Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
WASHINGTON.

nc SSHOOl CELSIUS Oh Everett shows
an increase of 259 for the year
Republic is now a presidential post
office, the postmaster's salary being
$500.
According to the census recently Ia.
ken there are pa children of school age
in the Pennington district.
5. G. Harrington of Wardner, Idaho.
was held up and robbed of $40 by two
masked men in Colfax last week.
The state road down the San Poll
from Republic to Keller, on the Colum.
bia river, is practically completed.
George Webster, convicted of murder
and sentenced to hang last week at
Spokane, has been granted a respite.
The ladies of the Inland Empire are
offered the finest prizes of all at the
Spokane Industrial Exposition, this
year.
Open gambling in Seattle, which
ceased by order of the reformers in the
city council four months ago, has been
resumed.
School district No (Aberdeen) has
667 school children between the ages
of and 81. The increase of school
children over last year is 90.
The dead body of an S-months-old
child was found in the suburb of Olym-
pia recently. 1t had been thrown from
bridge so feet high into the bushes.
Things are booming at Almota IS
miles south of Colfax, on the Snake
river, where the o. r. & N. is building
its extension from Riparia to Lewiston
Fire broke out on the steamer Lakme
last week at Seattle, and for while her
entire destruction was threatened The
loss is estimated at between $500 and
$4,000.
F. l.. Stocking, assistant postmaster
at Tacoma, today was appointed assist
ant director general of posts at Manila.
He will be next in rank to Director
General Vaille.
The police of Spokane are diligently
searching for Jack Mcdonald, aged SO
years, formerly blacksmith of Butte
who disappeared about a week ago and
has not been seen or heard of since.
The body of Celbi G. Koontz, the Z
year-old boy who fell into the Spokane
river on Sunday, June II, was found
floating in the river near LIE Pray
bridge, about 80 miles below the city.
w. R. Gragg, the Steptoe rancher
who attempted to murder his wife and
Mrs. T. J. Carroll, has been formally
arrested on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to murder
his wife.
A. E. Larson, a prominent lumber
merchant, has made an offer to the
Commercial Club of North Yakoma, to
build frame opera house after the
style of the one at Olympia, to cost
$4,000, provided the citizens donate
three lots.
The death of Arden, the 3year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs j. M. Hobbs, oc-
CURED at the country home of the par
ents. four miles north of Palouse. The
child secured a bottle of muriatic acid
and swallowed by accident a part of
the contents.
Farmers Of Colville are now in the
midst of haying, with splendid pros
poets for good crop. The grain fields
however are said to have suffered con-
siderably from hot weather, but re-
cent shower cooled the atmosphere and
prevented serious consequences.
The national bank of greatest depos
it's in Washington is the Exchange Ma
tional of Spokane which has total of
$2,119,5O3 on hand, against $1,9S4,767 in
it's nearest competitor, the Puget Sound
National of Seattle.
An unknown man was found in
Grouse creek, about five miles from
Loon lake, on the old Colville-Spokane
military road, last week. There was no
money upon his person, and no clew to
his identity could be obtained from let
tiers found.
The body of an unknown man, ap-
parently an Italian, was taken from the
Yakima river near Prosser the other
day by J. H. McPheron. The body was
that of a man about 40 or so years old.
The little finger of the right hand was
off. and he had rings in his ears.
w. C. Blalock, of Walla Walla, whose
eyesight and hearing have been very
poor for the past 80 years, suddenly
found himself the other day in full
possession of these faculties. He is now
in his 10th year and cannot account for
the restoration of his eyesight and
hearing, which are the equal of those
of his youth. His physical condition
has much improved since his good for
tune.