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WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
Interesting Items Gathered
Our Exchanges of the Sur
Country—Numerous Accl
Events Take
A
From
rounding
dents
Place— Crop Outlook Good.
and Personal
WASHINGTON ITEMS
are now selling for $1.75
Potatoes
sack on the Spokane market.
The Farmers' Educational and Co
a
union will soon have a news
of their own, to be published at
operative
paper ■
Pullman.
The i_.
annual convention of the State
of Labor will be held in
Federation
Walla Walla the last of December.
L. N. Phelps, Great Northern station
agent at Scenic, while out hunting Sun
day accidently shot himself through the
forohead. The bullet, passing through
his skull, wounded his companion in the
hand.
C, W. Whiton of Anatone is now the
of somo of the best pieces of
He has just
owner
land in Asotin county,
bought 640 acres for $22,400.
The fruit shipments for the month
of September from Wenatchee will ag
gregate 200 cars, an increase over last
year of 40 por cent.
This year $41,988.45 will be received
by the state as excise tax from express
companies under the law passed by the
last legislature. This is in addition to
the small amounts
have been paying in taxes heretofore
and will pay hereafter • on tangible
assessed in the various coun
The excise tax is 5 per cent of
these companies
property
ties.
earnings
Judge A. W. Frater in the superior
court of King county has made a ruling
not to grant any further divorces un
less at least one year has elapsed since
the parties concerned were married.
Charles Turner, alias Charles Gun
derson, a river pirate, arrested a few
days ago charged with looting camps
at South Seattle, pleaded guilty to bur
glary and was
one to fourteon years in the state
within the state.
sentenced to serve from
prison.
Reports from the
equalization just completed fix
value of the wealth of the state
is $2,000,000 in
state board of
the
at
$784,000,000, which
of last year's figures.
No vacations with pay are to
granted Tacoma city employes here
excess
be
after unless they work in departments
requiring more than eight hours a day
and possible Sunday labor.
The Spokane theater has been
gaged for the night of October 14,
when Hearst and Hisgen, the inde
pendent party nominee for president,
will both speak.
Although this year's production of
wheat in Washington is less than last
year, tho price is better and farmers
will receive about $23,000,000. T
year's crop is 29,700,600 bushels, at an
average price of 77 cents,
it was 65 eents.
M. F. Clark, wife of a well known
Walla Walla, has
It is be
en
This
Last year
business man of
elopod with H. A. Dooley,
lievod that the couple are in Tacoma.
For two hours, while his life blood
ran rapidly from the wounds made by
four bullets fired into his body by a
desperate armed aud masked robber,
1'autiley Uordanoff, a Bulgarian la
borer, stumbled, half exhausted, along
the Northern Pacific tracks to Ilcrron
train to
Siding Saturday to catch a
bring him to Spokane.
For a period of six week, Billy Sun
day, the famous revivalist who used
to star as a baseball player, will hold
union revival services in a mammoth
tabernacle in Spokane.
David Wallace, a
Cormick logging camp', near Pe Ell
was severely hurt recently by a log
rolling on him.
James McNellis,
structural iron worker and steel bridge
builder, who has been omployod
the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul road near Plummer, was killed
35 years old, a
recently.
The Home Telephone
Bellingham has opened its long dis
tance system to Seattle.
Richard Quinn of Everett recently
shot his wife. He claims the affair was
accidental, he being drunk at the time.
The woman is fatally wounded.
While walking along the bank of
Pine creek, apparently in good health
and spirits, Miss Nellie Smith, an 18
year old girl, was suddenly seized with
fell into the
of
company
a fit of apoplexy and
creek. Before help could get to the
unfortunate girl she was drowned.
Spokane was selected as the next
place of meeting of the Hibernians.
Henry McBride has emphatically de
nod the story to the effect that he and
Charles E. Coon intend to contest the
recent primary election on the ground
that the second choice provision of the
statute is unconstitutional.
The members of the Spokane Mer
chants' association excursion visited
Kennewick, Lewiston and the interme
diate pointB last week.
DAHO NOTE8.
Robbed and
beaten by a boxcar
holdup, then kicked off the train, which
was running at the rate of 30 mile« an
hour, Jim Burns is in the hospital at
Sandpoiat.
