Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-26

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suit of two operations for appendicitis
and gall stones. The funeral was held
Sunday.
Governor-elect Mead has announced
that his private secretary will be Ash
mum l.. Brown, city editor of the Post
Intelligencer.
Brooding over the death of his part
ner, who was killed by being tossed
from trestle by switch engine, west
of Spokane, John Hollingren of Spo-
kane deliberately lay down on the rail
way track and few moments later a
switch engine struck him. He is not
expected to live.
The mortal remains of Seattles for
mer mayor, Mr.. Humes, are to be
brought to Seattle from Fairbanks,
Alaska.
The official count of the vote of Stew
ems county shows that Martin Maloney,
democrat, is elected representative,
over w. c. Gray by plurality of eight
votes.
More than 100000 fruit trees were
shipped into the state of Washington
and planted last year, and the outlook
is that fully 1000, 900 more will be add
ed to the orchards of the state this
year, says A. Vanholderbeke, state hor-
ticultural commissioner
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Cole celebrated
the Goth anniversary of their wedding
last week at the residence of their
daughter, Mrs. A. G. Kellam, at SpO-
kane. Mr. Cole was born in jefferson
Cole was born in the same county on
April "a, two years later.
The meeting of the Washington Live
STOCK association is to be held in Spo-
kane December %.
The state irrigation commission is
to meet in Tacoma on the 29th inst.
and expects to remain in session until
a code of laws is adopted to present
to the next legislature.
Wilson Tieo, half breed allotment
Indian of the Yakima reservation is
under arrest charged with killing EN-
ma Harker, an Indian girl.
Colfax again proves her claim to be-
ing the richest agricultural town in the
west, if not in the United States. The
statements just issued by the two ma
tional banks show total deposits of 81
1859 The population of Colfax is
now estimated at $500. This gives
bank deposits of $84547 for each man,
woman and child in COlfaX.
The biennial report of the state
i,ct oO,nploto6 rp-
duction in the state debt in the last
four years of 1926, 1888, and an aggre-
gate amount of business done in the
last two years of $3.50 900 in excess OF
the business done by the state in the
last two years of the preceding admin
istration.
For hours Saturday telephone and
telegraph wires were paralyzed all
over northwestern Washington by the
greatest windstorm experienced in
years. The greatest loss was sustain
ed by a tar factory in Bellingham,
whose loss amounted to $4,000. Plate
glass windows were smashed, side
walks and fences overturned and boats
driven from their moorings. Aside
from small yachts being pounded on
shore no marine disasters are reported.
1t is learned on good authority that
the survey preliminary to the building
of the Tacoma & Eastern road to
North Yakima via the Cowlitz coal
fields will continue on to Spokane at
some future date. A survey is under
way to Sunnyside over the divide
from the Mckee valley in an endeaV-
or to find a shorter route than that
via Mckee valley and Union Gap.
The vault in postofice at Centralia
proved too hard to crack when dyna-
mited by burglars Saturday night. The
outer part of safe was completely
wrecked while inner portion remains
intact
Five thousand, perhaps 5000 people,
should find seats in the new armory
in Spokane" says Adjutant General
James A. Drain.
The first snow of the season IN the
Big Bend fell Saturday afternoon Last
year the first snow fell November Z.
Hoquiam.-Miss c. E. Drummohu'
popular young lady of Iron Springs d
summer resort on North Beach, is re-
ported to have been thrown from
buggy into Joe creek and drowned.