Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-05-09
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

be completed into Tacoma.
G. NJ. Pardue of Aberdeen was
killed by falling tree Saturday In
a camp on the Newshkah River.
There have been severe frosts in
several parts of the Palouse country
during the past week. Little damage
Is reported.
The cornerstone of the First Bap-
list church of North Yakimaw was
laid at $50 o'clock Saturday night.
The church is to cost $4,000.
The Alaska-Pac Express Com
pany at Sitka was robbed of raw
turs valued at $4,7Oo, belonging to
II. Moses. of Haines Mission.
The May term of the United States
circuit court and district court for
the eastern district, southern divi-
sion, will open at North Yakima on
May 18th.
The Yakima Pioneers Associa-
ton was organized Saturday by the
election of L. l.. Thorp president.
All who settled in what Is now Yaki.
ma county before January 1, 1885,
are eligible.
DR.. G. H. Bentley of Garfield has
received orders from Governor Mead
to report at Olympia May % to as
sist in welcoming the battleship fleet
May %. DR.. Bentley is on the
staff.
The ceremony of browning the May
queen and dancing about the May
pole were features of the festivities
incident to the celebration of May
day at the normal school at Ellens-
burg Monday afternoon.
j. B. Porria. an old resident Of
Castle Rock, was arrested Saturday,
charged with branding heifer be-
longing to a neighbor. Porria plead
ed not guilty, but was placed under
$500 bonds to appear for trial.
The directors of the Moran Ship
building Company at Seattle were
last week, offered 100000 for
their plant and business in Seattle
and declined to accept the consider
alton, holding out for $2,500,000.
Vincent Carlno, an italian gard
ener, was robbed and murdered in
the residence section of Seattle last
Friday night The body was found
on the street Saturday morning, and
investigation showed that he had
been shot through the heart
Reports from all over the Walla
Walla valley show that unless this
locality Is visited by frost soon the
cherry crop this year will be larger
than ever before. The trees are all
in blossom now and the orchardists
J fear that the yield will be too heavy
for the trees. Prospects for a large
} apple crop are also good this year.
The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk
Company at Kent Is receiving a large
amount of milk this spring, 10000
pounds more daily than ever before
This shows that the pastures are In
excellent shape and that more dairy
cows are being kept than In previous
years. The tin can department has
|. more machines now, and has recently
; been exceeding its former output by
one third.
The so-called social clubs Of
Spokane, which run without hind
rance now, will be put out of bust
ness in a most effectual manner, as
the result of an order issued by
Mayor Moore through Chief of Police
Rem Rice, informing them that II
they intend to run and sell liquor, as
they have in the past, they must take
out retail licenses. The fee is $1,000
year.
Proof that prosperity has returned
and is here to stay was the announce
ment that construction work on the
mammoth plant of the e. |. Dupont
De Nemours Powder Company, on
the Nisqually flats, Tacoma, is to be
resumed at once. Two hundred men
will be put to work and the task of
completing the plant and its neigh
boring town will be pushed with
energy.
Gray & Chapman, Spokane, Port
land & Seattle railroad contractors,
have completed the grade for the
Oregon, Washington & Idaho-Spo-
kane, Portland g. Seattle connections
at Riparia, and are storing their
tram rails and their machinery.
With the exception of levenng up,
the grade is practically ready for the
reception of the steel, and this Is
only matter of few days.
D. e. Smith, logger, died Satur-
day in st. Joseph's Hospital, Aber-
deem A few nights ago Smith was
found outside a saloon unconscious,
and 1t was believed he had been pois-
oned. The case has been mystery