W. R. Kemp, a boarding house keep
er at Albany Palls, Idaho, shot-himself
through the heart Sunday. His grand
son was drowned at the falls in June.
He was 56 years old and had lived here
two years.
The village of Hope election to vote
on issuing bonds to the amount of
$4000 to install water works in the
town carried.
The sudden breaking of a belt on
Smith 5c Miller's woodsaw at Mob&ow
receutly caused probably fatal injuries
to Scott Smith. The flying belt struck
Smith on the head, cutting it open and
breaking bis collar bone.
G range ville may bo the seat of pub
lication of a socialist paper, edited by
E. Untcrman, a candidate tor governor.
P. F. Johnson, president of the First
National bank of Wallace, has been
appointed chairman of the state finance
committee of Idaho for the national
will stand
Many good football men
on the side lines in the northwest this,
fall if W. S. C., Whitman, Idaho and
the University of Washington enforce
the new conference rules. Several of
last fall's star, players have gradu
ated from these colleges while many
more will be disqualified by the sum
baseball and the four-year rule.
The opening of the duck season at
Parma, Idaho, was marred by the death
of Clay Jones, 13 year old son of Frank
Jones. The boy was out on the slough
in a boat when he reached for his gun.
It is presumed that the gun was cocked
and in handling the oars and gun at
the same time it was discharged, re
sulting in his instant death.
Access to registration books of the
Boise land office is now denied the pub
lic and newspapers as a result of the
ruling of the interior department. Un
der this ruling inquiry may be made
of officials as to entries and contests
and other matters pertaining to the
office, but privilege of examining the
No reason is given
ni. I
records is denied.
for the ruling.
MONTANA ITEMS.
George Moorehard, aged 42, a cook,
well known in labor circles in Butte,
stabbed to death Saturday after
by Arthur Bryan, aged 22, a
waiter. The trouble originated over
the plucking of a wild duck which one
of the patrons of the place had brought.
A wedding which will «terest so
was
noon
ciety from the Atlantic to tlie Pacific
solemnized at noon Saturday at
St. Peter's church, Omaha, when Mrs.
A. C. Siebe of Modesto, Cal., became
the wife of Morris Sellers Largey, the
several times millionaire of Butte. Mr.
Largey is a brother of Mrs. Frank Mc
Ginn of Omaha, and it was on account
of this family connection that Omaha
chosen for the wedding instead of
:i -
was
San Francisco.
The annual convention of the Mon
association has
Wednesday,
tana Wool Growers
been called to
September 30, at Helena, and continue
three days. The sessions will be held
during the state fair week.
republicans opened the
campaign in that state Thursday eve
ning, wlion a monster ratification meet
was held in Missoula, the home of
convene
Montana
ing
E. D. Donlan, republican neminee for
governor.
J. P. Wool man, one of the wealthiest
residents in Helena and a prominent
of Montana, is dead in Phila
for medi
pioneer
delphia, where ho had gone
cal treatment.
Brantcr of Clinton, Mo.
Sherman
of William Branter, a police judge
in that city, killed himself at Butte re
cently by battering his head against
sifle of his cell during a drunken
son
the
frenzy.
OREGON SQUIBS.
Jack Mayes, a pioneer of Crook coun
ty, died following a stroke of paralysis
aged 78 years. , .
George W. Weidler, one of the best
known lumber manufacturers in
Pacific northwest, died recently in
Portland. ,
Miss Bessie Turniabe, a school teach
at Lacomb, was shot in the left leg
the result of a car
the
er
the other day as
tridge being put into the stove by mis
take. She had just swept the floor and
it is presumed emptied the 38 caliber
cartridge in the cook stove with the
other sweepings.
searching the lining of a coat in
coroner, Attorney
By
h- added $1560 to
the assets of tho Lewis B. Burrell es^
täte. The total value of the estate is
close to $19,000. #
This month has already witnessed
the shipment of a far greater quantity
of wheat from Portland to foreign
shores than any other September in the
history of tho port. - «
Handicapped by recurring attacks of
mental aberration and loss of apoech,
induced by a fracture of the skull sus
now
tainod while working in a logging
camp more than a year ago, William
H. Hughes, a canvasser, committed sui
cide at Portland.
