Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-10-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.

ems county 1alr CLOSED one OF the mos
successful expositions and race meets
ever held in the county. 1t is esti
mated that fully 10000 people visited
the fair during the season.
Exhibits may be shipped free to Spo
kane If destined for the great expo
! sition at st. Louis.
Wheat is pouring in from all direc
tons to Davenport and northumberland
ing the fact that trainloads of the
staple are being shipped out, the ware
houses are overlooking and are com
PEELED to build platforms to handle
the overflow. over a quarter of a
million of bushels of wheat have been
! received and 1t is estimated That near
ly one-half of the crop is still upon
the farms. Little grain is being sold
Frank Coleman, who claims Amer.
ica's middleweight catch-as-catch-can
wrestling championship. recently de-
feated Tom Davis at Whatcom, win
ming the first fall at the end of !
hour and AZ minutes, and the second in
FIVE minutes.
Frank Dudacek of Iowa, who bought
400 acres of the Edgar A. Torrance
farm, near Diamond, last spring for
$11, 900, is expected this week in Col
fax with colony of his neighbors. Mr..
Dudacek's experience with Whitman
county farming has been such a pleas
ing surprise to him that he is expected
to bring large number of farmers to
join the Iowa colony which settled
near Diamond last spring.
With the completion of the Belling-
ham Bay & British Columbia line D.
c. Corbin's new railway to connect
with the Canadian Pacific, and the
Occur dAlene electric road into Spo-
kane it will be warranted in disputing
with Denver the title of being the
greatest railroad center Of the west.
Today Spokane is distributing through
railroads in IS general directions, not
counting branch lines into territory
reached in a general way by a main
system. BY the first of the year the
new trolley line will have added a
fourteenth general distributor.
The city of Spokane tax levy this
year will be 13 mills, an increase Of
one mill over last year.
A daughter was born to Cromwell
M. Knowlton recently at Seattle. Just
as the child was born into the world
Knowlton lighted a fuse to a can of
black powder in small cabin a short
distance from his home and blew him
self into eternity. He attempted to
take a two-year-old daughter with him,
but the little girl escaped with slight
injuries.
The pay roll for the Spokane school
teachers for the first month of the
school year amounted to $18,079,o0.
All the butcher shops in Walla
Walla will close at O'Clock here
after.
The Lincoln county fair dates from
Oct. 10 to II, inclusive, at Davenport.
A receiver has been appointed for
Greenberg Bros, dry goods dealers Of
Whatcom, at the instigation of San
Francisco creditors. The aggregate of
the claims of the San Francisco houses
is $35, 900 Their estimated assets are
$4,000
The rapid growth of Palouse towns
causes a scarcity of houses.
The strike of linemen employed by
the Pacific States Telephone & Tele-
graph company has been officially
called off,
BY the sale of 100000 Spokane
county refunding bonds the county
commissioners save the taxpayers of
the county $4,000 in interest in the
next ten years. The new bonds were
sold at IL per cent interest, at $1,000
premium and accrued interest.
A street carnival will be held in
Dayton, October 10 to II, under the
auspices of the Layton camp, No. 05
w. o. w. This is the first carnival
ever held in Dayton.
Valuable records of the Catholic
church, which it will be impossible tc
replace, were destroyed by fire which
Quilted the residence of Bishop Ed
ward O'Dea at Seattle The fire was
caused by a defective nue, and had
it's origin adjacent to the room il
. which the records were kept.
, The judges at the fruit fair at Wallf
Walla awarded c. R. Frasier the
sweepstakes prize of $50 for the bes
individual display, he taking six frs
prizes in this class out of seven ex
hibits made at the fairs there.
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! wireless telegraphy, which recent!