Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25
WASHINGTON IrENs.

About 700 new residences have been
erected in Spokane in the past seven
months.
There is a possibility that North
Yakima will suffer shortage of fuel
before long.
Judge John ]. McGilvra, one of Sc
attle's Oldest pioneers, is dead, at the
age of 76 years.
Stockmen of the Big Bend are in
better spirits now than few weeks
ago, owing to the late rains.
Work at the state normal at Cheney
was suspended Wednesday afternoon.
to be resumed again January 4.
B. f. Gootch, wanted at Silver City
N. NJ, for the murder of Ross in the
fall of 1902, is under arrest at Everett
in the county jail.
The armored cruiser New York and
the gunboat bennington have left the
navy yard at Bremerton under rush or
ders for San Francisco.
The new peddler's ordinance of Spo-
kane. excluding peddlers from the
downtown district in the fire limits,
was declared void by Spokane judge.
Barney O'Connor, brakeman on a
work train on the o. r. & N. was
killed recently four miles from Walla
Walla, by being crushed under the
train.
The official program of the eleventh
annual meeting Of the State Dairy
mems association to be held in North
Yakima. December 20, 80 and 81, 1903,
has been announced.
Attorneys for Cy Victor, who was
recently convicted in Davenport Of the
murder of Charles Thennis, have filed
seven af1idavits relative to the pend
ing motion for new trial.
Byron Larson, the youngest son of
G. F. Larson, of Republic. got lost on
Loon mountain, at the head of Nine
Mile creek, recently and froze to death.
His body was recovered by searchers.
Arrangements for the entertainment
of the farmers institute to be held in
Walla Walla in February is announc-
ed. The Walla Walla poultry show
will be held in conjunction with the in
stitute.
The boiler in the Ritzville electric
plant sprung a leak recently and the
town is now in darkness.
Fire recently destroyed a row of
five small wooden houses on Main
street at Colfax, commonly known as
the Ellsworth row. The loss on the
buildings is $4,000, with $500 insur.
ance.
A deed with stated consideration
of 100000 was filed for record recent
ly from Fred Setter to the Evergreen
State Fruit company and conveys the
fruit orchards on Moran prairie hand
led by the company.
With the forwarding of $500 by the
people of Olympia to the secretary
of the Rogers memorial committee,
the entire amount of $4,000 sought to
be raised to erect monument to the
late governor was completed.
Ray Gilbert, a freight conductor,
whose run was from Ellensburg to
Pasco, fell from car below North
Yakima recently and was killed, hav-
ing both legs cut off. He is nephew
of General Superintendent Gilbert.
The new directory Of Walla Walla
shows total of 1890 names of indi.
vidual residents Of the city, names of
firms and duplicates being omitted.
BY the use of the multiplier az the
population Of the city is shown to be
12.475.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner ].
H. Shively las closed the books of
the department for the year, which
shows the receipts for 1902 were $685..
lS4.11, while the receipts for 1903 are
$S6,57S.49. showing an increase of $751;
3943S.
A dam on the Coweman river, a
tributary of the Cowlitz, collapsed re-
Gently, ontailing loss of $4,000 to
the logging company which operates
at that point. Three men were on the
dam when it started to give way, but
they escaped injury.
An Olympia paper prints story to
the effect that recently tremendous
landslide occurred on Mount Rainier,
involving the highest peak of the
mountain. reducing its height and com.
pletely changing the confguration Of
the southeastern slope.
Considerable interest is manifested
in the forthcoming election recently
ordered by the county commissioners
to determine whether or not the town
of Starbuck, with its 400 inhabitants,
shall be incorporated into a town of
the fourth class.
Ernest Stalberg broke both arms
by falling from horizontal bar in
the gymnasium OF the Young Mems