Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-22

OF NEWS
SHORT CONCISE ITEMS
FROM DISPATCHES.
NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE
WORLD REPRESENTED
HEREWITH.

A dispatch from Tula again reports
Count Tolstoi as being seriously i'll.
The New York longshoremen have
returned to work and 10000 strikers
acknowledge defeat after hard fight.
Thomas Dobson, a wealthy citizen
of Portland, Ore, died recently in
Alameda, Cal. He was native of
England, GO years old.
Los Angeles, Cal-William LeBar-
ron Jenny, veteran of the civil war,
prominent architect and engineer,
recently died at the home of his son.
Catania, Sicily-After a period of
quietude a somewhat violent eruption
of Stromboli occurred recently and
terrified the countryside. No damage
was reported.
Charged with assaulting and robbing
Mrs. Sallie Gibbons of Columbia, S. c.,
of SCI 900, Rufus Williams has con-
fessed the crime in the county jail
at San Antonio, Texas.
Miss Alice Bell was shot and ia
tally wounded in San Francisco by
Roy Huff, a jeweler, who then blew
out his brains. Jealousy is given as
the cause of the tragedy.
The federal grand jury at Pierre, S.
D., indicted on SO counts Charles c.
King, former president of the First
National bank of Scotland, S. D.,
charging him with embezzlement.
The State bank of Bingham Lake,
Mimi, was robbed recently of $500
in cash. Later two men, heavily
armed, were arrested. They gave the
names of George Chester and w. R.
White. Later $500 Of the stolen
money was recovered.
In the capitalization of new national
banks founded during the time between
March IA and May 81 Washington
leads the Pacific northwest, with Idaho
second, Oregon third. With the ex-
ception of California, Washington
leads all of the Pacific states.
With the purchase of the Everett
street railway from the Hill interests
by Stone & Webster, the Boston CAPT
talists, owners now of every electric
traction line on Puget sound, the way
is made easy for the completion of
the through line from Seattle to Van
vouver, and work will be started at
several points this season.
District Judge Greeley Whiteford of
Denver has awarded Mrs. Rosa Hill,
wife of Frank w. Hill, damages in
the sum of $4,000 against Mrs. Anna
Bent, wife Of Edwin Bent, banker
of Ouray, Col, for alienation Of the
affections of her husband. All parties
concerned are prominent socially.
Colonel S. H. Wreford, a prominent
business man of Brownsville, was shot
and killed recently as the result of a
circular he issued in which he bitter
ly denounced Captain William Kelley
because of Kelley's testimony before
the senate committee, which is investi-
eating the Brownsville affair in Wash
ington. Jesse Thorman, a stepson of
Captain Kelley, is charged with the
killing.
Raising the point before Judge
Whitson in the federal court that the
reclamation service HIS not the right
TO condemn for its use property OBJ
tanned under the homestead act, At
torney H. j. Sniyely seeks to prevent
the government from taking Chris
Hansen's land, valued at $4,000. The
issue is one that will be common to
a number of cases now awaiting trial.
Judge Whitson has taken the matter
under adyisement, iptimating how
ever, that he favors the position of
Mr.. Snive1y.
Three survivors of the Steptoe and
Wright campaigns against the confed-
Grated hostile Indians of the Inland
Empire in 1858 went over the extend
ed Steptoe battlefield at Rosalia, Whit.
man county, recently, and explained to
nearly 60 visitors from Spokane and
many citizens of Rosalia the scenes
and stirring events in that disastrous
fight, These survivors were: Thomas
]. Beall, Michael j. Kenny and j. j.
Rohn