Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-01
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


Seeding operations have been al,
most completed in the krupp territory.
Three new lumber mills for Spo-
kane, employing 1900 men. is reported.
The proposal to incorporate Wilson
Creek carried by a vote of forty to
three.
Every field and hillside over the
state is now alive with wild flowers,
and the variety is startling.
The contract for the work on the sd
perstructure of the new Catholic
church at Spokane has been let.
Pullman has a population of 1877,
as against 1908 In 1900. an increase oil
499, or about 35 per cent in two years.
Two new powerful locomotives have
been received at the Northern PACING
yards at Spokane for use on the Idaho
division.
The Potlatch Lumber company's
drive of 100000 feet of logs has
reached Palouse and is doomed above
the dam.
The most startling feature of opera
lions on the Spokane market is hay
which is bringing all the way from $2o
to $25 ton.
County Commissioner Dean states
there will be no assessment on mort
cages in Spokane county during the
present year.
Pennington, Oakesdale, Elberton,
Albion and Garfield show substantial
increases in population and wealth by
recent assessment.
North Yakima is confronted with the
lack of school facilities. There are
now about 400 more pupils enrolled
than there is room for.
The Pacific National League will
open the baseball season in Spokane
on May S. Games will be played every
day but Monday for six weeks.
President s. B. l.. Penrose of Whit
man college will deliver the '03 COM
address Wednesday even.
ing, June II, at the Cheney Normal.
County Fruit Inspector Orlando
Beck of North Yakima has commenced
a crusade against the nursery COM
panies shipping affected fruit trees.
Alfred ]. Symes, serving a sentence
of IS years for the killing Of Louis
Conlee in Adams county in 1896, has
been released from the penitentiary on
parole.
Colonel E. S. Godfrey has named
Lieutenant Coleman of Fort Walla
Walla to be a personal aide to Roose-
welt during the presidents stay in
Walla Walla.
The directors of the Interstate Fair
association have gone actively at work
to raise a subscription of $4,000.
which is $4,000 more than was used
two years ago.
Maj. Kraft, a German farm hand,
suicide by hanging himself
to the knob of the front door of a
Davenport doctors Office recently. The
man was suffering from chronic dis
ease.
The territory over which the one
fare rate to, Spokane for the Roosevelt
reception rules has been extended on
the Northern Pacific to include people
from Pasco, Wash, to the west to
Thompson Falls, Mont, to the east.
T. A. Winter and Samuel Douglas
have made application to the North.
port city council for a 80 year fran
chise to put in an electric system for
light. power and fuel. The power is
to be generated at Kettle Falls, on the
Columbia river.
1t is thought the Bellingham Bay
road is far more anxious to make
rapid progress than was expected. II
the construction of the road is COM
menced from Spokane, as it already
has been commenced from the west
end. there can be no other conclusion
than that it will push its line rapidly
across the state
BILE cutter, was found floating in an
eddy at the mouth of the South Pa
louise river in North Colfax recently.
The man had evidently been drowned
two or three weeks ago. No marks
of violence were found on the body.
His wife lives in La Grange, Ind. His
father resides in Tacoma.
w. F. Hickman of Colfax last week
sold five fat steers for $S75.SO, or ST.
per head. The animals had been con
tracted last winter at $4.75 per 10t
pounds, the highest price of the sea
son. A carload of hogs was also
shipped from Colfax to Seattle. The
buyers paid the farmers $715 per 1Ot
pounds, the highest price in 10 years
Recently Rev. Spaulding of Seattle
paid Contractor George Mckenzie $500
that had been loaned the preacher by
Mckenzies bookkeeper, Angus Blu
ohanan, who is out on bonds at Ever
EFT on the charge of embezzlement
II is said Buchapan's gifts to religious