Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
LATE NEWS.

ander of Teck to Princess Alice OF Al
bany.
Ell. Newhouse, one Of the directors
of the smelling trust, says the Everett,
Wash, smelling plant will be put into
operation as soon as possible.
Charles Cannon, well known min
ing man, is dead at Helena. Cannon
discovered the Stray Horse mine,
which he afterward sold for 100000.
The San Jose scale has been dis
covered in American apples at the
Dutch frontier. The German authorl-
ties are taking steps to prevent its
spread.
The dead bodies of five negroes,
badly mutilated, have been discovered
in a cabin eight miles from Mariana,
Fla. They had been murdered by high
waymen.
Liliuokalani, ex-Queen Of Hawaii, has
arrived in San Francisco from Homo
lulu. She is going to Washington to
prosecute her claims against the gov
eminent.
The condition of immigration Com
missioner Frank P. Sargent, who had
an attack of paralysis recently, is
about the same, though he is not yet
out Of danger.
The National Educational associa-
ton has decided to hold the next an
nual convention of that body in July,
1904, in st. Louis, in connection with
the educational exhibit of the worlds
fair.
The gale which has been blowing
along the Pacific coast almost without
cessation for the past 10 days shows
no abatement. Shipping is almost at
a standstill The wind reaches rs
miles an hour at times, rendering navi-
cation impossible.
The Potlatch Lumber company,
branch of the Weyerhaeuser syndicate,
is proposing to build a railroad from
it's timber holdings in the Potlatch,
Elk creek and st. Maries district to
Garfield, WASH, or some other point
reached jointly by the o. R. & N. and
the Northern Pacific.
Victor and Robert Mckay, the two
sons of Gordon Mckay, the late mill
ionaire inventor of shoe machinery,
are practically cut off by their fathers
will from all share in his estate, while
Harvard university will eventually
share the entire estate, valued at sew
eral million dollars.
A Northern Pacific train from the
east was held up recently at Jocko'
Mont, by three armed highwaymen,
who fred six shots at the members OF
the train crew. The highwaymen were
discovered on the train by the head
brakeman, j. E. Rodenhaver or Spo'
kane. His attempt to put the men on
the train precipitated the shooting and
foiled the plans of the robbers.
Unsuitable curiosity on the part oil
women, some of them prominent, ere
ated almost feminine riot before the
wedding ceremony of the duke of Rox
burghe and Miss May Goelet at New
York recently. Fifth avenue in the vi
entity of the church was the scene be
fore and during the ceremony OF ex
citement and disorder unparalleled al
any previous great wedding in New
York. From the church to the Goele1
residence, a distance of five blocks, the
avenue contained surging mob mum
bering fully 10000 persons, mostly wo
men, whom force of 220 policemen
was powerless to hold back.
The steamer Imnaha, plying between
Lewiston and Imnaha mines on the up
per Snake river, was wrecked recently
at Mountain Sheep rapids, two mile:
below Eureka. Her cable got caugh
in the capstan and the boat swung OF
rock, destroying the engines. The
passengers were saved, but the cargo
was lost. The steamer was valued a
$4,000.
1t is asserted that Mines. Bernhard
Rejane and Calve intend to form 6
coalition for the purpose of taking to
gether a theater in Paris.
1t is reported at Havana that Chill
has accepted the request of the Colon
bian government to look after thai
country's interest pending the settle
ment of the controversy over the recog
milton of the republic of Panama by
the United States.
AT San Francisco recently Jimmy
Britt the California lightweight, easily
secured the decision over Charlie
Sieger of New York. He outpointed
outboXed and outgeneraled Seger al
every stage of the game.
Sandy Ferguson, the Chelsea strong
boy, was awarded decision recently
over Joe Walcott, the black demon, at
the end of Is round bout at Boston
Dan Patch paced a mile on a half