Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-11-21

of Dallas, Texas, Is at work on the
case.
Prospects are that the special ses-
sion of congress will end during the
last week of November.
Practically ali the teachers in the
public schools of Greater New York
have been brought together in a pow
erful organization comparing in IA
vorable light numerically with any
trades union in the city. The organ
ization will be known as the Inter
borough Council of Teachers.
The general land ONCE has directed
the withdrawal from settlement of six
townships in the Occur d'Alene land
district, in Idaho, for the proposed
Occur d'Alene forest reserve.
Reports from Rossland, B. c., as
sert that Major r. G.. Edwards Leckie,
former manager of the Republic mine,
had succumbed to the effects of a
mauling in a fight with a leopard re-
ceived in Somaliland, East Africa, re-
Gently. He was leader in party of
mining men exploring the mineral
wealth of the district.
Lord Kitchener, commander in chief
of the British forces in India, has met
with serious accident while riding
home alone from a country house near
Simla, Ind. AS he was passing through
tunnel his horse became frightened
and collided with the walled side. One
of Lord Kitehener's legs was broken
in two places.
Adam Schmidt of Walla Walla,
Wash. was sentenced by Judge Han
ford to six years on McNeill's island
for perjury. Schmidt was found guilty
by a jury recently on nine counts in
securing naturalization papers for -.us.
slams last June.
The delegation of representatives of
the Butte unions have gone on a trip
to Washington, where in the White
House they will dine with President
Roosevelt in response to the invitation
rendered to the laboring people while
the executive was in Butte May last
20 The smelling trust has reduced pig
lead 80 cents per hundred.
Marvin Hart and Joe Choynski went
six rounds to a draw recently at
Philadelphia.
Howard Elliott, the new president
of the Northern Pacific, was in Spo-
kane recently.
Herbert Lee, formerly a travelling
salesman of Spokane, is missing from
Portland.
Special treasury agents sent to Bos-
ton by Secretary Shaw claim to have
found evidences showing that the gov
eminent has been mulcted in upward
of 100000 through collision between
persons employed in the appraisers
department
K. F. Paul Of Harrison is reported
lost in the swamps near the vicinity of
Black lake, not far from Springston.
David Stienberg, who in a drunken
frenzy ten days ago tried to take his
life by making three horrible gashes
in his throat, and who was under
treatment, has mysteriously disappear
ed from La Grande Ore.
Edward Sherwood, for the past IA
years resident of Stevens county
Washington, died recently.
Martin Neary, evidently once
man of means, fell dead in a saloon at
Cokedale. Mont, recently.
The Puget Sound Mills & Timber
company, of which Michael Earles is
president, has acquired the Puget
Sound Sawmill & Shingle company of
Fairhaven, whose shingle plant is the
largest in the world and $4,000 acres
of timber land in Clalam county. The
consideration is $1,000,000.
In a note addressed to NJ. Bunau-
Varilla as minister plentipotentiary
and envoy extraordinary of the repub-
lie of Panama, M. Jusserand, the
French ambassador has officially rec
ognized the new envoy.
The car shortage of the Southern Pa
cific company has caused the Booth
Kelly company, the largest manufac-
turers of lumber in Oregon, to close
all its logging camps, throwing about
1000 men out of work and stopping a
payroll of $4,000 a month.