Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-06-16
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
And OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
. Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NovEa.

annual picnic at Medical Lake was a
great success.
Tacona's mayor has put himself
on record as in favor of saloon and
restaurant boxes.
Excellent work is being done on the
wagon roads leading into Colfax from
the surrounding country
The Everett Milling company will
begin the erection this week of a
targe grain warehouse at Ephrata.
G. e. Briggs, a well to do rancher
Of the upper Methow valley, and a
pioneer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself recently
The finding of John Carrolls body
in Garrison creek, near Walla Walla,
removes all doubt as to the aged milk
mans death. He disappeared May 20.
Kettle Falls citizens have voted
that the district be bond
ID for $1,000 to build an addition to
he large school building and establish
1 high school
George Taylor, engineer on the
Mclnnis Lumber company's tug Sa-
retta was killed in an unknown man
ner on the boat about four miles be-
low Newport.
Governor Mead today granted a
parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles
w. Hamlin, who was sentenced in
=" hatcom county Oh August 6, 1902, to
IA years for robbery.
The prosecuting attorneys of the
state will hold a convention at
Everett on July IL, IS, and IA in
connection with the eighteenth annual
session of the State Bar association.
A well dressed man who committed
suicide at the Tacoma hotel has been
identified as William Campbell Beas-
ley, publisher of the Commonwealth
Magazine of Seattle. His former
home was in Peoria, ILL.,
Twenty farmers of the Kittitas val
ley have formed an association and
purchased Samson De Thcrembrais,
an imported Belgian stallion, from Nc
Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio,
for $4,000.
One of the largest realty transfers
was the sale of the Bounds rapch in
-Selah valley by p A. Bounds to Ur-
ban Ditman, a widely known stock
man, for $30,S00.
Theodore Strong, laborer in the
EricksOn-Peterson construction gang
on the o. w. & l. road at Riparia,
met with a serious accident recently
which will neccessitate the amputa-
ton of his left leg above the knee.
1t is announced that Samuel A.
Wells, former receiver of the Spokane
land office, has been nominated by
gene B. Hyde, the present receiver,
who succeeded Mr.. Wells four years
ago.
Thirty-six of the 81 counties of
Washington were represented at the
first annual convention of farmers
held under the auspices of the Wash
ington State college. Okanogan
county was the only one not sending
delegation.
One hundred and fifty farmers met
IN Cunningham Saturday and voted to
ouiid farmers elevator Steel stor-
age tanks will be put up to handle the
oiop' All the wheat will be handled
- puiA. Ihls does away with what
'ne turner's call the sack graft"
Mahaser Lennox of the oroposed
whitman county fair has beep work.
ing hard laying plans for the event
he has about decided to hold tho soir
the first week in October, The nrizes
will be more valuable and cove -
larger number of displays than evar
before.
Wenatchee valley fruit growers are
receiving higher prices for fruit this
year than ever before, the prices up
to date averaging so per cent higher
than those paid last year. The We
natchee Valley Fruit Growers asso-
citation, an organization of the grow
ers of the Wenatchee and Columbia
valleys, controlling SIS per cent of the
fruit raised in the Wenatchee valley,
is doing the work.
A. A. Armstrong, who killed Robert
Patton near Aberdeen three years ago,
was hanged at the penitentiary Fri
day morning at 526 o'clock. The
execution was successful in every de-
tail. The mans neck was broken by
the fall and death came in Is minutes.
Although 60 years old he bravely met
death
Engineers of the reclamation SER
vice are measuring the area of lands
contracted for the Tieton project. Ap-
proximately, 24,000 acres will be re-
claimed by this project, of which about
95 per cent has been subscribed. This
is all the government requires, but
some of the land subscribed may be
shown by engineers to be unsuited,
which will necessitate additions to the
land already contracted.
OREGON ITEMS.
John Bear shot and killed Brick "
| TzIuaox. Monday NIGHT in the Otis sa-