Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-08-21
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

! money and stamps was taken.
William H. Culver, proprietor OF
the Harold Steel Range Company,
died at his home in Puyallup last
week, aged 60 years.
Fire last week at Valley did $780,
900 worth of damage before 1t was
extinguished. The women fought the
flames in the residence district until
| the men arrived
Mrs. A. n. Brown, wife of Colonel
Ashman Brown, news editor of the
! Post-Irtelligencer, well-known news
paper man and eX-private secretary
to Governor Mead, died last week.
Theodore A. Bell, ex-Congressman
! from California, temporary chairman
| Of the Denver democratic convention
and past worthy grand president OF
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, open
! ed the 1908 campaign for the state
! Democracy at Everett Monday night
Robert Mattau, large property
owner of Tacoma, who was arrested
for not obayins the orders of the
| Health Commissioner in cleaning up
/ the premises, has received notifica-
| ton that he has fallen heir to an
SIS, 900 estate In Germany.
Articles of incorporation were filed
lastweek for the Corbin Coal & Coke
| Company, the capital stock being
| $1,000,000. The purpose of the
company is the development of II
sections of choice coal lands within
800 miles of Spokane in Eastern
| British Columbia.
State Fire Warden j. r. Welty has
directed the resumption of the issu-
anCe of burning permits for slashings
under the forest inspection law
Prior to the recent rains forests of
the state were menaced by fire and
| as precaution issuance of permits
to set fires was discontinued.
The Montana National Guard ar
| rived at Camp Stanley last week The
| troops come into camp the best or
! ganized and altogether the best ap-
pearing citizen soldiery thus far seen
| here. The little regiment brings a
| full military band of % pieces. each
man a professional.
w. H. Asquith, a Tacoma contrac-
tor, drew a 45-caliber revolver while
on the parlor car of the Seattle-Ta-
| coma |interurban train near Milton,
! Saturday night, and attempted to kill
| his wife He was disarmed by E. j
! Daniels, the Colored porter, and E.
| Kirkeneall, the conductor, before be
| could fire.
The board of county commission
ers has authorized an appropriation
Of $500 for the purpose of a Clallam
| county exhibit at the Seattle EXPOSE
| ton. The appropriation is made on
the condition that the proposed com
! bination with Jefferson county be
! made, and that the efforts of the two
counties be made, so far as the hous-
ing of the exhibit Is concerned
ChOhalls county now has one of
he best systems OF public roads IN
| Washington. BY the end Of the pres
ert season $3.50. 600 will have been
expended on highways, und the trunk
line through the county to the ocean
! beach, 1t Is olairaed, Is the only prac-
| teal automobile route from the in
terror TO the ocean beach north of
! California,
Barring the door, Mrs, a, NJ. Flo
berg refused to let Health Officer
| Sargentich into her home in Tacoma
| to administer antitoxin treatment to
| her baby. The child died and sew
eral other children of the family are
stricken with the disease The house
! MI =
officer declares he will administer the
antitoxin treatment If he has to ar
rest both the parents.
Mrs Mary e. Hart, who has been
acting as lecturer on the excursion
steamship Spokane during the past
summer. has been appointed educa-
! ton and art commissioner to Alaska
for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo
sition. Mrs. Hart has just received
her commission from the department
! of commerce and labor and will COM
mence her work in the North upon
reaching Juneau.
Fred Shaffer, years old, known
to the Tacoma police as the baby
! burglar" was arrested last week
! charged WtJn FODDlnB ldCOnd gro
Gerry OF about 500 in cash After he
had been in a cell for two hours he
led them to the store and showed
how he had hid beneath a counter
while the grocer secreted his cash;
how he had lighted candle and
found the money and escaped.
A glass of jelly, tin of condensed
milk and two empty apple boxes
were the entire furnishings OF tent
on the Schanno ditch occupied by a
! woman and her S-mOnth-old baby,
when the North Yakima health officer
and chief OF police called at the re-
quest of neighbors. The man, La
French, according to them, had taken
what furniture and bedding the tent
contained and sold It for drink. She
was given financial assistance.
Adyices received from Pittsburg
are to the effect that Messrs. Arthand
! &, Rogers, of Hernuiam, have sue