The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-02-25
NORTHWEST ITEMS.
ITEMS FROM IDARO, MONTANA
And WASHINGTON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
Prom Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Nunerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


A new Great Northern depot is prom
Used for Newport.
Michael Regain, 1O2 years old, died
in Seattle recently.
Many eases of hog cholera have ap-
peared in the vicinity of Walla Walla.
Palouse grain dealers are making
large shipments to the Coast for export
trade.
The commercial club of Tacoma
plans a junket to eastern Washington
in May.
The Colville Chamber of Commerce
vas organized at a recent meeting of
the business men.
Weneha reservation will accommodate
1000 head of cattle and horses and
1O2, 900 head of sheep this year for
grazing.
State Senator r. A. Hutchinson of
Spokane is improving gradually and
is on the road to rapid recovery from
his recent illness.
1t is reported that Colville's main
business street will be improved this
summer by the addition of an 1s-inch
layer of crushed rock and gravel.
Five boys, ranging in age from Is to.
% years, have been arrested at Che
halls on a charge of setting fire to the
school building which was recently
burned.
The Washington Veterans home at
Port Orchard, formally dedicated on
Lincoln's birthday this year, received
its first inmate Tuesday, Washington s
birthday.
The announcement is made by the
Bellingham Bay Lumber company that
its mill at Bellingham will Immediately
resume operations. The mill has been
closed down for two years.
Snow drifts 10 feet deep have cut
off travel on many roads leading out
of Dayton. In many places, it is re
ported, fences, fruit trees, gates and
even small outbuildings are buried.
Thousands of ground squirrels have
been starved to death and thousands
of others are on starvation rations in
the country surrounding Walla Walla as
a result of the recent fall of snow.
A united effort will be made by the
people of Kennewick and Pasco to pre-
vail upon the Good Roads convention
this week to indorse the building of a
wagon bridge over the Columbia river.
Conspiracy, fraud and favoritism, -
are the sweeping charges made against
the state dental board, and the legisla-
tive investigating committee will meet
to examine the charges in Seattle this
week.
G.. NJ. Wilson, proprietor of the Park
side Stock farm near Wilbur, has re-
turned from the east with a carload Of
imported registered stations and mares,
consisting of Shires, Percherons and
Belgiums.
The Uniontown branch of the Farm
ers' union has bought the farmers
warehouses at that place and at Leon,
and will take possession of them June
l. The price paid for the warehouses
at both places was $4,000.
Funeral services for F. f. Michaels,
who committed suicide at Spokane last
week in a fit of dependency as the re-
suit of continued poor health, was
held Sunday at the Masonic temple
under Masonic auspices.
H. f. Shepherd and E.. Shepherd, rep
resenting the California Fruit Gamers
association, which has purchased the
Weber-Bussell cannery, North Yakima,
are now at Walla Walla to arrange for
the operation of a cannery there.
Sam Mitchell, formerly a logger of
Aberdeen, and now owner of a lodg-
ing house in Seattle, and Mrs. Fuera
Terada, are now man and wife, the
first instance in the records of King
county of an American man wedding
a japanese woman.
Surgeon M. w. Glover of the United
States public health service reports to
Washington that a suspected rat killed
in Seattle had been fully identified as
afflicted with bubonic plague. The rat
was killed in a district covered bv
wooden buildings and the city has al
ready ordered the district cleaned.
The contract for the construction of
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
railroad s branch line to Everett was
awarded to Horace C. Henry of Sc
attic. The branch, which will be As
miles long, will leave the main line at
Moncton, King county, and the cost
of construction will be about $4,000
per mile. Work will be begun March
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