Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-12-02
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Secret Service officer Stevan
Connell makes an estimate thar r.. a.
Edward Adams, defaulting cashier ~
the United States assay Office in c.
attic, has made away with an amonn.
in excess of 100000.
Harry Davis, private secretary 70
Representative Jones, has been n
formed by Secretary HITCHCOCK tha.
the department would take no action
on Washington irrigation projects nm.
til the matter could be taken IN with
the Washington congressman.
A resolution to provide for nos4
graduate course of lectures upon OH
branches of medicine and surgery woa
recently adopted with unanimity at .
special meeting of the Spokane County
Medical society and the faculty Of 90
physicians was appointed.
w. j. Shaughnessy, formerly nub.
Usher of the Kennewick Courier Voc
killed on the railroad four miles aaot
OF Prosser last week. 1t is supposed
he was either struck by a train or
fell off while riding on a train. His
body was found completely cut in two
Within the past four months four
times as many inspections of dairies
and creameries have been made in
Washington as were made in the nre.
ceding six years." says l.. Davies
state dairy and pure food commits.
sioner
The state railroad commission has
appointed o. o. Calderhead an exnert
on railroad freight rates. He was for.
merly cashier for the Northern Pa.
cific Railroad company.
After searching for four months for
their brother, Thomas E. Jones. who
was reported to be MORALLY wounded
IN the mountains of Idaho, near Spo.
kane, Mrs. William Martin and Mrs
Georgia Neyin of Denver have given
up the quest without securing trace
Of Jones.
Lieutenant d. C. McClelland of Com.
pany e, at Fort Wright, has returned
S44O, Company Els missing funds.
Cleaning day in Spokane, last Satur-
day, was pronounced a success.
The permitting of gambling in their
places will prove quite an expensive
luxury to the proprietors of the five
saloons in Walla Walla, whose licenses
were revoked by the council. The to-
tai amount forfeited by reason of the
revocation of licenses is $204550
George Raymond of Seattle has
made one of the largest purchases of
wheat land that has taken place in
the Alto vicinity in a long time, when
he closed a deal for the Charley lobe
place of 100 acres at $40 an acre, or
about $4,000 for the ranck.
The railroad commission has accept
ed the resignation of j. Will Lysons,
temporary secretary, to take effect on
April l, 1906, and elected Clinton A.
Snowden of Tacoma permanent secre-
tary; selected o. o. Calderhead of
Seattle as expert employee; made Mrs.
G. e. Van Etten, permanent clerk at
an increase in salary of 500 per
year, or a total of $1,000, and voted to
employ Mr.. Snowden as clerk from
January l to April l, at salary Of
800 per month. 4
A syndicate composed of David t.
Ham, E. A. Torrance, F. d. Garrett,
c. l.. Hoffman, Aaron Kuhn and w.
S. Yearsley. has purchased 5000 acres
of land in southern Alberta, N. w. T.,
for 100000.
Tacoma grain buyers who are said
to belong to the combine are noncom-
initial over the opinion of the assis-
tant attorney general that the compact
said to have been entered into by
millers and buyers is in restraint of
trade, as contemplated in the inter-
state commerce law, prohibiting such
combinations. Those who say anything
at all are inclined to consider the
matter as a joke.