Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-17
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
A Week with our Exchanges--The Cream Of Tex
ritorial and Stats EsE5 Briefly Given.


The NJ Z. university at Tacoma IS to
cost $4,000.
The Washington Central has reached
Medical Lake.
Spokane Falls will soon have a cor
rugated iron factory.
Walla Walla is to have free de
livery after January l.
A six foot vein Of good coal las been
discovered near Rondo, Idaho.
Ore has been found in the Pend d
Oreille district assaying $50 per tor.
The crqnberrics raised in this terri
tory are exceedingly fine favored and
very large.
Two spans Of the S. L. S. IL e.
bridge across the Snohomish liver has
been washed out.
The Rockford branch Of the o. r.
& n. system will reach Spokane Falls
early next season.
Miller, tie murderer of Kohl at
Spokane Falls who has been recaptured
has confessed his crime.
The cable road between Seattle and
Lake Washington has begun opera
tions. The fare is ) cents.
The evangelist, D. L. Moody, who
has been engaged in revival work on
the sound, is now in Portland,
John Stantun, a woodchoper from
Kamela, frightful maniac, was com
mitted to jail in PendIeton Thursday.
The Republic notes the discovery of
a fine line of coal and a large bed of
lime some twenty five miles from Yak
ina
The coal miners at Roslyn, unham-
pered by any Knights of Labor organ
ization, are making from s. to 81 q
day.
1t is estimated that the expense of
picking and driving the hop crop Of
King and Pierce counties this year was
100000.
The Oregon;on states that the pro
posed through line of the 0. R. & n.
to the Missoula valley will be built
without doubt.
The arc light has proved such a sue
cess at Walla Walla that the intro
duction Of the incandescent principle
is in contemplation.
A first class creamery is to be cstab
lished at Silverton, Oregon. A chair
factory has been put in operation and
a cannery is wanted.
The German Immigration Society
at Portland has sent out during the
past month. ten thousand circulars at
an expense OF 500.
Palouse City has more than doubled
its population in the past year, nowith-
standing almost the entire city has
been destroyed by fre.-Boomerang.
The transactions in real estate in
Portland thus far this year aggregate
nearly Sl,5O0,OO0 - over 100000
ahead Of the corresponding period last
year.
It is predicted that the Spokane &
Palouse branch of the Northern Pa
cifc will be extended to Julietta and
possibly to Camas prairie in the carly
spring.
In Skagit county, w. T., several ex-
tensive lodges of marble have been
found and thus another rich resource
is discovered which will be developed
at once.
Considerable eastern coin is being
invested in Clatsop county timber land.
The ruling rate is so per acre. Ten
wears from now it will be worth 500
per acre.
A pardon has been sent from Olym-
pia by Governor Semple granting a
pardon to John Wilson who is in the
WalIa Walla penitentiary for horse
stealing.
The Portland Daily News thinks
that the 0. r. q 4. company will
unite with the Manitoba road, and
make Portland terminal OF the com
lined system.
Sturgeon packing at Columbia City
has become quite an industry, and it is
rumored that another firm is soon to
engage in the business, shipping the
pack to Germany
The iron and steel company's works
at Oswego, Oregon, are about com :
mencing operations. Thu road from
the ore beds to the stock house has
been completed and ore is being dump
ed at the works.
The Samish lake telegraph operator
named Mackay and a Mrs. Goblin
have disappeared. The woman be-
came enamored of the young operator
and left a husband and FIVE children
to elope with him.
Whatcom is one of the towns that
have been attracting much attention
on Puget sound. It's foundations for
prosperity has been laid in the shape
of railroads, sawmills, docks and many
other local enterprises,
The council at Walla Walla raised
the license of auction houses to S75 a
quarter. This ordinance is the result
Of petition Of the merchants, and is
calculated to curtaii the business of