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fp)* ftolitMit lieraliX I t»"V>i ■;. -,:; '■**■*.! f: .' <. . '* ,1 ..'. [ ■'■ j . -'■ -. * .*;■.--■-. . . * • VOLUME XVI. CHAS. BULL ...PULLMAN'S... PIONEER PLUMBER AND TINSMITH PLUMBING SUPPLIES, STOVES, Sanitary Plumbing a Specialty All work Guaranteed Shops on Grand St., opposite Star Stable JWl}bß|m keep your wife 16-inch Slab Wood f. o. b. Pullman, $2.75 per cord by the car. POTLATCH LUMBER COMPANY SPECIAL JACK KNIFE SALE In order to make room for a new line of goods, I am going to sell my line of celebrated JORDAN KNIVES at COST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SALE AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS DOES NOT COME EVERY DAY MORTON SPECIAL STYLES Sales : and : Prices We have just received a large shipment of Up-to-Date Shoes, and two more consignments are on the road; so it is with pleasure we announce that OUR SHOES are Better and Stronger than ever, while our aim is to get the best material and workmanship in the market, and to sell at a reasonable price. COME IN AND INSPECT OUR LINE We will appreciate your call. And don't throw away your old shoes. Bring them in to us for the best Repairing. Satisfaction guaranteed. WINDUS & STYLES. CITY SHOE STORE. FURNACES, CORNICE LOOKING OVER The entire field of science, nowhere has there been such progress as in the Science of Optics and the fitting of Glasses. Our success in this line is due, in a meas- \ / ure, to the fact that we em brace every new meritorious idea. We constantly seek to originate new methods of excellence that will in any way aid us in the practice of Fitting Glasses. W. L. WHITE, M. D. At White's Drug Store PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1004. i NEWS OF THE CITY RECORD OF THE WEEK —H. F. Blanchard, who has been chief assistant in the post office for the past two years, has been ap pointed to a position under the ag ricultural department, and ordered to the experiment station in Kansas to take up a line of investigational work there. Mr. Blanchard fitted himself for work of this nature at the college here, having graduated in io,or, and adds another to the list from W. A. C. to be appointed to responsible government positions. He expects to leave for his new field of duty about September Ist. Ira Allen, of the Herald, will succeed him in Uncle Sam's local establish ment. —J. R. Ruply was badly shaken up in a runaway Monday, at his ranch west of town. One of the lines was switched from his hand, and being unable to control the horses with the remaining line, he was thrown heavily to the ground, badly wrenching his back, and lay ing him up for several days. He is now recovering, though still feel ing the effects of his collision with the earth. Horses and wagon es caped injury. —Saturday evening, while leav ing town to drive to their home a couple of miles east, Mrs. Annie Booth and daughter, Orpha, were the victims of a rather serious run away accident. While crossing the bridge near the warehouses, the horse was frightened by some boys at play, and turning sharply, threw the ladies from the buggy, bruising both of them badly, and breaking one bone in Orpha's right ankle. —The bulk of the crab apple crop has usually been a loss in the Pa louse conntry, but now the crab tree will prove a valuable assist in the orchard. Wm. Buckley is buying up two carloads for shipment to the Dakotas, the market price being equal to that of any apple. —Constable Hill has been in charge of a "chain gang" on the city streets this week. One recruit to the gang came because he fur nished a couple of young boys with the liquor to make them beastly drunk, and another for being drunk and disorderly himself. —Meryl Chapman, who has been suffering for the past five weeks with typhoid fever, shows some im provement, and the hope is now ex pressed by the physicians that her recovery will now be rapid, although she is still very sick. —Mrs. W. T. Wells and child ren, of Topeka, Kansas, are in the city, the guests of the White and Pinkley families. Mrs. Wells is en route to Assinaboia, B. C, where her husband has located. —Mrs. W. L. Lyon left for Nez- perce, Idaho, Monday, where she joins-her husband, who is with the Vollmer Clearwater Grain Co., at that point. —F. E. Wells has returned from Quincy, 111., where he remained during the winter. —Harry Anderson is now at the money order desk in the postoffice. —Mrs. D. L. Kemper is visiting friends at Palouse. —Miss Ada Kruegelisat Spokane on a vacation. —W. D. Outman is in Spokane. —Mrs. G. B. Wilson visited Mos cow Monday. —The public school will open September sth. —New walks are being laid on the public school property. —S. H. Cameron left Wednesday for his mining property in Montana. —Mrs. L. 1,. Guesnier is visiting Spokane friends for a few days this week. —Miss Cora Thompson, of Dar lington, Wise, is the guest of Mrs. Jho. W. Mathews. —Wm. Deary, general manager for the Potlatch Lumber Co., was in the city Monday. A rate of $3.40 for the round trip to Spokane, next Saturday, via the Northern Pacific, to see Ringling's circus. —H. C. Todd, who is now work ing in the office of the county aud