Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-12-03
FOUR NORTHWESTERN STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
choice Selections of interesting Items
Gathered From Exehanges-Culllnqs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Spokane Poultry association will
give poultry show in Spokane about
January 10, 1905.
The lifeless body OF Clarence w.
Sinclair, master of the launch Bis
marck, which runs on Lake Washing
ton, near Seattle, was found in the
lake recently. The body was lying face
downward in about IS inches of water.
Washingtons unique state building
at the worlds fair in St Louis may be
sold for song. 1t cost $23 900 and
an offer of $500 has been made for it.
Recently patents have been granted
to inventors residing in Washington
as follows: Mortimer A. Howe. Ia
coma, bank check, record book and
binder; Andrew j. Ketelsen Seattle,
steam cooker and wesser; Michael
Lacey apparatus for raising sunken
vessels; John Metzger, Tacoma, tan
dem compound engine bushing; Geo
Fl. Whitehose, Seattle, adjustable lev
er; Matthias p Zindorff Seattle, gar
ment supporter.
The noted and picturesque piece of
property on the Columbia river. known
as Castle Rock, being one of the great
scenic attractions on the Washington
side of the river between Portland and
| The Dalles, has been sold to Charles
e. Laid of Portland 1t is intended to
preserve the rock for its natural at
| fractions
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac-
turers' association at its recent meet
ing in Tacoma adopted the uniform
| system of sizes for finished and match
ed lumber in force by the Yellow-Pine
association, with slight exceptions in
sizes of drop siding and partition. No
action was taken as to the matter of
closing down the mills.
T. Sakai, Japanese cook who works
at Tekoa, secured a marriage license
in Spokane authorizing him to take
as his wife Clara White, a negress
Sakai is described as a fine looking
Jap. He is "a and his prospective
wife is &c.
The banks of the Big Bend were
never in SO prosperous condition a!
at present. Every one of them, it Il
/ generally believed, can, with short nc
, tice, pay every dollar of deposits.
Frank Parker, the man fatally sho
at Colfax by Charles Martin, formerl.
lived in Republic.
Mrs. G. S. Gritman, while coming
from Garfield to Palouse in livery
rig, was thrown from the buggy and
seriously hurt.
Business at the Walla Walla land
office has increased to such an extent
that an extra clerk has been asked
for by the officials. The immense vol
ume of work occasioned by irrigation
has necessitated the request.
The bank deposits amount to over
$5,000000 in the five Walla Walla
banks
A new pOstoffice has been establish
ed at Sainte German, 16 miles north
west of Waterville.
The Seattle chamber of commerce
has completed arrangements for wei
coming the steamship Minnesota, the
mammoth new vessel of the Great Nor
thern line due In that port on or
about December %.
William Martin of Colfax was found
guilty of conducting a gambling game.
Secretary Hitchcock has set aside
$1,000,000 for work on the Palouse ir-
rigation project.
For committing an assault upon Z
year old Leona Moran, Fred Adams
must spend 25 years in the peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla. This is the
longest sentence ever imposed in King
county for any crime except murder.
If the recommendations contained in
by the legislature, the state will ex-
the biennial report of the state board
of control just prepared, are adopted
pend in the next fiscal period $3.50, 900
in building additions to the state in
situations under it's control and over
81 100000 including building, mainte-
nance and incidentals.