Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-05-07
WAS HINGTON NEWS.

southwestern Washington league May
Hal ]. Cole has assumed the duties
OF register of the United States land.
Office at Spokane.
Lett Adams, whose parents and
home are at Detroit. Mich, committed
suicide at Spokane.
The output Of Washington loggers
will be curtailed SO per cent during
the months OF May and June.
The Spokane bank clearings for the
month OF April as reported by Brad
streets, amounted to $9,973,24S.
Work on repairing the ilrgeting
ditch OF the Palouse Land K Irrigation
company will begin in the next few
days.
The annual army athletic competi-
tion for this department will be helu
at Vancouver barracks. May 10. 20,
and I'll
Final arrangements have been made
for the state trap shoot, to be held in
Harrington on the 18th, Goth and 21st
of May
The Master Horseshoers and Black
smiths Protective association held its
| fourth annual convention in Yakima
Saturday.
The trustees of the state normal
school at Cheney have decided to re-
tain the entire faculty for the coming
school year.
The first. Seventh Day Adventist
eampmeeting of the upper Columbia
river conference will be held at Col
fax June to IL.
A big stock parade has been arrang
ed by the management of the Spokane
Interstate fair association for Friday
afternoon, October 7.
State inspector says conditions are
best ever for grain. The acreage is
the largest known in states history.
No wheat winter killed.
Another attempt is to be made this
week to organize all the lumber deal
ers Of the northwest, except the coast
shippers, into one association.
Edwin A. Snow, assistant professor
Of English at the Washington Agricul-
tural college, has severed his connec-
ton with the school and left Pullman.
Merchants and people handling mon
ey should watch for counterfeit coins
as several bogus ten dollar gold pieces
have been passed in Colfax recently.
Rates for Bellingham on hay, grain
and -four from eastern Washington
equal to the carload lot schedule in
effect to Everett and Seattle. is in eff
feet.
The proposition for filter for Col
fax's water supply carried by vote
, of 293 to lit in recent election. Th'
plant will be installed IS soon as pos
sible.
Victor Ahern, the 16 year old Sol
of Mrs. Ahern, a widow living sever
miles northeast Of Ritzville, was killed
at Ritzville by train striking his wag
en- while crossing the tracks
In a trial test of Greene Smiths new
Colfax proved a perfect success and
no doubt exists but that it will meet
the requirements of the country.
Frank P. Bell OF Fairfield is the
inventor Of a device which he claims
will prevent lightning from striking g
telephone and running the instrument
or giving a person who may be using
it at the time a shock.
J Two switch trains coming together
} with a crash Sunday morning in the
/ Northern Pacific yards at Spokane, in
jured Switchmen S. L. Whipple and
|, Waniel A. Carrigan, and Engineer
Charles Beadle, partly demolishing a
boxcar and damaged one engine.
Sheriff J. A. Denholm of Tacoma was
shot through the head and seriously
injured by Bob Taylor, who later shot
and killed an English tramp and then
wounded boy companion of the tramp
on the Indian reservation between Ia.
coma and Puyallup. Denholm was try
ing to gain admittance~ to the cabin
where the crazy man was hiding. The
injured boy lives in Butte. where he
says his father is a physician.
4 Robert D. Williams accidentally kill
ed himself while STOPPING over to drink
from a spring, while bear hunting
about two miles from Northport The
accident was caused by a revolver
dropping from its holster, the hammer
striking a rock.
The scaffold on which Champoux
Seattle murderer, will be hanged
May 6, is ready at the state peniten-
tiary ChamDoux will be the first man
to suffer capital punishment under the