Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-09-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Mrs Henry Blackman, who was ac-
cidently shot recently died.
Harvest in the southern part of
Whitman county is progressing slowly
because of the scarcity of headers.
Spokane lodge of Elks No. 22s leads
all Elkdom in wealth and member
ship.
The Spokane Interstate Fair are pre-
sentlng new appearance under the
changes that are being instituted.
Word has been received from Loom.
is of the murder of Horace Smith.
well-known half breed.
Chief of Police Reddy participated
in street car holdup last week in Spo-
kane. He did not have his gun.
The threshing outfit operated by
Hughes and Thomas near Wilbur was
destroyed by fire recently.
The new girls dormitory of Waits
burg academy has been turned over to
the board of regents.
There is much activity at Thornton.
All the warehouse companies are pre-
pairing to receive big crops.
George L. Brigger was caught in
the engine in sawmill at Wayside re-
Gently and was fatally injured.
B. +. Conner, one of Dayton's prom
inent citizens, died last week from the
effect of an accidental gun shot.
A movement has been started to en-
fore the closing on Sunday of all places
OF business, including saloons, in AL
mira and Maritime.
One OF the handsomest premium lists
ever issued in the state is now ready
for distribution by the Spokane Inter-
state Fair.
In 90 rounds of the prettiest and
fastest fighting ever seen in Seattle,
Rufe Turner could not knock out Per-
ry Queenan last week.
Frank Parsley of Everett, blew out his
brains last week. He was respondent
over cancer, with which he was
etflicted.
Oscar Bradshaw, has made a con-
fession to the murder of PeterNelson,
at Pasco, recently He claimsit was
accidental.
2 Mrs. Hyatt, who killed her two
months old baby girl at the Hyatt
farm near Govan recently, has been ad-
| juged insane.
st. Paul's cathedral of the Epis-
copal church at Walla Walla, one of
the finest small churches in the north
west will be formerly opened Septem-
Der Z.
Sheriff Gardner says that if the
Creston parties who claim the Tracy
reward, will give Goldfnch, the be-
trayer of the outlaw, an equasl share
with each of them in the reward, he
will step aside.
AS the time for opening the Spokane
interstate fair approaches it becomes
evident that as a fall attraction for the
people of the Inland Empire it will be
more comprehensive and interesting
than ever before.
George II. Martin, secretary and
manager of the Spokane Interstate
1 =
C,liries from farmers, fruit growers,
dairymen, stock raisers, etc., concern
ing the coming fair.
Floyd Johnson, a telegraph operator
and railroad agent at Creston, has been
arrested on the charge of forgery. He
answered New York newspapers re-
quest to a sheriff for story of Tracy
capture and drew a draft on the paper
j in the name of the official He is out
on $1,000 bonds.
The Weyerhauser Timber company
has become the owner of what is vir-
tually one-eighth of Thurston county.
They get all of the timber lands of
the Northern Pacific i'll that county,
amounting to "a, 299 acres. The pur-
chase price was 1921 1858; also two
tracts of land timber III Snohomish
county, one of 1878 acres and the
other $40 acres, paying $121,72 and
$3797, respectively, for them.
The labor organizations of the state
celebrated Labor day in becoming
style.
Fell Down Elevator Shaft.
| Walla Walla. Wash, Sept. 1.-While 10
i year old Amalie Schiller was sending 8
dinner down a dumb waiter into the
/ Crane saloon she tumbled through the
open shaft, fracturing her skull and spinal
column to some extent. After her tumble,
the elevator weight hit her in the stom-
aob. The little girl will probably recover,
/ though her injuries are serious.
| vessels Driven Ashore.
Cape Town. Sept. s-Eighteen vessels,
mostly sailing craft, have been driven
ashore in a gale at Port Elizabeth. Five