Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-14
.NEWSOFN 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 ITEMS.

Steel is now eight miles from Mid
way on the Vancouver, Victoria d
Eastern railway.
John Hedman was drowned recent
ly in the Columbia river three miles
west of Columbus.
The firm of Cooper & Levy of Sc
attic has been arrested and fined for
each of the various buildings they
rent for immoral purposes.
Representative Jones has taken up
with Governor Mead the feasibility of
appropriating state funds for a topo-
graphic survey OF Washington.
E. Riste, superintendent of the We
natchee schools, has rendered his res
Ignation. Miss Ida NJ. Case, principal
of the high school, has also resigned.
w. j. Downing, a laborer at a rail-
road camp lear P~enewawa, dropped
dead recently while at work. Death
is supposed to be due to the extreme
heat.
Mrs. Henry Strohm of Dayton,
Wash, was recently placed under
$500 bonds for shooting the ~10-year-
old son of j. NJ. Dunlap with a % cal
iber rifle, The boy had annoyed her.
Marion A. Mulroney, formerly a
Plaza boy, but o in charge of the
wireless telegraph service on the U.
S. S. Boston, is only 20 year of age.
He learned the Morse system of teleg-
raphy at his home in Plaza, Wash.
The officials of the Sound single
mills bureau admit that it is the in
|tention of single manufacturers
throughout the state generally to try
and resume operations this week with
non-union men.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of j. F. Kennedy of Lewiston,
a surveyor, who has been employed
by l., S, Wilson, in charge of a sur
veying crew for the Northern Pacific
near Marshall, Wash.
In a row recently over changing a
team with which Sol McGrith was
hauling water for Fred Hopkins at
the latter's farm near Walla Walla.
McGrith fired three shots from a SO
caliber revolver point blank at Hop
kins' head at close range, two of
! which took effect with probably fatal
result.
First gashing his throat with a
razor, T%russaint Beaudry, aged So, q
leaped into an irrigating ditch at
North Yakima and drowned himself in
a foot of water. On account of i'll
ness he had scarcely slept for 10
days and vas temporarily insane.
Two electric cars on the Point De-
iance line at Tacoma were in a head
on collision Sunday and five passen-
gers and one employee were injured.
The body of Max Papineau of Pax
ton, H., son of a manufacturer there,
vas found OF top of a w%estbound pas
senger coach Sunday at Seattle. 1t is
supposed that he was beating his way.
The c%oroner's jury at Asotin, after
investigating the cause of the death
of Christian Blomond, alias Friend
Stang, leader of the three Jail break
ers, returned a verdict that he came
to his death by a gunshot wound in
ficted by Harry Draper of Spokane,
while acting under the authority of
Sheriff r. H. Richards.
G. Meade Emery, a distinguished
lawyer of Seattle, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded at his residence
in that city Saturday night by Ches-
ter Thompson, a University of Wash
ington student and son of Will II.
Thompson, former attorney for the
Great Northern Railroad company.
The cause was infatuation for Char
lotte Whittlesey, niece of the stricken
man, who had denied his attentions
and then asked her uncle that her ad-
mirer be denied admittance should he
desire to see her. Judge Emery was
shot down on his own Threshold
while attempting to restrain Thomp-
son from entering the residence.
The hot weather in the Yakima val
of fish in the Yakima river. Wagon
loads of dead fish have lodged against
the different dams and the farmers
are hauling them away for fertilizer.
Frank B. Bonner, formerly of Spo-
kane, was drowned at South Bend Sat
urday night.
Barney Leroy Layman was instantly
killed by lightning recently three
miles east of T%oppenish. He was 16
years old. A younger brother stand
ing near was shocked, but recovered.
The state still holds Soap lake. The
rnnnrfa1 ca1O ~F pio,u;nn .s~l4. -.o.,nr
to be false.
OREGON NOTES.