Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Young. OF Aberdeen, have been fined
S25 and costs each.
A great salmon catch is now going
on at the Quiniault reservation, from
5000 to 5000 fish being shipped to
Hoquiam daily, where they are put
on ice and sent in cold storage all
over the country.
+. A. Cheney, a business man Of
st. Louis, Mo, on a vacation at Lyle,
sprung a surprise last week by sue
cessfully using for bait to lure big
fish the common mouse, east in n
live state.
Just as the conductor of an inter
urban train bound for Tacoma
touched him on the shoulder to ask
for his fare, James s, Upper, a pion-
Ger resident of Seattle, died of heart
failure.
A huge cougar has been terroriz-
Ing the residents Of the Neushkah
River Valley for several months past.
1t is so large that it killed not only
the smaller animals of the farmers,
but also a COW.
Unable to make a living for him
self and mother, w. f. Smith, OF Sc
attic, II years of age, started out
last week to be a robber After he
had snatched a purse from Mrs. DON
ogue, he was chased Is blocks and
captured.
Edward J. Costello, an engineer
on the Northern Pacific, aged SO,
was beaten and robbed Of $50 and
then thrown from a bridge 40 feet
to the rocks below at Tacoma, last
week, by two highwaymen. He will
probably die.
Two juries in the justice court at
Aberdeen last week decided the state
Sunday law unconstitutional and &C
quilted two business men arrested
for selling cigars on that day. Com
plant was made by a saloonkeeper
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law.
Governor Mead last week issued
a requisition upon the governor of
Illinois for Charles Herr, who is I'M
der arrest at Carlock, Ill, and who
is wanted in Walla Walla county for
criminal offense against Belle Hill
yard aged 10, at College Place, De-
cember %, 1907.
Judge Frater, of the superior
court at Seattle, last week, over
ruled the motion for a new trial
made by Guy c. Stratton convicted
Of manslaughter through the death
Of Henrietta Johnson, an 8-year-old
child, under the wheels of his auto
mobile. STATIONS counsel gave no.
tice of an appeal to the supreme
court.
The City Health Department of
Seattle has placed the ban on tin
cups in the city schools in connection
with its crusade on sanitation. The
inspection has disclosed that in sew
eral buildings a few tin cups have
been provided for hundreds of chill
dren. Dr. F. S. Bourns, chief medi-
cal inspector, declares that the tin
cups are spreaders of contagion and
should be abandoned.
The somewhat noted X-Ray NAL
practice case has been reversed by
the supreme court and remanded to
Chehalis county for new trial. G. ].
Sauers and wife sued DIR. Paul Smits,
of Aberdeen, for damages, alleging
that DR.. SHIFTS by negligent and I'M
skillful use of an X-ray machine, in
treating Mrs. Sauers' foot, had
caused an incurable sore on the foot.
DR.. Smits won in the lower court.
A motion for continuance until
the September term of court was
filed at Walla Walla last week by the
attorneys who have been engaged to
defend Bud Barnes, the alleged muir
cause for continuance, the attorneys
advanced the argument that two of
Barnes sisters, who are chief wit
nesses for the defense, are unable to
be present this month.
The battleships Nebraska, Wiscon-
sin, Kearsarge, Georgia, Vermont,
Rhode Island and New Jersey, of the
Atlantic feet, are now in the Puget
Sound navy yard at Bremerton. The
case of smallpox on the Kentucky
was rediagnosed as varioloid, and
the patient is now in the pesthouse
at the yard, while the Kentucky is at
the quarantine station at Port Town
send undergoing fumigation
The eighth annual reunion OF the
G. A. r. Association Of Clark County
Veterans, was held this week at Or
chards While the organization was
organized under the auspices of the
G "A. r., the association is not con-