Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-12
FOUR NORTHWESTERN STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of interesting Items
Gathered From changes-Cullings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oreeon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Wheat is expected to bring as high
or higher prices this year than last.
Harvest has progressed far enough
to assure Walla Walla farmers of a
splendid crop of grain, especially fall
wheat.
Forest fires within the city limits OF
Spokane burned over nearly square
mile of timber, and the blaze menaced
the populous residence district
The Conconully Mill company's plant
at Conconully was destroyed by fire
recently, together with about $1,000
worth of lumber. The fire started from
spark lighting in the sawdust near
the mill The loss of the plant is es-
timated at about $4,000.
There is a Scarcity of harvest help
in the vicinity of Pullman, and farmers
are being delayed in starting their ma
chimes.
Jay Lynch, superintendent of the va
kima reservation has been authorized
to expend $4,000 on the old canal,
finishing a lateral to the new canal
and making a new one. This will open
a large body of new land to lease.
The Portland FIGURING Mills COM
pany is making preparations for the
immediate opening of the Echo mill at
Spokane, in place of the G. & c. mill
burned there recently.
Several forest fires are reported in
the Calispell valley, north of Newport,
and are rapidly spreading.
The mercury at Spokane last Satur-
day crawled up to 100 degrees-the
highest point reached in IA years.
The weather at Walla Walla Satur.
day was extremity hotsAdThe thermom-
eter registered 104 and at night was
the hottest record in 80 years, so de-
grees being the minimum. No pros
trations are reported, however.
In saving her grandchildren from a
conflagration at Spokane, Mrs. Jasper
Deanes was so frightfully burned that
she will probably be injured for life.
She saved the little ones without a
scratch.
F. H. Brownell, an Everett lawyer
and politician, was the victim of a
recent run away accident by which
two ribs werS fractured and some Sc
we're bruises received.
The funeral of Richard Maxwell,
aged so years, who died at his home
at Alto, eight miles northeast of Day
ton, was held from the Christian
church Sunday. Mr. Maxwell was one
of the first settlers of Columbia coun-
ty, coming to Dayton in 1873.
Harvesting is now on in good earn
est, and the threshing machines are
about ready to move into the fields
and begin work. There will be rs ma
chimes threshing grain in the vicinity
of Garfield.
William Burgett of Sprague has a
freak menagerie, consisting of a 10
toed chicken and five legged lamb.
A. l.. Porter secretary of the West
ern Retail Lumbermen's association.
has left Spokane for La Grande, Ore
gon, Boise, Pocatello, Idaho, and Butte,
where he will organize district asso-
Citations of merchants engaged in the
lumber business. These organizations
will cooperate with the parent organi-
cation, and are effected for the purpose
of adjusting local affairs that the west.
ern association can not deal with.
The c. & c. tlourmills of Spokane
burned last week, with almost a total
loss of 100000. on the anniversary OF
the great confagration that nearly
wiped out the town in 1889.
With the coming Of harvest, the
floating population that makes its liv-
ing by fleeing the farmer at the card
table has made its appearance in the
Big Bend,
Work of paving Main street, of Pa
louise, is making satisfactory progress,
and the street is being put in fine con-
dition -Four blocks, in the business
section, will be paved with crushed
rock, mixed with sand, and covered
with a layer of soil. A huge steam
roller, the property of Whitman coun-
ty, Is being used in the work.
The Potlatch Lumber company is
to double the output of its
sawmill at Palouse City and bring
from 25,OO0,0O0 to 30,000,00O feet OF
logs from the timber next winter.
Fred Johnston's body was found
floating in the Columbia river near