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ry Gavanaugh.
Children under Is cannot escape
the stste law and must be sent to
school,
In future al. cars Of lumber will
be weighed on scales provided by the
Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacture
ers' association before they cross the
mountains eastward bound.
A logging train on the England
tract. near Castle Rock, ran away
few days ago and demolished the
whole outfit.
Lyle Hornbeck was shot and in
stantly killed in the residence of
Jean Winterstein at Toppenish.
Hornbeck, who was a friend of Win
terstein, went into the latters house
late in the evening and Winterstein,
believing him to be a burglar, fired.
Adjutant General Ortis Hamilton,
of the National Guard of Washing
ton, has appointed a board to revise
the military code and regulations for
the state.
All southeastern Washington and
the Yakima valley joined Saturday
night in the first annual banquet of
the Kennewick Commercial club.
The event was also made the for
nal opening of the new Kennewick
hotel. The open river was the
theme of the banquet.
John T. Kennedy was hurled to
his death into the Columbia river
from the new bridge of the Portland
G. Seattle railroad at Vancouver.
A line of boats is to be put on the
Columbia river between Pasco and
Portland, operating with the portage
railroad at Cello as connecting
link.
Congressman w. L. Jones will be
in Spokane to deliver the principal
address in connection with the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new
federal building on Thursday, Octo-
Der 3.
Justice Palmer of Wenatchee has
closed his fourth docket as police
justice, showing 1900 cases passing
through his hands the past five
years.
Harvest work is near an end.
Jacob Kibler, 81 years old and a
pioneer of Waila Walla valley is
dead from stroke of apoplexy.
The week just closed has wit
messed the largest wheat sales at
Walla Walla during the present sea-
son.
H. II. .Tidd, an. old civil war vet
eran. was fo8m 1e4d in his room at
a Winchester Motel.
The twelfth annual state fair Sat
urday night closed the most success
full year in its history.
Clinton D. Town of Waterville has
been nominated by Congressman
Wesley L. Jones to fill one of the
two vacancies as cadet at the An
napolis naval academy.
Frank Doyle, aged 20 years, a
brakeman in the service of the
Northern Pacific, was crushed to
death under the wheels of a freight
car in the freight yard at Tacoma
Saturday.
The committee of the Toppenish
Commercial club has made call for
bids for the construction of a bridge
across the Yakima river two and one
half miles north.
The assessed valuation of all the
property in King county, real and per-
sonal tangible and intangible, as re
vised by the county board of equaliza-
ton, is $1S5, 468,451.
"a tot ho n
the state to purchase a set of instru-
ments and some music for the prison
band which will now be organized
Money is now being raised to start a
prison newspaper
The general opinion of grain deal
ers in Spokane is that the crop this
year is but slightly damaged so far by
the heavy rains, and that there is go
8, ing to be a heavy yield.
The total apple acreage in this state
is near the 100000, and the trees are
heavily laden. The crop is estimated
by growers and inspectors to be worth
from s9000,0O0 to $10,000O00 this
season and OF this more than $5,000
900 will be paid for fruit packed fol-
export.
Gladys F. Baker, Of Seattle, has Sc
cured decree Of divorce from Charles
n. Baker on the grounds Of abandon
ment
John Sanger, who recently came
to North Yakima from New York
where he was stock broker, has
closed a deal for the purchase OF the
p. J. Flint ranch in Parker bottom fol
$50, 900.
The steam schooner Santa Barbara
bound from Seattle to Valdez, struck