Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-25
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The daily output of 400 barrels Is
the capacity of the flour mills in Walla
Walla.
The State Teachers association OF
Washington will meet at Tacoma, De
cember rs to 80.
More than II miles of track have
been laid east from Spokane on the
Coeur d'Alene electric line.
Governor Henry McBrides presence
at the Interstate Fair October 7, Gov
ernor's day." is now assured.
Some grain is standing in the fields
about Oakesdale, Seltice and Belmont,
and tnis is being cut by headers.
1t is estimated that from 80 to 95 per
cent of the crop of Whitman county
has been cut and about IS per cent has
been threshed.
Plans and specifications have been
completed for the new jail at Asotin,
which will be built this fall at an ex.
pense of $4,000.
. While working in the jute mill at
Walla Walla, Wash, convict had his
hand caught in the machinery and q
severe wound resulted.
The sawmill of the Eureka Sawmill
company, situated five miles north
west of Republic, was consumed by
fire recently. There was no insurance.
A man named Tanto committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with a
gun. He lived on homestead about
an miIoc FROM, ind in DouuIoS county
Wheat is coming into Edwall at the
rate of about 10000 bushels per day
Ninety per cent. of the wheat is blue
stem, and it is almost all grading No:
/.
The body of w. H. H. Ragan, the
Steptoe Butte farmer, was found by
searching parties two miles from his
home. He had wandered away and
died.
Wheat this year along the Great
Northern railway is Of uniformly good
quality and smut cases are rare, most
of the wheat weighing 60 pounds to
the bushel.
Several carloads of fine Italian
prunes are being received in Walla
Walla from orchards near Dixie, the
fruit being sent there for packing and
forwarding.
An endeavor is being made by the
cattlemen Of Okanogan county to
reach an amicable adjustment of the
serious differences which have exist.
ed there since the introduction of
sheep.
John Sullivan, night watchman at
the old smelter, four miles down the
river from Spokane, was thrown from
his buggy and kicked in the abdomen
SO violently by his horse that he died
recently two hours after.
John L. Smith, the veteran superin-
tendent Of 10 successive Interstate
fairs in Spokane, is to be with the In
terstate Fair association in the ca
pacity of superintendent Of the stock
department no more after this sea.
son.
The wheat of the Waitsburg district
is nearly all in the warehouse, and 1t
is estimated that fully 100000 bush
els are under cover. The dealers say
about one-third of it has been sold at
prices ranging from 10 to rs cents for
club and bluestem respectively.
The total tax levy for state pur-
poses has been fixed by the state board
Of equalization at seven and three
fifths mills, five mills of which is for
the school fund. This is no change
from the total Of last year. The total
amount Of state taxes that will thus be
raised is $2,1O5,116, of which $692,471
goes to the general fund, $1,384.947
to the school fund and $27,70O to the
fund.
The matter of organizing board Of
trade or commercial club Is being
agitated by some of Harrington's citi-
zens.
The real estate of the Joseph Conat-
ser estate was sold at auction Satur-
day at Colfax, and brought good prices,
at spirited bidding. The real estate
consisted of 140S acres Of land and
about 100 town lots in Sunset. The
land brought an average of about $25
per acre and the town lots averaged
about SIS each. D. F. Anderson of Ro-
salia was auctiopeer. The real estate
brought almost $4,000.
lynching was narrowly averted
at Sunnyside, three miles east of Ev.
erett, recently. A rancher named M.
l.. Scott, formerly member of the Sal
gation army, accused of assaulting the
ii year old daughter of A. s. Nichols,
was in the hands of an infuriated mob
If farmers, with the hemp rope all
out around his neck, when Sheriff
Brewer arrived and pursuaded the an
cry ranchers to turn the accused man