Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-03-03
WASHINGTON NOTES.

logging camp at Startup, Snohors.,
county, Wash, few days ago.
The reunion of the veterans ., !,
Civil and Spanish-American wars was
pleasant affair at Waitsburv las
week last
The farmers of Walla Walla corn..
have been selling wheat In smau ~.
from day to day for the mast to~'
weeks until 1t is estimated by dealer.
that there is not to exceed Is ~ %
per cent of the 1905 crop left.
1t is officially stated that the no..
annual encampment of the Department
of Washington and Alaska, G. Ap
is to be held at Walla Walla, on limo
| rs, 26 and 27
Word comes from Bellingham tbo,
the scheme to raise a subsidy NJ q,
OOO,0 900 for railway line between thot
city and Spokane has failed for tho
lack of support, less than $3O0oOo
having been subscribed toward tba
project
High school students who struck az
Tacoma for a Washington's birthday
holiday are being suspended as fast
as their names are learned.
Kittitas county is yearly increasing
| its fruit production and it is believed
that more fruit trees will be plantad
| this year than during any previous
year
The Pacific Coast Lumber Mann.
facturers' association has agreed tn
| the recommendation of the price list
committee, making an advance of 80
a thousand on the existing lumber
| schedules.
Secretary Hitchcock has ordered the
| cancellation of the Washington state
| selection in the Yakima valley. The
| selection embraces about $4,000 acres
and was rejected by the interior de.
partment because it was in conflict
| with government irrigation work.
Responsive to a movement begun
In Seattle to contribute 1000 tons Of
Washington wheat to the famine
stricken sufferers of Japan Judge
Chadwick of Colfax has begun
vigorous and systematic effort in
| Whitman county to raise its propor.
| ton.
The Big Bend railway is having
rails hauled from Davenport to where
the grading is going on for their cleo
trio line a few miles north of the
town.
Two Japanese laborers, Y. Yamam
OTTO and G. Ibosi were thawing out
dynamite in shack near Tacoma
| recently when % sticks exploded
Ibosi, was killed instantly and Va
mamoto, who was seriously injured, is
still alive.
Harriet Richards, a school teacher
23 years of age from Clifford, Mo
| committed suicide in Spokane last
Saturday morning by drinking two
ounces of carbolic acid. Despondency
over i'll health is the supposed reason.
E. P. ONe", right of way attorney
for the Northern Pacific, with head
quarters at Tacoma, is now securing
right of way for an extension Of the
Northern Pacific from Pasco to Ri
paria, Wash.
While the three big lumber associa
tions on the coast increased prices on
the fir products and tilted the cost Of
ties 81 a thousand feet to become ef-
fective at once, the raise will not az
feet the wholesale prices on lumber in
this part of the country.
William Bartlett and Lauren Barnett
| the boys who attempted to wreck the
o. r. & N. train and were sentenced Z
to one year in the county Jail, have
been released Several neighbors Of
the Barnett boys family, living near
st. john visited Colfax and urged
| Judge Chadwick to release the boys
Mrs. Barnett is said to be almost E
mental wreck because of her son be &
ing in Jail and it was feared she would s
go insane.
Washington State college and the
University of Idaho will not hold Their
regular annual debate this year. The
debate council of the University
Idaho has cancelled the date.
Mischievous youngsters are believed
to have set in motion the Great North
ern locomotive, which crashed into the
Oregon Railway &C Navigation com
pany's passenger train at the junction
near Spokane last week, plotting ouI
one life and injuring three Others
lack Taylor, the station agent at the
junction, who was injured by being bill
on the head by flying trunk, died
few hours later
G. B. Bussel and Andrew Webbef
capitalists of Seattle, will build
$4,000 canning factory at Morn
Yakima this year.
The plat of the townsite having ~
| southwest corner IL miles due east o.
Bossburg, in Stevens county, will
filed in the United States land ONCE
in Spokane on April 6. Actual settlers
will be allowed three months alsi
April 6 to make their filings, and y.
state of Washington will be allowed
days in which to offer selection nsp
of unoccupied lands.