Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire last week destroyed IN
Ridgeway theater at Colfax Tn
loss Is $1,000; insurance $4,000.
The County commissioners Of Che
halls County last week issued an o.
der requiring the prisoners in the
County Jail to labor on the county
roads, whenever the County Engineer
or the Road Supervisors require
them.
Two ranchers at North Beach have
found on the ocean front q chunk of
. 7mbersris weighing perhaps 400
.oHnGs AmberEris is worth whole
sG., $500 a pound, SO that If the
piece Is as heavy as reported the men
have a fortune of 100000.
While searching for a coat that
had been lost Harry Jordon, a resi-
dent OF Silver Beach, found a lard
pail containing a complete cracks
man 5 outfit hidden in a cedar stump
along the railroad track. about a
mile from the Silver Beach depot.
An unnown man was instantly
killed in the stairway Of a lodging
| house at Palousc last week, either
! by falling down the stairway or by
a blow from some one, Win Burden,
an ex-saloon man. Is in the city Jail
awaiting the arrival of Coroner's YER
dict
H. T. Davis representing the state
| board of control, last week officially
accepted the now training school
building for the state Normal School
! at Cheney. The architecture and
plan represents the latest and most
approved ideas for housing school
children
The thirteenth annual convention
OF the Washington Bankers AssOCi-
ton was held at North Yakima last
week. The officers elected are: Pres
ident w l.. Adams, Hoquiam, vice
president, A. r. Albertson Tacoma;
secretary, p. c. Kaufman, Tacoma;
treasurer, j. X. Mccormick, Palouse
A patent issued by the United
States Government to Samuel A. Will
liams to certain lands in Chehalis
County, has just been filed with the
County Auditor for record The in
strument bears the date Of December
8, 1864, and also bears the signature
of Abraham Lincoln. then President
of the United States.
Seven thousand tons of steel will
be ordered Immediately for big
bridges which the Copper River &
Northwestern Railroad will construct
across the Copper River in Alaska.
Rails have been laid for a distance Of
80 miles from COrdOya, and by the
end of the present year the road will
be open as far as Abercrombie Can
yon, the head Of navigation.
The valuation on the three trans
continental railroads crossing the
state of Washington has been fixed
by the railroad commission at $186,-
100000, after more than two years
spent in hearings and Investigations.
The values are segregated as fol-
lows: Northern Pacific. Sill, 000,-
600, Great Northern $50, 100000, O.
r. & n. SIC, 900.
High water in the Columbia has
done great damage to the ranchers
and dairy people living in the bot
toms west and south of Woodland.
Many farmers have been compelled to
move with all their possessions and
bLONhas N--~gr..--.-,D will no almost
total failure, as but little had i Deem
cut before the high water came, the
season having been very backward
on account Of cold weather.
Parties just returning from Para
disc Vauey, on the south slope Of
Mount Rainier, say the heaviest
snowfall in more than a decade fell
on the mountain during last winter
Due to the bacltwardness of the year,
there is still a great deal of snow on
the slopes of the mountain, and at
the Camp of the Clouds, a favorite
tourist spot, there Is still 20 feet of
snow.
Charles Smith, of Seattle, was ar
rested at Aberdeen last week and
taken to Olympia on a charge of try
ing to cheat O, s. Morris of Olympia
out of a gasoline bill. Smith bought
an automobile at Seattle on the in
stallment plan. He started for Mo
clips, a summer resort, to engage in
q passenger business and the ma
chine jumped an embankment on the
way and was completely wrecked.
Officers of the Y. NJ G. A. of North
Yakima, have formally accepted the
$4,000 building constructed for the
association and nothing remains tC
be done but to furnish the building
for the occupancy of the young mer
who belong to the association. This
will cost about $l2, 900, and the ac
COmpliSnment oil the WORK OF raising
this money has been assumed as ar
obligation by the women Of the vari
Gus charitable and religious organi
cations, who have appointed a wo
mems auxiliary to the association fol
|, that purpose.
Preparations are already under
way at the Barracks for the big en-
! campment at American Lake during
the month of August. All regular
troops assigned for this camp Will be
t there on or before August /. The
orders further provide that two OF
three days before starting for the en-
2 campment, all troops shall be care
fully examined for the presence o
| contagious diseases. The regimenta
% hospitals at Vancouver Barracks
Fort Lawton and Walla Walla WI
I accompany the troops. Machine gun
e platoons and mounted Orderlies viii
also accompany their commands.
Attorneys representing the Ash
ton-Mason-Ross Tidelaud Syndicat
have prepared their answer to tn
suir hroutrbt nv CharIpg bedford fO