The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-08-29
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PALOUSE.-w. A. Nichols. a far
mer living on Fourmile, six miles west
Of this city. committed suicide Fri
day morning about Q o'clock, by shoot
ing himself in the head with an old
fashioned needle gun.
wALLA wALLA.-The barn on the
ranch of Mrs. Croker, near Eureka
Junction, was struck by a bolt of
lightning during the storm Wednesday
night. Two men who were unhitch-
ing a team near the barn were
knocked down. but were not seriously
injured.
OLYMPIA.-As a result Of confer
ence in Olympia at which 80 per cent
Of the Puget sound oyster brokerage
association has been formed and In
the future Olympia oysters and the
transplanted eastern oysters grown in
the sound will be marketed through q
sales agency representing all the oys-
ter growers in the association.
ONCONULLY.-An exhibition of the
kind Of riding that has made the cav
airy of the United States army famous
throughout the world, will be given at
the Labor Day celebration at Con-
conully, September 8 and 4. Two ex-
cavalrymen of the regular army will
give what Is known in the service as
the monkey drill, being a number OF
tricks of equestrianism with trained
horses.
BLAINE.-Rebekah Milhollin. the 49,
year-old daughter of John Milhollin,
Of this city, was badly burned while
lighting fire in her fathers home in
Blaine. Mis- Milhollin had large
amount of paper in the stove. In
lighting, It in some manner set her
clothing afre Her mother, who was
in an adjoining room, heard the girl
scream and went to her assistance.
Mrs. Milhollin, in extinguishng the
flames. was also burned.
ELLENSBURG.-J. l.. Mills, w. D.
FILLMORE and S. w. Maxey are spon-
sors for a movement that will likely
result in an organization being ef-
fected of the pioneers of this county.
A meeting will be held in this city at
an early date for the purpose OF COM
pleting the organization, and also to
arrange for an annual reunion. Such
a plan was once started in the valley
and a picnic held, but nothing further
was done.
TACOMA-G. Ogaki. Japanese
who was sent to the hospital for the
insane at Steilacoom from Seattle sew
eral months ago. committed suicide
Sunday afternoon. He tore strip
from a blanket and slipping one end
Of 1t around his neck, tied the other
end to the iron bed rail. He then
crawled underneath the bed until the
rope was stretched taut and choked
to death. His body was found on the
hands and knees and straining against
the rope. He leaves a widow In Seat
tie.
GARFIELD.-Mrs. p. Routzahn. with
the assistance OF her 10-year-old son,
has just completed a veranda around
the east side Of her house on Second
street, which for workmanship will
compare favorably with the efforts of
the best carpenters in Whitman
county Mrs. Rotzahn Is the only wo-
man carpenter in the Palouse country,
and II she desired to follow that busi-
day for her work.
CHENEY.-Mark Lipscombe was
shot and killed in a saloon brawl Sat-
urday afternoon at Tyler, a small place
twelve miles west Of here. Bartender
Theodore Thurman, who did the shoot
ing, made his escape. and at last re-
ports had not been captured. Blood
hounds are on his trail. Thurman has
a wife working in a Spokane laundry,
and three small children. who live In
Tyler. Lipscombe had been working
as a harvest hand here. He Is be-
lieved to have come from Cleveland,
o. He was about "a years old and un-
married.
CENTRALIA.-P. c. Sorensen, an
old man living In Seller Valley about
four miles from Centralia. shot and
killed himself Friday afternoon. So
rensen was respondent over the fact
that he was a victim OF cancer. which
was making life unbearable for him.
self and relatives. For years he has
been under treatment for cancer
which appeared over his right eve. and
lately he had suffered so much that,
crazed with pain, 1t Is believed, he
killed himself Deputy Coroner II. l.,
Mead, of Centralia, went out to investi-
gate the case this evening. Sorensen