The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-10-02
WASHINGTON NOTES

lily Health OLlCSf SdFSGHllCn Nay
notified the theatrical managers Of
! Tacoma that their theaters must be
| fumigated at least once each month
! In the interest of public health. The
same orders will apply to churches.
but he hopes they will take up the
work with notification.
The state supreme court last week
! In the Spokane case of H. S. Winsor.
sustained the constitutiOnality Of the
act OF the last legislature prohibit
ing the sale Of cigarettes and cigar
tette papers. The Spokane court held
the law void.
James Corners, a teamster with
Buffalo Bits Wild West Shows, was
killed last week at Chehalis. His
wagon struck rut, the three teams
attached became frightened and Con-
uers was dragged to death. He was
from Philadelphia.
The constitutiOnality Of that Sec
ton Of the direct primary law reQuir-
Ing candidates to pay a filing fee was
argued in the supreme court last
| WYNN az Wy MPi0 oA0 tahSh oA0CA
advisement Assistant Attorney
General I. B. knickerbocker admits
frankly that the bulk OF decisions are
against him.
The exclusive right of the Seattle
Transfer Company, under $400 per
year contract with the Great North
ern, which gave the company the
right to solicit business in the Union
Depot at Seattle, has been wiped out
by decision of the state supreme
court sustaining the validity Of a
Seattle city ordinance which prohib-
its hackmen soliciting business with
In passenger station.
Elaborate preparations are under
way at Toppenish for the big Indian
potlatch, to be held there for 10 days
beginning October 5. There will be
10 tribes represented, the Yakimas.
Umatillas, Talamaths. Warm Springs
Indians. those from Pendleton, Col
Vile, Moses Coulee, the Tumwaters,
the Puyallups and the Nez Perces.
The entertainment includes dances,
pompom dances, races, horsebreak-
Ing and various Indian ceremonies.
Two Seattle boys. Jesse Miller and
Harvey Spencer. were sent to the
county Jail last week for seriously
wounding Mrs. Josephine Bourgeois,
while attempting to hunt in the
suburbs of Seattle The boys were
armed with 22-caliber rifles and fred
! TO thof fh0U
happened to fancy. Early in the at
ternoon one of the boys saw small
bird within range and the two vast
ed several shots in trying to hit 1t.
One Of the bullets struck Mrs. Bour-
geois in the stomach and wounded
her, perhaps fatally.
| J. e. w. Clark saw his first cleo
trio streetcar and his first automo-
bile Saturday in Seattle. when he ar
rived from Alaska, where he has
been Z Waterman at the United Alas
ka copper mine at Prospect Bay. He
at Portland. Or, after nearly quar-
ter Of a century spent In the north.
He is 70 years old and for years has
earned living as fisherman, hunt
or and miner. He has killed 200
bears, and when the pelts were SELL
ing at $25 he used to clean up $500
! to $500 every spring.
Wine, women and cards and the
Seattle races are given as the causes
of the downfall of Frank Pinkham.
! for eight years cashier and one OF
the most trusted employees of the
Tacoma Mill Company He has been
missing since August 22. but 1t was
not discovered until few days ago
that a check for $3.50 sent by an
Eastern firm had been cashed and
! the proceeds stolen at the time Pink
ham had disappeared. He Is believed
to be on his way to South America
accompanied by woman who Is said
to be responsible for his disgrace.
Forty members Of the The Dalles
Historical Society, Of The Dalles. Or.
placed a headstone at the grave of
the late Rev. F. H. Balch. author Of
THE Bridge of the Gods" at Lyle
Monday. Mr.. Balch lived for some
time at Lyle. dividing his ministry
between that place, Hood River and
White Salmon, and at his death IN
1901 was inferred in the Lyle ceme-
terry. Until now his grave has been
unmarked. The headstOne erected by
the society is a tall boulder of native
granite bearing the name, dates and
the words: The Bridge of the
| Gods"
Plunging from the East Sprague-
avenue trestle, in Spokane, almost at
the same spot where .. d. Collins
lost his life in a similar accident two
weeks ago. the big automobile Of J..
w. Snyder fell 60 feet one night last
week. killing the owner and inturing
the two other occupants. w. H.
Walker, Of Tacoma, and Miss May
Thompson. Snyder was taken Hfe-
less from the wreckage OF the ma
chine. Walker suffered q badly
broken collar bone and bad bruises
about the face. Miss Thompson es-
capped injury except crushed little
finger on her left hand and bruises
about-the abdomen.
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