Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-27
WASHINGTON NEWS.

A basket ball league has been form
ed in Spokane.
A new Northern Pacific bridge is to
be built over the Columbia at Pasco.
A cheese weighing 81 pounds was
received in Spokane recently from a
ST. Louis exhibit.
Governor Mead has signed the bill
repeating the libel law. The bill car
ried an emergency clause and is in
effect now.
The Northern Pacific has ordered
it's train crews vaccinated because OF
the smallpox in many of the districts
along the railroad.
The president has assured Represen-
tative Humphrey of the early reap
pointment of George M. Stewart as
postmaster at Seattle.
Andrew Jensen, a tool sharpener,
was instantly killed and Will Fisher, a
laborer, was severely injured by an &C.
cidental discharge of giant powder at
the Mineral Hill mines, near Concon-
nuly.
William Nettleton. pioneer of Spo-
kane, met tragic death last Friday
morning by falling from the high
bridge of the Great Northern railway
in the west end of the city.
The protected cruiser Washington
will be launched at the Ship Building
compaay's yards, Camden, N. j.,
Mornh re-
being made to secure the presence IF
Governor Mead, and as many others
from the state as may be induced to be
present.
Benjamin B. Allen, an employe Of
the United States assay office in
Seattle. is dead at the age of SO.
A. P. Sawyer of Seattle has been ap-
pointed regent Of the state university
by Governor Mead, vice W. E. Snriker
of Mount Vernon, who resigned a few
days ago.
Seattle business men and capitalists
are to undertake the construction of a
railroad from Valdez through the Cop
per River valley to point on the Am
erican Yukon.
Efforts will be made in the state
legislature during the present session
to amend the fish and game laws in
order to give sportsmen and fishermen
more open season.
A recommendation for the installa-
ton of postal car service between the
towns of Tekoa and Cornell on the o.
R. & N. is expected to receive favor
able consideration at Washington
The Washington State Funeral Di-
rectors' association is formulating a
bill providing for the compulsory en-
balming and disinfection of bodies dy-
ing of contagious disease before inter-
ment.
Governor Mead has signed the bill
increasing the supreme court judges
from five to seven in number and ap-
pointed Milo A. Root of Seattle and
Herman D. Crow of Spokane as add.
tionaI judges.
B. F. Reed Of Ellensburg was re-
elected president, James Dick of Dun
geness was elected vice president and
Mrs. C. Carmichael Of Yakima was
reelected secretary-treasurer of the
mems state dairy association.
Olympia, the state capital, almost
under the shadow of the building
where the law was passed making it
a felony, gambling is f1ourishing. There
are roulette, poker and crap games in
the back end of every saloon in town.
Supply men and farmers of the Pa
louise and Big Bend countries have
thousands of gunny sacks left over
this year because large part Of their
grain moved east in bulk instead Of
west in sacks last fall. The railroads
have come to the rescue and have CIV
en- rate on gunny, burlap and jute
sacks from interior points to the coast
equal to the wheat rates from the ship
ping points.
More than 1926 citizens of Colfax and
vicinity attended the mass meeting to
meet Jay P. Graves and Fred B. Grin
nell Of Spokane, who are there to dis
cuss the proposition Of building an
electric railroad from Spokane to Mos
COW, via Rosalia, Colfax and Pullman.
The meeting was attended largely by
farmers. Farmers were enthusiastical.
ly in favor of helping to build the
road.