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

AllS uulp quay.
Walla Walla county will work her
prisoners on the roads.
State Senator A. s. Ruth is very Ill
at his home in Olympia.
The fall rains have set in and the
winter wheat will benefit.
Tekoa makes her Indian prisoners
work out their fines on streets.
1t is stated that State Senator Ham
ilton';, conu4,lon is much worse and
that he is dangerously sick man.
The voters of Spokane have ap-
proved the proposed 100000 bond is
sue for new school buildings and addi-
tons to present buildings.
A Walla Walla bank will be open
for one hour, between and o'clock
p. M. to give working men and others
a chance to transact business.
The annual Spokane County Teach
ers' institute, which closed Saturday,
was the most successful teachers
meeting ever held in the county.
The Spokane County Teachers in
stitute last week adopted a resolution
in favor of employing teachers by the
year and paying them in IL annual in
stallments.
The Spokane Benevolent & Protec-
tive Order of Elks have made arrange
ments for the annual memorial serv-
ices of the order, which will be heidi
on December 6.
James Guthrie Harboard, formerly
Spokane boy, and once a private at
Fort Spokane. has recently been pro-
noted by President Roosevelt, and is
now colonel of the Tenth cavalry,
stationed in the Philippine islands.
The indications are that change
may yet be made in the route of the
B. B. & B. G. railroad from Whatcom
to Spokane and that it may not come
through flanagan pass in the Cas-
cades.
The extension OF the Sunnyside
ditch in Yakima county, which is
considered practically assured by the
state land department, is but the first
step, according to that department, in
a series of irrigation projects.
Nearly all Of the wheat grown in the
vicinity Of Mondovi is in the ware
houses. Little has been shipped, and
it is estimated that the total crop will
be about 100000 bushels. A depot is
badly needed there.
The last of Washington's 1903 po-
tato crop is being cleaned up by ma
chinery now 1t is expected the crop
for the state will be over 100000
bushels-considerabl in excess of last
years crop. The yield per acre is not
so heavy as last year. owing to the I'M
usually dry summer, but the acreage
is much greater.
Two lives were crushed out under
meath the weight of an engine on the
Columbia & Puget Sound railway Sum-
day by the overturning of the loco
motive and cars at the "Y" between
Black Diamond and Franklin, near
Seattle. The dead are Frank Dixon,
brakeman, married; Walter Parker,
fireman, a single man.
Five hundred people witnessed a
shocking accident at the stock fair at
Pomeroy Saturday. While Roy Will
liams was making a balloon ascension
Tom Andrews, his assistant, became
entangled in the guy ropes and was
carried up 80 feet, from which height
he fell headforemost to the earn with
sickening crash, breaking both arms
at the wrists and being horribly bruis-
&c and mangled about the face and
body.
Harold Haynie, who was convicted
in the King county superior court of
the crime Of highway robbery, was
sentenced to six years. Imprisonment
at hard labor in the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla. Haynie and his
young wife were from Portland. One
night they drove up near the Wash
ington hotel behind spotted pony,
and while Mrs. Haynie stayed in the
buggy Haynie held up at least one
and probably several men.
The remains of j. F. Nessly were
buried in Colfax last Saturday. Rev.
Nessly had been Mason for more
than so years, and was in the ministry
for 60 years, record of service prob
ably not equaled by any other minister
in the northwest. He was 70 years
and 9 months old at the time of his
death, but was active and retained his
full mental facilities until he was
stricken with paralysis October 20,
since when he was unconscious until
his death.
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