The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-07-03
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

[ The County Commissioners OF Che
halls County last week issued an Or
der requiring the prisoners In the
| County Jail to labor on the county
roads, whenever the County Engineer
or the Road Supervisors require
| them. So D.
I =: Two ranchers at North Beach have
| found on the ocean front chunk OF
ambergris weighing perhaps 400
| pounds Ambergris is worth whole
| sale $500 a pound, so that II the
piece Is as heavy as reported the men
have a fortune Of $50, 1000.
While searching for a coat that
| had been lost, Harry JordOn, resi-
dent of Silver Beach, found, lard
pail containing complete cracks
mans outfit hidden in cedar stump
along the railroad track, about a
| mile from the Silver Beach. depot.
| An unknown man was Instantly
killed in the stairway Of a lodging
| house at Palouse, last week, either
by falling down the stairway or by
a blow from some one. Win Burden,
an ex-salOon man, is in the city jail
| awaiting. the arrival of coroner's YER
| dict. 81. 'ttf
H. T. Davis, representing the state
board of control, last week officially
accepted the new training school
| building for the State Normal School
at Cheney. The architecture ana
plan represents the latest and most
children. -...-.
: The thirteenth annual convention
of the Washington Bankers Associ-
| ten was held at North Yakima last
week. The officers elected are: Pres
ident, w. L. Adams, Hoquiam, vice
president, A. F., AlbeEtson, Tacoma;
secretary, p c. Kaufman. Tacoma;
| treasurer, j. K. Mccormick, Palouse.
A patent issued by the United
States Government to- Samuel<A.'W VIII
| Hams to certain lands in Chehalfs
kCounty. has Just been filed with the
County Auditor for record The lin.
strument bears the date Of December
g., 1864, and also bears the signature
of Abraham Lincoln, then President
of the United States. (. ! 41(itk(
Seven thousand tons of steel will
be ordered Immediately for big
bridges which the Copper River &
| Northwestern Railroad will construct
across the Copper River In Alaska.
Rails have been laid for a distance of
80 miles from Cordova. and by the
end of the present year the road will
be open as far as Abercrombie Can
yon, the head Of navigation.
| The valuation on the three trans
continental railroads crossing the
state of Washington has been fixed
| by the railroad commission at $780,
100000, after more than two years
spent in hearings and Investigations.
The values are segregated as fol-
lows: Northern Pacific, $111.00O.-
900, Great Northern $59,000,000, o.
R. & N. 100000.
High water in the Columbia has
done great damage to the ranchers
and dairy people living in the bot
toms west and south of Woodland.
Many farmers have been compelled to
move with all their possessions and
stock The hay crop will be almost
a total failure. as but little had been
cut before the high water came, the
season having been very backward
on account of cold weather.
Parties just returning from Para
disc Vaney, ON the south Slope Of
Mount Rainier, say the heaviest
snowfall in more than a decade fell
on the mountain during last winter
Due to the backwardness of the year.
there Is still great deal of snow on
the slopes of the mountain, and at
the Camp of the Clouds, a favorite
tourist spot, there Is still 20 feet Of
snow.
Charles Smith, of Seattle, was ar
rested at Aberdeen last week and
taken to Olympia on a charge OF try
ing to cheat o. 8. Morris of Olympia
out of gasoline bill. Smith bought
an automobile at Seattle on the In
stallment plan. He started for Mo-
clips, a summer resort, to engage In
q passenger business and the ma
chine jumped an embankment on the
way and was completely wrecked.
Officers of the Y. M. c. A. of North
Yakima, have formally accepted the
! $4,000 building constructed for the
association and nothing remains to
| be done but to furnish the building
for the occupancy of the young men
who belong to the association. This
will cost about $4,000, and the &C
complishment of the work OF raising
this money has been assumed as an
obligation by the women of the vari-
GUS charitable and religious organi-
cations, who have appointed a wo-
mems auxiliary to the association for
that purpose.
| Preparations are already under
way at the Barracks for the big en-
campment at American Lake during
the month of August. All regular
troops assigned for this camp will be
there on or before August 1. The
orders further provide that two or
three days before starting for the en-
campment, all troops shall be care
fully examined for the presence of
contagious diseases. The regimental
hospitals at Vancouver Barracks.
Fort Lawton and Walla Walla will
accompany the troops. Machine gun
platOons and mounted orderlies will
also accompany their commands.
Attorneys representing the Ash
ton-Mason-Ross Tideland Syndicate
have prepared their answer to the
| suit brought by Charles Bedford for
| reputed Indian owners. The cause
involves ownership of 200 acres of
the choicest tide lands on the harbor
front, bringing into litigation part
| OF the land bought for terminals by
the Milwaukee railroad. The Bedford
suit Is based ON survey made of the