Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-09-14
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Milk IL cents quart at Tacoma.
Two Great Northern freight trains
coIlided in the Newport yards recently.
Nobody was killed.
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is all that could be desired for
the completion of harvest work.
Marion Russis, a young Frenchman.
aged Il years, met his death by drown
inc In the Palouse river recently.
w Phillips, rancher in the Matches
shooting. He leaves a wife an1 fam
lily.
Too drunk to exercise reason, Carl
Brown of Tacoma, 40 years of age,
was run over by an electric train and
killed.
Tomato shipments continue from
Sunnyside, and it will be another
month before the entire crop is mar
keted
In a struggle with a thief in a room
at a hotel in Seattle recently, Detec-
tive Lee A. Barbee shot and killed his
adversary.
Jefferson H. Fulton, of Asotin, has
left for Manila to enter upon his duties
as second lieutenant in the United
States army.
A floating dock has been built for
the accommodation of steamboats,
landing at Kennewick, and moored at
the landing.
There is a hay famine on the coast
The death of Mrs. Mary P. Shieldse
an old pioneer of Garfield county, oc-
cured at Seattle recently.
Joe Mackine, a Finnish contractor
was killed recently at Aberdeen,
Wash, by falling from the lift in a
well which he was digging.
Horse thieves appear to be numer-
GUS in the Yakima country, number
Of cases where horses have been stol-
en- being reported within the past few
days
Beginning this week the Washing
ton, Idaho & Montana Railway COM
pany will put on two trains each way
daily between Palouse and Deary,
which is the present terminus.
H., Farmers of the vicinity of Dayton
are taking advantage of the fine
weather to haul their grain to the
! warehouses as fast as possible, and
already the houses are nearly filed.
Most of the farmers have sold their
grain.
The entire city of Wenatchee is in
dire straits because of flume being
OF h. nj
company. No power is to be had in
the city, nor lights, and as a result
the entire community has been
plunged into a state of things border
ing on the archaic.
The annual business excursion of the
Spokane Merchants & Manufacturers
81 association will this year touch the
| country lying west. of Spokane along
the Washington Central and Great
Northern roads. The start will be
made on Wednesday morning, Sept.
H. at 1880 o'clock.
Fire destroyed the Webb hotel at
shelton, 20 miles from Tacoma, re-
Gently. Miss Bailey and Mrs. Nudge,
both Of Shelton, are known to be
among the lost. The following perish
ed' Miss Ivy Bailey, chamberlain;
W. h. Holmes, master mechanic in the
PENINSULA Railway shops; Pearl F,
Larson; boy driver for Connolly, the
outcher; Mrs. Gay of the hotel; Dan
D. Hennessey, logger. Eight or nine
are still unaccounted for.
lied in their stalls and unable to
escape from the burning building, %
noFses belonging to the City Day
0cdVenger company were cremated in
hfe that destroyed the company's
s'apie at Spokane. Thirty tons of hay
~ the loft of the barn, where the fire
% supposed to have started, were also
oSt' making the total loss over $10,-
WV Only about $4,000 of this was
covered by insurance.
Inc old soldiers in camp at Chewe-
ian recently elected the following Off
CelS Tor the ensuing year: Commander,
Uohlfade F. A. Parmeter of Daisy,
wash; senior commander, Comrade
Oniids, Kettle Falls, Wash; junior
Tolnnander, Comrade Stafford, Kettle
ans ans wash. adjutant, Colonel Fish,
n netsle Fails, Wash; officer of day j.
Grove, Deer Park; officer of guard,
WI Anderson, Spokane; quartermas-
YET L. A. Reyes, Spokane.