The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-05-27
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WASHINGTON, MONTANA And
IDAHO news NOTES..
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 STATE NEWS.

WAOI11NG Wv 01GN40 49, VIZ
Ritzvile had $50 pupils at the close
of term.
G. NJ. Banker, a prominent resident OF
Cashmere, died recently.
The outlook for the grain crop in
Whitman county is not so good as was
expected.
Wenatchee citizens have already sub
scribed $11,1S for a Y. NJ. Q. A. build
ing in that city.
The estimated wool clip of the Column
bia country this year is approximately
100000 pounds.
The state grange meets in Pullman
on June z, 8, 9 and 10. There will be
several hundred delegates.
Pasco is to have cleaner streets or
fewer hobos, if the present plan of the
police department is a success.
Conconully.-No convictions were Sc
cured by the state IN criminal cases in
the present term of superior court.
There will be three times as large a
fruit crop this season as there was last
year throughout the Palouse country.
One car of fruit to every acre of
bearing orchard is estimated as an aver
age for 1910 in the Toppenish vicinity.
William Kennedy, a deck hand on the
steamer Inland Empire, was run down
by a switch engine at Kennewick and
killed.
Mrs. Frank Leo, Walla Wal!a, the
white wife of DR.. Leo, a C~hinaman, has
returned to him after an absence of
several months.
The supply of jute bags at the prison
this year has been exhausted, accord
ing to Warden Reed, and no more or
ders will be taken.
Work has started on the ~reconstruc-
ton of the Union Iron works machine
and boiler shop, destroyed Friday after
noon by fire at Spokane.
The Walla Walla Farmers Warehouse
company will not join the combination
of cooperative grain warehouses in this
state, Idaho, Oregon and Utah.
A farmers institute will be held at
Husum May %. The meeting will be
addressed by professors from the State
Agricultural college at Pullman.
ID. l.. Gillespie, publisher of the
Brewster Herald, wants to be register
of the land office at Waterville, and
has gone to Washington in the matter
Lumber industries in Chelan county
are enjoying a prosperous year and
the demand has been so great that Local
dealers find it hard to keep up a supply
j. E. Martin of the government
reclamation service, has taken up the
matter of draining the T%oppenish wheat
country, for which $~25O,OOO has beer
appropriated, a part of which is now
available.
The Okanogan Publicity league is the
name of a new organization formed by
the real estate men of Omak, CONGO
nully, Okanogan and Malott. Larg,
sums of money are being pledged fol
publicity use.
Dean A. w. Hendricks of Whitman
who has been in Washington, D. c., il
the interests of the bill to allow Whit
man to purchase the Fort Walla Walls
property, has returned and declares tn
bill will eventually pass.
The formal transfer of the holding
of the Lewiston-C Charleston company t.
the Lewiston-C Charleston improvement
company through Spencer, Trask & Co
was made Saturday at noon when it
temporary president, George w. Bailey
received a telegram from New York t
/, assume control. The deal involve
$2,5OO,OOO.
That fruit produced in the Yakim
, valley this season will be unusually fine
, provided erchardists do not neglect in
: m~ediately spraying for codling mott
is the opinion Of Fruit Inspector !
o. Morrison, who has been watchin
eggs of the moth carefully, and r,
ports that they are about ready t
hatch.
Prosecuting Attorney Chamberlain Q
Whitman county has issued a warra1
for George Bafus, charging him wit
murder in the first degree. Bafus is g
large on the %coroner's warrant. o
April 16 George Bafus killed h
brother-in-law with a stick of stoy
wood following a quarrel. He WI
bound over to the aunarior court IN