Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-06-14
WASHINGTON.

Skagit county's oat crop promises
fine yield.
The Great Northern is erecting new
depots at Ephrata and Milan.
More farmers have gone into sugar
| beet raising this year than ever before.
The total receipts at the Tacoma
postoffice for the past month were
$S069.63.
1t is reported that the Great North,
ern will build line from Republic to
Wenatchee.
Uly Gaisford, one of the weaithiest
stockmen of the Methow country, was
drowned last week
George II. Martin has been appoint
ed manager of the Spokane Interstate
Fair Association.
During the month of May 140 home
stead filings were made in the North
Yakima land office.
Del Cary Smith of Spokane was re-
elected grand president of the Eagles
at Minneapolis last week
1t is announced that the washington
& Great Northern road will be COM
PiNIOh w ANCpdDAlC ny July L.
Eastern capitalists are making ar
rangements to establish a cold storage
plant at North Yakima this summer.
The crop prospect throughout the
Palouse country is better than it has
ever been at this season of the year.
Frank Morrison, general secretary of
the American Federation, and Presi-
dent Gompers will be in this state in
July.
/. Fl. Spawr of Prescott has re-
ceived what is said to be the first gaso-
line engine in the county designed for
running threshing machine.
Mike Lahey fell between two fiat
cars of moving train near Lamona
recently and his body was almost cut
in twain. Death was instantaneous.
The British ship Ganges, sailed from
Tacoma last week for South Africa
with cargo of Washington oats and
hay for the British army, valued at
$117,776.
A bad train wreck occurred on the
Northern Pacific railroad last week at
Eagle Gorge, near Tacoma, in which
two locomotives and several cars were
demolished.
Professor G. A. Barry of the Wash
irgton Agricultural College, mad his
hands painfully burned last week
while trying to extinguish a fire which
was destroying some lace curtains.
1t is rumored that Kerr, Clifford &
Co. grain dealers and exporters at
Portland and Tacoma, have bought the
warehouse rights at Tekoa belonging
to the Spokane Grain & Milling Co.
Good reports come from the peach
sections east of the mountains, and
the outlook for apples is, on the whole,
favorable But cherries. prunes and
pears have dropped off so that only
small crop is left
Senator Foster has introduced in the
house, and which was favorabIy re-
ported, extending the time one year
from the passage of the act for making
final proof on desert land entries in
Yakima county.
The jury in the case of the state
against st. John Dix, charged with
wrecking two banks in Whatcom coun-
ty, while under his control, returned
a verdict of guilty of larceny by en-
bezZlement. Dix was arrested in Lon
don, England, about four months ago
and after stubborn resistance was ex-
tradited.
In the case of Mate Elby Dovel,
drowned from the steamer Canaan
when that vessel was lost, the treach-
erous Columbia refuses to give up its
dead. The same is true as to Major
Smith, who recently tried to jump
from one of the steamers to the wharf
and was drowned.
General Randall, commanding the
department of the Columbia recently
detailed to investigate sites in Wash
ington for the establishment of per-
manent camp grounds for instruction
of troops of the regular army and ma
tional guard, has made his report, stat
ing that "of the three sites, the first
under consideration, that Is miles east
of the city of Spokane, is the one l
think is best"