Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-07-10
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.


North Bank road has changed the
name OF Bingen, the White Salmon
railroad station. to White Salmon.
w. D. Miller, of Riverton, was
killed by an interurban train while
oh his way to Seattle to celebrate the
Fourth. Being deaf he did not hear
the train.
H. A. Allen. formerly of Colfax,
was arrested at Milton, Or, last
week on a charge Of deserving his
wife, who is lying at the point of
death at the Colfax hospital also
four children were deserted.
The government will have de-
natured alcohol plant at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacitic Exposition, in Seattle,
where Is will make alcohol out of
fish skins from the Columbia River.
Carl Lindstrom refuses to believe
that his brother, John Lindstrom,
came to his death at Salem last week
| through accident. Mr.. Lindstrom
fears foul play He will make
thorough investigation himself and
has placed the case in the hands Of
detectives.
Conservative farmers of Whitman
county estimate that the wheat acre
age is 8 per cent greater this year
than last. Dry, hot weather is do
ing serious damage to spring wheat
In extreme west part of the county
and many fields will not yield
enough to pay for the harvest.
The murder charge against Mary
E. Eggleston, who on June 16 shot
her husband to death before her
children's eyes, was dismissed last
week. The womans defense was
self defense and the prosecution de-
cided it could not make out case
against her.
Frank Everett. of Chehalis, &C
companied by his wife and daughter
and Miss Henrietta Resented, made
the trip from Denver, Colo, to Port
land by automobile. The entire trip
was made in the machine with the
exception of the SO miles from The
Dalles to Portland, for which the
party took a steamboat.
Governor Mead has received a let
ter requesting him to use his execu-
tive powers to compel local peace Of
ticers to act on conditions at the
King county race track and to aid
in the enactment by the next legis-
lature of a law prohibiting pools.
books and all kinds of race track
gambling.
A lighted cannon cracker was
thrown into a crowded Bellingham
streetcar the Fourth. In the explos-
ion which followed two young wom-
en- were seriously injured, their
limbs being badly lacerated and
burned. Others were slightly hurt.
A panic was barely averted, women
being restrained by force from
throwing themselves from the car.
One fatality married the most elab-
crate celebration ever held in Gray's
Harbor. First officer John Johnson,
of the American steamer Olson and
Mahoney, of San Francisco, was
crushed by racehorse, owing to the
riders attempt to avoid a collision
with a buggy at the finish of q
straight-away heat down j street.
With recurrence of her insanity,
Cora Killen, young woman living
with her parents at Tacoma, at
tackled her mother and but for the
timely assistance of the husband and
father would have seriously injured
or killed the woman. Miss Klllen
was released from Steilacoom asy-
lum several months ago.
Going at the rate of As miles an
hour, a 40-horsepower automobile,
driven by A. J. Kruger, smashed
through the railing at the side of
oil Get DullI On d LT6SLlS IN the SOUTH
ern part of Seattle and plunged 35
feet to the tide-hats below. Kruger
was dug out of the soft mud and
taken to hospital, where he Is re-
ported fatally injured.
Dwight Johnson, guest of the
| club, Is dead and the entire top
! floor of the Spokane Club building,
a siX-stOry structure, Is badly dam
aged through fire last week. John
son, who thought he was cut off
from escape, had climbed out of a
window and for several minutes
chung to a shutter, while fremen
made desperate efforts to reach him.
His strength failed him and he
| dropped to the roof of an adjoining
one-story building, breaking several
bones and sustaining other injuries
/ that DrOUad fatal Tho Jop,oro 30