
recently passed under new ownership
and new management.
The assessing of a fine of $50 and
costs against a physician who failed
to report a case of %dIphtheria at Spo-
kane was a good idea.
At South Bend John Harmale, a
Pole, pleaded guilty in the circuit court
recently to a charge of attempting self
murder, and was fined 500.
E. O%ppenheimer has purchased the
remaining 40 acres of Josh Stories old
homestead, half a mile from Chewelah,
for a consideration of $4,000.
The Idaho & Washington Northern
baggage and express cars are being re
fitted and equipped with compartments
for handling United States mail.
Hezekiah CFBud"l Barnes, slayer of
Mrs. Anna Aldrich, has been sentenced
by Judge T. II. Brents at Walla Walla
t. be hanged Friday, November IL.
Reed Crews, a brickmason's helper,
is believed to have been fatally burned
Saturday afternoon by falling across
5 an electric power wire at Walla Walla.
! Wenatchee now has a new road roller.
improvements made this year in regrad-
. ing streets and laying cement walks
have done much to encourage property
i owners.
= The telephone company, which re
: Gently increased the number of tele
phones in Harrington, is preparing to
set 40 poles and install 30 new tele.
phones and give an all-night service.
n The Sunday blue laws vigorously
were enforced Sunday in Spokane
is Real estate criers were prohibited OF
$, street ears, and laborers were ordered
o to cease work in different parts of the
IS city.
Is Just after dismissing her school a
< Foster, a small town on the Seattle
II Tacoma suburban line, Miss Georgi.
,e NJ. Robbins, the teacher, was struck b,
he a train and instantly killed. A numbe
he of her pupils witnessed the accident.
John R~iplinger, former city comp
%troller Of Seattle, republican candidate
m for mayor three years ago, who
a charged with embezzlement Of $4,000
from the city, was arraigned in tn
Of criminal court Saturday and pleade0
ur not guilty. The trial is expected t
d. begin about November IS.
as More logging WI be done in tn
a vicinity of Newport and the Pen
ly Oreille valley this winter than sine
the slump in the lumber business.
Because Carl Zook, teacher in tn
y, Bellingham schools, spanked his son,
man by the name of Whalen met tn
19 teacher on the street and administers
a sound drubbing. Zook will take tn
matter to the police court.
Simpson & Shafer' 5 saloon at LIttl
rock was held up recently. Three me
with handkerchiefs over their faces, Ell
"a tered he saloon and began shooting
wounding John Simpson, one of Il
proprietors, slightly on the hand an
cheek. The robbers secured about $6C
lVe from the till and fed.
~ From the way estimates of the 7
ouired amount of taxes are coming
to the auditor of Whitman coun.
e from municipalities and school distric
in the county, it is evident that Il
operation Of the new revenue la.
nod passed by the last legislature, viii
a source of surprise to taxpayers VIII
ors tax paying time comes.
Firing with a 32-calibre automat
revolver from behind the bar after /
IN ing made the target for a rifle bull
g.. fired by the leader of the gang Of thr
hold-up men, Saturday night, at
W o clock, James Wilson, one of the p
|" ~prietors of the DOugherty and Vile
''t saloon, at Newport, brought down
OF bandit leader, a man giving name
.l"4 Heckworth, with a family, who ]
now close to death in the Newport hotel
The first Official step in the moyem'
which promises to change the munich
government Of Spokane so that
Ia" commission form Of government, VII
has proven so successful in Des MON
"" Galveston and other municipalities, v
be given a test in that city, was tai
-, recently when Mayor Pratt appoin
It representative committee Of II II
to investigate the method and rep
the result.
year The business of the Spokane p'
office for the year ending October
the 1909, exclusive OF tne money oiu''
trict parfment' IN Whlch mIlLoHS =,
tons. handed, amouH,eo 70 9fo',i'7' !
re. represents postal funds and is an
the crease OF 1882 per cent over the