Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-08-07
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BR,p.

while he was trying TO raj,
FEEDER belt on a threshing Tplaes
near Waverly last woo,. Haehins
Iham's arm was caught by fbo John
ne was carried over the null Tue oelt
tell TO the ground dead, his t ts and
having struck the machinery 'enple
Miss Kamley. IA vears 90
resident of Happy Valley. wac age age
" injured in a runaway at For 1e w
uen last week. The girl waa "or.
through the reservation whon riding
horse became frightened en- en- The
thrown out of the buggy and luz was
lar bone broken. ner COL
In connection with tbo
courthouse scandal in South ,e'eat
two informations have hoo pend,
against ex-Auditor A. p Leona nled
each case bail was given in tbo u IN
OF $1,000. Leonard has demands sum
grand jury Investigation and IL i
heved that interesting djscIosn Oe'
will be made. '0'oSures
Entering the Offices of Drs
and b. w. Golf, in Tacoma ahon, - -
O'CLOCK Saturday, two well-dros.'s
strangers tied the young ladv o1oea
to chair, placed a gag in her n o'e.k
and quietly and systnmoti. ou,a
searched the desks and cabinets '" ~
ter completing their work. tho W.
departed, leaving the girl tied nen
gagged 1t is believed the thu auu
were in search of valuable mas
They took nothing. PNp''S'
Captain John A. Rodgers tbo ~
commandant at the Puget c.,
naVy-yard, will receive his co,n,,,,N
sion as rear-admiral about SAINT
Der Z. He is to be promoted on
count of the retirement of Rear-sd
miral Merrell. Captain Rodgers who
recently succeeded Rear-Admira, w
I. Burwell as commandant of +bo
Puget Sound navy-yard, will bocono
enc OF the nine senior rear-admiralo
and will go on the retired LIST on
July 26, 1910.
The State Supreme Court last
week sustained the constitutionaIitv
OF the act Of the last legislature ex-
empting credits from taxation but
held invalid that portion of the art
which proposed to exempt moneys
The case comes from Lincoln county
where a taxpayer brought suit to
enforce taxation of moneys and cred
its and won a decision by the lower
court that the law was unconstitu-
tional The decision means further
that the railways and pubic-seryiCe
corporations cannot demand a reduC.
ton in assessments as they hoped
The pleasure yacht Linda, of Sc
attic, with seven persons aboard, cap
sized off Chuckanut Bay last week,
and after struggling for more than
an hour in the icy waters the pary
was picked up by the tugboat Beaya
and brought to Bellingham The
yacht was sailing for South Belling
ham from the east sound when It
was struck by a gale. Before the
| sails could be altered the craft went
over and all were soon clinging for
their lives to the hull of the boat
The wind was in the nature of tor
nado coming in whirling gusts across
the open stretches Of water.
Frank c. Jackson, chairman Of the
| board of managers of the Washing
ton State Reformatory, announces
that at the request of the State
Board of Control he has formally
turned over the reformatory to the
managers. The law passed by the
last Legislature providing for the re-
fOrmatory says that from and after
the date the buildings are turned
over by the Board of Control, courts
must sentence all criminals between
the ages of 16 and 81 to the reform
atOTy instead of the reform school
or penitentiary, and may sentence
criminals to the refOrmatory up 10
30 years of age.
A 40-acre tract in Clallam county
contains 100000 feet of standing
timber, according to the record OF
cruise just filed with the county au'
thorities This remarkable tract is
part of a quarter section in tue
| holdings of the corporation repre-
sented by the j. d. Lacey COMPANY
of Chicago and New Orleans Inc
tract contains, according to the own,
ers' figures turned into the county
for assessment purposes, S,54l,VVV
feet of fir, $4,000 feet of spruce anu
1871, 900 feet of hemlock. Inc eh'
tire section, of which this Is a quar-,
ter, contains the remarkable total u
22,217,O00 feet of merchandise lum'
Der.
THE Brothers," one of the hlgn
est peaks in the Olympic range he.'.
tofore considered too formidable iOi
mountain climbers, has been con'
quered by two brothers. William ~
and Clinic E. Hill, civil engineers
of Seattle The Hill brothers ascenu,
ed the lofty peak, left their calus
there for the next callers and wro'0
their names in the snow with snalp
stick and returned to the valley Inv
brothers have scaled nearly eve.
peak of any consequence III y.
Cascade range. barring Mount no 10,