Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-04
WASHINGTON NEWS.


Organized labor is planning for a
big parade on Labor day, Septem-
ber Z.
There are $3.50 acres more improved
land in Spokane county this year than
in 1902.
Plans for irrigating the country
around Newman Lake have been an
nounced.
The Washington State Medical asso-
citation held its annual meeting in Spo-
kane this week.
Walla Walla grocers are in a COM
bine to buy goods in large lots and
keep up prices.
There was no observance of Sunday
in the harvest fields of Whitman coun.
: last Sunday.
The heavy and steady rains of last
week did considerable damage to the
grain in Columbia county.
The thirteenth year of the Wash
ington state normal school at Ellens-
burg will open September 9.
Chief Deputy Grain Inspector E. l..
east side is damaged by rain.
Robert Tyson, aged 22, was killed
at Simmons station recently by being
run over by an o. R. & N. train.
Cash N Gaddis has been appointed
receiver of the Devenish Hardware
company at Pullman, with bonds fixed
at $4,000 until the assets are inven-
toried.
Nineteen babies died in Spokane
during August from cholera infantum,
indicating an alarming epidemic of
this dread disease.
At a recent meeting Of the Clarks-
ton business men permanent organ
ization of the Charleston commercial
club was perfected.
The harvest in the vicinity Of Pres
colt, and throughout the entire wheat
belt of Walla Walla county, is rapidly
drawing to close.
The Washington State Press associ-
alton decided to accept the invitation
Of Spokane to hold its annual conven-
ton there next year.
The gates of the Interstate fair will
close at 6 o'clock on the 18th day of
October, all other statements to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
The state fruit commissioner says
apples are half crop, heavy crop of
prunes and plums, and half crop of
peaches. Rains do great good.
The assessed valuation of all prop
erty in Spokane, less exemptions.
amounts to about $3.50 per capita,
based on total population Of 10000.
Though it has not been definitely
decided, September 10 will probably
be the date the chamber of commerce
excursion will leave Spokane for its
trip through the Big Bend country to
Wenatchee.
Whitman monument is falling into
a state of neglect, and nearly every
visitor chips off piece of the marble
slab marking the spot where the mar
tyred missionary fell by the hand Of
savage in 1847.
Senator Foster and Congressman
Jones and Cushman are on an inspec-
ton trip by steamboat on the upper
Columbia. The tour is taken at the
request of the residents Of that Sec
ton of the state who desire improve
ments on the river for navigation.
Captain A. ]. Bale of the tug Elf re-
ports seeing big whale off the en-
trance to Tacoma harbor, near Browns
Point, recently. The captain says it
was a regular gray backed whale, 40
or SO feet long.
Switching charges along the line Of
the Spokane Falls & Northern line
will probably be increased from 81 to
SO. This will apply to all industries
along the road and will particularly
affect the lumber mills in the northern
part of the state.
Live hogs are being shipped from
Omaha to Spokane to supply the de-
mands of the local packing houses.
The freight alone on the animals
amounts to about $3.50 each, yet they
are being imported in constantly in
creasing numbers.
Fourteen townships Of government
land in southeastern Lincoln county,
eastern Adams county and western
Whitman county have been withdrawn
from entry by Commissioner W. A.
Richards of the general land Office at
Washington. The withdrawal is made
under the national irrigation act.
A Great Northern extra freight. in
passing through the Cascade tunnel
last week, ran into section gang at
work on the wellington end. Peter
Mccoy, foreman, and Edward Gala
CHER, a member of the crew. were In
stantly killed. All the others escaped,
Mccoy was one Of the oldest section
men at this end of the road, and leaves