Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-03-24
NIEVsOf NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
ann OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
!. Few Interesting Items Gathered
erom our Exchanges of the Sur
,oundinq Country--Numerous Acct.
dsnts and Personal Events Take
p,ace--FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Seattle is to have a garbage plant
and municipal crematory.
Much of the wheat in the Palouse
section was injured by the recent cold
weather.
Friends and acquaintance of DR.
lanes M. Allen, the veteran minister
If the Christian church of Spokane
who died last week, paid tribute OF
love and respect at his bier in the Cen
tral Christian church Sunday after
noon.
veterinary surgeon states that the
horses around Reardan were poisoned
by eating straw on which there was
fungus growth.
Gilbert Cowles, the Yakima city
school board clerk who forged war
rants, has been senteiced to five years
in the penitentiary.
Spokane men have filed articles OF
Incorporation at Olympia for the In.
land Thresher company, to engage in
the manufacture of motor driven
thresher machines.
Whitman college won the debate
with the Washington State college
elementary school
George Brouchou, who resided in
the Yakima valley, was frozen to
death during the late cold snap He
started for his home across lots, and
falling to appear, search was made
resulting in the finding of his body.
NJ. e. Mergens, until few days age
station agent with the Great North
ern railway at Marysville, is in the
county Jail at Everett charged with
embezzlement of $153 of the com
pany's receipts.
purchasing agency of the com
missary department of the United
States army is to be established al
Seattle Immediately.
The controlling interest in the Mo
ran shipbuilding plant in Seattle has
been sold by Moran brothers to the
Griscoms of Philadelphia. The sum
involved Is between two and three mil
Ions The Morans will complete the
battleship Nebraska.
The state supreme court by recent
decision sustained the constitutional
ity Of the state inheritance tax law.
Attorney General Atkinson has pre-
pared formal complaint asking fol
permanent injunction to prevent the
destruction of Castle Rock, the ia
nous landmark on the Columbia river
above Portland.
Mayor Ballinger Of Seattle last Sat
urday issued an order to the police
TO put an end to dice playing at cigar
stands and all other forms of gambling
operated by retail cigar men
Farmers who believe their whea
will have to be resown are buyinl
seed and getting ready to sommenct
work when the STOW disappears.
The severe cold has undoubtedly
damaged early fruits and the fall sowr
wheat is retarded in its growth, bu
the general opinion of the whea
ranchers is that the wheat is not seri
ously damaged.
Members of the Woman's Temper
ance union have drawn up a petition
to Governor Mead to be presented t
the various churches Sunday, asking
for the parole and release from the
penitentiary of Myrtle Upton, th'
young girl convicted in Whitman
county of horse stealing and sentenced
to term of two years.
Unexpected demands for coal dur
ing the recent cold snap completely ex
hausted the supplies and these have
not been replenished.
Attorney H. ]. Snively Of Nortf
Yakima, whose residence was com
pletely destroyed by fire recently, will
soon commence the construction of {
handsome stone residence upon thu
old site on Mob Hill Mr.. Snively esti
mates his loss, after the payment o
the insurance policies, at $500.
His neck broken and his feet touch
Ing the ground, w. A. Holland of Ia
coma was found hanging by slende
cord tied to a small limb of tree II
the woods north of the new Tacom;
high school building
A number of hop contracts have re
Gently been made by growers in Yak
ma county for this years crop at i
cents a pound. Last year the aver
age sum received by the growers wa
about 10 cents, while for 1904 it wa
~ cents or over.
completely exhausted, after a sevel
nour battle with a seven foot shark
Patrick Sullivan and w. ID. Yates pull
ed their boat into Seattle
An immense flow of water has beel
struck at the well being drilled b.
L. 5. Green for the city on A stree
in Ballard.
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