The people of Enterprise turned out
in a body with a brass band to wel
come the first trail into Wallowa coun
ty on the Joseph extension of the O.
R. & N.
Chief Justice Bean allowed a writ of
error in the case of Oregon vs. Christ
Nielson, involving police jurisdiction
over the waters of the Columbia so the
case can bè carried to the United
States supreme court.
FIRE LOSSES TO FORESTS.
Life and Property Loss in Some of
Greatest Since Pear 1825 to
the Present Time.
Miramiosi, New Brunswick, October,
1825.—Three towns destroyed; 160 per
sons perished, 1000 head of stock de
stroyed; almost every living thing
killed in rivers and on land of over
more than 2,500,000 acres. Loss, not
including timber value, $300,000.
Peshtigo, Wis., October, 1871.—Be
tween 1200 and 1500 persons killed;
2000 squaro miles burned over. Prop
erty loss estimated at many millions.
Michigan, fall of 1871.—Strip 40
miles wide and 180 miles long, extend
>ug across the central part of the state
Lake Michigan to Lake Huron,
irom
devastated; several hundred persons
perished. Loss $10,000,000.
Michigan, early part of September,
1881.—Burned region
miles; loss of life estimated at from
150 to 500; 5000 persons destitute. Loss
1800 squaro
$2,300,000.
Pinckely, Minn, Sept. 1, 1894.—Seven
townB destroyed, 418 lives lost; 2000
persons destitute.
Washington and Oregon in 1902.—
Property loss $12,000,000.
British Columbia, July, 1908—Fernie
and adjacent towns wiped out.
of life estimated at 20. Property loss
Loss $25,000,000.
I. oi
estimated at $3,000,000.
Minnesota, September, 1908.—Fires
Estimated loss thus far
still raging.
$4,000,000.
WOMAN SHOOTS OFFICER.
Aids Her Husband in Gun Duel With
Posse in Missouri.
West Plains, Mo., Sept. 21.—John
Roberts and his wife today resisted a
sheriff's posse in a desperate battle near
Preston ia, one mile south of the Mis
souri-Arkansas lino, when the officers at
tempted to arrcBt Roberts for killing
Obe Kessinger, a neighbor, last night.
result the woman and Sheriff
As a
Baxtpr count y, Ark.,
morta] . wounded . Roberts and two
memberf) of tho po8SCi D . Lorey and
are
g ^
not survive.
The murder of Kessinger was cold
blooded. Roberts went to the house
late in the evening and called his vic
tim to the door,
peared Roberts fired deliberately and
killed him. The cause of the deed has
not been learned.
When Kessinger ap
Palace for Miss Elkins?
The celebrated royal palace of Cap
rarola, near Romo, built in the 16th
century for Cardinal Alexander Far
is being elaborately refurnished
and redecorated for
lady and her daughter,''
rented the place from Prince Doria,
one of Rome's most exclusive nobles.
The prince declined to say who its oc
cupants will be, but it is regarded as
certain that the "American lady and
her daughter'' are
Elkins and Miss Elkins,
is to marry Duke d 'Abruzzi and the
as a fitting
nese,
American
' an
who have
Mrs. Stephen B.
Miss Elkins
palace is looked upon
homo for the future princess.
New Schools for Indians.
Harlan Updegraff, United States in
Alaska, is antbor
spector of schools in
ity for the statement that the federal
government will establish 13
m «
schools for Indians in the territory,
making a total of 74.
dian children are
schools and special efforts are to be
made to interest them in industrial, san
itary and hygienic courses.
About 2500 Tn
the
enrolled in
Is Champion Plowman.
Joliet, 111.—Alvon Stark of Wheat
land township is the champion plow
He won this title
annual
of the world.
man
this afternoon at the
vVheatland plowing match on a farm
Eleven thou
31st
eight miles from Aurora,
sand persons followed the plowman
over tho course, as they turned up the
earth with geometrical exactness.
Go by Way of Sulu Sea.
