Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-09-02
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Farmers State bank, the new
100000 financial institution planned
for Colfax, will open October l.
The Bank of Downs at Downs has
been purchased by j. d. Bassett Of
Ritzville and II. w. Davis of Spokane.
1t is said Adams county will produce
this year 100000 bushels of wheat
or 100000 bushels more than last
year.
The body of Engineer Peter Bro
kaw of Spokane, who was drowned
June in the Kootenai river, has been
found.
Frank Lee has sold his farm four
miles below Penewawa to a Lewiston,
Idaho, real estate firm for 10000 The
farm consists of 100 acres of land
From prevailing crop conditions, it
is evident the warehouse men of Da-
yenport will have handled about $780,
600 bushels when the season closes.
DR.. w. James Howells, superintend-
ent of the Medical Lake hospital for
the insane, has left for a six months
tour through the United States and
Europe.
Professor Arthur r. Priest, head Of
the department of rhetoric and ora
tory at the University of Washington,
has been elected dean of the College
of Liberal Arts.
William BEDFORD, a pioneer of 1862
aged rs years, died at Walla Walla
recently, leaving five grown children.
He farmed extensively at one time in
Washington and Oregon.
A device, the result of nine years
work by Victor E. Campbell, Gold
endale, Wash, jeweler, has been in
vented to prevent escape Of gas after
the flame is blown out.
Miss Ida K. Greenlee, for the past
five years teacher in English in the
Seattle high school, has been elected
assistant in the department of Eng
lish at the University of Washington.
r. p. Pickerell, special agent of the
navy department at Washington, has
unearthed, he claims, evidence of
graft" at the Puget sound navy yard
at Bremerton and has forwarded his
report to Washington.
The first effect of the Chinese boy
colt of American goods has been felt
in Seattle in the canceling of orders
for 100000 sacks of -four which were
to have been shipped by the Centen-
NAL mills on the first outbound boat.
Milton Gabel, once prominent pol
itician and business man of eastern
Washington, who is serving a SEN
tence in the penitentiary tor embez-
element, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Mead within 60 days of the end
of his term.
Postmaster Willard T. Harrison plans
to make private census of the city
of Spokane by means of the mail car
riers as soon as he feels that the re-
suits will show a population of $4,000
people.
The Spokane Fish Protective assO-
citation is the name of the new organ
izatiOn which will have for it's pur-
pose the promotion of trout fishing in
the Spokane river and its tributaries.
A large number of the grocerymen
of the state are planning to attend the
meeting of the grOcers. which is to be
held in Tacoma on the 10th, 18th and
18th OF September.
Acting land commissioner has in
formed the land officers of the Water
vile district to withdraw from all
forms of disposal the following de-
scribed lands on account of the Okla
hogan irrigation project. All of town
ship "a north, range 26 east, not al
ready withdrawn.
The new bonds of the city of Spo-
kane, amounting to $450,000, issued to
pay for building improvements and
extensions to the city water system,
were sold to the banking house Of N.
w. Harris & Co. of Chicago for the
sum of $460,418.
AS the elimination of long standing
family trouble, Bernard Cohn, tail
or, shot and probably fatally wounded
his father in law, w. PozHansky. at
ELF IL Front avenue, Spokane, Sun
day. Cohn, according to his wife,
served IA years at San Quentin for
manslaughter.
One of the worst windstorms known
during the history of Spokane passed
over that city Sunday evening. For
FIVE minutes, about 1920 o'clock, the
wind, from the southwest, attained a
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