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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Ralph Doan, 16 years old, son of L.
A. Doan of Endicott, while hunting for
ducks on the Paiouse river, was &C
cidentally killed by the discharge of
his shotgun.
One of the most up to date churches
in the northwest is the new Christian
church, just receiving finishing
touches at Walla Walla. The total
cost will be $4,000.
A poultry show will be held in Spo-
kane next January.
Spokane may get supreme court ses-
sions.
The executive council of the Wash
ington State Bankers association has
taken preliminary steps toward the
framing Of new state banking law
Superior Judge Albertson of Seattle
has rendered an oral decision sustain
ing the legal validity of the proposed
issuance of 100000 In King county
bonds to reimburse James A. Moore
after he has constructed the proposed
Lake Washington canal.
Mrs. Maud Creffield,. widow of the
notorious Holy Roller" Creffield MUIR
dered by George Mitchell in Seattle,
who in turn was murdered by Esther
Mitchell, his sister, is on the verge
of nervous collapse. Mrs. Creffield is
held in the county Jail in Seattle as
prisoner with Esther Mitchell.
Governor Mead has announced that
he will name citizens committees re-
spectively to visit the state school
for deaf and blind at Vancouver and
the state reform school at Chehal1s
to investigate and make suggestions.
Strong pressure brought to bear by
the Washington farmers has done
much to induce the state Of Oregon
to continue the operation of the por-
tage road along the Columbia river at
Cello.
Chester Thompson, accused of MUIR
der in the first degree for the killing
of G. Meade Emory on July 7, will be
tried in Tacoma, the county seat of
Pierce county. Judge Frater has
granted a change of venue asked for
by Thompson.
Free letter carriers will soon be in
stalled at Ellensburg.
e. Wagner, one of the most extern
sive fruit growers in the Wenatchee
valley, is in Australia marketing six
carloads of fancy apples which he
shipped from here few weeks ago.
Burglars recently entered the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation depot at
Garfield and dynamited the big rail-
road safe, blowing it into small pieces.
They secured little cash.
The body of an unknown man was
found by the Great Northern section
gang near Winchester.
Action has een-taken by the board
of county commissioners to advance
Pierce county from the third to the
first class.
A telegram to Olympia from Walla
for not making more purchases of jute
and stating that farmers of eastern
Washington would lose from 100000
to s750,000 this season" because of the
shutdown of the jutemill.
The new town of Harvard, 23 miles
east of Palouse on the Washington,
Idaho & Montana railroad, has been
given a postoffice by the department.
Henry Vincent, one of the most ex-
tensive wheatgrowers in the Walla
Walla valley, mas acquired the entire
equipment of farm machinery and live
stock owned by John Hoffman, togeth-
er with a lease Of his $500 acre ranch
on Eureka fiat for six years, with an
option for 10.
w. H. Brown, aged rs, one of Walla
Walla's early pioneers, is dead at his
home in Walla Walla. He died of heart
failure
The Building Trades assembly of
Tacoma has decided to adopt the
card rule" on all building operations
in Tacoma, as a means of assisting the
striking plumbers. This action will
result in union men refusing to work
where plumbers are employed who do
not possess a card