Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-08
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Spokane will be connected with
Wallace, Idaho, by January Is by Pos
tai telegraph wires.
The ending of the year 1908 closed
most prosperous one for Chelan.
Spokane had no zero weather in
1908.
About 40 cars of barley have passed
through Walla Walla during the past
week en- route from Columbia county
| to tidewater. Most of the grain was
sent to Portland, but one trainload
went to Seattle. Columbia county pro-
duces nearly 100000 buahels of bar
ley annually, and most of it is sent to
Milwaukee, Denver and the Sound A
large sale was made early in the sea-
son by which Jacob Weinhard secured
nearly half a million bushels. Since
that time the sales have been Light
until just at the close Of the year.
All Sou, Chinese girl 16 years old,
who has been sold as a slave three
times in the past three years, is in Jail
at Seattle, and two Cinnamon who are
charged with aiding her to elude the
immigration officers are also under ar
erst.
No attempt is being made to oper-
ate the shingle mills in Bellingham,
where the operatives are on strike
against 10 per cent wage reduction.
The annual meeting and banquet of
the Whitman county bar association,
held recently was the most successful
in the history of the association.
With the purchase out of the per-
manent school fund of state bonds
amounting to s195,0O00, the invest
ment Of the entire permanent school
fund, and its normal increase up to
April 1, 1904, is provided for
The shingle mills in the state of
Washington have closed and will not
reopen until February. The shutdown
was agreed upon as an effective meth
cd of restoring the market conditions
and preparing for an advance of pri-
ces, which will be insisted upon in the
future.
Adolph Krug, former city treasurer
of Seattle, who, before the expiration
of his term of office, in 1894, was con-
victed of embezzling over 100000 of
the city funds, was found dead in the
Pleasant Beach hotel recently. Coro-
ner Kellan of Kitsap county says heart
disease was the cause.
The number of creameries operat-
ing in the state during the year of
1903 is All, and the amount of butter
manufactured was 6,970,992 pounds,
showing an increase of 1,0S7,741 lbs.
The number of cheese factories in the
state during the year of 1903 is "a,
and the amount of cheese manufac-
tured is 1,315,551, showing the in
crease for the year of 1856 pounds.
During the present season there
have been received at the grain ware
houses of Tekoa from Occur d'Alene
Indian reservation, an estimated
amount of 10000 bushels of wheat,
and 10000 sacks. or 100000 pounds
of oats.
DR.. r. P. Moore at Davenport re-
moved bullet from the skull Of Jacob
Rathjens, who shot himself in Spo-
kane a few months ago. The bullet
was located by probing and when To-
Gated the skull was chiseled away and
the ball removed. During the opera
tions the pressure upon the brain OF
the pationt nearly resulted in death.
For 80 minutes artificial respiration
was resorted to and for 10 minutes no
action of the heart or pulse could be
perceived. The patient is resting
easily and will probably recover.
Fred Poepinger, the Is year old boy
of Tacoma who was shot by a spent
bullet November 10, is now playing
with his companions though the lead
en- missile is embedded in his brain.
Brick" Johnson, wanted in Walla
Walla county, Wash, on a serious
charge, was arrested in Billings, Mont,
recently.
Brakeman George G. Blanchard OF
Everett, fell between the cars Of the
eastbound freight train near Merritt
and was killed. He had probably been
applying or releasing brakes and walk
ing over the train and slipped. He
leaves a wife and four children in