Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-10-18
WASHINGTON.

Little Marg1s Bjornson of Blaine
was fatally burned last week.
The Washington Good Roads associ-
alton was formed in Seattle recently.
]. w. Brown of Salem, Ore, has de.
cided to establish creamery at Waits
burg.
The bank clearings for last week
were the heaviest ever known. They
amounted to $2,242,734.
j. J. State, farmer, who has for
several years resided near Waitsburg,
is missing.
All the grain warehouses of Tekoa
are filling up rapidly with wheat, oats
end hay.
The Northern Pacific has purchased
the Bellingham Bay & Eastern rail-
way.
One of the largest cargoes of Orien-
tai goods ever received in Seattle ar
rived last week
Bob Childers, who is wanted in Ida
no on charge of horse stealing, was
arrested at Medical Springs recently
by Sheriff Lawrence.
]. F. Lynch, one of the most popular
members of the Spokane fire depart
ment, was killed recently in an acct
dent at Vancouver.
The letting of the contract for cleo
trio light fixtures in the new capital
building has been laid over until the
December meeting
Shadrach Davies, formerly Of Spo-
kane, has mysteriously disappeared
from San Francisco, whittier he went
about month ago.
The steamer Clan Mcdonald was
burned recently at Whatcom as it lay
on the beach undergoing repairs. The
loss is $4,000; insurance $4,000.
From these data the total amount
Of timber in the state under the Wash
ington numbering practice is estimated
at 1858 million feet B. M.
DR.. B. H. Yount Of Wilbur, commit
ted to the Medical Lake asylum from
Davenport about month ago, has
his release via the habeas corpus
route.
Fruit shipments from points be-
tween Waitsburg and Dixie, along the
w. & c. r., have been quite large
this year, the apple consignments sur
passing last season.
Five hundred dollars was ordered
contributed to the relief fund for suf-
ferers from the forest fires on the
coast by the Walla Walla council last
eek. Hollon Parker has contributed
ton of flour.
Bertha Lerner. a 10-year-old girl,
was badly and perhaps fatally burn
ed in Seattle recently by the explosion
Of a can of kerosene. The explosion
was due to the girl pouring the fluid
on the flames in a stove.
1t is estimated that there are 5000
900 acres Of arid lands in Washington,
all Of which are in the central por-
ton Of the state, east of the Cascade
mountains, and in the drainage ba-
sin of the Columbia river.
About 800 head of sheep belonging
to Judge Stockslager are dead at the
mouth CT East Fork, and others are
reported to be dying. 1t is believed
that the sheep have been poisoned
and an investigation is being made.
w. H. Gilstrap of Tacoma is plan
ming to paint series of historical pic
lures for display at the louisiana Pur-
chase exposition of 1904, as well as at
the Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland, Ore in 1905.
Arthur Cox, living on farm of 500
acres between Garfield and Belmont,
claims the record yield of oats for this
year. Mr.. Cox had 5000 bushels Of
oats on so acres of land, making an
average yield of 118 bushels per acre.
Superintendent Catron Of the state
penitentiary has announced the Of
fetal report of the jute mill as fol-
lows: Grain sacks manufactured this
season, 1,489,000; number Of sacks to
be carried over, 10000; number dis
tributed in Walla Walla valley, $751;
600; revenue, 1900.
A broken rail wrecked a Northern
Pacific freight train recently at the
western end of the Cascade tunnel.
The engine was overturned and the
engineer, William Mischo of Tacoma,
was killed. Several loaded cars were
piled up.
The Spokane, Portland and Seattle
high schools have been placed upon
the accredited list at the University