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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
What Are We Coming TOT

We merely chronicle the fact. At
Piqua, Ohio, one Thomas Wise courted
and said he would marry Miss Jennie
MARITIME. He backed out of his promise,
and, after time, engaged himself to
another lady. The other day, with this
guilt upon him, he went to the Catholic
church; also to the same church went
Jennie, and took seat Immediately
behind Thomas. After she had smoothed
out the folds of her dress and properly
adjusted her new hat, she took horse
pistol from her pocket, placed the muz-
zle against Thomas back, and blew a
hole through his lungs. Thomas is not
expected to recover. "But wasn't there
any" No, it don't appear that there
was anything of that kind at all. Jen-
ME seems to have been as chaste as an
icicle on the caves of Diana's woodshed,
All Tom ditto.
There is not much to be said about it
md yet there is. 1t all comes from
the law of progress, you see. A woman's
right to homicide the man who has been
too much allured by her charms has
been so frequently affirmed by our
courts that it may be considered a part
of the common law of the land. But to
scorn her for the allurements of some
hated rival-this is a far greater out
rage to sensitive womanhood, and pro-
gress demands that it be placed among
capital crimes, also. This at least,
seems to have been Miss Jennie's view
of it when she pursued Thomas into the
sanctuary and slew him at the foot of
the altar, as it were.
The circle of social ideas and require
ments within which a mans life may be
considered safe is becoming fearfully
narrowed. The old Sickles-Keyes case
no one was ever disposed to complain of
for, Notwithstanding some very good
people thought the offender in that
should have been tried before he was
executed, still the moral of the case had
no terrors for young men of correct
habits" But push this Ohio affair to
its logical results, and where does the
man of the period stand? He may en-
large his htany and cry out, From rag
ing females and horse pistols in church,
good Lord deliver mo-" He may fly to
the altar and cling to its horns for safe
ty. In vain-he shall be made to feel
that shades hath no fury like woman
scorned." The upshot Of it all will be,
we suppose, to make social intercourse
between ladies and gentlemen impossi-
bic. In the present condition of the
law of homicide we are not sure but
that it would be best,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.

Land Office at Walla- Walla, w. T.,
Dec. "a, 1888. Notice is hereby given that the
following named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the Judge, OF, in his absence, the clerk of the
probate court for Whitman county, W. t., at
Colfax W. T., on February s, 1889, viz:
EMORY H. STRATToN,
HID E. 2285 for the NV i Sc 4 Sc 4 NV 4 and c
= sw q section 7, twp II n, range 46 e. He
names the following witnesses TO prove his con
tinuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said
land viz: james II. Collins, Miron Sheldon,
Charles Heater William Longstreet, all of Mos
COW, Idaho.
Any person who desires to protest against the
allowance of such proof, who knows of any
substantial reason, under the law and the regu-
ations of the Interior Department, why such
proof should not be allowed, will be given Gn
opportunity at the above mentioned time and
place to cross-examine the witnesses of said
claimant, and TO offer evidence in rebuttal of
that submitted by claimant.
9w6 r. GUICHARD, Register
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

A CONVICT in the Walla Walla peni-
Tertiary charges the officials Of that
institution with gross neglect Of duty,
in that the prisoners are only exercised
half an hour Sundays; that the food is
cooked without seasoning; that little
attention is given to the sanitary con-
dition of the cells, and that proper
underclothing is not provided. If this
is true, it is disgrace to our civilization.
Officials who have in charge those I'M
fortunates who are deprived of their
liberty for whatever cause, who add one
jot or little to the punishment that the
law prescribeG, or fail to give their
wards the care and attention that our
laws contemplate, should be banished to
Siberia, where they would find congenial
employment in the Russian prisons.
While we are opposed to making martyrs
of criminals, we believe in treating them
as human beings.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
Exemptions in Washington.

