Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-11
WASHINGTON NEWS.


at Spokane showed $500 in line.
A movement to incorporate the
town of Washtuena has been started.
Il Nearly 400 drummers travel out OF
Spokane for foreign and local houses.
: Newton G. Curl. a resident of Day
ton for the past 80 years, died recent
ly Of dropsy.
The railroads are expecting to ship
about rs per cent as much wheat this
year as last.
Compared with 1900, the Spokane
postoffice is doing so per cent more
business now than it did then.
Daytons handsome new Central
school building was completed and
ready for the opening Of the school
term. September T.
Rapid progress is being made on
arrangements for the Walla Walla
fruit fair to be held September 23 to
October 4, inclusive.
The Walla Walla city council is urg-
ing citizens to make large number
of improvements in the way of paw
ing streets, building new sidewalks,
etc.
There is shortage of teachers in
Whitman county, and County Superin-
tendent McCroskey is anxious to hear
from any teachers wanting employ
ment.
1t Is well known that corn cannot be
grown in this country as crop, but
it is being raised quite extensively as
fodder and is yielding better than
was anticipated.
The rates to Spokane and as far
| west as Wenatchee have been cut to
s225O from st. Paul. Duluth. Mime
apolis and Superior. From Chicago
the rate here is $25.40.
The Spokane Woman's exchange
has taken up the question Of estab-
fishing a rest room in Spokane for the
accommodation of the farm women
who come TO town from time to time.
The idea of diversified farming is
gaining favor and many of the farm
ers are raising hogs, cattle and minor
cereals instead of devoting all of their
land and attention to the raising Of
wheat.
Tee-Son-Y, an aged Indian woman
doctor of the Yakima tribe, was found
dead in bed in her hut at Tampico re-
Gently. Her head was crushed and she
showed signs of having been dead for
several days.
According to the superior court of
Spokane county. the legislature of 1903
met with no better success In passing
state game law than did the legisla-
ture of 1901. Judge Belt has declared
the last license law unconstitutional.
Mrs. A. c. Spalding and Mrs. Will
Steinman of Ellensburg were hurt in
runaway recently. Mrs. Spalding
was not seriously injured but Mrs.
Steinman was badly cut by being
thrown from the rig into = barbed
wire fence.
From the way the Spokane commits
sion men generally are protesting, 1t
looks as though there was deter
mined attempt on the part of the fruit
growers and ranchers to bull the mar
ket. The trouble is over scarcity that
is reported In almost all lines.
The sale of the Joseph Conatzer es.
tate, which will take place at Colfax
the 18th inst, Is attracting no little
attention About 140o acres Of land
and over 100 town luis will he sold
The land lies adjacent to Sunset and
is all desirable grain land.
Patrick Russell. one Of the most
noted and wealthiest ranchers Of the
Walla Walla valley, has been placed
under $1,000 bonds to keep the peace
six months. 1t is alleged he has gone
home intoxicated at times and has
beaten his wife and abused his chill
dren.
w. j. Hamilton. the pioneer drug
gist of Colfax, who has bic fern on
Union fiat. south of town, has threshed
his crop of grain, and reports an aver
age yield of 25 bushels on 400 acres
of wheat and SO bushels of oats. Mr..
Hamilton has aboGl SCI acres in grain
this year, but cut a part for hay.
There is about $1,5O0,000 on hand
in the national irrigation fund for
Washington, said Senator Addison G
Foster. while on his Columbia river
trip. 1.-THE amount is increasing rap
| idly. | look to see some of this sum
expended at an early date in irriga
ito nenterprises in Eastern Washing
ton"
i Pitched down a distance OF 70 feel
on the rocks by the breaking of scat
fold, George Derrick Of Seattle, sub
contractor for the American Bridge
company, was killed; Emil Larson
of Seattle, structural iron worker. was
fatally injured; Carl Williams and AT
thur Buhler of Seattle were seriously
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