Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
WASHINGTON NEWS.


After four days session the Stew.
ems county fair closed one of the most
successful eXpositions and race meets
ever held in the county. 1t is esti-
mated that fully 10000 people visited
the fair during the season.
Exhibits may be shipped free to Spo-
kane if destined for the great expo.
sition at St. Louis.
Wheat is pouring in from all direc.
tions to Davenport and nothwithstand.
ing the fact that trainloads of the
staple are being shipped out, the ware
houses are overlooking and are COM
pelled to build platforms to handle
the overflow. over a quarter Of
million of bushels of wheat have been
received and II is estimated tnat near
ly one-half of the crop is still upon
the farms. Little grain is being sold.
Frank Coleman, who claims Amer
ica's middleweight catch-as-catch-ca
wrestling championship, recently de-
feated Tom Davis at Whatcom, win
ming the first fall at the end of 1
hour and AZ minutes, and the second in
five minutes.
Frank Dudacek of Iowa, who bought
400 acres of the Edgar A. Torrance
farm, near Diamond, last spring for
$11 900, is expected this week in Col
fax with colony Of his neighbors. Mr..
county farming has been such pleas
ing surprise to him that he is expected
to bring large number Of farmers to
join the Iowa colony which settled
near Diamond last spring.
With the completion of the Belling-
ham Bay & British Columbia line, d.
c. Corbin's new railway to connect
with the Canadian Pacific, and the
Occur d'Alene electric road into Spo-
kane it will be warranted in disputing
with Denver the title of being the
greatest railroad center of the west.
Today Spokane is distributing through
railroads in 13 general directions, not
counting branch lines into territory
reached in general way by main
system. By the first Of the year the
new trolley line will have added a
fourteenth general distributor.
The city of Spokane tax levy this
year will be 13 mills, an increase Of
one mill over last year.
A daughter was born to Cromwell
NJ. Knowlton recently at Seattle. Just
as the child was born into the world
Knowlton lighted fuse to can of
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distance from his home and blew him
self into eternity. He attempted to
take two-year-old daughter with him,
but the little girl escaped with slight
injuries.
The pay roll for the Spokane school
teachers for the first month Of the
school year amounted to $1S,079,SO
All the butcher shops in Walla
Walla will close at O'Clock here
after.
The Lincoln county fair dates from
Oct. 13 to II, inclusive, at Davenport.
A receiver has been appointed for
Greenberg Bros, dry goods dealers Of
Whatcom, at the instigation Of San
Francisco creditors. The aggregate Of
the claims of the San Francisco houses
is $4,000. Their estimated assets are
$4,000.
The rapid growth of Palouse towns
causes scarcity of houses.
The strike of linemen employed by
the Pacific States Telephone 4 Tele-
graph company has been oficially
called off.
By the sale of 100000 Spokane
county refunding bonds the county
commissioners save the taxpayers OF
the county $4,000 in interest in the
next ten years. The new bonds were
sold at 4 1-2 per cent interest at $1,000
premium and accrued interest.
A street carnival will be held in
Dayton, October 13 to II, under the
auspices of the Layton camp, No. O5,
W. o. W. This is the first carnival
ever held in Dayton.
Valuable records of the Catholic
church, which it will be impossible to
replace, were destroyed by fire which
gutted the residence Of Bishop Ed
ward O'Dea at Seattle The fire was
caused by defective, fue, and had
its origin adjacent to the room in
which the records were kept.
The Judges at the fruit fair at Walla
Walla awarded G. r. Frasier the
sweepstakes prize of $50 for the best
Individual display, he taking six first
prizes in this class out Of seven ex-
hibits made at the fairs there.