Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-12
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citizen or Spangle, died recently.
Wheat is nearly all in market around
Govan. The crop has been quite sat.
isfactory.
The Washington State Game & Fish
protective association has been or.
ganized in Seattle.
Farm work has been stopped in the
Paiouse country because of hard frsez.
ing OF the ground at nights.
W. A. G. second team. IL; Univer.
sity of Idaho second team. 0. This
represents a good game in Pullman
Saturday.
Milton Keeper, a freshman, won
nrst prize in the annual defamation
contest at the Washington Agricultur-
al college Saturday night.
The destruction of the home of Geo.
Wright, at Whatcom, by fire recently
caused the death of one child and the
pedhaps fatal injury of another.
AS result of the strike of the
plumbers for $3.50 a day Spokane is
apparently on the verge of one of the
bitterest labor wars IN it's history.
M. l.. Starr of Medical Lake was
run over by a passenger train at Hat
ton last Sunday morning and had his
left hand and right arm ground to a
pulp.
Floyd L. Daggett and DR.. G. S. ALI
son were recently elected school d.
rectors for school district No. 81, en-
bracing the city of Spokane and one
outlying addition.
One of the finest church edifces in
Washington was opened for public
worship Sunday, when the first SER
vices were held in the auditorium of
the Central Christian church at Spo-
kane.
The case of James Champoux, who
IL months ago, in Seattle, killed Lot
tie Brace in fit of jealousy, has been
affirmed. Champoux's defense was in
sanity, but he was convicted Of mur-
der in the first degree and must hang.
The steamers Flyer, Bellingham and
Dode, all Sound vessels, were in a col.
lision in the bay at Seattle last Sun
day. The Flyer had large hole torn
in her portside abreast of the engine
Fifteen thousand dollars will probably
cover all damage.
Building operations during the year
1908 in Spokane will aggregate nearly
S3,500000 in actual cost, independent
of street railway construction, public
works, machinery installed or build
ings projected for future construction
Tom Fitzgerald, aged 66, a railroad
laborer, was found almost dead in 6
with a razor and crawled into the
car, where he lay four days. He will
probably recover. Fitzgerald is from
Missoula, Mont. He was respondent
With solemn yet simple ceremonies
the members of Spokane Lodge, No
228, Benevolent and Protective Order
Of Elks, Sunday held their annual
lodge of sorrow, in memory of their
departed brethren. The services were
held in the Auditorium theater. and
the crowd packed the house Many
people remained standing throughout
the ceremonies.
Rudolph Butzaw, a stenographer in
the employ of NJ. E. & E. T. Hay
was drowned in a lake about seven
miles south of Wilbur Sunday after
noon. Butzaw was skating with a
Marty IF fricrp dc ubap ba won't 4bro1ob
the thin ice. Efforts to rescue him
were fruitless. The body has not been
recovered. Parents of the deceased
live at Loda. Illinois.
The damage to the work now under
way on the irrigation canal on the
Yakima Indian reservation is more Sc
rious than at first anticipated. Prac,
tically all the work at the headgate
flood came at time that nothing
could be done to save it. The rise in
the river covered everything to a
depth of about IL feet
This state has Jared exceptionally
we'll with the committees assigned her
delegation in the house of representa-
tives. Congressman Jones was assign
ed to the rivers and harbors, Con-
gresham Cushman to the interstate
and foreign commerce and Congress
man Humphreys to the merchant ma
rine and fisheries committees. In con-
nection with this Congressman Cush-
man also goes to the private land
claims committee.