Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-23
NORTHWEST States
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.

The influx of homeseekers has be-
gun.
April Is has been set as the date
of the next annual horse exhibition
and fair to be held in Waitsburg.
While engaged in a hand to hand
fight on board a scow dashed to the
tug Fearless about midnight George
Ross, cook, and Edward Paggett
deckhand fell overheard and were
drowned near Tacoma.
The estate of Mary j. Mood, stu
ated eight miles west of Palouse and
consisting of 400 acres, has been sold
at administrators sale to w. S. Mood
of Tacoma, one of the heirs. The pur-
chase price was $1S,658.60.
Hattie Harrison, a variety actress at
Spokane, attempted to commit suicide
between 1890 and / o'clock Sunday
morning by swallowing antiseptic tab
lets and is not expected to recover.
The gage of battle has been thrown
by the Seattle Master Builders asso.
citation, comprising practically all the
building contractors, when it gave the
building trades assembly, comprising
the allied trades unions of the city,
until Monday, March 10, to adjudicate
its wage demands.
Saloon licenses in unincorporated
towns in Whitman county will be
$1,000 year in the future
Chairman Fairchild of the state
railroad commission announces that at
a recent conference of the commits
sion with Representatives of the Hill
and Hartman lines, the latter agreed
to Immediately issue interchangeable
mileage at 212 cents a mile, good on
all roads.
Governor Mead announces the APP
pOintment of Representative L. p.
Hornberger of Spokane as a member
of the Observation-Disclosures exposition
state commission.
The new primary law makes no pro-
vision of independent candidates,
that is as individuals The theory
was that the Independent candidate is
solely a man who thinks he was job
bed out of the convention nomination.
Under the new law every man who
wishes has a fair field and no favor
for nomination.
The organizing of a crew of sheep
shearers has begun in Dayton. A COM
mencement will be made on Snake
river this week, when they will start
on a clip of $4,000 fleeces for DAWN
Brothers, with 5000 for Jackson Broth
ers, 5000 for Charley Dodge and be-
tween 1000 and 5000 for others in --.e
district
The secretary of the interior has au
thorized the reclamation service to
prosecute the work of constructing
laterals and structures required in the
distribution system of Okanogan irri-
cation systems.
F.. NJ. Martin and son of Cheney will
begin at once the construction of
feed and Touring mill.
Spokane's fight for better freight
rates was again taken up in Chicago
Monday.
The Cheney debateing team won the
debate from the Lewiston State Nor
nal school team Saturday evening by
vote of 2 to l by the judges.
The railroad commission has ap-
pointed Mr.. Perley of Whitman county
Inspector of tracks and equipment
under the new law.
Burglars entered the North Yakima
postoffice recently and after spending
considerable time ransacking the Of
fee and making aG unsuccessful at
tempt to open the safe by drilling
holes, left with $115 in stamps and
about SIS in money.
H. G. Taylor, an educated Indian,
was arrested at North Yakima Friday
for forgery.
Mike Ansalod, an Italian, was killed
by passenger train west of Ellens-
burg recently.
The two longshoremen's unions OF
Seattle met and have merged their
interests in a new union to be indie
pendent of all national affiliations.
Thirty-seven schools of Lincoln
county have raised $1,000 for the cir
culation library fund. There are 1853
books in circulation and will soon
reach 1000.
Mrs. Rosario Van Kroonenburg, the
pretty Spanish wife of G. Van Kroon-
eHburg, newspaper correspondent of
Tacoma, is supposed to be in Spokane
hiding from her husband, who, she
alleges, is cruel to her.
MONTANA ITEMS.
Justice Ford of Newark, N. J., has
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