Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-07-09
four NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-CulIinss
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

LyncnS Terry, near RepuDllc, wash
by which Mrs. Ivy Galloway, widow of
a blind violinist, lost her life, and her
two children and a driver were severe
ly bruised.
Grandma" Young, wife of John
Young, ST., died at the family home in
Pullman recently.
John Conway, an engineer on the
Great Northern railroad, died at Spo-
kane as the result of an accident while
riding on the engine.
Father William Pelan was install
ed as grand prelate Of the grand ON
mandery of Washington Knights Tenn
plar, at a recent meeting in Spokane.
Following is the state treasurer's
quarterly statement of ash balances
in various funds at the close of bust
ness June 30: General fund, over
draft, $50,767.31; military, STA GAS; in
terest, $9,9S3; current school, $685.
120; permanent school, 1865, 694; har-
Dor, $12,0S1; special land deposits,
$318; revolving fund, $37,169; grain in
spection, $5626; university, $20,8S8;
fish hatchery, $4,071; United States,
PAIO, uCpooiIG, oul NCS vi IIuC luLuo,
$210; state library, $19,942; scientific
school, $26, 1876; capitol building, $40;
agricultural college, $25,716; charit-
able, educational, penal and reforma-
tory, $47,3zO; norman schools, $~15,951;
state capitol commission, $35,263; cap
itol building interest overdraft, $83.37;
oyster, $3.50; total, 1903 58; less
o~verdrafts, $5,S51.
The Stevens County Pioneer assO-
citation concluded it's first annual pic
mic under most favorable circumstan-
ces and with success.
School buildings of this state may be
lawfully insured in mutual fire insur
ance companies organized under the
law of 1903, according to an opinion
handed down by Attorney General
Stratton.
The first case of sunstroke eve re-
ported in Everett section occurred last
week, when William Rye, member of
the Great Northern labor gang, was
stricken with heat, dying soon after.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie NJ.
Shaw, is to make several campaign
speeches in this state.
The national banks of Spokane have
declared semiannual profits amounting
to $68,000.
The leave Of absence granted to Min
lister Harry l.. Wilson of Chile, for
merly of Spokane, extends for 60 days.
Mrs. Emily Gendron, aged 70 years,
was dragged to death in a runaway ac-
cident near her home at Mckee last
week.
A telephone message from Silver
Beach, Wash, says that the Larson
Lumber company's mills there are on
fire. The plant is valued at 5000, 90.
In the neal future Miss Grace De
Geus, of Everett, will be married to a
son of the prime minister and chief
magistrate of Holland, Anton Craayo.
In the presence of hundreds of mem
bers, and as many more guests, the
beautiful new $100, 900 home of the
Spokane Amateur Athletic club was
formally thrown open and dedicated
last week.
Corporation Counsel John P. Judson
is the oldest practicing lawyer in point
of admission to the bar in the state.
The total production of wheat in the
states of Oregon and Washington for
the cereal year which ended June 81,
1904, was 33, 1884, $40 bushels, as cor
pared with Al, b79, 435 bushels last year.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the selection of public lands
made by the Northern Pacific under it's
grant to 81 ,029 acres in the Spokane,
Seattle and Vancouver land districts.
Lawrence Miller of Chicago, Satur-
day night won the Pacific coast light
heavyweight championship by defeat
ing Joe Carroll in the first and second
falls of the match in so and four min
utes, respectively. The bout was the
fastest ever seen in B~ellingham.
After eight months of one of the
hardest fought strikes in Spokane the
master and the ~journeymen plumbers
have practically come to an agree
ment.
Fol the first time practically since
it was built the Garfield county Jail is
empty.
William Gates, the Reardan pioneer,
is dead. Mr.. Gates vas rs years old
and a member of the G. A. R.
One hundred and ninety-four home
steads were filed upon in the Walla
Walla land office during the quarter
ended June 80.
The picnic and live stock show of
the Whitman county grangers, held in
Lyle's grove, seven miles southwest
of Pullman, was a decided success.
The exact location of the boundary