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The Pullman Herald. VOLUME XVIII. PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4. 1906. NUMBER 45 ent eX- an it le- brics, have newthe Cakes our sort- MADE GOOD RUN WITH HARVESTER Fred Hungate's Combined Cuts and Theshes 675 Sacks in One Day One of the best days runs ever made in this country with a combined is reported from the Fred Hungate farm west of town.

With his 16-foot machine. hauled by 32 horses, Mr. Hungate yesterday cut and threshed 675 sacks of wheat. This was from ground that is giving around forty bushels per acre, and as each sack holds a little more than two bushels, it would show that fully 35 acres were cut over. The weather is excellent for harvest, and the farmers are making every hour count.

A number of threshing machines have started up, and while the indications are that the yield of the earlier grain will be somewhat better than had been anticipated, and the grade No. 1, it is too soon to tell much about the general average yet. Such grains as Arcadia, Club, and the other early ripening varieties, are much less injured by the warm spell than Red Russian and other late wheats. The quality of the later will also likely be somewhat injured. -E.

S. Burgan has this morning closed a deal with C. E. Britton, of Lewiston, whereby Mr. Burgan becomes the owner of the lot lying between the corner lot which he already held and the Palace hotel.

This gives him a property 100 feet square at the corner of Main and Alder streets, which will probably he covered with a Ag department store building before another year rolls round. -Rev. Longbottom, of Johnson will occupy the U. P. church pulpit on Sunday, August 12th.

On the 19th inst. Carl Hays, son of the pastor, and a first year student of theology at Allegheny, will preach. The young man graduated from W. S. C.

a year ago, and this will be the first opportunity for this Pullman friends to hear him as a pulpit orator. I -Dr. Woodburn and family left yesterday for Spokane, and will visit Lake Chelan and other points of interest before returning to their home in the east, where the Dr. is a member of the faculty of the University of Indiana. He has been in Pullman during the summer assisting in the conduct of the Summer School at the College.

I -'No, we have never yet been able to figure out just how old Ann really was, but when that problem is definitely disposed of, we will tackle that harder one, "when will Pullman's streets be done?" -E. S. Burgan and John Klemgard drove to Mr. Burgan's ranch near the Wawawai canyon Thursday. DEATH OF MRS.

A. J. CAROTHERS. Death, always with its weight of sorrow, has an especial tinge of sadness when a young wife and mother is called to her last sleep, and in the taking away of Mrs. Andrew J.

Carothers, a community is shocked and left to mourn the loss of a good Mrs. Carothers was stricken with paralysis on April 18th, and while she has suffered intensely at times, she bore it all with a christian fortitude, and the end came to her as a relief from physical anguish. She leaves a husband and six children, three boys and three girls, the youngest only four months of age, to mourn the death of a loving and tender wife and mother. Anna Bankson was born in Illinois in 1870, and married to Andrew J. Carothers in 1890, and had made her home with her husband in this vicinity for a number of years.

The funeral services were held yesterday, at the Carothers home two miles west of town, Rev. W. G. M. Hays preaching the sermon.

Interment was in the Odd Fellows cemetery. -Geo. J. Salem, a scientist in the employ of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, is here gathering samples of wheat with which to make a series of interesting tests. The claim is made that wheat cut with a binder and permitted to "cure'' in the shock contains more gluten than wheat allowed to ripen thoroughly before being cut as is necessary where harvest is to be conducted with the header or the combined machine, and Mr.

Salem's experiments will be conducted for the purpose of testing the milling quality of wheat cut by me varrous methods. -Pullman made a wonderful growth the past year, and home industry was responsible for a good deal of it. One local physician tell. us that he was present at the ushering in of 63 new additions to the census roll in 1905, and that his 1906 record is going to beat that by a good many. There's no race suicide in that.

-Prof. Beale, of the agricultural department, was here from Washington City this week inspecting the work of the experiment station. He expressed himself as highly pleased with the conduct and administration of the station here, and his report will be of the best. -The season when prairie chickens and other grouse can be legally hunted will open Aug. 15th.

