Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-12-16
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The State Teachers association will
meet at Spokane on December 2S 20
and 80.
Dan Gallagher, butcher who has
been out of employment, committed
suicide in Seattle Sunday.
John Dollar, a painters foreman for
the contractors at Fort Casey, was in
stantly killed by an unknown soldier.
Pacific coast hops are quoted in
New York at SO cents, which has
strengthened the Tacoma market.
Whitman college has passed the 400
mark in attendance this year, which Is
far the most prosperous in its his
tory.
Luke Melin, aged 60 years, an old
timer in the Big Bend, died recently
at his home several miles west OF
Hartline.
The 18th annual defamation contest
was won by Hugh G. Todd O6, in the
Washington Agricultural college chap
Ell at Pullman.
Charles L. Sumner, representing the
Empire Electric company of Toledo,
Ohio will ask Spokane for 35 year
franchise to put in an independent
telephone company.
Frank NJ. Finnegan, an electric line
man of the Washington Water Power
company, met instant death about b
O'Clock Saturday evening from contact
with live wire while working.
A thief robbed G. b. Robins of Mos
cow, Idaho, an invalid, of approx
mately $500 in room in the Pacific
hotel at Spokane. This money was
the savings of years of hard work.
A petition is being circulated for sig
natures asking for pardon for Henry
Craemer, now serving life sentence
in Walla Walla for the murder Of Phil
ippine Meller and her baby in 1894.
Information received in Tacoma is
that at least six or seven central labor
organizations out of nine in the state
Endorsed or will indorse William Black
man for reappointment as state labor
commissioner.
Within the next few days Seattle
will be connected with Port Townsend,
Fort Casey, Friday Harbor and Victo-
ria, B. c., by wireless telegraph. A
wireless station has been erected on
top of Queen Anne hill.
Two Japanese. Mirahara and Turu-
shima, have bought a small single
mill in Bellingham for $4,000 cash, and
will operate it with a crew of their
countrymen. Fourteen white men have
been employed in the place.
After occupying its present site for
Is years and caring for 20,275 patti
ents, the Catholic hospital at Spokane
finds it necessary to abandon the old
site and will build a new and much
more commodious hospital building.
Henry Faye, accused of murder in
the first degree for alleged burning OF
the Harrington hotel, when Lawrence
Tierney persisted, two months ago, was
acquitted at Davenport on the charge
of arson. While the trial was in pro-
gress Judge Neal ordered the substi
tuition of the charge of arson instead
of murder.
Tacoma.-At Port Madison, Kitsap
county, the house of Arthur Raines
burned at IL o'clock at night while he
and his wife were digging clans
mile away. The three children OF
the couple, aged s, and years, were
burned to death.
The senate committee on Indian af
fairs has ordered a favorable report
on Congressman Jones' bill, which
has passed the house, providing tor
the sale to settlers of about 700 acres
of allotted land in the Yakima reser-
walton.
Two Spokane & Occur d'Alene cleo
trio line trains collided at Spokane
Bridge recently. Mike Crosby, motor
man, was seriously cut about the face
and head by glass, and two other men,
one motorman and the other a pas
senger, were slightly hurt.
Judgment has been finally entered in
the long drawn out suit brought by the
Goss Construction company against the
state capitol commission for extras
in constructing the capitol annex.
This judgment, which has been sign
ed by Judge Linn of the superior court,
gives the Goss company $4935 and
costs, amounting in all to about $4,000
that the state will be required to pay. |
The suit was originally for about $685.
600.