Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-07-16
WASHINGTON NEwe

was drowned recently in the To,,~
river, about five miles south of nn.'.
spokane's population has incre ..on
o2 per cent in the past four yaars a ~
mas now reached $4,000 peonla "nu
A D. swanson, Representing a.
FARMERS Warehouse & Elevator oo
pany' VIII start a bank in Spanelo
once. Aeie at
A sad feature of the Fourth vac a.,
funeral of Mrs. Mary Hardness n' se
OF .. W. Hartness, a pioneer of W.
Walla county. ana
With wages higher than CUSTOM
Walla Walla farmers are experienc,nn'
dl1hculty in securing enough holm -
harvest their crops.
The fourth annual convention 10 q.
Washington State Funeral Directo.N
association will take place in Nor..
Yakima September o.
Washington won in the three dov.,
competitive target shooting at Ar
lean lake, rs points ahead. The armv
team second, Oregon third
A report issued by the comntro,o,
OF the currency says that there are ~
national banks in Washington. % ~
which are insolyent, 81 in voluntarv
liquidation and "a in operation
In spite of the fact that H. p Tin
ker fell 40 feet from the roof of .
barn at Walla Walla, sustained p trac
ture OF his skull and lay unconscious
for over " hours, he is slowly improv.
ing.
Black aphis are playing havoc in
apple trees in tue Big Bend Tho
prospects are exceAent for hio
peach crop. 1t is said the birds carry
San Jose scale from one tree to an.
other.
The monthly weather report for Col.
vile covering the month of June has
just been issued, and breaks all rec.
records for small rainfall for that
month. The total precipitation was
1.67 inches.
The funeral of w. D. Jackman
who died recently in Spokane from
Bright's disease, was held Sunday
The Spokane trades council, of which
Mr.. Jackman was president, and 9th.
er labor organizations attended the
funeral.
Private Thomas G. Vandiver of Com.
pany K, Nineteenth United States in.
fantry, was shot by Private Frederick
r. Stubb Saturday night at the maneu.
vers camp and died few hours later
The men had had a petty quarrel, and
Stubs says he fired when he believed
his life was in danger
After being shot at by Detective
Martin Burns and held under the muz-
zle of Captain McPhee's big BETSY"
gun, Martin Schomers, all round bad
man, and suspected highwayman, who
held up Policeman Nick Warner and
robbed the officer of his revolver, is
safe in the Spokane jail
Charles Burton, 10 years old, was
arrested recently on charge of arson
preferred by President De Force OF
the Bellingham Oil & Fertilizer COM
pany, who AYERS that the boy set fire
to his plant on June 80 last, which
resulted in its destruction, entailing
loss of $1,000, with no insurance.
With election of officers the eight
eenth annual meeting of the state bar
association closed the most successful
convention in it's history at Seattle.
Next year the association will meet in
North Yakima. The following officers
were elected President, Edward
Whitson, North Yakima; secretary, e.
Will Shaeffer, Olympia; treasurer, M.
S. Porter, Olympia.
Rev. Oscar Smith, Methodist min
lister Sundays and postal clerk in the
Seattle postoffice week days, could not
Withstand the temptation afforded by
money passing through his hands anu
rif1ed the mails for money to Duy
liquor. After making an incomplete
confession to postal inspectors he DIS
appeared. With fine irony he admit
ted taking as his last theft money III
tended for the antisaloon league
Earl Foraker Harris, aged ~
months, was drowned in a candy pan
half full of water recently at the nome
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George H.
Harris, on Peone prairie, near Sp"-
kane. The little fellow was playlns
around the fruit packing house, ana II
is presumed that he toddled TO inc
candy bucket. Looking down ne Sd"
the water and in trying to reach II NC
fell in. When his mother returned nc
was dead, though his tiny face was just
covered with water.
Gen. Funston Goes East