The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-08-19
NOTES FROM OVER STATE.

Show Association of Spokane an !
nounces S35.000 in cash and other |
premiums. trophy cups, ribbons and |
diplomas for exhibits at its first an
nual festival open to the world in the |
state armory here December { to IL. |
The feature award IS $500 in god |
for a car of the hest standard COM
mercial winter apples There is also
Il prize of $1,000 for the best inii-
yidual. district. county, state or pro-
vincial exhibit. and golden apple to !
the exhibitor of the largest single
apple.
SEATTLE home for boys. es-
pecially youths who have been before
the juvenile court. will be built at
Dunlap in the near future at a cost
of from $4,000 to $40. 900. c. D.
Hllman has already contributed an
acre and a half of land on which it is
proposed to build the home Mrs.
Agnes German is at the head of the
enterprise. She has home for chill
dren at 231G Seventh avenue.
PULLMAN. - Arrangements are
being perfected for shipping apples
from Pullman in large quantities this
fall. for a good crop of apples is eX-
pected. despite the dry weather,
which has reduced the size of the
fruit from what it would have been
had there been more rain. There are
thousands of apple trees in bearing
within a radius of a few miles of
Pullman and with good crop from
- to 40 carloads per year will be
shipped
There is some talk of establishing
a cold storage plant here to handle
this and other fruit. and to try to
make Pullman headquarters for a
big shipping business.
ELLENSBURG That this years
fruit crop in the kittitas valley will
reach more than 10000 boxes is the
estimate of men interested in orch
arding here. Fruit ranches general
ly are in excellent condition and the
owners have not been troubled by the
insect pests. The tendency to spray
trees and To take better care of orch
ards has increased notably this year.
ROSLYN. C NJ. Jones transferred
TO John La Bon last week the Hal
stead hotel. one of the Oldest and
best known hotels in Roslyn, having
been established and run by Mr..
Jones with that name and in the
same location for the last twenty
years.
NATERNILLE. - Last Thursday
evening the grain warehouse of the
Waterville Milling company collapsed
and came to the ground with a sud
denness that literally smashed it to
pieces 1t is the big grain warehouse
attached 10 the south side of the mill
II was 30X90 feet and contained at
the time about 10000 bushels Of
wheat Al one time last winter it
contained over so 600 bushels
OLYMP1A-T issuance of per-
mits 10 burn slashings has been re-
sumed BY the state fire warden after
a suspension of a week or ten days.
The suspension was caused by the
extreme dryness and the fact that nu-
merous fires had spread TO valuable
timber from slashings that We're be-
ing burned under ordinary care.
SPOKANE. BY the latter part of
September the Grangeville Idaho, ex-
tension of the Northern Pacific. run
ming from Lewiston TO Grangeville,
VIII be completed and opened for
traffic II viii afford direct railway
transportation for Grangevlle. a city
Of 5000 now without railroad.
TACOMA Eisht-year-old Fred
Shaffer who has earned the sobriquet
OF the Baby Burglar" on account
Of several big burglaries he has
made is again in prison, charged
this time with stealing 500 in cash
from the grocery store of Otto Due
Val The theft took place last Mon
dag evening
ELLENSBTRG - Kittitas county
,heepmen own bands of sheep num-
bering 1915 head. according to fig
ures compiled by the county asses
sors, who are finishing this years
rolls The valuation of the bands.
on basis of so per cent. assessment,
is S105,775
ABERDEEN-R. Wilson, one of
the owners of the Wilson Bros. Lum-
Der Mill, died at his home in this
city Saturday of spinal trouble, after
a lingering illness.
air Wilson was one of the pio-
neers OF Grays Harbor, and during
his lifetime was prominently identi-
fed with the upbuilding of the com
munity. He has served as mayor OF
Aberdeen and has held other posi-
tions of trust.
OLYMPIA.-Rey NJ A. Matthews,
the well-known Presbyterian divine
OF Seattle. and number of asso-
ciates Saturday flec articles of in
corporation for the Voters Bureau
of the State of Washington" under