Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-08
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

"ASf1iN6 ON IEMos
c. P Headley, a pioneer Of Walla
Walla, is dead.
The settling of southwestern parts
of Whitman county is rapid.
The Northern Pacific has decided to
build a $4,000 depot at Kennewick.
Hitching posts have been removed
from the main streets at Walla Walla.
Active steps have been taken by
citizens of Krupp towards securing
depot.
A steamship line has been estab-
lished on the Columbia river between
Wenatchee and Kettle Falls.
The indictments of the Seattle grand
jury against George U. Piper and
Judge George have been dismissed.
| Frank Half, sawmill man who has
been employed in the various sawmills
in the neighborhood of Addy, is miss
ing.
NJ. De La Montanya, rural route in
spector, has passed favorably on two
proposed rural routes to be established
at Sunnys'de.
The University of Washington de-
| feated the Seattle Y. M. c. A. team IN
the recent track and field meet by a
score of 77h to 571a.
The six shingle mills operating in
Spokane have closed for an indefinite
period The reason given is that there
is no market for the supply.
The Huntley Mercantile company
with a capital stock of 100000, has
been organized to do a general mer-
chandise business at St. John.
H. G. Stimmel, manager of the Spo-
tract to cover the race track with
four inches of black loan soil.
Samuel e. Robinson Of the Wash
ington Agricultural college won the
seventh annual intercollegiate oratori-
cal contest held at Whitman college.
Lucy and Leon Caron, charged with
importing two French girls into the
United States from Belgium for im-
moral purposes, pleaded guilty in the
federal court at Spokane last week.
The state penitentiary record is
again broken by the accession of 13
King county convicts. There are now
635 prisoners in the institution, and
the record number is steadily rising.
T. A. Livesley of North Yakima has
sold 11S bales of hops to Portland
company. The price is given out by
the buyers to have been II cents, but
the growers say that % cents was
rail.
AS result of the May day strikes in
! Spokane 800 men were thrown out OF
employment. The millworkers, the
iron molders and the building laborers
struck because their demands were not
granted.
Coroner E. P. Heliker has filed with
the county commissioners a report or
the recent finding of an unknown dead
Indian near the John Cleman's sheep
camp in Kittitas canyon. He was
hanging by his neck to a post, hand
kerchief heing used as rope.
April was heavy month in the Spo-
Lane land office. The total cash re-
ceipts from all sources amounted 70
$13,334.S0. There were 119 homestead
entries, the total acreage being 49,
21516. The total receipts from cash
sales of land amounted to $75S446.
Mrs. w. c. kornbaugh of Tyler re-
.ently was accidentally shot in the
hand and side by gun in the hands
!. of her husband. He had just loaded
the gun and was walking to the door
to shoot coy, te, when the weapon
was discharged. The wound is not Sc
rious.
The mill, lumber and several houses
of the Martin Lumber Co. of Centra-
liza were recently burned to the ground
boxcar on the siding was destroyed.
The loss n the mill alone will amount
TO $30,00U, but how much lumber has
been destroyed it is impossible to say
The mill will be rebuilt,