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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17
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The telephone girls are being CIR
ganized into union at Spokane.
A cinder path to Occur d'Alene City
is being planned by the Spokane wheel
cluD.
The ten million mark has been
passed in deposits by Spokanes five
big banks.
The long projected sanitarium for
Medical Lake is about to assume sub
stantial shape.
of Workmen is reduced. Seattle is
the next meeting place.
The firemen of the Northern Paci'
fic have been granted the increase In
wages asked for some time ago.
Dude Lewis lost the decision to Kid
Fredericks of Buffalo in the eleventh
round at Spokane last week on pal.
pable foul.
The Spokane County Teachers insti.
tute last week is said to have been the
most successful session since the es
tablishment of the institute % years
ago.
For the fourth time in succession
Whitman college of Walla Walla won
the annual intercollegiate debate with
the Washington Agricultural college
last Saturday.
Spokane county and every other
county in the state, may expect to
have a farmers institute this year,
under the auspices of the state agri-
cultural college.
Will Moody, son of the late Dwight
Moody, accompanied by DR.. G. Camp
bell Morgan, will be in Spokane Tues
day, the 10Th of May, and will hold
union services
The new survey of the Bellingham
Bay 4 British Columbia railroad from
Maple Falls eastward through the Okla.
hogan country toward Spokane is pro-
crossing rapidly.
G. P. Dart, the Spokane iumberman,
died recently from injuries received
from falling timber. G. P. Dart was
born in jamestown, N. Y, 70 years ago
and came to Spokane in 1882.
Governor Mcbride is greatly pleased
over the decision of the circuit court
Of appeals in the merger case and be.
lieves affirmance by the United States
supreme court is certainty.
James Warwick, 70 years of age, of
Spokane, killed himself last Sunday
afternoon at his residence by shooting
himself through the heart. The act
was committed with double barreled
shotgun.
Young Corbett," the conqueror of
Terrible Terry" McGovern, will ap-
pear in Spokane about April 20. Cor
bett is travelling with a theatrical
combination and will give an exhibit
ton of boxing.
Dr. Amory H. Bradford, the famous
moderator of the last triannual coun-
Gil of the Congregational church,
which was held in Syracuse, will tour
the cities Of the coast, including Port.
land and eastern Washington, in few
weeks, and hold services.
Adjutant General James A. Drain of
the national guard of Washington has
been appointed by the secretary Of
war as one Of the members of a board
created by congress. approved March
2. 1903, which will have direction OF
tests for a national trophy and other
prizes for craftsmanship provided in
the act.
For the first time in the history OF
jute manufacture at the state peni-
Tertiary the season mas opened with
a largo SurDlua Of tho actin q od O,Ifput
of the mill not contracted. The esti-
mated output this year, which is only
an average one, will pc 1,34s.s11 sacks,
and applications for only 3s2,770 sacks
have been made by the grain growers
of the state.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17
IDAHO NOTES.

