Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Spokane's bank clearances for the
month of July amount to s9,5OO55S.
The hay harvest is now in full blast
and many men are finding employ
ment.
A commercial club has been formed
by Wilbur business men to advance
the towns interests.
What is stated to be the first death
from smallpox in Spokane for three
and half years occurred last week.
The man cut in two by a Great
Northern train at Spokane last week
has been identified as Elmer Ofill.
American salmon Gamers have en-.
tered the market as buyers of sockeyes
on the Fraser river, British Columbia.
The Farmers Alliance Warehouse
company, with warehouses located at
Fallon, has declared is per cent divi-
dend
The supreme court has decided that
bank checks issued for money ad-
vanced for the purpose of gambling are
void
While the 10 months old baby of a
Mr.. Pugh Of Huntsville was eating a
carrot recently 1t choked and is ex-
pected to die.
Peter j. Gessner, for Is years one
of the best known gamblers in Seattle,
recently committed suicide by taking
carbolic acid.
Farmers are haying and few pieces
Of early fall wheat are being headed,
but harvesting generally will not be-
gin for week yet.
William G. Roberts, Tacoma manag-
er for Kerr, Clifford & Co., was drowned
recently in Henderson bay by the cap.
sizing Of rowboat.
Seattle celebrated her fiftieth birth.
day last Thursday in appropriate style.
There was big parade, in which fully
1000 persons participated.
AS shown by the monthly report is.
sued yesterday, the postoffice In Spo-
kane did $2,175.73 more business dur
ing the July just passed than it did
during July in 1902.
The transcontinental railroads en-
gagged in large amount of construc-
ton work in western Washington have
sent east to secure sufficient supply
of labor to carry on their work.
John Berg of Whatcom, Pacific coast
heavyweight champion wrestler, re-
Gently defeated Frank Coleman, claim
ing the middlweight championship of
America, gaining two out Of three falls.
At recent meeting Of the directors
Of the Lincoln County Fair association,
Ike Harris was elected manager for
the ensuing year. The fair will be held
from the 18th to the 18th of October.
The population of Ellensburg has in
creased almost 1000 since the national
census was taken. The recent census
shows a population May l., of 3,472,
but 1t is generally conceded that it is
fully 1000 now.
The governor has appointed DR.. E..
E. Shaw of Walla Walla as member of
the state board Of medical examiners
for a term ending May 20, 1906. He
succeeds ]. H. Hoxsey of Spangle,
term expired.
Matthew A. Mathers. who recently
died at the home Of his son on Moran
prairie near Spokane, was "a years old
at the time of his death, and had been
resident of Washington for many
years. Mr.. Mathers served through the
Mexican war.
The remains of Arthur H. Ganoung,
who died recently, were buried at Che
welah by the Masonic fraternity, Of
which the deceased had been a men,
Der since 1850. Mr.. Ganoung was in
his SD year when he died. He for
merely lived at Waterville, Wash.
Campbell Bros show train was
wrecked on the Northern Pacific, be-
tween Pennington and Belmont, last
week. In rounding curve the 10 foot
property fatcar jumped the track and
was totally demolished. No one was
injured, but the property loss was
heavy.
Charles Meyers, an axman in the EN-.
ploy of the Columbia improvement
company at Election, 80 miles south
of Tacoma, was caught under an i'm
mense boulder rolling down the noun
tainside and crushed to death. He is
supposed to have relatives in Eliza
beth, N. J.
The Spokane police believe that the
highwaymen who held up two street
cars are men who have recently been
committing similar desperate deeds
in Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. They
fear an epidemic of such ARRAYS, and
as result the city is being secured
for suspicious characters.
The Ashley -Burnham Land company
has sold 2,11S acres Of raw land, lying
from three to seven miles north OF
North Yakima. The purchaser was M
Symmonds, wealthy rancher, living