The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-29
STATE MN.

Republic Saturday voted 70
the saloons 'e'aA
The. Ritzyille Commercial ol,b
"a fair this fall. pans
Washington State college will
on September %. Open
Packages now go from New Vol,
Puget Sound in so hours. 70
/, The passenger business is bs.r
all railroads. VI
Fred Thompson, one Of n.
known fruit growers and sbinno,. Ss.
North Yakima, says that pear hg.eI
is attacking orchards in the yat;S
valley. s
Her dress catching fire from a matt,
spark flying through the air. GU
Watkins of North Yakima was -
verely burned at Toppenish thai
died soon after.
The farmers union of WalIa Wan.
announces that it has won its cont.-
ton with the telephone COMPANY "a
the proposed So a year increase in rat.
will not be made.
Chelan's. new steel bridge over u,
Cbelan river, costing $4,000, is cam.
pleted. The bridge is an importsD,
section of state road No. 10. Will
runs from Wenatchee to the Canadian
line.
Not for some years has the Aso,i,
part of the state witnessed sueb
drouth. For three weeks no rain has
fallen and the weather has been warn
! the mercury ranging as high as lOI
degrees.
At a meeting of the executive board
, of the Wilbur Fair association plans "a,
the eighth annual Wilbur fall fair. Sen.
. TENDER 81, %, 20 and 80, were com.
pleted. The feature will be the live
stock show.
Seven persons were injured at Seat
tie, Sunday, one probably fatally, when
an automobile driven by W. A. Briggs
= and carrying a party of his friends ran
Z into another machine, driven by Henry
MI dhlOLOJ a NhAuhNuAs
y There is $2,344, 600 cash in the state
treasury, according to the weekly state
ment of State Treasurer Lewis. OF
: this 5000, 500 is in the general fund.
i The week IS receipts were $23O,98O, and
u disbursements were $1S7,2Os.
A contract made prior to final proof
by a homesteader to convey water
7 rights OF rights of way for water
6 power bitches is void, declares the state
% supreme court, and the courts will not
a attempt to enforce such a contract.
:, Charles Chrisman, a farmer living
north of Trinidad, sent last fall two
samples of wheat to the National Corn
s exposition at Omaha, Neb. Saturday
u he received a So prize and two ribbons,
NJ the j. j. Hill prize, for bluestem and
70 winter wheat.
David j. Hedges, the 16-year-old son
of S. B. Hedges, president of the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging company,
e. was drowned in the Skykomish river
neal Monroe by the capsizing Of a
IN canoe in which he and a companion
as were moving up stream.
=. While applying liniment to a wound
~ ed shoulder of his horse, Fred Harmon,
a young rancher living a few miles
ty south of Wenatchee, felt an irritation
ne on his nose and attempted to relieve 1t
Is with his finger. Shortly after the nose
We became infamed and blood poisoning
set in, and despite the best of medical
IN aid, the young man died from the
OF effects.
y Snoaualmie falls, in the western par
of the state, have been obliterated, ts
10 water now being entirely diverted F"
turn the wheels of an electric plant ina!
furnishes power to Seattle and TaeOns
The cataract was formerly world
rs famous. The S~noqualmie river, l3a ies'
wide, plunged wei a precipiee 26S iss'
ne high, the water being turned into spray
during the descent.
The arrival of Congressman ). a
Goulden Of New York, president OF ''
Chelan Consolidated Copper COMPANY
- has aroused new interest IN mHs
matters in L~eavenworth. His comPAH'
has a capital of $12,OO0,0OO and Is cOu
i, trolIed by prominent New YORK r.
n pie. 1t has large holdings at Luu''
as well as in the famous Red MOuu
tain mining district and is Worhlns -
in both places.