The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-04-21

anu ldll tIldH IL mas at any
time heretofore. At intersections of
business streets double arches decor
ated with high candle-power electric
light stretched along the business
thoroughfares. City parks are now
being dressed up to receive visitors.
ELLENSBURG-J. F. Menzies. gem
eral superintendent of the North
western Improvement company's
mines at Roslyn, was denied a divorce
from Ida May Menzies in the super
Tor court Monday. The case was tried
two weeks ago.
BELLINGHAM.-A investigation
by the coroner divulged the fact that
the name of the man whose body
was found in the bay at Bellingham a
few days ago was Jesse Talent, and
it is believed he was from Mondovi,
Wash. The name was found in a note
book in the pockets. 1t is not believed
that the man was killed, as some
money was found in his pockets.
VANCOUVER.-The sum of $1,000
has been subscribed by farmers in and
around Orchards, near Vancouver,
Wash, as bonus to give to the Trac-
ton company, if the electric line is
built to Orchards. A committee ap-
pointed at mass meeting is now en-
gagged in making a canvass with view
to raising $4,000 more. 1t is thought
by the members of the committee
that $4,000 will be secured in a short
time.
OROVILLE.-Dep Sheriff Crum-
bacher of Riverside. delivered to the
federal customs authorities at Oro-
Vile, w. L. McKinnon, accused of
smuggling a stallion and a mountain
hack full of supplies across the line.
The capture was made in the northern
end Of the county near the line. He
is said to be an old smuggler
SHERIDAN, Mont-John Lang
fors, a Secluse minSr, was evidently
killed and his body burned in his
cabin near Sheridan, Mont. Early
Saturday it was discovered that all
the remains Of the n1fner are a small
heap of bones and some white ashes.
The police authorities say there is no
doubt that Langfors was murdered
1t is known that recently he received
a large sum of gold for an ore ship
ment. The money has disappeared.
STEPTOE.-Dr. w. M. Cusick of
Steptoe and his wife and 9-year- old
girl narrowly escaped serious injury
by being thrown from buggy ito a
barbed wire fence I'm a runaway on
the streets of Steptoe Sunday after
noon. Mrs. Cusick sustained at frac-
tured wrist and dislocated shoulder
the little girl was cut and scratched
by coming in contact with the wire.
JULIAETTA, Idaho.-Harry Stef-
fens, a bachelor residing with his
mother and brother Frank, four and
a half miles southeast of Juliaetta
Idaho, was, shot by an unknown as
sassin and instantly killed Sunday
morning while he was STOPPING to
light the kitchen fire. The bullet was
fired through window. The activ-
ity of alleged cattle rustlers in the
Orofino and Juliaetta country had a
bearing on the crime. 1t is claim ed
Steffens had been a warm frisud OF
the officers, thereby mourning the en-
nifty of the cattle thieves.
DILLON, Mont.-Harry Clifton, a
married man of Pocatello, Idaho, was
arrested at Dillon, Mont, last week on
a charge of criminal assault in con-
nection with his alleged elopement
with Bessie Cobertson, aged II, of st
Anthony, Idaho. The girls father is
the complaining witness.
TACOMA-The flat wheel" nui-
sance may be stamped out in Tacoma
if the courts have the power. Captain
Reed of the police department has
begun the fight by arresting F. w
Hall, n, torman, who had the tenn
Gritty to run a car having an oval
shaped wheel by the police station
Orders have been issued to arrest all
motormen running cars with flat
wheels. The street railway company
will make a hard fight in the courts.
PASCO.-Fire completely destroyed
the Windsor hotel, on Fourth street
Pasco, Friday. The Windsor hotel
was one of the oldest structures of its
kind in the Columbia river basin. Be-
fore the erection of the Kennewick
hotel in Kennewick and the Willard in
Pasco it was the best hotel between
Ritzville and North Yakima. The loss
is $4,000.
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