Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-12
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

A gun club has been organized at
Waterville.
! 1t is expected Spokane county will
have a magnificent exhibit at the st.
Louis fair.
The plans of the Cascade Lumber
company at North Yakima is to double
the mills size.
The German agriculturists from the
fatherland practically cut Spokane out
of their itinerary.
| The New York market is opening up
to Inland Empire shingles on account
of the high grade of the cedar.
Ihurston county Sheriff ]. T. Mills
is said to have the appointment to
take charge of the state reform school.
The May record of the police is a
record of the largest number of arrests
on state charges in the history of Spo-
kane.
The body Of James Mccormick was
found recently, having smothered in
lumber car on the way from Milan
to Spokane.
A business mems association to pro-
mote the interests of the town and
surrounding country has been organ
ized in Oakesdale.
James Montgomery, 25 years of age,
was robbed. murdered and his body
was placed on the interurban street
car track near Auburn recently.
A Northern Pacific section hand was
drowned in the Yakima river recently
about four miles below Ellensburg.
The body has not yet been recovered.
Palouse farmers are jubilant over
better crop conditions. The warm
weather, with plenty of moisture in the
ground has given wheat good start.
Brigadier General Fred Funston, in
command of the department of the Co.
lumbia, visited Spokane recently and
made thorough inspection of all gov
ernment properties at the fort.
Mrs. Robert Scatter, wife of prom
inent furniture dealer in Seattle, was
attacked, chloroformed and robbed re-
Gently Of about $1,000 in her apartments
in the day time by two unknown men.
The citizens of Bremerton have TAX
en- the final step toward a compliance
with the demands of the navy depart
ment. The town council has passed
an ordinance summarily revoking the
license of every saloon in the place.
Lying in a clump Of bushes on the
side hill at Meadow point near Seattle,
the badly decomposed body of an un-
known man was found recently. In
the right side of the head was bullet
hole, but no revolver could be found.
Bert Padgett and two young men
named Ibsin were arrested recently at
Latah, charged with horse stealing. 1t
is claimed they are members Of gang
of horse thieves which has been oper-
ating in that section for over year.
Laying the cornerstone of the $780,
OO0Roman Catholic church at Spokane
will occur Sunday, June 2S, at o'clock
in the afternoon, providing the date
does not interfere with the plans Of
Bishop Edward O'Dea, who is to de-
liver the address.
The executive committee in charge
of the Spokane millworkers' strike de-
clares that general sympathetic
strike of all the building trades in Spo-
kane will be called unless the difficult
ties of the millworkers and the mill
owners are not soon settled.
The city of Spokane has accepted
Andrew Carnegie's offer Of $4,000 for
public library, and the resolution
which was unanimously adopted by the
city council thanked Mr.. Carnegie for
the gift and accepted his terms, there
by agreeing to raise annually $7500 for
the maintenance of the library and also
to provide the necessary site.
On and after Thursday not a public
gambling house will be open in Spo-
kane. The new gambling law, which
makes it felony punishable by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for
from one to three years, to conduct
any gambling game in the state OF
Washington, goes into effect next
Wednesday night at midnight.
OF the colossal sum which forger
Howard Kressly of Spokane lost dur
ing his criminal operations of the past
six months, he declares that thousands
of dollars went to money loaners, who
advanced him funds with which to con-
tinue his speculations. His losses are
now calculated at from $25,000 to
$4,000.