Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-05-23
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRtEF.

children.
Foreign exports from Tacoma last
week were: Flour, 27,205 barrels;
wheat, 10000 bushels and lumber,
422,96S feet.
Judge Emmett N. Parker, of Ia
coma, has announced himself a
candidate for Judge of the supreme
court of the state for the coming
election.
The free mail delivery system
went into effect at Centralia Friday
morning. There are three carriers
and three deliveries daily. Mail
boxes have been placed at convent
ent corners throughout the town.
c. II. Yoshimura, editor of a daily
newspaper in Seattle-the ASH Shin
bun-was fined 800 last week for
criminally libeling through his pa
per Miss Sci Kodama, a pretty maid
of Nippon He paid his fine.
Fred L. Shaft a prominent lum-
herman of Spokane, considerably
known throughout the Northwest,
California and the Twin Cities for
his ownership of the famous PAGER
Sherlock Holmes, dropped dead on
the street in the business district of
that place last weet.
The authorities of the Naval
Academy last week announced that
Midshipman Eugene L. Wilson, of
Seattle, member of the graduating
class, is the winner of the handsome
sword presented annually by the
class of 1871 for general excellence
in gunnery.
War has been declared on flies and
mosquitoes by the Seattle health de-
partment force. Dr. j. e. Crichton,
health commissioner, will head a
squad of health Office men in inyes-
tigation of the city for fly and mos
quito breeding places.
Work on the wireless telegraph
station at Westport has been greatly
delayed on account of high winds,
but the station is nearly ready for
service. 1t is believed everything
will be in readiness to report the
passing of the fleet
A. Hattori, one of the best-known
japanese in the Northwest and form
erIy president Of the Japanese Asso-
citation of Seattle, was elected to
seat in the Lower House of the In
perial Japanese Diet in the general
elections Saturday. At the end of
his term he will return to Seattle
The work of placing new buoys
and spars in Grays Harbor has been
done the past week under the super
vision of the government tender
Heather, Captain Byrnes. The old
buoys were replaced and the entire
inner channel was correctly marked.
The request for a buoy on Whit
comb flats will be granted.
George Wolff, a business man Of
Aberdeen proposed last week that
when the excursion from this city
by steamer to see the battleship fleet
leaves Grays HarbOr, that 16 live
bear cubs be taken and one present
ed to each ship. The idea at once
took popular favor and ten Teddy
bears have already been gathered up
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The receivers report of the Pa
cifc Livestock Insurance Associa-
ton, filed in the Superior Court last
week by Lloyd E. Candy, expresses
the belief that the insolvency of the
company was caused by the excessive
salaries and commissions paid the
officers, and charges conspiracy to
rob the company. The report shows
that during the existence Of the
company about two years, some Of
the officers received from $4,000 to
$4,000 or more each. He believes
that the conditions warrant both a
civil and a criminal action against
them.
Seven italian laborers suffering
agonies from ptomaine poisoning
reached South Tacoma last week In
an exhausted condition. The men are
employed at the Dupont powder
plant and had eaten freely Of toad
stools, believing them to be mush-
rooms. Three of the victims are in
an extremely critical condition. One
of the men became unconscious and
1t was necessary for his comrades to
carry him seven miles to the street
car.
The first gold shipment Of the
season, and incidentally the first
boat to leave Fairbanks this spring,
started Monday from the Tanana
metropolis for Dawson. The boat
will carry between 100000 and
100000. 1t will ascend the river
to Dawson, from which city the prec-