The company operating the Bank Il
Commerce of Wallace has been reor.
ganized.
A plot for a general break at the
county Jail at Moscow was disclosed
recently.
Mullan will have red letter day
on Saturday, April rs, for the l. o. y.
r. The saith anniversary Of the order
will be celebrated.
In the third annual debate between
Whitman college and the University
OF Idaho, Idaho came out winner, the
vote being 2 to in her favor.
Texas Angel, one of the most promi'
nent attorneys and democratic poll
ticians of Idaho, died recently of para.
lysis. He was candidate at one time
for the ONCE of justice of the state
supreme court.
A farmers year book has been got.
ten out by the agricultural department
of the University of Idaho and will be
ready for distribution next week. it
contains the first biennial report OF
farmers institutes for the year 1901
and 1902.
County Surveyor Edison Briggs has
been notified that he has been awarded
contract for the survey of two town
ships of land in the Snake river coun-
try south of Lewiston, embracing the
section extending from a point six
miles south of Captain John creek.
south along Snake river for distance
of IL miles.
An attempt is being made to buy a
small plot of Indian land at Kamiah
for townsite purposes. Since the re-
turn of James Stuart from Washing
ton it is thought that the purchase of
20 acres of heirship land owned by
Blackhawk and his two sisters, and
upon which part OF the town is built,
will be consummated.
Snowstorms occurred last week
around Nez Perce, the snow falling
throughout the prairie to a depth Of
five inches. The roads are in bad con-
dition, farmers finding it impossible 70
haul wood from the mountains, grain
to the tramway or to do any of their
spring farm work. The recent storms
appear to have been general through
out the reservation, Potlatch and
Clearwater river countries.
James Stuart has returned to his
home in Kooskia after an absence ri
several weeks in Washington, d. c.,
where he has been acting as represen-
tative of the Nez Perces in settling
with the Indian department for GER
tain back payments of treaty money.
Mr.. Stuart will probably call council
of the tribe this week and explain what
has been accomplished in settling the
tribes differences with the Indian de-
partment.
the log tramway belonging to the
Culdesac Tramway company is now
completed within mile of this place,
and it is thought will be entirely fin
ished by May 10.
Word has been received from Dent, a
postoffice on the north fork of the
Clearwater, rs miles above Ahsahka,
that Walter Grant Dygert who is
placer mining near there. has just re-
ceived draft for several thousand dol
lars from the United States treasurer.
This was in payment of his claim on
account Of his imprisonment in Ell
Moro, Havana, during February, March
and April, 1896, during the early days
Of the Cuban rebellion.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17

Salt Lake, April 15.-The Utah Mex.
lean Rubber company, capitalized at
100000, has filed articles of incor.
poration in the office of the secretary
of state. The incorporators are well
known Utah capitalists. The concern
has just purchased 10000 acres Of land
in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, on
which it is intended to plant and cult
vate rubber trees.
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chehalis Shooting Scrape.

Tacoma, Wash, April 16.-At Che
halls Atha Rice shot Max Schienig
with a 3S caliber revolver. The bull
let struck Shoenig in the left side,
and is believed to have gone low
enough to miss vital part. Schoe-
mig and Rice had Deen good friends
until Saturday night. when Rice Of
Tended the former.
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Shooting ARRAY Near Republic.

Republic, Wash, April ia mes
senger who has come from Pelham
fiat, about II miles north Of here, re-
ports that Paddy Dunn, a rancher
living about three quarters of a mile
west of there, had been shot and bad
ly wounded. His assailant is said to
be Frank Rumsey, who has a ranch
near Dunn's to the westward.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17

Marion, Ind, April ia terrific
storm did great damage in the gas
belt. Several valuable stock barns
were burned by lightning, and in South
Marion 10 persons were stunned by
a bolt that tore away part of tile
roof Of dwelling. Washouts occurred
on the Big Four and clover Leaf. a pas
senger train having narrow escape
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17

Redlands, Cal, April 16.-Tom Lo-
gan, lineman for the Edison com
pany was electrocuted, $4,000 volts
passing through his body while he
was working on the power transmits.
sion line. Another lineman named
Dunn was badly burned. but will re-
cover.
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Portland, Ore, April 16.-Spokane
and Portland of the Pacific National
league inaugurated the 1903 season in
this city with a IA inning game which
the visitors won by score of 3 to ,.
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st. Petersburg, April 14.-The OF.
fetal Messenger gives details of the re.
cent revolt of women students against
the new examination regulations of the
medical institute.
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Chicago, April 14.-Michael Egan of
Jersey City won the handball cham
pionship Of the United States here in
the second half of the series of games
today with Louis Keegan of Chicago.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17

Kansas City, April 13.-A special
from Barstow, I. T., says:
1t is reported here that John P
Dunn, who is wanted at GAINESVILLE
Ark, for the murder of Sheriff Powers
Of johnson county, IS months ago, IS
in custody of the Indian police.
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Jerusalem is greatly crowded just
now with Americans.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-17

Dentistry in Kennewick.
DIR. WILBUR N. PINTLER. an ex-
perienced graduate dentist. will here
after make monthly visits to this place.
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The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
GREAT DISCOVERIES
e~IssITs NEW METAL PoLoNiUM
Causes Other Metals to Glow With
Bright Light - Fifteen -hundr re dths
Of Grain Cost Seventy.five DOL