itor, visited his friends in this city Sunday. —The Misses Saidee Wallis and Blanche Thayer have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallis, at Julia etta, this week. —Mrs. Penny and daughter, Maude, left Monday for St. Louis and the exposition, to be absent a couple of months. —Ronald Chapman returned from a canvassing trip last week wrest ling with a threatened case of ty phoid fever, and is now confined to his home. —W. M. Chambers, general man ager for the Coe Commission Co., was here during the week, after a tour through the Portland and Walla Walla countries. —The demand for harvest help is still abroad in the land. Farmers are in town every evening in search thereof, while the thresher-whistles echo merrily over the hilltops from 4 a. m. to 8 p. m. —Dr. Hall had a severe tussel with asthma the early part of the week. The doctor expects to leave Monday or Tuesday for the coast, where he hopes for an improvement in his health. He will open an office for the practice of his profession in some city in the sound country. The Northern Pacific will run a special train to Spokane, on Satur day, August 20th, on account of the Ringling Bros.' circus. Train will leave Pullman at 7:45 a. m., and re turning, will leave Spokane at 6 p. m. Fare for round trip, $3.40. Tickets on sale Aug. 19th, good re turning on Aug. 21st. —Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of the Farmers' Hotel, this city, were badly shaken up by an unmanage able team last Sunday. While on a high part of the roadway east of town their horses became frighten ed at a six-horse outfit which they met and backed over the grade, de spite Mr. Thompson's best argu ments against such a foolish move. The fall was considerable and the rig was more or less damaged, but the occupants were lucky. Mrs. T. was thrown back into the carriage top, and tlius escaped severe contu sions. Mr. T. hung to the animals and was threshed about tan some time, to the detriment ot his skin and Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, but it might have been worse. NUMBER 46 —A contract has been made with J. M. Palmerton by the Orders in terested whereby a water system is to be established in the I. O. O. F. and the A.O.U.W. cemeteries, by means of a hydraulic ram which will lift water to a reservoir conven iently located on a point above the cemeteries. From this the fluid will be easily distributed upon the grounds and wherever desired, mak ing it possible to beautify the ceme teries as they should be. —The "Joshua Simpkms" Co., carrying its own scenery, band and orchestra, will produce this great pastoral drama at the Pullman Au ditorium, next Wednesday, 17th. The play deals with country life and people, and with life in Wash ington city. In the 3d act a sensa tional sawmill effect is given, being a complete sawmill in full operation cutting up genuine timber. The saw is a genuine buzz, or circular, saw, and cuts through timber at as tonishing speed. Ang. 17th. —The city dungeons have been taxed somewhat beyond the usual, lately, owing to the heavy influx of strangers with varying dispositions when influenced by fire-water or froth. But Marshal Holt's hospi tality seems always equal to the de mands made upon it. And there are some pretty tough characters in these crowds, at times. —The new assistant in modern languages at the W.A.C. is Mr. F. C. DeWalsh, a graduate of the Sy acuse (N.Y.) university. He is a I native of Germany and was educat ed at Berlin and Paris, and is un married. He has been engaged, of late, at the University of Arizona, and will reach Pullman about the Ist of September. G. W. Ford will represent the Northwestern Warehouse Co. at Pullman again this year. He has on hand a few thousand grain bags, standard Calcattas, standard oat bags (large size.) Farmers should be sure to see him before buying as he can save them money. These bags must be sold as he does not in tend to carry any over. (tt) —R. C. Leuty and family are so* journing at Medical Lake for three or four weeks. Mr. L- has sold his Main-st. blacksmith business to M. B. Turpin, but will return here in September and make a specialty of shoeing and curing crippled horses, mules, etc. —Julian Machell, who was re cently sent to the Medical Lake asylum from here, died at that in stitution Tuesday, death coming to him during his sleep at night. The body was shipped to Pullman and interred in the local cemetery Thurs day. —It stands every one in hand to be mighty careful of fire these ter ribly dry days. Look out when you throw aside that half-burned mateh —it has caused many a mil lion-dollar blaze. —Mrs. Delia McMillan, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. Wagoper, returned to Tacotna this week, accompanied by Mrs. W. —"Dan" Burns declares that the chicken he had for last Sunday's dinner was the best he ever —or would have been if — —Coal oil in quantity has been "struck," it is claimed, in the vicin ity of Pine creek, this county. The O. K. & X. bridge gang is overhauling some of the structures OU the Moscow branch. — Wheat is selling slow at 60c of fered tor club and 65c for bluestem. —Will Wallis and wife came up 1 rum Juliaetta today.