Rear Admiral Sperry, commanding
Atlantic battleship fleet, has in
formed the navy department by cable
that the fleet, having left Albany
would proceed to Manila by way
the Lombok straits, the straits of Mac
the Colesby sea, the Basilian
The waters are un
the
cassar
and the Sulu sea.
frequented ordinarily by either naval
commercial vessels, but the route
the sbort
or
selected by Admiral Sperry is
between Albany and Manila.
est
CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
CONDITIONS WORST IN YEARS
AT ST. PETERSBURG.
Reports Show Victims Are Dying at
Rate of 125 Every 24 Hours—Live
But 15 Minutes When Taken With
Dreaded Disease—Prayers for Deliv
erance Caused to Be Read Sunday.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 22.—St. Peters
burg is in the grasp of Asiatic cholera,
which already has exceeded in severity
and numbers of the victims the epi
demic of 1893. The disease is increas
ing daily at an alarming rate and un
less the authorities show in the future
a much greater degree of ability to cope
with the situation than they have in
the past there is every reason to fear
that it will get out of baud.
The government 's threat to apply
the provisions of martic: law has
of the
to bend all its energies to cleariug the
city of the scourge. The aldermanic
council has voted $25,000 to enlarge the
hospitals, to purchase and distribute
disinfectants, the supply of which in
St. Petersburg is well-nigh exhausted,
and to expedite the interment of bodies,
which has not been too good,
deadhouses are overcrowded and many
corpses He unburied.
Under his authority the prefect of
St. Petersburg on Saturday prohibited
the sale of liquor throughout the city.
Schools have been turned into hospi
tals.
The
The situation assumes a graver as
pect from the appearance today of a
virulent type of the disease, in two
of which death followed within
cases
15 minutes of the first symptoms. Ab
nouncod by the official bulletins, the
numberod 349 and the deaths 128
a ii
cases
during the last 24 hours.
The metropolitan of St. Petersburg
caused prayers for deliverance to be
read throughout the diocese, in which
the pestilence is described as a punish
ment for the people's lawlessness.
Premier Stolypin has sharply repri
manded the municipal officials for the
appalling conditions.
Practically nothing Bas been done up
to the present to put the city'B market
places in a sanitary condition. They
places of indescribable filth, with
the atmosphero reeking with foul odorB.
As a city St. Petersburg is woefully
unsanitary, and the dread disease finds
am
bore the conditions most suitable for its
propagation.
It first made its appearance among
the poor people herded in wretched tene
ments, but it is now spreading to the
better classes, and it has broken out in
the barracks among the troops.
Appeared First in July.
The cholera was first reported this
at the end of July. It was of a
year
virulent type and the percentage of
mortality was high.
German authorities have taken pre
cautions to prevent the disease from
the frontier. Austria
has
near
crossing
done the same thing. Sweden and
by countries have declared a quaran
tine against Russia and France is ready
to meet any exigency that may
arise.
Pope Sees American Tars.
Rome.—The pope Sunday received in
audience 70 sailors from tho American
battleships Maine and Alabama, which
at Naples. The pontiff, who is al
ways interested in sea going men,
pressed pleasure at their smart appear
ance. Each of the men kissed tho pope's
and received from him a medal.
are
ex
ring
The pope made a friendly speech, in
which he thanked them for tlieir visit,
and he prayed that God would reward
them with his grace,
them his apostolic benediction.
He then gave
Death in Texas Train Wreck.
San Antonio, Tex.—Twelve persons
wore injured, one of them fatally, in
a wreck of the Inland Great Northern
train No. 3, three miles south of Kyle.
William Simpson, tho engineer,
hurled from the cab as the engine turn
lie will die. His fireman,
■A II- :
ed turtle.
Wesley Westrope, is also badly in
jured. Ten passengers were painfully
bruised and cut.
Drouth In New England.
Anxiety is filling the heart of the
New England farmer for a drouth which
is pronounced to be one of the severest
in many years has spread itself over
the New England states, causing suffer
ing to people, cattle and crops through
out the country. It was on August 26
that the last general rainfall came to
New England.
Ticket Agent—Well, what is it!
Don't keep the other people waiting.
Weary—x merely wish ter know, sir,
if de nort '-bound t 'rough freight is
time.—Judge.
on
TAKES DESPERATE LEAP
Lee Johnston, Alleged Murderer,
Jumps From Boat.