Bright Light - Fifteen-hundred dths
Of Grain Cost seventy:five Dol.
lars.
During the session of the chemical
congress at Berlin, Prof. w. Markwald
or that city showed to the electro
chemical and physical section a smudge
ol dark powder on a piece OF paper,
which was the first time that any of
those eminent scientists had seen the
metal polonium discovered by Profess
sor and Madame Curie of Paris The
latter doubted whether polonium was
primary element. or related to bismuth.
but Professor Arkwald demonstrated
that 1t was indeed primary element.
He exhibited bit of metal weighing
i5-lOO of grain. which was produced
from two tons of uranium at a cost of
$40. 1t is more sparSely distributed in
uranium than xenon. the most rarifeS
gas. is in the atmosphere.
Professor Markwald proceeded to
give a marvellous exhibition OF the
powers of his speck of polonium 1t
intercepted strong current of electric
ity passing through the air from the
generator to the receiver, the air ceas-
ing to be a conductor for the flashes.
pieces of barium. platinum and zinc
blende placed near the polonium
glowed with a bright, greenish light
The assembage of chemists were
thrilled with astonishment. 1t ap-
Deared to be a miracle
In the section of organic prepara-
tions Professor Proskauor of Berlin
read paper on the sterilization 6f
drinking wafer with pzDpa and pp
ozone water works, the German cleo
trlclans having succeeded in producing
at small cost concentrated solution of
ozone. The speaker. with Professor
Ohimueller and Professor Prall of the
imperial health office. made exhaustive
experiments with the solution in pur-
lying water. The experiments in
cluded tests with water artiticially i'm
germs. like typhus. cholera and dys-
entery. Such water was pumped
through the sO-called Ozonzing tower
and then rigidly analyzed. All the
germs were found to be killed, whereas
the ordinary method of sand filters left
the germs living Moreover, the water
was greatly improved in quality.
through the increase of oxygen from
the ozone.
Professor Proskauor said the ozon-
ing plant was cheaper than the sand
itering system usually used in city
water works. hence the time had come
for the general Introduction of ozone
plants. The town of Weisbaden. added
the professor. already has one of these
plants. which steriliZes $50 cubic feet
of water hourly.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
VALUE OF FRENCH TITLES.
They Confer No Privilege at Home,
Yet Help When Abroad.

why do we have them" the
French people are beginning to ask.
What is the sense OF them? What is
their raison d'ctre? They are merely
relic Of monarchicai days-gone, we
hope, never to come back Why should
we style people as counts, marquises
and barons. cts. when they are merely
descendants of people who used to be
such?'
French titles are nothing more than
nominal, anyway; they carry no priv
ilege at home and merely give a GER
tain precedence abroad, when prece
dence is in question.
They have. however. been of a com
mercial value in connubial matters :
scores of rich girls have married i'm
pecunious and sometimes vicious and
dissipated Frenchmen for the sake of
their titles.
If a threatened law against them
should pass these ladies would be de-
prived Of the honor for which they
sacrificed themselves and their for
tunes. They would not be entitled to
legal redress, but would no doubt
think the French assembly was just
too mean for anything.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26

of the house minus a part OF his prob
ing apparatus. Three days later saw
that same mosquito eating chicken
it had caught"
81 believe you are a very strict
churchman,' said the other man.
and. Of course you had to tell the
whole truth about that story but I'll
tell you what is a fact. Down in the
Florida Everglades there is mos
quito that beats yours. was fishing
on creek one day when | heard an
awful buZZirg noise overhead. Look
ing up, | saw a mosquito flying along
with a half-grown colored child under
one wing and grindstone under the
other Occasionally he would whet
his bill on the grindstone and take
bite of the child. To show you that
this story is true l will cross my
heart"
The third liar had prepared to say
something. but he saw the threaten
ing looks on the faces of the crowd
and desisted.-New York Times.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
NEW YORK TOWN STICKS
TO CANDLES AND LAMPS

