Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-26
WASHINGTON NEWS.


lie schools will open on August 30.
Dissatisfaction is expressed at st.
John because of the poor mail service.
1t is said that Spokane stands sec.
ond only to Los Angeles as bicycle
town.
is practically over and the balers are
at work in all directions.
Company l., N. G. W., at ColfaX, has
been mustered out of service because
of lack of competent officers.
The most serious of the forest fires
in this part of the state appear to be
in the northern part of King county.
Sportsmen are having no trouble in
bagging plenty of birds this season
around Chelan, as they are plentiful.
Whitman county's yield of wheat is
enormous. Conservative men place to-
tai at between 100000 and 14000,-
000
The Whitman county fair will be
held at the association grounds just
west of Colfax from October IL to Is,
inclusive.
r. C. McCroskey of Garfield sold
10000 bushels of club and red wheat
Saturday to Kerr Clifford & Co. for
Sc cents.
Frederick William Round, Jr., 10.
connective fireman, 90 years old, ended
his life with pistol at Tacoma Sat
urday last.
T. j. Demerest of Palouse has just
sold to w. j. Demerest of Salem, Ore,
his patent right on compressed air
water elevator.
The people of the Chelan country
think they have a real live volcano in
add,,ion to many other interesting
natural features.
Saloon man Portz of Uniontown was
victim of masked thugs recently. They
secured $3.50 in cash, $54 in checks
and gold watch
The plans submitted for the county
bridge over the Okanogan river at
Riverside have been approved by the
secretary of war.
Twelve of the leading Knight Tenn
plar communicates of various eastern
cities will pass through Spokane on
their way to San Francisco.
Jesse Reeder was killed and fear
fully mangled in threshing machine
accident recently near Texas lake, Is
miles southwest of st. John.
Work was begun this week exca-
waiting for the foundation and swim
ming tank for the new gymnasium for
Whitman college, at Walla Walla.
Twelve adults and 90 children are
homeless as result of what is thought
to be an incendiary fire which burned
over Fourth Plain. five miles east OF
Vancouver.
George l.. Woerheide, apparently of
cultured family in St. Louis. commit
ted suicide in Spokane because he
would not stoop to an inferior position
In the community.
Frederick Campbell, the II year old
son of Rufus Campbell, farmer living
six miles west OF Sprague, was drown
ed Saturday morning in Colville lake.
He had gone swimming.
Tommy Burns Of Chicago defeated
Cyclone" Kelley of San Francisco at
Tacoma recently in the fourth round
of what was to be 20 round match
with a right to the heart.
A few days ago Fred Ripley of
Stehekin rowed a small boat from the
head to the foot of lake Chelan in a
little over ~ hours. The distance is
supposed to be about go miles.
Many fields of wheat that farmers
estimated would make 40 and SO bush
els per acre before harvest show at
threshing time crop of 30 to ~
bushels instead.
Fire broke out in the stockyards of
the Great Northern at Hillyard. TWO
warehouses were burned. The build
ings were filled with outtitters' tools,
and the loss is estimated at about
$4,000. The cause of the fire is I'M
known.
The mystery surrounding the disap'
pearance of William Mckenzie of Bell
ingham. who was last seen two weeks
ago in company with Miss Kate Bast,
was cleared away today by the dis
covery of both the bodies floating in
the water of Lake Whatcom.
At present there are 7,24O,76O acres
of forest reserve in Washington, and
it is proposed to increase it by with
drawing 2,7s2,OOO acres more. 1t is
probable that 100000 acres OF the
Walla Walla reserve will be eliminat-
ed, leaving a total of 7,44O acres in
this reserve.
John A. Parker, E. F. Messenger and
Newton Peer of Tacoma have sold 23,-