Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.

harvest help is still in demand in
wilbur section of the Big Bend.
ro,ost fires west and north of Usk
increasing to an alarming extent.
rho citizens of Chelan have decided
hold three day fruit fair within
hort time.
wheat is in good demand at all of
n mills in Walla Walla if delivered
Immediately
considerable wheat is being hauled
! the Harrington market and harvest
in full blast.
The total assessment of Franklin
.onnty property this year shows an in
,rease over 1903 of over $4,000.
No less than 20 incipient and in
+ several instances serious forest fires
re at present raging in King county.
The Kerr Clifford company of port
land have purchased the Farmers
( mrehouse at Garfield and have taken
4 Aarge.
Around Endicott and Diamond the
Tnter wheat is yielding 80 to 35 bush
Neb an acre, and the market is around
H. cents.
Lloyd Pershall exhibited at Chelan
recently IS dewberries, which, when
pIaced end to end, measured 81 inches
/ In length.
| Miss Fannie Jonson, who will teach
as Intermediate supervisor in the train
ling school, at Cheney, comes from
Michigan.
l Wheat, in the western part of Whit
Nnan and eastern part of Adams coun-
lies is yielding well and some big prof
Hits are assured.
\ Loaded with cargo for ports in the
kglent the Boston Steamship company's
liner fremont has cleared from Seat
the for far east.
4 Spokane's interstate fair will be fur
Nlshed this year with music by the
Fifth Regiment Royal Canadian Artil-
Nhry band of Victoria, B. c.
4 H. E. Smith has been employed as
a physical director for men and assist
ant in English at Cheney normal He
comes from the University of Chicago.
b Louis Long, champion featherweight
Of the northwest, defeated Kid Scaler
] in four rounds Friday at Spokane, in
4 what was to have been a Is round
tight
W. F. Hickman, living five miles
north of Almonta, has threshed his
crop of about 500 acres of barley and
got an average yield of more than so
bushels per acre.
4 monster cougar drank a quantity
OF vitriol water which is used for
nlllng smut in wheat, with deadly eff
lect on the j. w. Mcdonald place,
hree miles south of Hartline.
The much talked of wood saving
contest for ladies at Rockford came
OF recently The first prize was won
W Mrs. Rumble, the second by Mrs.
Jonas and the third by Mrs. Davis.
Inc dead body of George B. Cliff,
superintendent of the Seattle division
u the Northern Pacific railroad, was
found in the Sammamish river, near
kenmore, He was accidentally drown
ed
VI .. Z. Armstrong, general agent of
lne Pacific Coast Elevator company,
preparing a splendid collection of
specimens of various grains and other
esfcultural productions for exhibition
At The st. Louis fair.
me Wilbur inspector condemned II
Jokes OF fruit Friday morning, consist
ING OF apples and peaches, and order
NJ the boxes containing them burned.
,Hls was because the peaches were in
.0c'ed with mold and the apples with
4 worms
superintendent L. G. Monroe of the
u0rucultural and agricultural depart
1ent OF the Spokane Interstate fair,
vo'ooer to 8, is receiving many in
asnies from farmers and fruit growers
VINO propose to exhibit at the fair and
nao VIII compete for the liberal prizes
eIlcn are offered this year.
a, EASTERN commission merchants con-
/ ~ Cue 70 send inquiries to Robt. H.
,eroVe' manager of the Spokane In
eiS'ate fair, asking for the date of the
Ipeuing OF the fair, and other particu-
re- lhese firms are planning to send
s lesentatives to this fair, which
n opens October 3
hasioents of Spokane own 4571
], a ne, OF stock in the national banks
sneif city, while but 1929 shares are
si nueu by nonresidents. The largest
i e holder of Spokane bank stock
n. onarles Sweeny, who owns 1875 of
r. ]oOO shares of the stock of the
1ocnange National bank.
cav ulaga college at Spokane will ex-