The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-05
NORTHWEST States
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-outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Alfalfa hay is scarce at Pullman.
Dayton won the recent debate with
the Davenport high school team.
A company has taken over the Sun
nyside Sun and Sunnyside Valley Re
publican plants.
The Rockford Register has been pur-
chased by W. J. Taylor, former prin-
cipal Of the high school.
The milking machine is said to be a
success. "The Rosalia' is the latest.
1t is manufactured at Rosalia.
The jury at Mount Vernon declared
Leo Bezmer guilty of kidnapping for
the purpose of holding for ransom.
Olympia offers a SO prize for the
best slogan, something catchy, to be
used at the A.-Y.-P. fair on Olympia
day.
At Raymond, Charles Resk, a Finn,
was shot and killed in the Astoria
saloon recently by Deputy City Mar
shall Ray Wheaton.
Farmers around Oakesdale predict
an early spring. Grain is reported in
good condition, and unless late freezes
damage it it wiz be heavy.
Aprl Is is the date for the hanging
Of Jose Nichols and J. Arata, who were
recently convicted Of murder in the
first degree at Port Orchard.
The postoffce at Hay station, in
western Whitman county, was broken
into recently and a small quantity of
stamps and some small change were
taken.
W. P. Reser of Walla Walla Satur-
day sold 10000 bushels of wheat at 90
cents for club and SO cents for turkey
red. This is the largest sale there this
season.
North Yakima police announce that
their campaign for a purer Yakima has
resulted in the discovery and breaking
up Of a gang of men engaged in the
white slave traffic.
At a recent meeting of the La Crosse
Farmers union $4,000 was subscribed by
20 members present toward a fund to
buy or build warehouses at La Crosse,
Pampa and Meeker.
Friday morning occurred the death of
one of the oldest pioneers of three
states, more so of eastern Washing+"7,
! when Alexander Dallas McMicA bi
|, passed away at Spangle.
r A sample of bluestem wheat, grown
/, by Adolph Hermanns in Waitsburg, has
taken first prize at a fair at Winona,
Mimi, which exhibited samples from
: every locality Of the wheat producing
states in the northwest.
The members of the Yakima county
Alaska-Yukon Pacific committee, repre-
senting nearly every town in the coun.
4 ty, recently made an a~pportionment OF
the sum of $4,000, which viii be
Y raised for the county exhibit.
The name of Ulysses s. Grant was
added to the list of distinguished
American statesmen whose deeds have
: been commemorated by having Wash.
e lngton counties named in their honor
1t was taken from Douglas county.
The state board of control has fixed
prices for grain bags this year at the
. Walla Walla prison at 6 2-10 cents fol
wheat sacks and Z 1-2 cents for oat
bags. Under the law passed by THU
legislature application for purchase viii
be received to April /.
In commemoration of the deeds Of
the band of men who, under Colone
2 Steptoe, met and captured the hostile
Indians on the prairie neal Rosalia il
, 1858, a bill is bfeore the legislature t.
buy a plot of ground and erect a mon
ument on behalf of the state. The LAND
q will be made into a park and the mon
ument will be set in the center of it
IS thus giving the people of the surround
l. ing towns a chance to create a resor
of some Importance.
The following figures will be interest
ing as showing land values in the stat
T of Washington for assessment pur
poses, according to figures compiled b!
he the state tax commission GOVERN,
every county in the state. The esti
ar mate is made on improved land only
Of In Pierce county the price is 500 pc
" acre; in Chelan and Yakima, SIS; il
r Skagit, $40; in Snohomish and il
or Whatcom, 5000; in Okanogan and il
t. Spokane, $50; in Kittitas, 1855; il
ID Island, s25; in Clarke, s22; in Asotin
Sc Columbia, Walla Walla and Whitman
Of all grain producing counties, SIS; il
D. Garfield, Lincoln and Stevens, $3.50
1t in Chehalis, Cowlitz and San Juan, SIS
at in Adams, s12.5O; in Benton, Douglas
Ferry and Klickitat, s1O.5O; in Kitsap
Mason, Pacific, Thurston and Wahkia
KUN, $40; in ~Skamania, s16.7O.