Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-27
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From xchanees-CuIlinqs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oreaon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The new Sprague theater is open
for business.
The Tekoa public schools have clos
ed after successful term.
The prospects for a big fruit crop
were never better in the Yakima val
ley.
The prospects of large fruit crop
are the finest ever known in the his
tory of the state.
The warm weather following the
rains OF this week is having its effect
on the growing crops.
Memorial day, May 80. will be OBJ
served generally by the G. A. R. posts
and Women's Relief Corps, of the
state.
Northport is preparing to celebrate
Independence day in style calculated
to draw extensively from neighboring
towns and vicinity
The recent commencement exercises
of the Davenport graduating class of
the high school were listened to by
500 people and the orators were enthu.
siastically applauded.
The new Country club at Spokane
will be opened Saturday, and will be
the finest country club north of San
Francisco. The club, when. complet-
ed, will cost about 100000.
After a chase of 100 miles, Sheriff
Thomas Of Ellensburg captured Leon
Macy and ]. G.. Collins one mile east
of Winchester, Wash. The two men
escaped from the Jail at North Yak
ina.
Yakima County Fruit Inspector Beck
has been notified by the state inspec-
tor, A. Van Holderbeke, to make a
canvass of the county and gather data
for a forthcoming report on the fruit
industry Of the state.
The transfer has been made of one
of the best building locations on Alder
street, Walla Walla, by Adolph Sch
wartz to the Masonic Building associa-
ton, which will erect this summer a
$40, 900 Masonic building.
The Tacoma police are continuing
the hunt for the murderer Of Charles
S. Gray, who was shot in the freight
yard. Gray was resident Of Inter
bay, Wash, where his mother and sis
ter reside. He was ~ years Of age.
The delegation Oh business men from
Spokane achieved what they believe
are satisfactory results in the con-
ference at Chicago with railroad rep
resentatives on the question of read
justment of freight rates for that city.
One of the largest lodge sessions
held during last week by the Knights
of Pythias and the Rathbone Sisters
1t was the 21st annual session of the
Knights and the 18th annual session
of the Rathbone Sisters for Washing
ton.
B. M Kent was seriously and per-
haps fatally hurt recently about mile
from Starbuck when driving to his
farm. Mr.. Kents seat slipped, and
he fell under the front of the wagon,
which passed over him and broke his
collarbone and hip, besides causing in
ternal injuries.
Seattle won the eighth annual west
ern Washington nterscolastic and
track meet at Tacoma. The victors
scored rs points, Tacoma getting Sec
ond place with A points, Ballard third
with II points, and Everett last with
four points, no other high schools be-
ing represented.
The tenth annual shooting tourna-
ment of the Washington State Sports
mems association closed Saturday at
Harrington, and was pronounced by
the shooters to be the best since or
ganization. Exceptionally good aver.
ages were made all through the shoot
and most every one of the shooters
succeeded in getting into the money.
McBroom of Spokane got away with
the lions share Of the prizes.
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