reservoir it gradually expanded the
rubber lining until the latter assumed
the proportions of an inflated balloon.
A gas company would not do it that
way now, but it was the only way
known at the time | mention.
The crowd was outside instead of
in. The gas display was revelation
to the town. About the only people
in the church were the bishop, the
minister, the choir and the governors
of the church. The choir sang all
the music it knew, and still the con-
sregation tarried without.
Some time after the hour when the
service should have been under way
there was an explosion. The lining
of the reservoir burst. The crowd
scattered. The lights in the church
were extinguished.
"A few minutes later the bishop
and the minister and the choir and
the governors escaped by windows
and doors. The atmosphere that hangs
over glue factory was like new
mown hay compared with that of the
vicinity of the new church.
"Of course, after the explosion had
occurred every old woman in the town
said she knew it would. And they
still believe it is liable to burst any
minute. and tat is why our town,
moderately up to date in other re-
spects, is still burning kerosene and
candles in its houSpc
Some of the more modern folks
have ventured to try electric lighting,
but there is one town in this country
where the gas trust never got in it's
work. New York Sun
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
SHE KNEW WALL STREET,
AND TOOK NO CHANCES

Of ladies' here ell the time buying
stocks. There is a real smart res'aur-
ant near. shall feel that your com
ing gives me hope etc.
Something like this message Bagby
delivered to each one of the eight
young ladies'.
AT ! O'Clock. or thereabouts, they
began to arrive. Seine came in car
riageS, some in automobiles and some
in cabs. But they all came. That is.
Bagby's heart sank as he thought that
the entire eight were sitting in his
ante-room. But. no,
He breathed a sigh of relief as he
entered and faced them. There were
but seven. One was missing. He was
saved.
He assumed craven air.
Ladies' he said. bowing sheepish-
Iy, y beg a thousand pardons. The
fact is, that little matter on which |
telephoned is impossible at present
1t was only joke OF mine, don't you
know
And he got out as quickly as pos
SlDlt. leAN lllss btilllu MN stN'i u VIC
maddest girls in the republic.
Rushing from his Office into his
automobile he consulted his notebook
for the right address.
And now he chuckled. 1 fly to
the one honest girl who didn't come
who doesn't want to marry me for
my money. She must be mine.
His machine sped northward. I'M
til he dashed up to his destination.
Yes, she was at home.
"'Ah,' he exclaimed. fervently. as
she entered to meet him. you did not
come. You got my message, you
listened to it apparently with great
attention. and yet you did not come
to me- Even with my new fortune
you would not come.
. "'No.' she said. calmly. I thought I
would wait until tomorrow and see If
you lost it all"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
TRUTHFUL MEN TELL OF
MOSQUITOES THEY HAVE MET

They were telling mosquito stories.
They had prevaricated right along, to
the amusement of the listeners, and
each was about to run out of yarns.
Each felt it, was about time to get in
his best yarn.
Why, over in Jersey" said the
Harlem man. Il was spending the
night with a friend near big swamp
After crawled in bed | heard a
crashing noise near my head and
turned around to find that mosquito
had been perambulating through the
hallway. had got mad, and had driven
his bill through the ceiling into my
room. | jumped up, seized monkey
wrench, and braided the bill on the
inside. Then a walked through a
side door, seized a shot gun. loaded
1t with buckshot, fired the whole load
into that mosquito and went to bed
again. Later on heard another
noise. Going out to investigate.
ascertalned that the mosquito had
broken his bill off and had gone out
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26

Towns are like individuals. They
seldom get over early prejudices.
There is one town within days trav
el OF the metropolis where a majority
OF the residents still burn lamps and
candles in preference to gas.
The town has never run away with
itself, but it has managed to keep in
sight of the procession by jogging
along at conservative gait, except in
the way of light. One Of it's inhab-
itants who was here the other day ex-
planned what to some people is Pc
culiarity of his town.
"A good many years ago. he said.
"after good deal of dickering and
persuasion, our town gave the right
of way to gas company to lay mains
and put up lamp posts. The people,
however, declined to have gas in their
Louses or in their places of business
Women were afraid Of it and that set
tied it.
"A year or SO later denomination
that had number CT rich members
built new church 1t would have
been an attractive ediice for even
more pretentious town. After it was
completed a bishop was invited to
dedicate it.
THE gas company saw in the event
an opportunity to crush out a preju-
dice, and proposed to light the new
church on the night of the dedica-
ton with gas. The main in the street
was tapped and a pipe was run into
a portable gas reservoir which stood
in front of the church. From this
rubber tubes were distributed through
the church.
"As the gas was turned into the
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
WHAT is LOVE?

