Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-02
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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Johnson Bros. have sold their -four
mill at Asotin to A. c. Barron for
$4,000.
Excavation work is in progress for
the proposed $4,000 school building at
Dayton.
A team ran into lumber wagon near
Fort Casey, fatally injuring the driver,
named Lynch.
The farms of Washington June L,
1900. numbered 33,202, and were val
ned at Sis, 609,710.
1t is rumored that nothing will be
done this fall in the question of chang
ing Franklin's county seat.
The site of the new federal building
is matter receiving a good deal of
attention and interest in Spokane.
The Spokane Amateur Athletic club
is to put on a pretentious street fair
and carnival August to IA.
Miss Kate Hogan, better known in
the theatrical world as Katharine
Ridgway, has returned to Colfax for
her vacation.
Walla Walla military band was
awarded the contract to play at the
coming fruit fair at Walla Walla this
year for $1,000
John Garrison, logger employed in the
Haley camp near Tolt, on the Snoqualm;e
river, had his neck broken by a blow
from a falling tree.
The wheat harvest has begun in the
Horse Heaven country. About 10000
acres of choice wheat will be cut and
threshed this season.
Major John Mills submits the fol.
lowing for the Seattle, Wash, district
Tacoma harbor, 100000; New
Whatcom harbor, $4,000.
The chief of engineers has received
reports from engineers in charge of
river and harbor work improvements
containing estimates for the fiscal
year 1904.
A fatal runaway accident occurred at
Coupeville, on WILDLY island, recently, in
which Mrs. Browning of California had her
neck broken in attempting to jump from a
carriage.
The Masonic temple committee an
nounces that the fair to be given un.
der the'auspices of the Spokane lodges
WIFI be held from September II to-
80 inclusive.
Frank Wakefield, aged 16 years, was
drowned in Lake Washington recent
ly in consequence of losing his hold on
a rope as he was trying to move from
one float to mother. The body was
recovered.
With his head crushed like an egg.
shell by falling tree top Andrew
Yarkraugh, veteran in Fletcher's
sawmill camp, 16 miles southeast of
Milton, died in the Walla Walla hos
pital recently.
Frank e. Morlan of Spokane, engi-
neer for the Northern Pacific, myster-
iously disappeared recently. AS he
had large sum of money on him at
the time, foul play is suspected. He
leaves a wife and little baby.
Hiram Gragg of Garfield has COW
that is a record breaker as a profit
producer During the past three years
this COW has raised six calves, having
twins each year, and these six calves
are now valued at 5000. Mr.. Gragg
estimates the value of the milk and
butter produced by this COW during
three years at 1915 MAXI g a total of
>i16 the cow has produced in three
years.
DR.. B. F. Warren, retired physician,
died recently at the age of 60 years at
his residence near Deep Creek. He
was born in Effiingham, N. H. His
father was the seventh son of General
James Warren, distinguished in the
revolutionary war and that of 1872.
His great-grandfather was Captain Jo-
seph Warren of French and Indian war
fame. His maternal ancestors were
in the line of descent from the Ouch
ess of Marlborough.