Seattle, Sept. 19.—A special dis
patch to the Post-Intelligencer from
Nome says: Lee Johnston, who was
being brought to Nome for trial on
the charge of murdering his wife and
burying her dismembered body be
neath the floor of his cabin in Nome,
leaped from the steamship Victoria.
Johnston escaped while the vessel
was in Unimaka pass and when Guard
Bowen, who was in ct.*rgo
prisoner, was Bleeping. Officers of the
Victoria believe Johnston may have
roachod a life preserver and succeeded
in swimming ashore.
Leo Johnston was arrested in Seattle
about a month ago on a warrant
charging him with the murder of Belle
Gilchrist, his second wife,
mitted to the local police that he hail
cut up the woman's body, buried it
under the floor of his cabin and later
attempted to cremate it. Ho stated
that his wife had committed suicide
and left a note requesting a secret
burial.
of the
ll e ad
CHOLERA IN MANILA.
Thirty-Eight New Oases and Seventeen
Deaths in Eleven Hours.
Manila, Sept. 20.—Since 8 o'clock
this morning there have been reported
38 cases of cholera and 17 deaths, a inn
terial increase during the 11 hours over
the record for the previous 24 hours,
when only six deaths were reported.
MINE8 AND MINING.
A party of mining engineers is tour
ing westerp Canada under the auspices
of the mining institute. They represent
leading men of Great Britain, France,
Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, as
well as engineers of the United States
and Canada. The party of over 50
entertained by the local branch of the
Canadian Mining institute.
What is believed to be the biggest
strike over made in the Kootenays has
been made in the Nugget mine at Sal
mo recently.
Boundary ore shipments took a jump
last week to 41,230 tons.
A rich strike of silver-lead haB been
made
near Wardner.
Fred J. Pritchard was crushed to
death recently at the west end of the
big Milwaukee tunnel neaf Taft moun
tain. A huge mass of rock and tim
bers fell on him.
wire
the New Jersey property,
in
group of three
claims, lying north of Elk City about
14 miles, is said to be showing up well
under the development work done
assessment work this year.
1 1
The "You Bet
as
Ti e crew of miners at the Arlington
n.imbera
near Erie, B. C., now
The property is a regular
rni-.c,
25 men.
shipper and it is said the ore averages
$75 a ton.
The Dixie Queen mine, in the Dixie
camp, is to be equipped with a stamp
mill.
Extensive development work is
ing done at the Katie mine on Toulon
mountain, in the Orient district, Wash
ington.
be
Available Grain Supplies.
Special advices to
the following changes in available sup
plies as compared with previous
counts.
Wheat, United States east of the
Rockies, increased 3,051,000 bushels;
Canada increased 969,000 bushels,
tal United States and Canada increased
4,020,000 bushels. Afloat for and in
Europe decreased 200,000 bushels; total
American and European supply
creased 3,820,000 bushels. Corn, Unit
ed States and Canada decreased 340,000
bushels. Oats, United States and Can
ada increased 1,486,000 bushels.
Bradstreet's show
ae
1' cl
in
Roosevelt Vacation Ends.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 21.—The last
Sunday of President Roosevelt's annual
summer vacation was passed by the
president in his usual manner, Mr.
Roosevelt attending morning services
at Christ Episcopal ehnrch for the four
teenth consecutive Sunday. The presi
dent has not missed a Sunday at Christ
church since ho arrived at Sagamore
Hill for his summer stay. lie returns
to Washington Tuesday.
Greenwood, B. C., Fire.
Phoenix, B. C.—Fire destroyed two
stores and a hotel in the business cen
ter of Greenwood City Saturday after
noon.
The Iobs wiW be severe on those
burned ont, as none carried insurance
except the Victoria hotel.
Snow, Entomologist, Is Dead.
Lawrence, Kan., Sept. 22.—Dr. Frank
Huntington Snow, former chancellor of
the University of Kansas and an ento
mologist of world-wide repute, died at
Belfield, Wis., Sunday, aged 68 years.
He was a native of Fitchburg, Mass.
Suburbanite (to applicant for a job)
—Do you know anything about garden
ing!
Applicant—Sure. I worked in a beer
garden once.—Puck.