Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-02-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

| ems county towns, nave FSted 10 In
/ corporate.
North Yakimi Is now a wide open
town, or at least will be SO within a
very short time.
The Portland FIGURING Mills com
pany is making arrangements for the
construction OF 400 barrel mill al
Lind.
1t is stated that A. b. Slater, q
newspaper man of Walla Walla, will
be Senator Ankeny's private secre
tary.
A wholesale jailbreak was frustrat-
ed in the Snohomish county jail re
Gently by the prompt action of the
officers.
The seventh annual session of the
school of dairying is open at the state
agricultural college. continuing eight
weeks.
Ed Spencer. who killed Ella Mundt
at Spokane January 10, and attempted
suicide, is slowly regalning his
strength.
1t Is estimated that the damage by
forest fires in Washington and Oregon
the past summer and fall amounts to
about $13,O00,OOO.
The new IT'S barrel Eagle roller mill
at Colfax, replacing the mill destroyed
by fire last August, is completed and
has begun running.
The homeseekers' rates of $25 from
st, Paul to North Pacific points will
be again put into effect February 15,
by the transcontinental lines.
The Columbia River Railway C Nav.
igation company. which for several
years has been deemed a sure enough
railroad corpse. is giving signs OF
life.
Mrs. Marguerite Allen, the Oldest
woman in the state of Washington.
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John Morrison, of Tamoca, last
week.
| G. B. Aubin, a well known farmer
living four miles south of Colville
marketed the largest hog ever sold In
Colville. 1t dressed e2S pounds and
was disposed of to J. P. Hessel.
Herbert Hupp, the . year old son OF
William Hupp, farmer residing 10
miles west of Walla Walla, died re
Gently from wounds inflicted by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun.
James Boise, an eccentric character.
so years old, died recently at his home
near the state line, alone and unat
tended. The deceased came to Walla
Walla valley from New York 40 years
ago.
meeting OF the prominent lumber.
men of eastern Washington and nor
thfern IDAHO will be held at the Spo-
kane hotel on February for the
purpose of considering matters of i'm
portance that may be brought up.
Burglars recently got into the sa-
loc1 of f. J. Melton at Lind and blew
open the safe, using two charges of
nitroglycerine, one charge on the out
side door and one on the inside door
obtaining about $40o. of which about
$200 was in silver.
The following dates have been set
for the inspection of eastern Wash
| ington militia companies: Headquar
ters Third battalion and Company H
Spokane, February 25; Company l.
Waitsburg, February lie; Company e
Yakima, February %; Company l., Col
fax February 81.
There will be meeting in Spokane
early in February, probably next week.
between Mr.. Parkin, agent of the trus-
tees of the Cecil Rhodes will, and lead.
ing educators of Oregon, Washington
Idaho and Montana, when plans for the
selection Of candidates for the Rhodes
scholarships from these four states
will be discussed, and the matter final
ly determined If possible.
The farmers of Rockford section
are quietly agitating the question oil
forming some sort of an alliance with
the people of the Idaho panhandle for
a united and decisive move in the di
rection of securing measures looking
to the opening for homestead settle
ment of the Occur d'Alene Indian res
ervation during the present session OF
, congress.
$4,000 deal in farming land In
Waitsburg district was made lasu
, week, when A. w Phillips, a promin
ent county farmer, sold his $50 acre
farm, with extensive improvements
, at about $50 an acre. The ranch and
orchard are located on the Coppel
Frank MCGOWAN another Coppel resi-
dent, was the purchaser.
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