Dr. J. N. Alley, of Lapwai, was a Lewiston visitor last month.

Dr. J. M. Wheate, who is now in Yellowstone Park, acting as army surgeon, intends to locate at Boise next spring.

Dr. H. Schmalhausen, of Harrison, recently visited Virginia City, Mont., where he formerly resided. The doctor will spend the winter in the South.

Montana.

Dr. G. H. Barbour, of Helena, has dipped into politics to the extent of running on the republican ticket for the legislature.

Dr. Chas. C. Wallin, of White Sulphur Springs, who went East about a month ago on business and pleasure combined, is expected back about the middle of December.

a pioneer of the county. He was a native of Belgium, was educated in Brussels and Paris, and saw service in the French army in Algiers when a young man. He was a surgeon on the staff of Gen. Santa Ana in the Mexican war with the United States, and saw the execution of Maximilian, with whom he came to the western continent. In 1860 he entered the service of the U. S. Army as surgeon, and came to Colville, Wash., as an army surgeon. When Fort Colville was abandoned in 1883 he took up a homestead near that town, and made his home there for many years.

Dr. Charles H. Lee.

The death occurred on the 13th No

vember, at Corvallis, of Dr. Charles H. Lee, who for years had been a familiar figure in Benton County, Or. The doctor had been ill only two days, with heart disease. Dr. Lee was born in Ohio, in 1850, and graduated in 1874 at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati. In 1884 he left Ohio and came to Corvallis. In 1886 he located at Newport, but in 1888 he returned to Corvallis, where he resided to the time of his death. He leaves a widow and a large circle of friends.

J. W. Howard.

On October 20th a pioneer physi cian died in the person of Dr. J. W. Howard, of Missoula. His death took place at the hospital at Great Falls. The doctor had gone to Great Falls about two months before for treatment, and while there he suffered from a stroke of apoplexy which resulted in his death. Dr. Howard was 53 years old, and had been a resident of Montana for twenty years. He came to Oregon when a lad, and spent some time in this state teaching school, and worked his way through college, where he studied medicine. He commenced the practice of medicine in Oregon, and in 1887 went to Dillon, Mont. He moved, later, to Butte, Bozeman, Hamilton, and finally to Missoula. He leaves a widow and seven children.