Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-04-25
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Work has started on the main
dit'h, laterals and fumes at East
Farms, across the river from Spo-
kane Bridge.
Nearly 100 men are employed on
the new college buildings at Pull
man, and rapid progress Is being
made.
Development work has been start
ed on the cement mines near Cliffs.
A force of men, teams and other
equipment, Is on the ground.
Two carloads of Russians have
left for La Grande to work in the
sugar beet fields. Work for common
labor Is reported scarce this spring
about Walla Walla.
Hubert A. Hunt of North Yakima
has brought suit asking $4,000
damages, alleging he Is made Grip
pie for life by the treatment given
him by DR.. John B. Burns.
A. M, Whitman, pioneer of 1847
and ex-State Senator, died at his
home one miles from Corvallis, last
Friday, aged sc years.
= Tacoma lumbermen are sending
notices to Eastern customers of an
advance of Is cents a thousand on
star shingles and 20 cents on clears.
Charging that Town Marshal Nc
Queen of Pennington refused to per-
form the work for which he was ap-
pointed, the town council has de-
manded his resignation.
Eight homing pigeons, released at
Portland, Or, made the fight to Ia
coma. a distance of 1870 miles, In
three hours and five minutes, last
week flying an average of As miles
an hour
Two country schools, near Dayton,
with two pupils each, were closed
last week. During the winter school
was maintained regularly. These are
said to be the two smallest schools
in Washington.
Sailors on the United States cruis-
er Washington were presented last
week with a mascot in the form of
a four weeks old black bear, cap
tured on the outskirts of Tacoma a
few weeks ago.
The receipts of the Medical Lake
postofilce for the fiscal year ended
March 8 are 30 per cent larger
than last year, and for the quarter
the largest of any quarter since
the Office was established.
One dozen young bachelors of
Montesano, DESTROYS of forming mat
rimonial alliances, have formed a
club called The Bashful Dozen"
and will pool interests and see II
| they can become benedicts.
! Robert l.. Munson, a dealer in
electrical supplies, is seeking an In
junction against the city of Seattle,
restraining the City Lighting De-
partment from selling or leasing mo-
tors and other electrical fixtures.
Guy Morris, alias Handsome
DAN" who chloroformed Jennie
Smith and stole her jewels In Spo-
kane, and then fed to Minnesota,
was sentenced to serve five to 20
years in the States prison last
week.
Attorney Agnew Of Aberdeen has
received word from the Commits
sioner of the General Land ONCE
that the contested land case of Gus
Kendall has been decided in Ken
dall's favor, after a fight of more
than five years.
Willis V. Myer, a well known Sc
attic politician, and a delegate to
the Democratic national convention
to be held at Denver, was arrested
Friday on a warrant charging him
with obtaining money under false
pretenses.
With II warships in the harbor,
the total displacement of which Is
146,560 tons, the Puget Sound Navy
Yard at Bremerton Is doing work on
a greater tonnage than any other
navy yard in the United States.
There are 2,10O men employed at
the Bremerton yard.
While shooting outside of North
Yakimaw last Friday Ben Sand
meyer fired a charge from his shot
gun, a portion of which struck the
little 4-year-old daughter Of James
Houle In the face. The child was
playing in the brush and was not
visible to Sandmeyer. She mas in
jured in the right eye and may lose
her sight.
Clinton E. Candy, an insurance
solicitor of Tacoma, became so jeal-
Gus of his 20-year-old wife that be-
fore he started on his days routine
of business he tied his child wife to
the bedpost, handcuffed her hands