Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-26
WASHINGTON NEWS.


held in Yakima.
A splendid wheat crop is assured by
The abundant snowfall and ranchers
are highly elated over the prospect.
Samuel kohn, a sewing machine
agent, crazed by drink, committed sui
eide at Spokane by jumping into the
river recently.
Samuel Vinson, deputy United State:
marshal in Spokane during the last
Cleveland administration, died short
lime ago in Virginia.
Everett Wilson shot and wounded
Dan Bethune at Orient during quar-
rel. Wilson fired with big revolver
the bullet entering the abdomen.
At the special election held at Ores
ton to vote on the proposition to bond
The district in the sum of $1,000 to erect
and furnish a new school building the
ballot stood As for and 5 against.
Governor MBride has appointed w. H.
Cline of Sunnyside member of the
state fair commission to succeed G. j..
Hill of North Yakima.
Collector Ut Customs lde at Port
Townsend has fined 10 steamers plying
no Puget sound, for violations of the
steam boat inspection laws and regula-
tioas and rules to prevent collisions be-
tween vessels.
IN, mid winter carnival at Walla
Walla given by the band was grand
success. -.
Wn,,r has been secured on the John
son ranch on the highlands near the
Snake river, after drilling to the depth
of $50 feet. There is 100 feet of water
in the we'll. An extensive test failed
to lower it to any perceptible extent.
According to a well known Spokane
bul der, more construction has been
going on during the present month
than in any other February since the
fire Of 1889.
Franklin county business men have
a chamber Of commerce at
Pasco.
Sheriff Denholm of Tacoma has ar
rested Harry Taylor, two term con-
vict from Walla Walla on the charge
of obtaining money under false preten-
ses by selling land that did not belong
to him. Taylor is a three quarter
blood Indian, and is highly educated.
Manager Robert H. Cosgrove Of the
Spokane Interstate fair is expected to
arrive in Spokane within few days
from his home at LeSueur. MINI.
Senator Foster has introduced an
to the military bill provid-
ing for an Appropriation Of 100000 for
of a steel bridge across
The Spokane river, connecting Spokane
with Fort Wright.
John M. Swan, a pioneer of the state
IF Washington, and one Of the best
Known Odd Fellows in the state, died
recently at the Odd Fellows home
n Walla Walla, the Immediate cause
If death being senile decay.
Yakima Memorial is the new name
If the new home at Spokane acquir-
I'd by the Northwestern Home Find
ng association. 1t is to be a perpet-
lal monument to the citizens Of North
Yakima for their liberal contributions
o the support Of the home.
William Isenhart has been appoint
ID postmaster Of the Chelan postoffice.
County Clerk Arthur A. Hauerback
If Walla Walla filed his resignation
with the county commissioners. A
shortage in Mr.. Hauerbach's accounts
was discovered. The shortage totals
over $1,000. He and friends have
made up the shortage and he has since
his resignation.
Attorney General Stratton has Civ
eign corporations who have filed theil
articles in the secretary of states Of
fice can not evade the payment of the
yearly license tax on the ground thai
they are not doing business" in this
state.
AS the result of a quarrel at Cam
den, over ice cutting privileges, Claude
Calhoun was fatally shot, Fred Geb
hardt was beaten to insensibility ant
Postmaster A. d. Owen was also Civ
en- few blows. Owen shot Calhoun
after the Calhoun brothers had attack
ed the postmaster in his own store
Owen Immediately gave himself VI
and with Ernest Calhoun, brother O
the wounded man. was taken to Spc
kane.
Spokane Shippers. who pay to tn
railroads in freight rates annually
three-quarters of million dollars
have combined to throw all their tral
tic to the Oregon Railroad & Nav
cation company until the Great NORTH
ern and the Northern Pacific railroad
offer satisfactory rates. The firm
represented are members of the Spt
kane Shippers association and unan