Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-03-17
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
place-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Fourteen convicts were taken to-.
the penitentiary Saturday by Travel
ing guards Esterbrook and Chalott
and Deputy Sheriff Chef Bedding of
Seattle. There are $40 convicts serv-
ing sentences at the penitentiary and
"a out on parole.
Jay p Graves of Spokane has pur-
chased the tremendous falls In the Co.
lumbia river above Kettle Falls,
Wash, 100 miles north of Spokane,
for $4,000. He expects to develop 1t
into one of the greatest electric prop
critics in America. Although the falls
are SO immense that it is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the flow, there Is
believed to be a minimum of 10000
to 100000 horse power at low water.
The supreme court, in a decision
handed down recently, sustained the
lower court in finding L. M. Poole of
Spokane guilty of living off the earn
ings of a fallen woman, and in SEN
fencing him to five years imprison-
ment.
The North Coast road is not only an
assured fact but it has been definitely
stated by President Robert E. Stra-
horn that North Yakima is to be the
main division point between the two
terminals. Walla Walla and Seattle.
While lying fiat on the floor of the
first story of the Merle Heany Manu-
featuring company's building with
their heads projecting over freight
elevator shaft, directing streams of
water into the basement, where fire
broke out recently Lieutenant Charles
Kirk and Pipeman Herman Larson of
the Seattle fire department, were
caught under the elevator and receiv-
ed serious injuries.
The Tacoma republican convention
has nominated for mayor, r. L. Nc
Cormick; treasurer, Ray Freeland;
comptroller, John Mead.
In response to a request for an
opinion on the subject. Attorney Gen
eral Atkinson has advised the board
OF control that the grain bags manu-
featured at the Walla Walla peniten-
tiary can be sold only to actual con.
sumers who are residents of the
state.
full-fedged opium den, with some
of the paraphernalia still in sight, was
discovered in Seattle recently in a
Chinese laundry
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the so-called pedlers'
licene law of 1905, under the prov-
sions of which pedlers were required
to pay license fee of 5000 in each
county in the state in which they car
RED on bushes.
Judge Moore, mayor elect of Seat
tie, says he will close all forms of
gambling down tight in Seattle.
The supreme court has rendered
decision knocking out as unconstitu.
tional the plumbers license law.
The lewiston Charleston company is
employing 125 men laying the new
pipe line from Asotin creek to irrigate
Vineland. Five miles of the work is
finished.
Tumbleweeds and Chinese lettuce
which have been long a pest to far
mers of Harrington section, are re-
ported to be worse than ever
The state land commissioners Of
fce has made the regular monthly set
tement with the state treasurer with
total remittance of $137, 459.37, the
principal items being the current
school fund collection, $29 3S1.70; the
permanent school fund. $50, 40S.71, and
the tide land fund, which goes into
the states general fund, $45,09740.
The contract for the construction
OF the new armory building at Spo-
Kane has been let. Price $4,000.
A travelling man named Staulding
was robbed of $106 in cash and $1,000
IN checks by burglars who entered
MS room at Aberdeen.
The supreme court has decided that
"here a boundary line between two
tracts Of land has been fixed by mu-
tual consent between the owners and
remains the recognized dividing line
ior period of 20 years, in fact it
oecomes the actual boundary, not
outstanding subsequent govern
hlent survey finds it is wrongly locat-
ed.
Jay 2. Graves has bought from
frank T, Hogan the Bowl and Pitch
:. power site, seven miles down the
i'ver from Spokane, for $4,000.
Inc apples on sale at the depot
news stand at North Yakima are a
e'eat attraction to homeseekers in
Transit. The medium sized apples
,uoy purchased for eating, while the
aiser ones. which are curiosity to
s.olh' tney secure for souvenirs. Some
:. .he travellers willingly pay Is ceuts
h Tor the large specimens.
OREGON ITEMS.
,aomas Ferguson. a rs year old vet