Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The school for the feeble minded :.
Medical Lake has 124 attendants
Samuel McCauley has been appoir,
ed regular rural carrier at Dayton
The embargo on through easthoura
dead freight, in effect west of White
fish, Mont, since January 2. will \.
lifted March Is.
Victor Dessert, owner of the pao,a.
hotel and a pioneer resident of Sno
kane, died recently. His fortune was
rated at $750000.
The funeral of II. G. Stimmel who
died in Seattle, was held Sunday aft.
ernoon at Spokane, where he had made
his home for % years.
A cooperative store, with a capital
stock OF $4,000, fully subscribed. is To
conduct a general merchandise buei,
ness in Harrington.
A number of schoolgirls in Wana
Walla, ranging in age from 10 to IL
years, have been stealing small arti.
Giles from the different stores in town
John H. English, aged IS years, who
lived south Of Palouse, was found dead
recently at the foot of a bluff along
the Palouse river just east of the city
limits.
The case against a Tacoma skating
rink proprietor who kept his place omen
on Sunday has been dismissed. The
court held the prosecution had failed
to make a case.
The February report from Medical
Lake hospital for the insane shows an
average attendance Of 526 patients
with 16 new ones, six discharged and
two deaths.
1t now appears that Washington will
be divided into three congressional dis
tricts, one east of the mountains and
two west. Klickitat will be in the
Pierce county district.
Roy N. Wolfe, who was selected last
December as the champion debater of
Whitman college, will be given the
debate trophy, awarded by the gradu
ating class of last year for the best
debater
The II year old son of Mr.. Snead
Of Garfield, while out hunting souir
re1s recently with a younger brother
and a neighbours son named Davis
was accidentally shot dead by the
Davis boy.
County officers at Bellingham are
having trouble with negro labOrers i'm
ported by j. j. Hill to replace Japs on
the Great Northern. The negroes have
been quarantined, but refuse to remain
in the camps.
Mrs. Jane Anderson, the oldest
woman in the state of Washington and
perhaps on the Pacific coast, died last
week at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. w. II. Hamilton, in Bellingham.
She was 1O1 years old.
The body of a woman was found
on the ice in the Mohawk river neaI
Schenectady, N Y, recently. She
had jumped from a passenger train
Her ticket bore the name of Mrs.
Maria Becker, of Chehalis, Wash
Efforts are being made by tia
friends of Herman Lown of FdmondSL
Wash, to secure for the young hero
Carnegie medal. Young Lown saved
TOUR girls from drowning last Sun.
day after a boat in which they were
rowing had capsized, himself receiving
serious injuries.
'"Mother" Smith of Portland, knowneI
over the northwest for her work in
trying to reform the criminal element
visited the Walla Walla jail and peni !
tertiary and preached to the prisoners
recently She travels without money
and says that God always provides foEI'
her wants. II
1t Is reported there is a scarcity Of &
farm laborers throughout the Palouse
country and wages have been ad' &
vanced. Farmers are paying 81 to
$3.50 per day and board for common I
farm work, and some are Offering 81
per month and board for steady work, 1
with regular harvest wages during har.
vest
Former Railroad Commissioner John 1
>. McMillin of Roche Harbor, who was
forced to resign by the joint legisla.
tive committee on railroads, has re-
turned to the State of Washington the Il
$4,000 the Legislature said he did not Il
earn last year when he was giving all
his time to the defense of a suit against
the majority of stockholders in pri'
vate enterprise at Roche Harbor.
The annual bean bake of the G. A.
X. post and Woman's Relief corps at
Pullman last week was one of the big
events of the season.