Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-21
ed and wounded. The insurgents loss
is not given.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The smut problem is again facing
the threshing machine men Of the Pa
louise country.
Four dollars and half per cow is
the profit farmers of Walla Walla dis
trict are realizing from the dairying
industry.
A party of Iowa farmers have pur-
chased about 10000 acres of land in
Douglas county, around the town of
Waterville.
Burglars effected an entrance to the
office of Kusler & Nicholson, lumber
dealers of Oakesdale, recently, and
blew open the safe.
Reports from the Puyallup valley
are to the effect that the blackberry
crop has been seriously injured by the
recent hot weather.
George Steele of Spangle was seri-
ously injured recently by being struck
over the eye with derrick fork while
working with a header.
Frank Ahalstrom, Swedish section
hand working on the Northern Pacific
at Marshall, is dead from collision
with a train while riding a railroad
velocipede.
The wheat crop is turning out bet
ter than was expected. Short grain
that was thought would only average
from 10 to Is bushels per acre is now
going from Is to 20.
s. L. Davis was crushed to death by
falling tree in Willard's logging
camp near Orting, about 80 miles from
Tacoma, recently. He was a single
man, recently from South Pennington.
Mass.
Contracts have been let for the
erection of two large grain warehouses
by the Puget Sound Warehouse com.
pany Of Tacoma to replace the struc-
lures recently destroyed by fire at
Pullman.
A wreck occurred on the Northern
Pacific recently one mile east of Gun.
ningham. No passenger train, heav-
lily loaded, crasL~. into the rear end
of freight train, but fortunately no
lives wer lost.
The annual tournament of the Dav-
export Rod & Gun club was great
success. The meet was attended by
sportsmen from all parts of the state,
as we'll as from Idaho. There was $400
prize money divided.
Coleman Tierney, a sailor between
Seattle and Alaska on the steamer
Spokane, was killed by hitting him
on the head with handouts recently
b,r ~
attic, while resisting arrest. He was
drunk.
From 20 to 80 bushels per acre is
the yield of wheat Monroe Martin,
an extensive farmer living on Alkali
fiat, 20 miles southwest of Colfax, re-
ceived from 700 acres Of spring and
fall sown grain which he has finished
harvesting.
Governor Mcbride has appointed W.
L. Wright of North Yakima as mem
ber of the state fair commission for
Washington, to succeed William H.
vessey of North Yakima, who resign.
ed on account Of business. Mr..
Wright's term ends March 20. 1905.
1t is the opinion of State Auditor
John D. Atkinson, who is ex-off1cio
chairman of the state board Of equal
ization, that the aggregate property
valuation of this state will be raised
this year by the county boards nearly
$40,0O0,000 over last years total val
uation. This means that, notwith-
standing the increased appropriations
by the last legislature, there will be
no necessity for an increase In the
state levy over what 1t has been for
the last six or eight years.
The open season for grouse, part
ridge, prairie chicken, sage hen, ma.
tive pheasant or ptarmigan has begun.
This applies, however, only to those
counties east Of the Cascade noun
tains. The season extends until No.
vember Is. There Is an exception,
however, in the case Of Kittitas coun-
ty, where the season runs from Sep
tember 10 to October /. In other parts
of the state the open season is from
September 1 to January 1. The open
season for swan, goose, sandhill crane,
brant, snipe and ducks does not begin
until September 1.
1t has just been learned that while
sinking an artesian well a few weeks
ago on the Blalock farm near walla
Walla, owned by Finch & Campbell,
Spokane, stratum of coal, 10 feet
thick, at depth of 300 feet, was en-.
countered. A sample Of the material
sent to Pullman showed. 1t is said, a
good quality Of coal. The Blalock
farm consists Of 700 acres, but a deal
is pending to add another hundred
acres. The local management refuses
to give out anything concerning the