The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-12-11
WASHINGTON NOTES

sAot SAO AIiIeO u! ROOert II. Ready
last week, at Centralia, while shoot
ing at targets.
E. ]. Koors, of Seattle, has been
appointed secretary of the State
Board OF Tax Commissioners to sue
coed Frank C. Morse, of Tacoma,
who will become Assistant Commits
sioner of Public Lands.
Pricked in the ball of the right
thumb by sharp briar while work
ing among berry bushes in her gar
den last July, Mrs. Mary Kerns died
from the effects of the trifling &C.
cident in Spokane last week.
About 40 North Yakima people
who filed on land in the Cowlitz
Pass, in the Cascades, years ago.
now discover that they are owners
of valuable coal lands. The pro-
posed North Coast railway will run
through this land.
Oliver V. Linn, superior judge Of
Mason and Thurston counties, died
at his Olympia residence Saturday
night, following an illness which be-
gan last September during his cam
paign for the nomination to the su-
preme bench.
Governor Mead has appointed
Judge s. ]. Chadwick to the supreme
bench succeeding Judge Root. The
Governor also issued an appoint
ment to H. w. Garfield, of Colfax,
Judge-elect OF Whitman County Su-
perior Court, as successor to Judge
Chadwick.
A telephone has been installed in
the drawbridge of the North Bank
railroad crossing the Columbia just
below Vancouver The feat of in
stalling the phone was a difficult one
as it requires two submarine cables
to accomplish it. The cable used be-
longs to the Western Union.
On December Fl the people at
Husum. in the west end of Klickitat
county, will give a free apple din
ner. All eatables will consist of ap-
pies served in some way Sweet
cider will take the place of coffee.
Prizes will be offered for the best es-
says On apples.
The Spokane Jobbers, Association.
representing about 100 of the prin-
cipal shippers. met last week to pro-
test against the increase in freight
rates announced by the transconti-
mental roads to 60 in effect January
/. The Spokane advance Is approx
.imately 10 cents hundred.
His back broken by beams which.
loosened by a blast. fell upon him
and crushed him horribly, John Cav
anaugh, prominent contractors of
Bellingham, lies between life and
death in a hospital. His spinal col
umn is shattered above the waist
and he will never again have the
use of at least half his body.
A decree signed by the superior
court removes and permanently dis
bars from practicing as attorney at
law in any and all courts of the
state, James Hopkins, pioneer law
yer of Spokane. Hopkins was found
guilty of attempting through q series
of fraudulent deals to get control
and title of land in Idaho owned by
an illiterate German.
Motorman Gust Olson was killed
and two others were hurt, perhaps
fatally, in Seattle, Saturday, when
two street-cars collided. Owing to
the heavy fog, the motorman on the
outbound car missed the block lights
on the single track and ran almost
on the inbound car before he saw 1t.
When he applied the brakes they
failed to work, and the next moment
came the crash.
Mrs Nellie Oppdenhoff. of Belling-
ham, made a 2000-mile trip to st.
Louis to marry the brother of her
deceased husband. When the first
husband died last spring he ex-
pressed the wish on his deathbed
that his wife and his younger broth
er marry, and it was to follow out
this desire that Mrs. .Oppdenhoff
went to st. Louis to become the
bride of her brother-in-law.
The ranchers of the Upper Che
halls river have begun suit against
Joseph Bernard to prevent him put
ting in a dam to provide a storage
boom for his logs. Bernard recent
ly secured the right from the Gov
eminent to construct the boom, but
the ranchers claim that the forcing
of the water back upon their lands
by reason of the dam will damage
their property, and they ask for an
injunction.
In order to save the life of his
friend and a member of his flock,
Rev. A. A. Metcalf, of Pasco, al
lowed a pint of his blood to be in
fused into the arm of Freeman Keith
in the Walla Walla hospital last
week. just before the latter under
went a dangerous operation for gan
creme. While Strengthening Keith
very materially, the infusion was not
sufficient to save his life and he died
shortly after.
A. P. Leonard, ex-county auditor
of Pacific county, and w. R. Gray,
ex-county commissioner, were ar
rested last week under indictments
returned by the grand jury recently
in session against Leonard for ap-
propriating money paid for saloon IL
censes, amounting in all to 5000.
One Indictment was returned against
g., concentrating SurveyOrs' in.