Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-29
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON news ITEMS.
I Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding Country-Numerous Accl.
dents and Personal Events Take
place-outiook ls Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

y. j. WATSON, SWllcnman, SnOC ana
killed Otis DeLacy in Spokane Friday
night.
At recent meeting of the directors
of the Lincoln County Fair association
it was decided to hold the fair the
week following the Spokane Interstate
fair. There will be four days-the
18th, 10Th, Goth and 21st of October.
Ike Harris was unanimously chosen
manager.
Walla Walla county has begun the
annual campaign to straw the dusty
roads of the county and make them
passable for the immense amount of
wheat that must pass over them in
the next two months.
One of the most interesting events
connected with the Odd Fellows or
der of Washington was the recent Gel
ebration of the semicentennial of the
| Olympia lodge No. 1.
j. L. Johnson of Endicott commit
ted suicide in that town recently. Mr.
Johnson had simply grown tired of
life and cut his throat.
| LSpCSldllJ WdS luG lSlIf
BILE accident on the United States gun.
boat Bennington to the people of Col
fax. Amel Bensel, one of the war
| ships dead, left ColfaX about one year
ago for the navy.
Within Is minutes after Frank
package of cigarettes to a small boy
of II years he was arrested and paid
$22.40 in fines.
Charles G. Setter has sold his 2SC
acre wheat ranch 10 miles south OF
Cheney, to T. w. Merriman, recent
of $4,000.
The reorganized Palmer Mountain
Tunnel company, pushing the big tim
mel through the huge mountain of nor
thern Okanogan county, has beer
launched under the laws of Arizona.
Washington has no uniform meth
cd for the assessment of railway prop
erty. The matter is entirely in the
hands of county assessors and count!
boards of equalization to fix the val
ues within their respective jurisdic
tons.
The Tacoma chamber of commerce
has already taken action in the eff
fort to induce the government to use
Washington fir on an equal basis with
yellow pine in the construction worl
to be done in the Panama canal zone
DR.. Dean Richmond Babbitt, late
rector of the Church of the Epiphany
in Brooklyn, N. Y, died recently from
the result of an operation performed
to relieve internal complications, some
months ago. He was for 10 months
dean of All Saints cathedral in Spo
kane.
Italians in Spokane and Lewiston
Idaho, are asserting that Joseph Ross
Duo di Rossi, nobleman, grandee
and alleged heir to $4,000 000-is @
fakir and owes sums varying from the
conventional SIS loan to board bill
A warrant has been obtained from a
justice at Spokane for the arrest OF
Rossi on the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
David Sullivan was accidentally
killed in the California Wine house al
Wenatchee by j. F. Murphy, a prin
ter. Sullivan was a we'll known ranch
er, residing only a few miles from the
city. Without apparent cause, Sulli
van commenced to abuse Murphy, and
finally struck him. Murphy in turn
struck Sullivan in the mouth with his
fist. Sullivan staggered over and fell
backward, and broke his neck by the
fall. The blow received by Sullivan
was not a hard one, scarcely break
ing the skin on his lip.
The mountain climbing party, as
finally made up for the start on last
Monday from Paradise valley to the
| top of Mount Rainier, height 1926
feet, consisted of Is Mazamas from
Oregon and Washington, 10 Sierras
from California, 81 Appalachians from
the east and six Alpines. Red fire will
be burned from the mountain top
Tuesday night at 9 o'clock and should
be visible with glasses for $50 miles
around. The elevation of the present
camp is $500 feet