Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-13
-FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-CuIlinqs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oreaon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


Walla Walla is assured.
Spokane is to be made the head.
quarters for the Maccabees.
A good flow of water has been struck
at a depth of 46 feet at Edwall.
knights of Pythias met in district
convention at Pullman on Monday.
The funeral Of Edward H. Slocum,
a pioneer of Columbia county, was held
Sunday.
At North Yakima the grand lodge Of
the Improved Order of Red Men met
May 10. II and IL.
The contract for constructing the
sewer system for the business section
of Pullman has been awarded.
Spokane has more miles Of electric
car lines than any other city Of equal
population in the United States.
1t is estimated half the strawberry
crop of the valley was killed by heavy
frosts recently. There was no dam
age to fruit except apricots.
Little Prewitt Baker of Seattle is
missing and detectives are convinced
the child was kidnapped from his home
at Eagle Harbor.
Creston's fine school Is to be erect
ed at once. 1t will be a modern
two story brick structure with roomy
halls and stairways provided for.
Unbranded NANCY horses are to sui
fer the pealty of death. State Veter
marian announces the policy Of his
department on the Klickitat cases.
A fair representation of outside
teachers and nearly all from Waits
burg and the immediate vicinity at
tended the county institute at Waits
burg
A large force OF government engi
neers is Quitting at tasco to com
mencs work on the preliminary loca
ton survey of the Palouse river irri
cation canal. The first preliminar!
survey was recently completed.
George Gates and two other mel
who are supposed to have been the
robbers who held up a Southern Pa
cific train at Copley. Cal, on March 81
are believed to be in the vicinity o.
Seattle.
A full crew of so convicts has start
ed the first work Of the seasons rur
in the penitentiary brickyard. There
is sufficient clay at the yard to make
the first kiln. which will consist OF
about 100000 brick.
No visible signs Of unrest existed
among the hundreds Of convicts at the
state penitentiary Friday, as a result
of the execution Of Zenon Champoux,
though the principal facts were doubt
less known to nearly every prisoner.
A movement to secure legislation
providing for tax exemption in the
matter Of lodge funds and beneficiar-
les is expected to bs started by the
lodges of Spokane. The plan is to
extend the campaign throughout this
state.
The Alberta Creamery association
skimming station, six miles southeast
of Ellensburg, was burned recently.
The plant cost $1,000 and was insured
for $500. 1t will be rebuilt. The cher
ry, prune and pear crop Of the valley
has been badly damaged by the late
hard frosts.
Only 20 years Of age. but charged
with q long string Of burglaries and
robberies, to q part Of which he has
confessed, Renwick McCammon, q
young carpenter, is in the Spokane
Jail awaiting trial, which will undoubt-
edly result in his being sent to the
penitentiary.
An order was received yesterday by
A. P. Cahill at Longs station, near
Dayton, for 1000 barrels Of flour to be
shipped to San Jose de Guatemala. 1t
is the first Central American consign-
ment ever filled by the Columbia Mill
ing company.
C. ]. Ingram, station agent at Sno-
uualmie,' a Northern Pacific station
north of Seattle, was shot in the mouth
by a highwayman. He was brought
to Seattle. Ingram was Just closing
I'D the office safe when the bandit en-
tered. He refused to turn over the
contents Of the safe and was shot
through the mouth. The wound is
critical, but not necessary fatal. In
gram recognized the bandit as a man
known in the town as Bridges. A posse
started after him and he was captured
soon after the shooting.