A true renovator-Goethe.
The greatest fancy weaver.-Taine
The wisdom of the affections.-Hare
The shortest and swiftest way to
God.-Tauler
The desire of reason to become soul
-Schleiermacher
The consent of spirits one to an
other.-J. Edwards.
The root of creation: the breath of
our being.-Longfellow.
The life of which obedience is the
form.-r. W. Robertson.
The spiritual union of the soul with
the beloved object.-Dante
The deepest passion of the heart Of
God.-The Rev. James Chapman.
The only way by which the world
can reach greatness.-Dr. Macleod.
The great instrument Of Nature, the
bond and cement Of society, the spirit
and spring of the universe.-South.
An untamable creature, deaf to ad
vocacy. blind to other peoples ideas
of merit, and not substance to be
weighed or numbered at all.-Helps
smoke made with the fume of
sighs; a fire sparkling in lovers eyes;
sea nourished with lovers tears; a
madness most discreet; choking gall
and preserving eet-Shakespeare.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26

hyperion Basby sat in his Office in
of mind His time rad come" says
Tom Masscn in Ainslee's Magazine.
After maturing plan OF opera
tions that had taken months to per-
feet. the day before he had set the
wheels moving. In these days tairgs
perton Basby was rich man. BY
his carefully planned stroke he had
made nearly a million.
And now said hyperion, I must
get married. | have always said
would get married. But to whom?
l know some nice girls. but how shall
l be able to tell whether they are
after my money or not? There's the
rub
He paused a moment in deep re-
Election. Then an idea came to him.
Getting the telephone booli-for Bag
by was a busy man and he had no
time to waste in personal visits-he
rapidly made a list of eight young
ladies. any one of whom. he thought,
might do. He then proceeded to call
them up, one after the other, and
this was about the message that he
gave to each:
All. how do you do? This is
Bagby-Upperton Bagby. You remem-
ber me, of course. What a delightful
time we had at
"tBagby filled in the individual re-
quirements at this point)
well, you know, something has
happened in my life. have just made
a fortune. Honor bright. Now, you
know l cannot leave the scene of oper-
ations just at present, but | want you
to marry me. Will you consider 1t?
Never mind the answer now. But
may | ask you to break away from
conventionality this once and take
luncheon to-day with me? Come di
rect to my office. It's all right. Lots
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

Girls. never mistake bubbling gush
for love.
Can children be rated joint stock
quotations?
Flattery is the salve that our ego.
tism offers to our vanity.
There is something sad about a pipe
dream when the pipe goes out
I prefer an ice woman to a wooden
one. The former may thaw out. but
the latter is hopeless.
Many men might have a hundred
eyes and yet never be able to see
through the wilss of woman
A, man will promise his wife almost
anything in public if it will only keep
her from calling him stingy before his
friends.-kate Thyson MARI
The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-26
SUMNER EXCURSIONS
Via Grand Trunk Railway System.

Via Grand Trunk Railway System.
BOSTON-Singie fare. Going dates
June 25. 26 and 81. Return limit Au-
gust 1st, 1903.
BOSTON-Single fare plus, 50. Co
ing dates July 1st to 5th inclusive
Return limit September 1st, 1908.
TORONTO-Single fare plus So. Co
ing dates June Goth and 30th. Return
limit July Sth. 1908.
SARATOGA-Single fare Going
dates July 9TH and 9Th. Return limit
July Goth. 1903.
DETROlT-Sinsle fare. Going dates
July 18th and 10th. Return limit Au-
gust 18TH 1908.
For further particulars address Geo
W. FauX, A. G. p. & T. A, Excursion
Dept. Chicago, III.