The Western news., 1904-10-19
NEWS Of NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Cho'ce Selections Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanoes-cuIIinas
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

turning out daily 1900 barrels of flour
worth nearly $4,000, or at the rate OF
$l5O,OOO a month.
| The gross receipts Of the Seattle
postoffice for the last fiscal year were
$S61,372. The receipts for Tacoma in.
creased from $9S,77S to $113,235; Spo.
kane from $137,47a to $162,4O1; Bre.
merton from $4425 to $5O11; North
Yakima from $15,97S to $17,757; Olym.
pia from $4,000, declined to $14,S56.
Whatcom increased from $25,345 to
$30,oS5.
Seven hundred sixty-two visitors
from Seattle and Tacoma were enter
tanned at the Walla Walla fair one
day last week.
| A collection of nuts grown in Walla
Walla is to be made for the state col
lege at Pullman.
doc" H. G. Brown realized $1,000
from the sale of his old coins in New
York city last week. That, however,
only disposes of a third of the great
display which the doc" had on ex.
hibit at Spokane for years in his Owl
saloon.
Over 100 pioneers of Walla Walla
county celebrated their annual meet
ing last week.
A Harrington firm sold last week to
the Hammond Milling company of Sc
attic $4,000 bushels of wheat, at 80
cents per bushel, f. o. b.
N. E. Nuzum OF Spokane and Thos
Daley of Tacoma have been appoint
ed deputy grand exalted rulers for
Washington of the Elks.
Theodore B. Gushing, pioneer res
ident of Spokane, is dead.
The Warehouses at St. John have
received to date over half a million
bushels of wheat.
The Cnewelah town council has
made a tax levy of mills for 1904.
Officers at Fort Wright, near Spo-
kane, are expecting orders for the
transfer of two more companies, max
ing six companies, or battalion and
a half
Seven out Of nine applications for
admission to the bar were successful
in the recent examination concluded
in the supreme court. They are: r.
B. Horrigan, Carl F. Orth, Carl Faulk
and Milo j. Loveless of Seattle: An
drew Brown OF Davenport, J. w. Dig
nan OF Tacoma, William ]. Griswold OF
Mount Vernon.
Jay P. Graves of the Spokane Trac-
tiOn company, F. A. Blackwell of the
Occur d'Alene & Spokane electric line
and w. D. Marks of Philadelphia, were
in that city last week consulting on
the desirability of building the pro-
posed electric line from Spokane to
Colfax, Wash, through the wheat and
fruit belt
George B. koontZ, secretary of Camp
SO, Woodmen of the World of Spo-
kane, has been advanced to the rank
of colonel and signal officer of the uni
form rank, W. O. W., of the Washing
ton division.
Committees of North Yakima busi-
ness men have been appointed to So
licit contracts for the cultivation of
sugar beets, the minimum acreage to
be 1000, beginning with next year.
Other committees were appointed to
solicit subscriptions for site to be
donated C. w. Adams of Chicago ana
his associates, who ask these two in
ducements to build sugar factory
there at cost of $4,000.
Henry l.. Wilson, United States min
lister to Chile and brother of ex-Sena-
tor John l.. Wilson of Seattle, is in
Spokane on vacation.
A bill looking toward the establish
ment of juvenile courts in this state
will be prepared for consideration by
the next legislature.
There will be a convention of dis
trict No. 2, Knights of Pythias. Octo-
ber %, at Spokane comprising lodges
in Republic, Chelan, Ritzville, Sprague,
Rosalia. Cheney, Davenport. Harring-
ton and Wenatchee
Receipts at the Spokane interstate
fair this year not only paid all ex-
penses, including $25OO for the new
grandstand, but also left a neat bal
ance.
The estate left by the late Dexter
Horton of Seattle is appraised at $685.
us.
Henry Cunning, who was shot last
week at Davenport by his neighbor, A.
w. Long. is improving and hopes are
entertained for his recovery. Long is
under $4,000 bond.
Snow will not fall as early this
year as last. So say the Indians, and
indications point that way.
The suicide of George Miles at Sc
attic is reported.
Walter Reagan, the Is year old sen
of John Reagan of Bolster, was shot
and killed by Ben Hart at that place.
From the facts cleaned by the coro-
ner's inquest, the shooting was acct
dental.
John Weston, who burglarized far.
mer's barn at Rice, in Stevens coun.
ty, about a month ago and sold a wag-
on load of plunder in Colville, pleaded