The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-01-28
NORTHWEST notes
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
AND WASHINGTON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A petition has gone to Washington
asking another rural mail route from
Syangle to be known as R. +. D. No. 3.
a rousing meeting CT the Farmers
anton was held at Garfield, when II
new members joined, making a total
of 25 new members this month. State
Organizer Reed made an address.
Two million sacks to be used in har-
vesting this years wheat crop of Walla
Walla county were purchased recently
by the Walla Walla Farmers union
from a Tacoma firm at a contract price
of S5.4s a hundred.
Fears that fall-sown grain through
out the Inland Empire had been in
| jured during the recent cold weather are
allayed among farmers, who declare
that the warm winds of the past week
have thoroughly thawed out the ground.
Grain shows an excellent growth.
The Inland Empire excursion, as the
party of Spokane and Walla Walla ex-
c~ursionists is officially called, arrived at
Los Angeles over the Southern Pacific
Coast line. A committee from the
chamber of met them in
Santa Barbara.
According to W. n. Irish, president
Of the Yakima County Horticultural
union, officials of the North Coast in
formed him when in Spokane last week
that the Strahorn line will be prepared
to handle a part of this years fruit
crop of the Yakima valley.
L - - - A. 1crA -no1r hn-a
brought branches of the Palouse river
up and they are filed with floating ice.
The ice has jammed in several places
and men are employed to dynamite it
from under the railroad bridge at the
lower end of Colfax.
Paul Montgomery, aged 60, dropped
/ dead of heart failure at the W. P.
Reser ranch near Walla Walla. Mont
gomery was a convict on parole who
was sent here from Seattle last No
vember for obtaining money under
r false pretenses.
{, Frank Stossell was robbed of $50, a
watch and drafts for $1,000 in a Yakima
rooming house recently. Stossell was
on his way home from Oregon. Thieves
I entered the room while he was sleeping,
e taking his trousers and all. The vic
I tim was forced to borrow clothes and
money to resume his journey home.
/ ward.
The state has received $4,000 from
the federal government, being the
e quarterly payment of the 500 pei
annum allowed toward the support OF
the inmates of the state soldiers home
q at Orting. The entire maintenance ex'
penses of the home for the current and
e for several ensuing months viii be PAID
out of federal money on hand, saving
Il the state general fund just that much
L Spokane was included in the zon'
Of an earthquake recently, according t.
i the record of the seismograph at Con
: zaga college. -Four distinct shocks wert
recorded in six minutes. The genera
direction of the movement of tn,
earth's crust was north and south, tn,
markings made by the instrument il
u these directions being much more pro
nouneed than were those east and west
T. Justice J. w. Holman, aged civil wa
lie veteran, was yesterday appointed by tn
20 council as police judge of Dayton TO
to the twentieth successive term. Judg
IN Holman served four years in the Uniol
at army, coming to Columbia county 500
he after the war. He claims the honor o
a having held the Office of police judg
as longer thar any other man on the Pa
IT eifc slope and to having tied more ma
rimonial knots han any person in tn
Il same territory.
ne George Pestot and his wife, VIII
Id with their children were found make
Of and dancing on the roof of their HON
3. at LINDEN, near B~ellingham, recent.
1t, waiting for the Lord to COM in
he fiery cloud and bear them to HEAVIER
es one of the children dying from e.
n posure during the dance, were adiudge
by insane and committed to the asylum
Both are violent, the woman being
a straightiacket, manacled hands an
feet and tied down to a cot when vi
tied by the lunacy commission in Il
gh county Jail. The three children of IL
couple have regained their reason an
le- are in the charge of the Associate