Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-04
WASHINGTON ITEMS

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of Wenatchee since 1902, died Sat
urday.
William Welsh United States ship
ping commissioner in Tacoma is seri-
ously ill.
Northwestern pioneers are to meet
at Walla Walla to attend Frontier
days celebration.
Effective September 16, the state
public service commission has order
ed a reduction on Roslyn coal to all
parts of the state.
Stock valued at more than 100000
was burned in a fire that destroyed
the warehouse of the Spokane Paper
and Stationery company at Spokane
Sunday.
Several thousand bushels of wheat
changed hands Saturday, bluestem
bringing as high as s1.05. Turkey red
was quoted at 80 cents and club at 81
to so cents.
A warrant for the arrest of George
H. Martin, an insurance solicitor and
real estate agent, charging the rob-
berry of the Spokane State bank, was
sworn out Saturday.
Amateur yeggmen attempted to blow
the safe in the O.-W. r. & N. COM
pany's depot at Grandview Sunday,
but failed. They broke into the cash
drawer and secured about S..
Joseph j. Hogan, doortender at the
Orpheum theater, Seattle, who was
shot by his wife after a quarrel at the
doorway of the playhouse, died Sun
day. The woman is held in Jail.
Since poisoning time in May the
apple tonnage in the northwest, which
includes all of Washington, Idaho
Oregon and Montana, has fallen of
approximately 10 900 cars, almost AZ
per cent.
w. j. Thompson, former mayor Of
Sedro-Woolley, former county commits
sioner of Skagit county, was killed
Friday night by the ov%erturning o
his automobile on the road between
Hamilton and Lyman.
Fire in the yard at Tacoma of thu
st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber compan!
burned the trestles and tramways be
! tween the mill and the long wharf
| with about $50 900 feet of lumber. TIL
/ loss will be under $4,000.
: That the 10-hour day is the stand
- -rzulJox, g.. ,oaIo lohar ~ faf
= tories and the lumber industry il
Washington Labor Commissioner I
, w Olson shows in statistics gathere
a for his biennial report as the resul
of an investigation covering 1855
men employed.
The bodies of Mrs. Caroline Meyer
o and her 5-year-old daughter Leonor
were found in the bay at Seattle SUI
s day a short time after the husband,
teamster, had reported to the polio
that he feared his wife had left HON
l with the child with the purpose c
committing suicide.
Albert Heitstuman, son of Mr.. an
Mrs. Theodore Heitstuman, met wit
a fatal accident Saturday when he b.
came entangled in the fly wheel of
large gasoline engine on the ranch
: his father, four miles south of Uniol
= town. The victim was knocked to tn
floor, his left arm was broken belo'
), the elbow and his skull was fractured
: The victim was 81 years of age an
single.
Delegates representing locals of di
trict No. 10, United Mine Workers {
y America, Friday ratified the wae
7 agreement adopted recently by a joiI
!" committee of employers and employe
: of the coal mines in Washington. TIL
new scale, which will be in force tW
> years, gives mine firemen an increas
of 10 cents a day. The wages of OF
er workers in the mines remain u
changed.
n Fire which started with the expl
sion Of gasoline from the use of
kerosene lantern by the driver of
government truck instead of the ele
# trio flash lamps which the reclaim
N llOu 6GIFlCG ItCOluIlSuuS ~ Aul III
es, destroyed the government war
house, the office and warehouse
the Tum-a-Lum Lumber company al
% five freight GERS at Naches City la
~ Saturday night. The damage
$4,000.
e. A spike driving ceremony will {
cur in Spokane on September Is VIII
- two golden spikes will be driven
the center of the span yer the Nc
&c roe street bridge to signalize the CO
10 pletion of the O.-W. r. & N. and M
90 waukee railroads. One will be driv
p by Robert A. Strahorn, who original
e. and directed the former road, and t
other by A. J. Earring, president
the Milwaukee.
Admitting defeat in its two-ye
fight against payment of privile
taxes on the basis Of 5 per cent of
w gross state business the Great Nor
w ern EXPRESS comnany has paid