Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-02-27
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The recent fruitgrowers' institut.
was pronounced the best institute avos
held in Yakima.
A splendid wheat crop is assured Nv
the abundant snowfall and ranches.
are highly elated over the prospect
Samuel Kohn, sewing machine
agent, crazed by drink, committed en-;
eide at Spokane by jumping into the
river recently
Samuel Vinson, deputy United States
marshal in Spokane during the laot
Cleveland administration, died a short
time ago in Virginia.
Everett Wilson shot and wounded
Dan Bethune at Orient during a opar.
rel. Wilson fired with a big revolver
the bullet entering the abdomen
AT the special election held al Cres
ton to vote on the proposition to bona
| the district in the sum of $1,000 to erect
ana furnish a new school building the
ballot stood As for and against
Governor MBride has appointed w
Cline of Sunnyside member of the
state fair commission to succeed @ 7
Hill of North Yakima.
Collector Ut Customs Ide at Port
townsend has fined 16 steamers plying,
no Puget sound, for violations of the
steamboat inspection laws and reppla.
tlo2s and rules to prevent collisions no.
tween vessels.
The mid winter carnival at Wa1Io
WalIa given by the band was a grand
success.
Water has been secured on the John.
son ranch on the highlands near the
Snake river, after drilling to the deptb
OF $50 feet. There is 100 feet of water
IN the we'll. An extensive test failed
to lower 1T to any perceptlble extent.
According to we'll known Spokane
builder, more construction has been
gong on during the present month
than in any other February since the
fire of 1889.
Franklin county business men have
organized chamber of commerce at
Pasco.
Sheriff Denholm of Tacoma has ar.
rested Harry Taylor, two term con.
Wet from Walla Walla on the charge
OF obtaining money under false preten.
ses by selling land that did not belong
to him. Taylor is three quarter
blood Indian, and is highly educated.
Manager Robert H. Cosgrove of the
Spokane Interstate fair is expected to
arrive i'll Spokane within a few days
from his home at LeSueur, MINI.
Senator Foster has introduced an
amendment to the military bill provid.
ing for an Appropriation of $4,000 for
construction of steel bridge across
the Spokane river, connecting Spokane
with Fort Wright.
John M. Swan, pioneer of the state
of Washington, and one of the best
known Odd Fellows in the state, died
recently at the Odd Fellows home
IN Walla Walla, the immediate. cause
OF death being senile decay.
Yakima Memorial is the new name
of the new home at Spokane acuuir-
ed by the Northwestern Home Find
ing association. 1t is to be perpet-
ual monument to the citizens of North
Yakima for their liberal contributions
TO the support of the home.
William Isenhart has been appoint
ed postmaster of the Chelan postofice.
County Clerk Arthur A. Hauerback
OF Walla Walla filed his resignation
with the county commissioners. A
shortage in Mr.. Hauerbach's accounts
was discovered. The shortage totals
over $1,000 He and friends have
made up the shortage and he has since
Withdrawn his resignation.
Attorney General Stratton has civ.
en- his opinion to the effect that for
eign corporations who have filed their
articles in the secretary of states Of
nee can not eVade the payment of the
yearly license tax on the ground that
they are not doing business" in this
state.
AS the result of a quarrel at Cam
den, over ice cutting privileges, Claude
Calhoun was fatally shot, Fred Geb-
hardt was beaten to insensibility and
Postmaster A. D. Owen was also CIV
en- few blows. Owen shot Calhoun
after the Calhoun brothers had attack.
ed the postmaster in his own store.
owen Immediately gave himself up
and with Ernest Calhoun, brother Of
the wounded man. was taken to Spo-
kane.
Spokane Shippers, who pay to the
railroads in freight rates annually
three-quarters of a million dollars,
have combined to throw all their traf-