Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-01-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Official announcement that inteIcol-
legiate football has been prohibited at
Harvard by vote of the board of over
seers, until the game is reformed, is
made. The announcement made known
the action taken by the board at their
secret meeting held recently.
Eleven of the stars of the Pacific
coast league of 905 will play ball in
the major leagues this coming season.
Never before in history of baseball
have the American and National lea
CUES made such inroads as they have
this year on the circuit of the far west.
Paris. Ina 500 point billiard match
Monday FIR the championship of the
world between Maurice Vigneux of
Paris and Willie Hoppe the latter won
by III points.
That the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul main line will not pass through
Spokane has been made known by the
Golfers of the company. A spur branch
line, however, will run into Spokane,
connecting it with the main line. No
reason is given for this route.
Northern Pacific engineers laying
out the building of the Yakima valley
railroad have practically blocked the
Chicago, milwaukee & st. Paul out of
the Naches pass and forced the select
ion of the Snoqualmie gateway to the
Sound. Coast officials of the new
transcontinental line are making prep
arations for the use of Snoqualmie pass
and only showing of impossibility in
grades or some new advantage in
Naches pass will change the present
plan.
A 30 cent rate is in force now on
minimum shipment of "a tons to the
carload ,on timothy seed from Spoka ne,
Council Moscow and Lewiston to Port
land. A rate of SO cents hundred ON
condensed milk shipments from Rich
mond and Logan, Utah, to Spokane
went into effect recently.
A new Spokane train west to Leav-
enworth, Wash. will probably be in
stalled by the Great Northern Sunday.
1t will leave Spokane at D. IN. and
will arrive at Leavenworth at mid
night.
The work now being done by the
government at Box canyon on the
Pend d'Oreille river, will be completed
by the end of March, and the canyon
will be navigable at that time, accord
ing to statement made yesterday by
ID. ID. Birks, who has recently returned
from a trip up the Pend d 'Oreille.
American trade with China has
fallen off 80 ner cent in the past year,
according TO the estimate of Samuel
Glasgow, secretary and treasurer of
the Centennial Mill company at Spo-
kane.
d. G. Corbin of Spokane and his
associates have just completed the pur-
base of / z square miles of coal lands
in the Crow Nest district of British
Columbia for about 100000. The
property was bought from AL Page of
Wardner, Idaho, and the Langley Bros.
of Granbrook, b. G.
Henry Pratt Judson. head of the de-
partment of political science and dean
of the faculties of the University of
Chicago, has been appointed acting
president of that institution.
Baker City, Ore.-T. j. Marium, an
old miner of this county, who has been
treasurer of Bourne Miners union No.
AZ, Western Federation, since its or.
gan2ation some four or five years ago,
has been lodged in Jail in default of
$500 bail. He is charged with the en-
bezzlement of $46S.
Protests loud and insistent come from
Chicago pulpits against the lawless
conditions which were held responsible
for the murder of Mrs. Frank HOLSTER.
This crime, added TO the killing OF
three other women within few
months, reused the ministers and con.
gregations to demand that better pro.
lection be given by the police tc
women.