Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-10-26
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! WAS YIN a 4 NEWS
A nursery company of Sunnyside has
secured seven tons of peach pits for
their next seasons planting. They ex-
| pect to grow half a million trees from
| this lot. From one sack of pits this
season this company grew $500 trees.
S. A. Bowers, who owns quarter
section of land four miles east of Pa
| louise, has a sack containing 20 pota-
toes, which weighed so pounds. The
| largest tuber weighed four pounds.
| Christ Rukus, a Greek laborer, aged
| % years, employed in the Oregon Rail-
road q Navigation extra grang at
| Meeker's station, on the o. r. & N.
railroad, four miles west of La Crosse
was accidentally shot and instantly
killed by his 15-year-old nephew, name
unknown. recently.
The Spokane postOfIice is now doing
a business of upward of $7,000,000 a
year.
After being arrested in Spokane, M.
T. Brown, who was wanted at Taco
ma on the charge of stealing about
$500 from the Northern Pacific depot
at Tacoma, escaped from the officers.
Later he was located at Bellingham,
but succeeded in getting away before
the officers secured him. He is still
at large.
DR.. John A. Crosse, a farmer near
Starbuck. lost about $500 by fire
which started on top of haystack
and burned IS tons of hay recently.
Judge J. A. Taggard, who is said to
have united in marriage more couples
than any other man in the state, is
dead at North Yakima as the result of
an operation on one of his eyes.
Caught by a revolving shaft in the
mill of the Puget Sound Lumber COM
pany, on the Tacoma waterfront, Thad-
deus H. Ward was beheaded and every
yestige of clothing was stripped from
his body.
George Bald, aged 65 years, commit
ted suicide recently at his home at
Cornell. He had been sick for two
weeks with asthma and had other
troubles.
Alleged to be short in his accounts
at least $40, H. B. Messenger, book
keeper for the Frye-Bruhn Packing
company at Everett, has disappeared.
AS a remedy for the prevailing hop
conditions, dealers in North Yakima
have been urged to assist in organic.
ing a pool to dispose of the crop for
thiC RI ba ol
John Price and Roy Connell both
recently convicted at Pendleton of
horse stealing, were sentenced to five
and three years, respectively in the
penitentiary.
The new 60gallon chemical fire en-
CINE ordered several months ago by
the Toppenish council has arrived.
Lumber has declined in price until
common dimension stuff can now be
purchased from the mills in Tacoma at
$13 and $14 thousand, this being SO
and $4 below the figures quoted a few
months ago.
The September report of the State
Soldiers home at Orting, made by SUI
perintendent Willis l.. Ames to the
state board of control shows on the
last day of the month 256 veterans in
the institution, 81 in the colony and
lib on parole, a total of 400 on the
rolls.
In rage of jealousy, John Schwab.
a young Slovenian of ROslyn, recently
shot and instantly killed his young
wife and then turned the weapon up-
on himself, with the result that he al
so died few hours afterward. The
young people had only been married
two months, and report has it that the
husband was insanely jealous of his
young bride, and owing to her persis-
tence in speaking to old acquaintances.
II is supposed they quarreled and in his
rage he took the life of his companion.
The Kennewick volunteer fire de-
partment has adopted resolutions re-
questing the town council to order an
paratus to the extent of about $500.
| Unable to get hay balers, the ranch
ers of Green valley have banded them
| selves together, and have bought
machine which they will operate
themselves. The ranchers in that dis
trict have in the neighborhood of 1000
tons of hay on the ground, and there
are no baling machines in sight.
Wheat hauling from the Glade and
other grain sections tributary to Nab
ton is now at its height, and there are
from IS TO 100 loads brought in each
day.
IDAHO NEWS.