Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-30
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The finest art exhibit ever displayed
in Pullman was on exhibition at the
state college last week.
The Ferry county commissioners
have fixed the tax levy for the ensu-
ing year at 254S mills on the dollar.
An attempt is to be made at We
natchee to hold a midwinter flower
show, to be participated in solely by
children under the age of Is.
While working for the Potlatch Lum-
ber company in the timber a few miles
above Palouse, William Johnson was
seriously injured by falling tree.
The University Of Washington foot
ball team simply walked away with
the Whitman college eleven Saturday
afternoon, the Iinal score being 35 to o..
The consumption of paper in the In
land Empire has reached the point
where the establishment of a paper
mill in Spokane would be justified by
the market.
The body of George Wilson was
found recently lying by the railroad
track one mile west of Leavenworth.
He had apparently been killed by a
train during the night.
Bert Taylor has been taken from
Colfax, Wash, to the penitentiary to
serve the three year sentence inflicted
for horse stealing. He had hereto
fore an excellent reputation.
Chester Murray, boy about IA
years of age, the son of John Murray,
prominent resident of Roy, was kill
ed Sunday afternoon by being struck
with bat while playing ball at Roy.
The steamship Lyra, arrived at Ia
coma from Manila recently with the
largest cargo of hemp that ever cross
ed the Pacific ocean in any vessel, ag-
gregating 2,142,000 pounds and being
valued at $734,0O0.
A Seattle brewing company has pur-
chased a vacant lot at Pullman and
will erect brick building, to be occu-
pied as a wholesale house, and will
make Pullman the distributing point
for the Inland Empire.
The warehouses at Sweetwater are
receiving about 1000 sacks of gain
daily and shipping about 1900 day,
with no agent at the depot. Grain is
turning out much better than farmers
anticipated.
Last week finished up the grain har.
vest in the Palouse section and the
crop is now all under shelter. Reli.
able estimates give shortage Of 40
per cent in the amount Of grain hauled
to the warehouses as compared with
last year.
Northern Pacific Counsel Grosscup
of Tacoma says that too much i'm
portance has been attached to the right
of way ruling. The suit was brought
to oust settlers in certain places and
the company will not proceed against
desirable occupants of land.
School teachers of Minneapolis who
went on an excursion last summer to
take up timber lands in Chelan coun-
ty, Washington, may become mixed up
in the timber land scandals. 1t is ex.
pected that the teachers were the tools
of designing lumber men in a syndi-
cate.
Mrs. Oscar Drumheller, wife of a
wealthy farmer living near Walla
Walla, narrowly escaped instant
death by the overturning of a buggy
in which she was riding. The horse
ran away, demolishing the vehicle and
seriously injuring Mrs. Drumheller
The mills and material men Of Ia
coma have Joined forces with the con-
tractors association and refuse to sell
any building materials to the unions or
any Of their representatives.
President Bryan of the Washington
Agricultural college has arranged a
series of farmers institute. The Sc
ries will open at Wenatchee Monday
and Tuesday, November and g. The
second of the series will be held at
Waterville Wednesday and Thursday,
November and 5, and the third at
Chelan on Friday and Saturday, No
vember and Z. An institute will be
held at Brewster November 10 and II,
and one will probably be held at Will
soncreek on November 13 and IA, but
definite arrangements for this one
have not been made.
What is believed to be the biggest
family in Washington held family
reunion at the home of Thomas Mat
lock, one of the brothers, at Colfax,
recently, when II sons and daughters
of Preston II. Natlock, deceased, sat
down to dinner together, the first time
in 1S years. There are seven broth
ers and four sisters in the family, and
their early childhood was spent in
Whitman county, where their father
settled at what is known as Matlock
bridge, on the Palouse river, 20 miles
west of here, IN 1876.