Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-10-02
WASHINGTON ITEMS

formally opened Monday.
The dedication of the new $12, 900
Washington Memorial Christian church
was held Sunday at Cheney.
A free mail delivery service will
be i~naugurated at Colville with three
carriers, to begin October l..
A discount of 1 per cent on all Ca
madam money is announced by Seattle
banks, owing to war conditions.
Mabel Monroe, the 3~-year-old daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Monroe, liv-
ing at Walla Walla, was burnt to
death Saturday.
The Washington State Good Roads
association will hold it's convention in
Spokane on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, November IS, 10 and 20.
Preparations are all made by the
directors and Officers for the third an
nual exhibit of the Grant county fair,
to be held at Ephrata Oct. l, 2, 8.
j. GIier Long, a banker of Spokane,
and president of the school board,
died Saturday. Death was due to
Bright's disease. He was So years old.
The Columbia synod If the United
Presbyterian church, comprising Wash
ington, Oregon, northern Idaho and
part of Montana, will meet in annual
session in Pullman October II to Is.
The work OF allotting lands to In
dians on the south half of the Col
vile reservation is completed as far
as the special allotting agent and al
lotting crew are concerned. The first
named position has been dispensed
with and the crew disbanded.
President Landes in his address be-
fore the first student assembly at the
university this year, reminded them
that over-indulgence in social affairs,
extravaganza and undemocratic seelu-
siveness must inevitably lead to a cam
paign against their very existence.
In a gun duel in a saloon at North.
port Monday night H. W. jackson,
known as Bear Hunter" Jackson
aged 35, was shot in the abdomen and
killed and E. j. Penrose, a teamster
received a bullet in the right arm just
below the elbow. Penrose is in Gus
tody.
President w. HI. Cowles of the Spo
kane County Good Roads association
has appointed as delegates to the
Fourth American Road congress-, to bt
held at Atlanta, Ga, November 9 tt
IA, Messrs, E. T. Conan, Emil Simon
L. w. Hutton, Arthur d. Jones ant
Frank w. Guilbert.
The Eastern Washington Highwa,
Association will hold a convention o
vital interest to the counties of Adams
Asotin, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry
Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Okla
hogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens
Walla Walla and Whitman in Spc
kane Friday, October 8.
Carl Gould, a graduate of Harvard
university and of the Beaux Arts acad
envy in Paris, will supervise the labc
ratory work and lecture on architec
ture at the Washington University thi
year. Harold o. Sexsmith, a graduate
of Armour Institute, Chicago, will b
instructor in architectural drawing.
The board of control recently an
nounced the appointment of DR.. w. n
Keller of Tacoma as superintendent o
the western hospital for insane at Stel
LAGOON, vice DR.. A. p. Calhoun re
!, signed, and the appointment of DR.. A
5. Oliver, Jr., as permanent superin
tendent of the eastern hospital for in
sane at Medical Lake.
A Chinese gunman Saturday sho
and probably fatally wounded Loni
Konk, Chinese merchant, who is al
important witness for the government
in the case of the A-merican-born Chi
nese. Frank Tape, former immigration
interpreter who is held under bond O
$4,000 on charges of bribery in con
; %nection with the smuggling of Chimes
into the country.
w. Dean Hays, cashier of the Olym
pia Bank and Trust company, whicl
recently went in the hands of the stat
bank examiner was arrested recentl
on a warrant charging him with re
eeiving deposits while knowing tn,
bank insolyent. Hays was a membe
of the last legislature from Thurstol
{ county and in the republican primarie
led a field of five for denomination
A tentative plan for the Lincol
County Teachers institute was al
ranged at a meeting of the principals
association at Davenport Saturday an
the date was fixed at the first tire
days of Thanksgiving week. In cor
n~ection with the institute it was dc
cided to hold the eighth grade decla
nation contest and a spelling contes
much along the lines of that of las
year, when more than 500 student
participated in the preliminaries.
The growth of the University O
Washington since 1903 is measured il
the following statistics given out b.
Recorder Stone: 1904, total enroll
ment, 7O7; percentage of increas,
over previous year, II per cent; 1904-5
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