Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-04-14
WASHINGTON NorEa

1o1 vaarS e ~, NOston OF Spokane will !.
The battleship Oregon Is a. g.
where she will undergo repairs sue
Extensive improvements 80
made in the reads leading into co ~ %
Governor Mead has returned t'laa'
after. several weeks visit in ca,s
mia. NaiiIor-
Citizens of Seattle are organ;,,.
rect primary leagues in every wars VI !,
that city. '"iu IN
Inc Prosser school bond election ;.
vote Sl2,OO0 for a new brick bp,,d,.N
was carried by vote of IS to az
Archibald r. Voliva. one of ~
known bartenders in North Yakima es .
first cousin of w. Glenn Voliva -,
has succeeded Dowie as leader =, az
sect. u 'ie
Using a stove poker as their o,,.
tool, prisoners in the old Yakima coun
W Jail had started to dig TO freador.
Before tney had made much headwa.
they were detected.
The International Anticivaro..
league Is sending to Spokane ito 0aa
eral superintendent, Rev. Wallace D
Struble, to engage in crusade against
smoking by minors.
1t is said that reckless automobiles.
who use the Tacoma public streeto -.
speeding will either have to run at
slow speed while within the CITY limits
or suffer the penalty of arrest,
Agent Jay Lynch of the Yakima In
dian reservation, has received an mr.
der from the Indian bureau to confls
cate the drug stores on the reservation
which have been selling whisky 10
Indians.
When inmates of state institutions
commit suicide and the coroner CON.
ducts an inquest the coroner must he
paid by the county and not by the
state, according to an opinion rendered
by Attorney General Atkinson.
Archie Griffin, who escaped from the
Oroville Jail recently and was reported
to have broken his neck by fall over
the cliff at McLaughlin's canyon, is
still alive and well ahead of the sher.
IFS posse on the Colville reservation
information from all parts of the
Yakima valley point to a record break.
ing fruit crop in this section Further
examination of the trees shows that
the apricot trees are the only ones
damaged to any appreciate extent by
the March freeze.
The new cruiser Washington, which
has just been completed for the United
States government, is in readiness for
her speed trials, which will take
place during the week. The Washing
ton contract calls for a minimum
speed OF % knots per hour.
N. NJ. Cole, 68 years of age, FAM
iliarly known as Mes" a rancher, liy.
ing half a mile from the mouth OF the
Little Spokane, 10 miles from Spokane,
has disappeared amid circumstances
strongly suggestive of foul play He
has been missing from. his cabin SING
Wednesday evening, March %.
In order to break into the Elk lodge
rooms in the fifteenth story of the
Alaska building, in Seattle, a daring
burglar recently climbed up the fire
escape from the court to the top floor
and in that way gained easy entrance
He pried open the secretary's desk
and took about $40, overlooking 5000
which was a few inches from the
smaller sum.
Two batallions of coored troops
with regimental headquarters and the
band for Fort Wright, at Spokane, is
the latest.
The sheep on the mountain ranges
are particularly fat and the wool ex
ceptionally fine this spring. Though
the winter was no milder than usual
the sheep came through it in good
shape, and the losses were few Geo.
w. Lowden of Loomis lost but one eve
out of flock of 2050 head and the ex
perience of other stockmen was sim.
liar 1t is estimated that there will be
crop of 10000 pounds of high grade
wool from Okanogan county this shear
ing.
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