The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-12-09
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

county.
The Farmers union and the grange
are taking an interest in the question
Of taxation this year.
The depot safe at Clear Lake, Skagit
copntv. near Mount Vernon, was
robbed recently, the thieves getting
S155 in cash.
The state of Washington, according
10 the latest statistics, has the unen-
viable reputation of granting more dr
yorces than any other state IN the
union of equal population.
J. A. Kellogg, pioneer business man,
ex-mayor Of Dayton, former auditor OF
Columbia county and state representa-
tive from that district, committed sui
eide at Seattle recently. He was
respondent.
Former United States Senator George
Turner will be the principal speaker at
memorial exercises which will be held at
Whitman college Tuesday November 10
in honor Of the late Ex-Governor Johh
II. McGraw of Seattle.
State Bank Examiner J. L. Mohun-
dro saws that in future the state bank
inc department will refuse to charter
/ banks in communities where they are
not needed, and will urge a change IN
the state law so as to make $4,000 the
lowest capital permitted.
Dr.. A. A. Tozier, state oil inspector,
has fled with Governor Hay his report
of business done during the first six
months of his term of Office. His re-
ceipts exceed those of the same period
of 1905 by $6,419. During that time
he inspected 9~,784,6ss gallons of oil and
collected $19,5s7 in fees.
William L. Bilger and others who own
land AUDITING Lake Washington, Sc
attic, have secured a permanent injunc-
ton restraining the state, county and
contractors from lowering the lake level.
from putting the property in an assess
ment district and from issuing bonds or
adopting any method that will cloud the
title to the abutting property.
Work on the irrigation project in the
north central part of Okanogar
county by the Okanogan Irrigation and
Improvement company, which entails al
expenditure of 100000 for placing I'm
der water 16,7OO acres Of land, viii
be started November Is, according t.
, Colonel A. NJ. Dewey, a director of the
company.
Former Governor Miles c. Moore hai
bought the $500 acre ranch of Franz
Hoskins, neal Dayton, for $1S0,00O, tn
largest transaction of the kind ever re
. corded in that section. The Moore
paid $1O5,OOO cash and traded 400
P acres of Franklin county land for tn
$4,000 balance. The land is locate
near Cornell. Mr.. Hoskins is now on
of the biggest farmers in the Inlan
Empire. Ten years ago he was a poo
man.
The Amalgamated Band of the lowe
Yakima valley is the name that ha
: been selected for the band being drille
by Bandmaster II. w. Hare, preparation
st to a visit to the National Apple sho
in Spokane this November.
i A delegation from the chamber {
commerce will attend the Pacific Goa.
If congress, called by Governor Gillett
H. California to meet in San Francise
10 November II, Is and 10. The Northel
: Pacific railroad is issuing special tickle
and return certificates at a fare and
quarter from all points in Idaho, Was
~ ington and Oregon, in conjunction WI
is the Southern Pacific at Portland, WIFI
NAV be had from November Z to ]
be the return to be up to and includll
he November 20. The fare from Spoka
will be, going, 1920; returning, $lO.4
u The mining town of Wilkeson,
Pierce county, will make no tax le'
&c this year for either city or schc
ms taxes, and the mining towns of Sou
ce Prairie and Rushton will only make
ire 6-mill levy for school purposes. 1t
ed said the liquor licenses in these tow
ed is sufficient to met all municipal
lng penses.
ire In making up the material for
students directory at the Universe
o of Washington it has been found ii
men and women students in seve
cases are rooming in the SAINT hou
I a direct violation of the rules of
institution. Those students who
O not change their rooming quarters
We once will be asked to discontinue tn
nc work at the university.
General James A. Drain, at the !
tional Capital, former adjutant gene
20 of Washington, is a strong advoc'
of the bill recently approved by the
tional guard convention at st. Lot
providing that the federal governm'
shall pay the militia of the states.
The Rev. II. o. Kerns, better kno
-os throughout eastern Washington
"Father Kerns,'' recently return
,vvs from Kansas with a pride. lie is
years old and his bride &C years.
couple will reside IN Dayton, VIII
Father Kerns is pastor of the Uni