Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-11
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The bones of old Chief Joseph are to
rest peacefully beneath a little mound
of earth at Nespelem:
With a few exceptions, all of the
grain tributary to Prescott has been
disposed of by the growers.
J. H. Lasswell, will begin at once
the erection of SO barrel daily ca
pacity Touring mill at Colville.
The demand for Washington flour
from the eastern and southern states
is almost as great as that for wheat.
The Western Pine Shippers associa-
tion has applied for membership in the
National Lumber Manufacturers asso-
citation.
Lumber is being hauled for the new
$4,000 Christian church at Pullman,
and the work of raising the superstruc-
ture will begin in a few days.
All of the right of way for the Med
ical Lake electric line has been Sc
cured and the company will be letting
the contracts for the grading work
before long.
Sixteen hundred dollars worth Of
fruit trees and shrubbery were receiv-
ed in Palouse last week. The trees
are mostly winter varieties of apple
and peach trees. d.
Farmers, millmen and miners OF
eastern Washington and northern Ida
no are estimated to have paid over
81, 100000 to Spokane implement and
machinery dealers the past year.
James G. Bramen, a restaurant man
of Bremerton, suburb of Seattle, is
dead and his wife lying at the hospital
as the result of shooting which was
the outcome Of quarrel between
them.
A special wheat rate has been an
nounced by the railroads from all
points in the Palouse country north OF
Winona, Wash, to Milwaukee. 1t is
52h cents per cwt., with minimum
car of 10000 pounds.
Two weeks will elapse before the IA
blocks of paving will be completed in
Walla Walla, but property holders on
streets touched by paving are already
agitating the extension of the improve
ment in all directions.
Sunday morning about 1 O'Clock
burglars entered the Old Grow saloon
at Pennington through the back win
dow and Carried the safe, which was a
small one, to the blacksmith shop of
J. w. Walters, where they blew it open
and robbed it of about $40.
Figures compiled by the state land
office for the biennial report show an
aggregate of S1,O73,930 invested in
county, municipal and school district
bonds in the last two years. An aver
age of Ala per cent is realized.
The report of the Spokane health
department for the month of October
shows that there were SO births as
against a total of S4 births during the
corresponding month of last year. In
October, 1904, there were 80 deahts,
against a total of As deaths in October,
1903.
What is said to be the largest real
estate deal made in the history of
Spokane was consummated last week
when Charles Sweeny purchased the
Rookery, the Spokane National Bank
block and the Riverside block, the
best paying blocks in the heart of the
city, for s360,000.
AS a result of holdup of the Cam
den postoffice last week in which two
men robbed the safe of $40, one man,
John Wilson, was fatally shot near
Chattaroy, being shot by Deputy Sher-
iff e. C. Pratt, and the other, H. Allen,
after a desperate struggle with De-
tectives in Spokane, was landed in
Jail.
Robbers blew the front off of the
safe in the Bank of Endicott at an
early hour Friday morning, but were
frightened away without getting at the
contents of the strong box. The noise
of the explosion gave an alarm, and
the robbers took to their heels under
rain of revolver shots. One of the
alleged thugs, named Joe Buler, was
captured later.