Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-16
NEWS OF NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selections Of Interesting Items
Gathered From changes-CuIings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oreeon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
Chelan's public schools opened Mon
day with a good enrolment
The Wallace and Ritzvile baseball
teams are to play in Spokane on Sep
tember 25.
The Washington Agricultural col
lege opens for the fall semester Sep
tember 81.
The North Yakima city council has
decided to shut down on granting
franchises to gas companies.
Mrs. Susan Clark, of Pullman, cele-
brated her S1st birthday lest week.
Mrs. Clark is hale and hearty.
Spokanes new public library, a gift
of Andrew Carnegie, was formally
dedicated last Monday morning.
Lake Chelan will place an exhibition
of fruit ard vegetables at the Chelan
county fruit fair, to be held in We
natchee.
A four year old daughter Of James
Lane, living on the Cory ranch, five
miles northeast of Rockford, was burn
ed to death recently.
The Whitman county fair promises
to be bigger and better than ever be-
fore. Everything is being done to make
the fair a success.
The taxpayers of Spokane county
may expect total levy of 81 mills for
state, county, city and school purposes
for the coming year.
DR.. Otto A. Martiny has been locat-
ed and placed under arrest at Eagle
Pass, Tex He is wanted for forgery
of school warrants at .Eatonville.
In riding a bicycle with broken
coaster brake, w. M. Wagy. travel
ing solicitor, was killed at the bottom
of country hill near Wilbur.
Farmers in Huntsville vicinity and
on Whisky creek south, are cutting
their third crop of alfalfa. The yield
is good, considering the long dry spell.
Whitman county's school superin-
tendent, McCroskey, says there is a
shortage of teachers in his county, and
he has 40 schools which want teachers
at salaries ranging about $50 month.
Purses to the value of almost $4,000
will be given away at the coming race
meet of the Walla Walla Fair asso-
citation, which is to be held from Oc-
tober 10 to II.
school buildings of Spokane show an
increase of a fraction less than IA per
cent over the enrolment for the first
week last year.
Remains of Vincent Capeli of Spo-
kane, from which the flesh had nearly
all been eaten. were found on the
river road in the brush west of the
Lewis and Clark fair grounds at Port
land.
In the opinion of the coroner of
Spokane an insane fascination, locked
in the charms of loaded revolver,
caused Mrs. Constance Tingley, %
years of age, to take the weapon and
kill herself.
Charles Wilson, arrested at Spokane
on suspicion that he was Frank Peters,
the escaped murderer of j. A. McDon-
ough at Weippe, Idaho, about fourteen
months ago, has been released, being
the wrong man.
Enormous snowsheds, framed from
massive 12 inch fir timbers, will be
built at once on the Great Northern
railway in the Cascades, west Of Well
ington, to replace the structures burn
ed several months ago by forest fires.
1t is said Jay P. Graves Of Spokane
is seriously considering the construc-
ton of an electric railroad from Spo-
kane to Colfax, and with branch lines
to Moscow, Pullman, Palouse, Pene-
wawa and other points in Whitman
county.
The steamship City Of Topeka, big
passenger vessel Of the Pacific Steam
ship company, running between Seat
tie port and southeastern Alaska, sunk
at the dock at Seattle port at 6 o'clock
Sunday while loading freight for Skag-
way. Still moored to her dock, she
now rests on the bottom of the bay
with only the top of her smokestack
and her two masts visible. Cause un-
known.
Jacob Skalopla marketed at Wenat-
chee a box of peaches that were re-
markable for their size. The fruit was
packed in a regulation size peach box,