FEARS OF LOSS OF LIFE HELD
PORTLAND—(By A. P.J—Although the seas are still running high at the mouth of the Columbia river this morning, the wind at Northhead had abated to 14 miles an hour at 8 o'clock, as compared with 60 miles an hour at the same time and place yesterday, according to weather bureau reports.
Telegraph and Telephone Service Crippled.
SEATTLE—(By A. P.)—Crippled telephone and telegraph service throughout many sections of western Washington are being restored today following the subsidence of the storm which last night and early this morning swept the west half of the state.
At times the velocity of the wind was estimated at from 76 to 80 miles an hour. Ben Huber was killed by an automobile because the umbrella he was carrying shut off his view.
Bridge Collapsed—Fear Many Killed.
BELLINGHAM, WASH.—(By A. P.)—A report received here today said nine men were injured, some fatally, when a bridge collapsed near Blais, Washington, today.
POPULAR JURIST ASKED TO GO TO WALLACE
Judge Edgar C. Steele, of the district court, leaves tomorrow for Wallace, where he will hold a term of court beginning Monday.
Steele goes at the request of Governor Davis who telephoned him yesterday from Boise asking that he go to Wallace and hold the term of court there. The recent death of Judge Woods, of Shoshone county, left the court there without a presiding judge.
Judge Steele will hold the term which is said will be quite a long one as there is a  Big calendar and much business is to be disposed of. Judge Steele expects to be absent during the entire month of December. The term in Latah county will be resumed early in January. 