Quail are still protected at all seasons. The coveys of birds should be large this year, as the weather was good during the nesting season. -Mrs. C. H.

Buell and daughters, Misses Clara and Laura, accompanied by Miss Wenham and Mr. C. M. Warrant, left Monday for Coeur d' Alene lake, where they will camp for a couple of weeks. THE CITY COUNCIL IN REGULAR SESSION Dan Burns Hired as City Engineer at Salary of $100 Per Month At the council meeting Thursday evenng Councilmen White and Miller were absent.

Mayor Staley was also absent, and Councilman Baker was called to the chair to preside over the meeting. The various officers of the city reported, and the reports were laid to rest in the committee graveyards. The special committee on street paving reported progress, and said that the work was probably about three-fifths done. The committee stated that it had taken the matter up with the contractor's bondsmen, and that more rapid progress would probably be made in future on the work. Mr.

Horton was allowed $500 further on work completed since the last report was filed. The committee on streets and highways reported in favor of granting the request of Ira Allen and other petitioners for the vacation of ten feet on each side of McKenzie street, and the papers necessary to said vacation were ordered drawn. Dan Burns was engaged as city engineer at the pump house in place of Jack Zender, who had been removed. Burns salary was fixed at $100 per month, he to furnish his own assistant. Councilman Carpenter.

who had been appointed as a special committee to devise some method of keeping tab on the city's purchases, rceommended the adoption of a system of purche on requisition, the business merr fo make sales only on presentation of a requisition signed by some councilman. This matter was brought up because of the filing a bill at a previous session of the council with purchases from one business house with the o. of eleven different people. This method of expending the money of the city brought up the discussion that resulted in the appointment of the committee and the adoption of its recommendation for the requisition system. -Moscow has been having a fill of sensations this week, first a bride of a month, the wife of a hardware mer-, chant leaving her spouse to go to Alaska with a handsomer man, leaving her lord and master some $800 to the bad.

Then next four young men of the town filled up on bug juice, and proceeded to paint the town a bright vermillion hue. The outcome was a free for all fight, one corpse, and warrants for two on a charge of murder. The dead man is David A. Collier, son of J. A.

Collier. -Jesse Burgan writes that he will arrive home from the east about the 15th inst. THE PRESIDENT'S OUTING. After the months of care and anxiety that go with the conscientious management of a great educational institution. it is little wonder that Pres.

Bryan looked forward to a few days in camp at Pussy Willow ranch with the utmost pleasure. The camp was nicely established last week, and the president viewed his work and smilingly contemplated one day of blissful rest, surrounded only by the members of his household. But the echo of the blow that had driven the last tent pin had hardly quieted till a phone ring at the farm house called the president. and a feminine voice asked if Mr. Bryan could be seen.

When asked if the business could not be transacted over the phone, the lady said that it could not. Thinking that matters of state that perhaps affected the very existence of the college on the hill were in the lady's keeping, the president told her that he would be at his home the next day--the day that was to be so full of rest and quiet and peace 'neath the shade at Pussy Willow camp--at nine o'clock. Promptly at the hour the lady was ushered into the educator's presence when she proceeded to recite her story about the necessity for owning the latest volume for the president had come to town to be interviewed by a book agent! -The capital stock of the new Pull- man National Bank has all been sub scribed, and the stockholders are now awaiting the receipt of the charter when the organization will be completed. The Drinkwater building, alongside the Siver barber shop, has been rented, and the bank will be opened up in that till the new buildbe erected. -Tie publie school will open September 3rd for a nine month's session.

A- considerable number of last teachers will be back in their places, and the following new ones have been employed: Misses Jessie Gibson, Nora Gaines, Alma Bishop, Bessie Darland, Grace Gilbreth and Helen Hardy. -The W. C. T. U.

will meet at the Presbyterian church on Tuesday, August 7th, at 3 p. m. A large attendance is desired as reports from the county convention will be read. There is also special music on the program. -A.

