Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-02
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA NEWS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur.
rounding Country--Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

houses, with no prospect of shipment
| before next crop.
Master painters of Tacoma have de-
cided for an open shop policy after
March /, regardless of the action of
the union.
Walla Walla county has been the
hardest hit of any of the eastern
| Washington sections on account of
washouts, thousands upon thousands
of dollars worth of damage being done
the roads ana farms, aside from the
damage the railroads have received.
Copies of the Indian war records for
the state of Washington have been
completed and forwarded from Wash
ngton to Olympia. They contain a
record of all Indian wars in this state
With a roster of all those who took
part in them.
A. c. Steinman of Ellensburg has
| assumed the duties as receiver of the
North Yakima land office.
The seventh annual convention Of
| the Washington Letter Carriers asso.
cation was held in Seattle Friday of
this week.
George Hubner was crushed to death
recently by rolling a log in England's
| logging camp near Castle Rock
Tacoma has been selected by the Co
iumbia conference as their next place
of meeting in the fall.
S. Gardner Yerkes, assistant general
| passenger agent of the Great North
ern railway, has resigned his position
with the Hill line, 70 become effective
March /.
Serving a sentence of four days in
the city jail as a man, dressed in
mems clothing and confined in the
tank" with dozen seasoned hoboes,
was the experience of Edna Elliott,
who, seeming to be unable to keep
out Of trouble, was convicted of petty
larceny in Spokane and sentenced to
bay a fine of 500 and costs.
The Chelan Commercial club at its
| last meeting, passed resolutions in
Niting the Mountaineering club of Sc
attic to hold its first annual outing
on Lake Chelan, and pledged its mem
bers, in the event of the acceptance
of the invitation, TO do all in their
power o make the visit of the Noun
taineers agreeable
Judge James X. Kennedy, an old
and well known lawyer and former as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of the territory of Washington, died
at mis- home in Walla Walla recently.
aged 81 Death was due to heart dis
case.
Arrangements have been made for
Spokane to hold its second annual big
cleaning day under the direction of the
City Beautiful committee of the $780,
600 club.
L. w. DoWnen has sold his farm, ~
ing between Pullman and Wawawai,
| TO w. l.. BaFOllette, the fruit king of
| Wawawai, for $4,000 The farm con
tains $40 acres and is well improved.
Jack O'Keefe, pioneer of Asotin
county, died recently.
News has just been received that the
wages Of miners in the Roslyn and Gle
alum districts have recently been adj
Yanced 10 per cent In view of the.
| scarcity of fuel during the past win
ter, this increase may become bene-
| fetal to the coal market if it remains
permanent.
1t is said trains will be running from
| Tacoma to Spokane over the North
| Coast railway in two and half years.
| Tacoma will be the first large city
reached by our line after passing
through the Tieton pass.
Acting under orders of Mayor Moore
and Chief Wappenstein, the Seattle po-
Ice Sunday enforced the Sunday clos
ing law in identically the same manner
as on last Sabbath.
| The Tacoma saloons we're closed
| tight Sunday and few infractions Of
the Sunday closing law have been re-
| ported.
The legislative investigation now in
| progress into the conduct Of the Office
OF the state land commissioner has
| brought out prominently the fact that
standing timber on the lands owned by
the state is being sold at from 20 cents
to 80 cents per thousand feet less than
it could be sold under the same law
Will a 6h6lI dIutlluliltul pei lllltAiAf1
| the purchasers two or four years more
time within which to remove the tim
| Der purchased. This is the testimony
of all witnesses examined on this
point without a single exception.
Back of this is another very per
| tinent fact, not alluded to in the
testimony, and that is that the pres
en- law was passed by the legislature
of 1897 at the instigation of the log
ging interests, the purchasers of the
state timber under these conditions.
That law is cheating the school chill
dren of Washington out OF from $780,
600 to $4,000 year and the money
goes into the pockets of the big, rich
logging companies of the state, who
are organized into a trust to keep up
the price of logs and make the con-
sumers pay more for their timber.