The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-07-24

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self up. expressing no regret.
David Wall. formerly Of Central;a,
has been captured in Los Angeles
and held for the Lewis county au-
thorities On a charge of wife deser-
ton. His case is a particularly ag-
gravated one and the officials have
! secured the country for him. Wall
| deserted his wife and children sew
eral months ago, leaving them abso-
lutely destitute.
Mariners arriving from San Fran
cisco one and all report the presence
of the mouth OF the Columbia River
and north to Grays Harbor, of an
unusually large number of sharks,
some of them being of enormous size,
! and caution bathers against these
! tigers of the Deep" The reports
! are we'll authenticated and confirmed
by many sailors and ship-masters.
George D. Potter, wealthy min
ing man and the inventor of street
| car fender, was found dead in his
room in Seattle hotel last week.
Heart disease Is believed to have
| been the cause of his death. He was
known to have had several hundred
dollars and gold nugget in his pos
session the day before he died, but
they cannot be found now.
Bids for public building sites at
Everett, Olympia and Walla Walla
! were opened by the supervising arch
itect at Washington, D. c., last week.
! Several sites were offered at Everett
/, at prices ranging from $4,000 to
| $4,000. Thirteen sites were Of
fered at Olympia at from $1,000 to
| $4,000, and at Walla Walla 29 sites
were offered at prices ranging from
/ $4,000 to $4,000.
A man named Cophy was found in
a wheat field near Rock Lake after
! he had made several attempts to end
his life by dynamite caps. 1t is pre-
! sumed that he lay down on a number
! of the caps and then set them off.
His body In the region of the stom-
ach is blown full of small holes and
his face and head are badly lacerat-
ed. DR.. STUNT, County Physician,
stated Cophy had little chance for
recovery.
Seattle gun experts have accepted
the challenge of the crack shots of
Portland, and arrangements for a con-
test for a side bet of $500 has been
concluded. Two teams of five men
each will compete, and each man will
put up 500. The time and place for
the meet have not been decided. Ia
| coma and Centralia have been men
toned as possible places for the
meet. Neutral ground seems to be
favored by the Seattle men.
Nine men were killed and a num-
Der hurt in an explosion of powder
magazine on construction work for
the Northern Improvement Company.
| near Gle Elum, last week. The ter
rife force of the explosion of nearly
/ two cars of powder was felt in the
! most remote districts of the mining
town. Fragments of bodies were
scattered for half a mile from the
magazine. An Italians shoe was
! blown of and in it was found 81 so
/ in money.
Because he was born in Scotland
and had never been naturalized in
! the United States, James Ross, a
wealthy rancher of North Yakima,
who has lived in that place 20 years,
was last week refused entrance into
the United States without payment
of an entrance fee, and when he de-
clined, was taken to Seattle, herded
with Asiatics and deported to Van
couver. He later paid the fee of 81
under protest and will take the mat
| ter to Washington. He is reputed to
be worth 100000.
Albert johnson, of the Seattle
Times, was elected president Of the
Washington Editorial Association.
which met in convention at Vancou-
yer last week. The remaining offic-
ers are: First vice-president, F. A.
Hazeltine, South Bend; second vice
president, M. E. Randall, Ellens
/ burg; secretary. T. Lee Odgers, Day.
export; treasurer, L. E. RAIDER, DIAL
la; historian, F. B. Cole, Tacoma:
poet, Eugene Lorton, Walla Walla.
Seattle gets the next place of meet
Ing.