Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-10-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.

ding recently.
C. c. Mccoy, the veteran mail con-
tractor and an old resident Of walla
Walla, died recently.
A county institute for teachers in
Stevens county is called to meet at
Colville November 10.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
the Northern Pacific grant of land
selections, 1913 acres in North Yaki-
ma, Spokane and Watervllle districts.
Surveyors for the proposed railway
between Fletcher and Connell are
once more upon the ground. Active
work will probably be commenced by
November l.
While playing with matches the 21s
year old daughter of ex-Mayor Hardin
of Bellingham caught fire In her cloth
ing and was so badly burned that she
died later.
Willie LIE Veeney, the young son of
William lie Veeney, was accidentally
killed at Paha. The boy fell out of a
wagon, striking on his head and burst
ing blood vessel.
Harry Allen, convicted of robbing
the postoface at Camden, November
., 1904, was sentenced by Judge Whit
son to serve eight years in the peni-
Tertiary at McNeill's island.
| The case of the state VS.. George
Chronback for the murder of Joe Bon
nett, a Polish countryman, near Pc
Ell, July 16, came to a close at Che
halls with a verdict of murder in the
second degree.
| Drumheller Brothers of Walla Walla
sold to Jones-Scott Grain company
$4,000 bushels Of bluestem wheat at
&c lie, receiving a check for $63,175.
This is the biggest wheat sale in Wal
la Walla this season.
| o. V. Darrow, a well known Ia
coma druggist, was sandbagged into
insensibility and robbed while on the
way to his home. The highwayman
took a diamond ring valued at $3.50
and 81 or SO in change.
| Charles e. tombstone, the Northern
Pacific brakeman who shot Alvin
Price, a negro hobo, on a train while
the latter was beating his way coming
toward North Yakima, on September
8, was acquitted @f the charge.
Ben Oppenheim>r, a travelling man
for Portland hardware firm, who is
known in eastern Washington, has
been sentenced at Montesano to one
year in the state penitentiary at Wal
la Walla for embeZzlement.
Motive power on the Idaho division
of the Northern Pacific railroad will
be increased early next spring by the
arrival in Spokane of 10 more man.
moth freight locomotives of the w
class introduced on the division last
summer.
Attorney James Hopkins of Spokane
was found guilty of making false af-
fidavits in the federal court recently
Seven charges were proven against
him. The penalty for this crime is
$1,000 fine or three years imprison-
ment, or both.
Miss Ora Ulsh met with a most pc
culiar death at Lake Bay, near Taco
ma, recently. The girl was subject to
epileptic fits, and while engaged in
picking fruit she was taken with a
fit and fell into some underbrush and
smothered to death.
! One of the largest real estate trans
fers of the last three months was made
when Paul Costello purchased the An
ma Fahey farm for 34,500. The farm
consists of over 900 acres of fine wheat
land, and is considered one of the best
in that part of Lincoln county.
Two masked bandits at 4 o'clock
Sunday morning entered the Madison
street power house of the Seattle Elec-
trio company, bound and gagged Mike
Boyle, a lamp cleaner, and E. ]. Cole,
a fireman, the only persons in that
part OF the building and then broke
into and robbed the deposit box OF
the company Of $500.
| The news from Washington that the
board Of consulting engineers Of the
United States reclamation service has
reported to Secretary Hitchcock and
recommended the Okanogan irrigation
project as feasible, will be read with
enthusiasm in the Okanogan country
and with approval in all parts Of the
state. This undertaking will irrigate
only 10000 acres.
| The tax commission of Washington
proposes that every conceivable arti-
Gle of personal property, tangible and
intangible, that money in bank, the
boarded wealth In the old stocking
under the bed or in the jug on the
shelf, or in the can buried in the orch
ard and even the pennies in the babys'
saving bank shall next year bear a
portion OF the state and county taxes
| Charles Thronson, one of the largest
farmers in Columbia county, has CIV
en- the following estimate of raising
wheat and barley, based on results
from $500 acres of summer fallow, 480
acres of which was stubble ground
and half of which was leased land:
Crop, 3,413,o2o pounds, or 24S3 pounds
an acre; 1882 days work, including
management, $3490' 67S8 meals, ST.
1891; feed and seed, $4,000; sacks
and Irvine, $163S.57; rent, s3476.S0;
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