Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-05-29
WASHINGTON ITEMS

lAO UOQy VI marry Il. OdhlCys 9
%, was discovered near Fort Wright,
Spokane, last Monday.
Preparations are being made for tho
southern Grant county pioneer picnic
on Grab creek May $3.50.
DR.. William Waldo of Seattle was re
Gently elected president of the Wash
ington Osteopathic association.
The wool crop of the Yakima valley
will total 2,25O,OOO pounds, the selling
price being Is to Is cents per pound.
Mrs. Dora H. Rowe, wife of Episeo,
pal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe of
Alaska, died Saturday, aged 55 years
Judge Orange Jacobs, chief justice
of the Washington territorial supreme
court from 1868 to 1874, died in Seat
tie Saturday, aged 81 years.
Mrs. N. l.. Dillman, formerly Mrs
Lena futile, age about 48, committed
suicide by shooting on a homestead
IL miles down the Grand coulee.
While attempting to rope a horse
Elmer e. Pintler fell from his saddle
and became entangled in the saddle
rope, was dragged to death near Cur
lew.
In a decision rendered by the state
supreme court it upholds the constitu-
tionality of the state commission mer-
chant law, which has been a dead let
ter for several years.
The new public service commits
sion's railroad map of the state of
Washington has just been issued,
showing all lines either in operation
or projected in this state.
George Maxwell and Floyd LaBatt
boys, were drowned in Lake Washing
ton Saturday by the capsizing of 6
rowboat which they had rented for the
afternoon to witness the college re
gatta.
Mrs. Charles E. Gates, wife of a
farmer living five miles northeast of
Spokane, while temporarily insane,
poisoned her daughter, Dorothy, age IA
years, and took her own life by swal-
lowing s%trychnine.
County Commissioner James Stuart
of North Yakima says he will face re.
call from office rather than overstep
the legal bounds prescribed for it's reg
ulation in giving county help in the
fight against pear blight.
The body of a well-dressed woman
found on Fauntleroy beach, Seattle,
was identified as that of Mrs. Jose
phine Gunther, AZ years old, wife of
Theodore Gunther, a cabinetmaker.
She had committed suicide.
The right of the state horticultural
department to condemn potatoes
shipped in from outside the state
when they are afflicted in the slight
est degree with tubermoth has been
upheld by Superior Judge Kenneth
Macintosh of Seattle.
Mrs. Anna Valentine, wife of L. L
Valentine, a Chicago furniture manu-
f%acturer, recently got a Judgment OF
$4,000 against a railroad because OF
the loss of a little finger, which was
crushed by a spring door while she
vas travelling from Portland to Sc.
attic on a train.
Fifty-two prisoners at the county
stockade at Seattle were a potent fac
tor in saving scores of homes outside
the northern city limits, which were
threatened by a rapidly spreading for
est fire Saturday. While they al
worked on their honor not one failed
to report back.
Attorney General M%cReynolds hai
written Clark Savidge, commissioner
Of public lands that he can not ap-
prove a plan to exchange 10000 acres
of public domain with the state for
state lands in sections 16 and 80,
school sections, on which homestead
ers settled before survey was made.
Austin Corbin, vice president of the
Spokane International Railway com
pany, and George H. Martin, genera
freight and passenger agent, pleaded
guilty at Spokane to an indictment
charging them with violation of in
terstate commerce regulations, and
were fined $4,000, or $4,000 each, by
Federal Judge Frank Fl. Rudkin. The
fine was paid. The road had carried
freight free for Mr.. Corbin.
Formation of the Almira Trading
company, with a capital stock of $780,.
900, which is being subscribed by AL.
mira business men and farmers, was
effected this week, and the new com,
pany will take over the mercantile
business, warehouses and real estate
of J. G. Keller, who for 80 years has
operated one of the largest stores in
eastern Washington. The new trading
company also takes over the holdings
of Blinn & Howard, merchants.
The 400 Washington state college
cadats undor tho command of Cadot