The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-09-25
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
Of THE WEEK IN BRIEF

either resign their Jobs or withdraw
from membership in the secret order.
North Yakima.-The hop crop of
Yakima Valley will amount to about
1900 bales instead of from $4,000
tc $4,000 bales as was predicted
earlier In the season. This last es-
innate 10 made with the picking sea-
son practically over, and 1t 10 be-
lieved to be very close to what the
actual figures will be.
North Yakima. Weather reports
are to be carried to the agriculturists
and horticulturists Of Yakima coun-
ty, beginning at once, by the rural
mail Carriers. Every mail wagon
from North Yakima hereafter will
have posted on little pole the
weather signal for the next "a hours.
Olympia. Hay has ap-
pointed Mayor Mitchell Harris. of
Olympia, to succeed the late Colonel
Fred D. Heustis. of Olympia. as =
member of the State Capitol Com,
mission. The commission is to cruise
the state granted lands and sell them
to pay off the old debt and build a
new 100000 State Capitol. The
appointment comes on Mayor Harris
birthday. ....e
Olympia.-In an opinion to the
highway commission the attorney
general rules that in counties where
there is township organization, each
township through which road
passes may be assessed Is per cent
of the cost of construction Of state
aid roads, instead of the tax being
placed on the whole county.
Seattle.-The Great Northern liner
Minnesota, which recently brought
from the Orient the most valuable
cargo that ever crossed the Pacific,
sailed for the Far East with heavy
load, indicating improved trade with
Asia. The cargo includes 100000
feet of lumber for Manila; 10000
ooOho VI iuOoI VI - AoI
China 222 bales of cotton and $500
cases of canned salmon for China,
as well as general merchandise.
Walla Walla Harvesting in this
locality Is now practically completed.
although some few outfits are still
at work harvesting late grain. Con-
trary to the current reports, the crop
did not turn out as we'll as antici-
pated. and though the foothill farm
ers harvested a splendid yield, the
farmers owning land in the Eureka
Flat country state that their yields
were almost failures.
Chehalis.-C. +. Jones, manager
of the Chehalis Lumber Company's
sawmill at Littell, four miles west
of Chehalis, was instantly killed by
being crushed by log. Mr.. Jones
was helping the lOggers unload
carload OF logs at the rollway at the
pond when the accident occurred.
The logs got away and rolled over
Jones, crushing his skull and inflict-
ing other injuries that would have
been fatal.
Walla Walla.-The residents Of
Little st. Petersburg" as the Rus
sian colony Is called, beat Jacob
Huffman and stripped the clothes
from his wife and. beat her. Huffman
can give no reason for the treatment.
and says he does not know his as
sailants. He had but recently moved
into the Russian part of the city.
The police are investigating. Both
the man and his wife bear marks Of
violent treatment.
Spokane-The Washington Equal
Suffrage League will hold its nrs%
annual convention in Masonic Tenn
pie, October and 8. Delegates
from every club in Washington will
attend with representatives Of the
national association. That the sss-
sion will be stormy is predicted on
all sides. An effort will be made
by the Western Washington suffra-
gists of the DsVoe faction to pre-
vent the recognition of this assoeia-
ton by the national body.
Tacoma.-The Gamer Manufaetur-
ing company's plant. valued at 91S.-
900, was totally destroyed by fire
which originated from an unknown
cause. The plant was located in the
center Of the east side manufactur-
ing district and the fire department
had to fight desperately to keep the
blaze back from adjoining buildings.
Efforts concentrated ON saving from
total loss the new trestle of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail-
road were successful after a battle
during which the timbers caught
many times and the flames had to
be driven back, inch by inch.
Seattle.-A baby boy, one month
old, the charge of the Washington
Children's Home society, was one OF
the prizes offered at the exposition.
His name Ia Ernest and maybe he