R. Hare, night operator at the Northern Pacific depot, has gone east to visit relatives, and G. M. Hardy is in charge of the lightning meantime. -Will Duncan has gone to the county seat today to talk politics with the other candidates and the central committee.

-Geo. Ritchey and Rev. R. C. Sargent and families returned last Monday from a ten days outing on the upper Potlatch.

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WILSON WRITES OF THE QUAKE Interesting Letter from the Doctor on the Big Disaster at San Francisco Under date of July 18th, Dr. G. B. Wilson, who has been located in San Francisco for the past year, writes the following interesting letter to his father, Valentine Wilson, of his experiences in the big earthquake: "I think when I wrote the first few messages home after the great somersault of nature, followed by the most extensive and destructive fire of all time, that I promised to write more fully after things became settled. Three months have now passed, and while no pen of mine can ever describe the scenes, I feel that you will all appreciate my feeble attempt.

We were all in bed, time about 5:13 a. when the shock came, and oh! the awful horror of it. It seemed that it would never end. Let some one shake their finger 48 seconds while you hold a watch and just see how long it really is. Let them shake up and down, sideways, crossways and every other way possible, getting faster and harder all the time.

This will convey the idea of the duration of our recent quake. For myself, while I knew that we lived in the most substantial building in the city, I felt sure that it must come down. really believed that the last days were here, and expected to be hurled into everlasting eternity. I did not get out of bed, but waited for the final crash that, would end all. Cora jumped up and went to the window.

told her to not iumn out Mat to come back to bed and it would soon be over. I do not think she was frightened in the least, but all she could think of was that she never did like it here anyway. Well at last the end of it came, and I got up and said 'Cora, this has killed It was ever so much worse than the big shake of '68, which I still have vivid memories "I knew that a heavy hand had been laid upon San Francisco, but could not realize the wide extent of the destruction that was still to follow. had to cook in the street, and food was mighty short, but there was no complaint, and my women folks were not hysterical as all others near us seemed to be. There were ten families living in our building, and we were the only ones who stayed in at night and went to sleep, all the rest fleeing to the hilltops or going into the parks, for they could not get the women folks into the houses, or at least that is the excuse given by the men.

Early in the forenoon I went the rounds of the city on foot to view the ruins while the fire was raging in every direction. Brick buildings were badly wrecked, all ginger work of brick and all chimneys being down in the street. The very best brick structures like the Palace hotel were uninjured. Good wooden buildings on firm foundationswere also intact, the fire was coming and they were yet to be gutted or swept away, and in the three days that over 500 blocks were burned. The streets were crowded with all types of humanity fleeing before the flames and carrying all kinds of household goods useful and otherwise.

I saw women draging trunks along with ropes around the waist something like la boy would hitch a dog to a toy wagon with a harness. I saw them carying wringers, and Cora tells a story of a woman who lost her all who was rushing madly along clutching in her nervous hand a box of face powder. This was all she had saved. She would sure need the powder when she got a chance for her face was black with smoke and cinders that fell from above like hail. Well, the fire marched majestically along sweeping all in its course and ever and anon another quake would rumble and roar and pass away beneath us and the men would run and women would scream until it seemed that all the nerves in the city were about to go to pieces under the high tension.

As night -came on desolation reigned supreme, and all knew that San Erient isco, the mighty city, she of so much romance, was doomed. The loud roar of the fearful of dynamite used to blow up buildings shook the city from end to end. These reports were heard for a hundred miles. All this continued as you know for three days and nights. The fire came within about four blocks of us but we never knew until it had at last exhausted itself that we were safe, for nothing seemed to stay it, but at last the agony was over, but our city was a mighty pile of ruins.

I looked them over and said to myself that never again will I admire the feeble monuments reared by the hand of man. for Continued on Page 10 Shirt Waist Sale All our Spring and Summer Shirt Waists for Ladies go at just one-half price. We must make room $5.50 Waists go now for $5.00 $4.00 $3.50 no $3.00 $2.00 66 66 $1.00 $1.50 .75 $1.25 14 .63 HAM -WAGNER.