Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-30
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES.
An epidemic of meningitis is rag.
ing at Seattle.
The president has appointed L. c.
Weik postmaster at Odessa, Wash.
An officer to trace cars will be re.
established by the Great Northern in
Spokane.
The grand nest of the Brotherhood
OF Owls has moved from Walla Walla
to Seattle.
Building contractors of Walla Walla
claim that a sand trust has been or
ganized in that city.
The Stevens county sawmills are
preparing, almost as a whole, to start
work saving on April /.
Secretary Taft, Governor Hughes
and Governor Folk may visit this
state during the coming summer.
The first steel passenger coach to
come to Spokane arrived Saturday
over the o. R. & ~ from Portland.
The first strawberry of the season
has made its appearance in the Hover
end OF the Kennewick-Hover valley.
EVERY physician in North Yakima
is violating the state law because
they have not registered their license.
The Northern Pacific announces
that on March % the resumption of
| through freight east will be resumed.
There is no longer any doubt about
the Canadian Pacific using the O. r.
& N. tracks from Spokane to Port.
land
Jennie Jackson, an unmarried In
dian woman living on the Puyallup
| reservation, was recently killed by a
| train.
The plumbers union of Spokane is
said to have decided to raise the scale
of wages from $3.50 to Sc for a day of
eight hours.
Fred Miller, murderer of Fritz Diertz
was hung at the penitentiary Friday
He totally collapsed at sight Of the
| rope and tainted.
A tract of SO acres of land near
Cornell has been selected by the state
college for the experimental purposes
during the coming season.
| The Columbia club of Vancouver is
a recently organized club of Vancou-
yer for the purpose of promoting the
commercial interests of Vancouver.
W. NJ. Allen, chief clerk in the Uni
ted States land Office at Waterville for
the past six years, has received no.
tice of his transfer to the Seattle Of
fee.
The general land office has just is
sued a circular announcing that no
definite date can be named for open
ing the Yakima reservation for settle
ment.
Missing for two weeks, and believed
to have met with foul play, N. P.
Nelson, bachelor living recently in
Seattle, is being sought for by his
| friends.
The disagreement between the Sc
attic master builders association and
the building trades assembly on the
scale of wages for unskilled labor has
now reached point where there is
| little prospect of any settlement.
Washington, says the Railway Age,
the foremost authority on railroad
matters, leads the world in the num-
| Der of miles of roadway under con-
struction, 900. Of this amount, Mes
srs. Hill and Hartman are behind the
building of no miles.
Whitman County Notes.
Augustus Motz has been appointed
postmaster at Elberton.
The poll tax collectors are now max
ing their rounds throughout the
county.
Calvin McCracken, former pioneer
resident Of Whitman county, passed
away at his home in Charleston recent
| ly.
The 26th session of the Whitman
County Teachers institute is in ses-
sion this week, $50 teachers are pres
ent.
The Colfax Commercial club has or
dered 10000 copies Of a pamphlet
advertising Colfax and Whitman
county.
Judge Chadwick of Colfax was the
first to enforce the insanity plea law
now upheld by the supreme court Of
the United States.
Committees have been appointed to
formulate plans for celebrating in
Colfax the SSth anniversary of the
founding of Odd Fellowship in Ameri-
ca. This occurred in Baltimore April
&c, 1919.
The Palouse river broke out of its
banks recently in North Colfax, owing
to a log jam that had formed in the
river. AS result four houses of the
flooded district have foot of water in
them, though the water is slowly sub
siding.
In the death of John Bryant, better
known as Grandpa" Bryant, Whitman
county loses one of the oldest settlers
and best known characters. Mr.. Bry-
ant was "a years old on March 3.
James Bunch, who is awaiting trial
at Colfax upon the charge OF assault
with a deadly weapon with intent 10
inhict bodily injury, and who is the
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