White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-01
WASHINGTON ITEMS
Thames s. Moffatt, age 80, died
at Colfax Sunday.

Thames s. Moffatt. age 80, died
at Colfax Sunday.
Tho black-leg has made its appear
ance among cattle at the head Of Aso
tin creek.
Dedicatory services lasting through
out Sunday were held at the new
Christian church at Pasco.
G. F. Cottan, switchman for the
Great Northern at Hillyard, fell off the
front footboard of switch engine Sat
urday night and was killed
Jacob Mowry, convicted Of wrong
ing a 15.year-old Charleston girl, was
sentenced to serve from three to 10
years in the Walla Walla penitentiary
Mrs. Nellie Day Drumheller, wife OF
Thomas Drumheller, prominent ranch
; er of the Walla Walla valley, died Sat
urday.
Steve S. Baily, Cashmere hotel man.
is accredited, from San Francisco re-
ports, with making $1,000 cleanup
on the recent election.
The attendance for the six days OF
the Ninth National Apple show at
Spokane reached 51,629, lacking only
5000 of being twice that of the 1915
show.
Mrs. R. F. Montgomery of Ellens
burg, died at McDurmit, New, Fri.
day. Mrs. Montgomery was the moth.
or of Thomas Montgomery. She was
in her S7th year.
The officers of the Palouse Poultry
and Pet Stock association have an
nounced that they will hold their 4th
annual poultry show at Palouse City
January IL to 20, inclusive.
Nathan Juliux Marx, a travelling
salesman, was found guilty of muir
der in the second degree by a jury
in the Yakima county superior court
Nov. Is, for killing John F. Daley,
night clerk at hotel August %.
While Rufus Wright, age 16, son Of
P. l.. Wright, was handling rifle
at home, just west of Toppenish, Sat
urday, it was accidentally discharged
and the bullet struck his brother,
Leonard, age 9, in the abdomen, in
flicting wound from which he died.
A trolley car bound for Lake Wash
ington ran away on the hill on East
Madison street, Seattle, Saturday
night, and after gaining momentum
by race of four blocks, crashed in
to another trolley car moving in the
same direction. H. s. Brannan was
instantly killed.
That the task of cruising the 487,-
900 acres Of government lands to be
accepted by the state in lieu of school
lands locked in the national forests,
which will be the finishing touch in
the gigantic lieu land exchange which
was inaugurated more than two years
ago, will be completed by the end
of the 1917 season.
The Oriental Limited, Great North
ern passenger train No. /, west
bound, met head-on with heavy
freight train Friday night near Leav.
enworth. The engine buckled and
several freight cars were demolished
No passenger cars left the track and
no passengers were severely injured
Fireman Hans Dahms was killed.
Out of Ia persons claiming to be
Indians and entitled to allotments
on the Colville reservation eight were
allowed claims and six were rejected
by decision handed down Saturday
by Judge Rudkin, at Spokane. The
suits were brought previous to the
opening of the reservation to home
steaders, after the applicants had
been denied allotments by the secre.
tary of the interior.
An unusual number of accidents in
the lumber and single mills and
logging camps of the state has caus
ed the accident fund to run short in
classes 8 and 10, the mill and log.
ging camp classes. The industrial in.
surance commission Monday reported
that those classes had been over.
drawn more than $1,000, and in or
der to meet the emergency an extra
call will be made on the employers.
The additional call will carry the de-
partment through December and Jan
uary, at the end of which time the
1917 adjustments will be made.
The Whitman County National bank
of Rosalia was held up by a lone
robber, who followed Cashier F. j.
Wilmer into the bank during the
noon hour, when, on Saturday, the
doors are locked for about an hour.
Mr.. Wilmer, under menace of a gun,
was in the act Of unlocking the vault
door, when F. B. Goldsworthy, book
keeper for hardware store next
door, who had key to the bank,
came in at the front door, in COM
pany with Clarence Graham, the as
sistant cashier.
When the robber turned his gun
on Goldsworthy and Graham, Mr..
Wilmer grabbed him from behind and
held his arms pinioned to his sides
until Goldsworthy and Graham could
run around behind the counter and
disarm him. The holdup said his
name was Ferguson.
State Commercial News.
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