Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-31
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
4 Review From the States of Wash
ingtOn, Idaho, Montana and Ore
gon-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down.
WASHINGTON.

a few small sales occasionally.
The Anacortes cannery will pack
$500 cases of clans this year.
Thieves at Colfax took miscellaneous
merchandise from the freight depot.
Let 'er go, Judge" is what Ira Fra
zier a prisoner at Colfax told Judge
Mcdonald.
Thieves seize $500 package of cur
rency in bank at Seattle last week
and escape.
The log drive on the Palouse river
has made good progress and loggers
are jubilant.
Hawley of the chamber of commerce
has been chosen to manage Spokane
exposition this year.
Tie dollar dinner was big success.
Nearly one thousand republicans were
at thefeast at Spokane,
AS a result of being run over by the
Northern Pacific train, Willie Cook of
Walla Walla died last week.
At Rosalia the death of George D.
Anderson is reported. He was in Spo-
kane when it was only village
Mr.. Malcolm, the we'll known Snake
river fruit grower says the prospects
are flattering for an abundant yield of
all kinds of fruit this season.
J. G. Johnson, of Rosalia, expired
suddenly while he was blowing in the
grain field last week. Heart failure
the supposed cause. He leaves a large
family.
In row at Waverly son of Road
Supervisor CLANCY inflicted two severe
wounds with knife upon Constable
D. S. Johnston. The young man is
under arrest.
Word has been received in Spokane
Of the killing of Ira Moore, a we'll
known young mining man. The acct
dent being thrown from his horse, took
place near Kellar.
Ray Thompson, Spokane boy, has
won the distinction of joining the
Stanford Glee Club and will accom-
pany the club on it's tour through the
eastern states this summer.
The Washington Red Single Manu-
facturers' Association at recent meet
ing advanced prices five cents and
withdrew the former d.fferential of 10
cents in favor of western dealers.
Schuyler ColfaX, an Indian, has been
arrested on the reservation, near Fort
| Simcoe, by Deputy United States Mar
shall A. L. Dilley and brought to North
Yakima for trial on the charge of
grand larceny.
The man who committed suicide in
| Seattle has been identified as William
Jones, Klondiker, who was despond-
ent over having lost nearly all his
money gambling. His home is in Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo.
| The new steamer City of Wenatchee,
owned by O'Connor & Bailey, and
which was not completed last season in
time for the fall business, has COM
menced her run to Brewster and re-
turn to Wenatchee twice a week.
NeWhouse & Fitzgerald who have
been conducting a cheese factory in
| Dayton for year, are enlarging their
| plant and expect to install lot of new
machinery for the manufacture of but
| ter in addition to the cheese business.
A large frame building is being erect
| ed.
Farmers have been industriously
preparing farm machinery and seed
| grain during the last week, and this
week will see drills running on sum-
mer fallow in full blast. Despite the
| low price of wheat, farmers in gen.
eral are enthusiastic over the prospect
for another crop, and feel that low
prices can not always prevail.
The largest funeral gather ever held
in Waitsburg occurred last week, when
the order of Masons gathered in the
remains of Hon. Plat A. Preston of
this city. Fully 1900 people were pres
ent to witness the ceremony. Two
hundred Masons were in line. Special
trains from Walla Walla and Dayton
brought in large numbers of friends,
and the citizens of the surrounding
country were out en- masse.
Nicholas C. Policy, of Woolley, form
erly a private in Company d, First
Washington volunteers, committed sui
eide last week by shooting himself.
Policy was wounded in action at the
battle of Pace church, February 8, 1899,
and fell from the tower of the church,
sustaining a conclusion of the spine
from which he never recovered. He
was 33 years old
IDAHO.
The little steamer Bonnie Doom, at