The following incorrect item is going
the rounds of the territorial press. The
exemption law has been changed ma
terially of late. We clip from the Colfax
Gazette:
Tho homestead, which must be act
ually occupied, to the value of $1,000;
clothing, bedding and household goods
to the value of $500; one small boat to
the value of $50; two COWS, five hogs,
bees, poultry, fuel and provisions. To
farmer, two horses or two yoke Of oxen
and farming implements to the value of
5000. To professional men library
worth $500, Office furniture and fuel.
To lighterman his boat, to the value Of
$3.50. To draYman his team.
The present law provides for exemp-
lions as follows: All wearing apparel of
each person or family, all family pictures
and keepsakes, and the homestead is
exempt to the value of 81, 900 if occupied
by the head of a family.
To each householder one bed and bed
ding, and one additional bed and bedding
for each additional member of the family
also, household utensils and goods not
to exceed $500 coin value formerly
$500.
To each householder 2 cows with
their calves, swine, 2 swarms bees,
So formerly 25) domestic fowls, and
provisions and fuel for six months. Or
he can select from other property not to
exceed $3.50 value in coin formerly
$500.
To farmer, one span horses or mules
and harness, or two yoke oxen, with one
wagon; also farming utensils actually
used on farm not to exceed $500 value
also, $50 bushels wheat, $50 Of barley
or oats, 500 bushels of potatoes, 10 bush
els corn, 10 bushels peas, 10 bushels
onions for seeding purposes.
To mechanic, the tools and instru-
ments used in his trade; also, material
used in his trade, not to exceed $500
in value.
To a physician, his library to the
value of $500, one horse with harness
and buggy, the instruments used ID
practice, and medicines not to exceed
5000 coin value.
To clergymen and other professional
men, library to the extent of sl'ooO
formerly $500; also, Office furniture
fuel and stationery not to exceed $500
in value.
All firearms kept for use OF any
person or family are exempt.
To any person canoc, sklff, OF small
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

AT public meeting Of the citizens Of
Lewiston, Idaho, held recently, the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, that the vital interests of
north Idaho demand its annexation to
Washington territory, when admitted as
state.
That we condemn the opposition of
Delegate Dubois against the measure.
That we condemn any effort looking
to any statehood of Idaho which includes
north Idaho within its limits.
That We urgently request congress to
submit this question to a vote of the
people of north Idaho.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

boat, with sail and rigging, not to exceed
$3.50. To Ightermen, one or more
lighters, barges or scows, and small
boat and rigging to the value of $3.50.
To teamster or drayman, one pair
horses or mules, or two yoke oxen, or a
horse and mule, and harness or yokes,
one wagon, truck or dray.
To loggers, three yoke OF work-cattle
and yokes, chains and implements of the
business, and camp equipments not
to exceed $500 in value.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

THE last number of the West Shore
Magazine contains engravings of the
public buildings of Oregon, including
the capitol, penitentiary, insane asylum,
etc, and other views in Salem, the cap
ital city, accompanied by large sup
Elemental sheet with portraits, of men,
bers of the Legislature now in session.
A description of Salem and that portion
of the great Willamette valley in which
it is situated is valuable feature of the
number. Tho very readable and in
structive article on the "Genealogy of
Oregon" should be carefully perused by
every one who would like to become
informed on the subject of the creation
of great state of the American union
on the far western border of the nation,
so long before the intermediate country
was redeemed from a wilderness. %
cents copy, by mail, to any address.
L. SAMUEL, publisher, Portland, Oregon.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
Washington Territory as 1t Is.

Ideal climate.
Taxes moderate.
Society the best.
Fruit unexcelled.
Crop failures none.
Farmers prosperous.
Deep and fertile soil.
Natural drainage perfect.
No longer a frontier state.
A great cattle raising region.
Railroad mileage 2,100 miles.
Little land unfit for something.
Churches and schools everywhere.
Honest and efficient territorial govern
ment.
Cities and towns rich and pros
porous.
Have good home markets fol
live stock.
Average elevation above the sea,
5000 feet.
Streams and rivers in all parts of the
territory.
The greatest wheat, oats, barley and
mineral resources in the Union.
Summers mild; winters exceedingly
short and pleasant.
Native grasses the most nutritious
in the world.
Smallest percentage of illiteracy OF
any state in the Union.
On the route of the principal trans
continental railway routes.
The finest Indian summers to be
enjoyed anywhere in the world.
The most healthful territory in the
Union; pure and bracing air.
An immense sheet Of cold, pure water
in gravel beds under the entire territory.
Raises the finest and most timothy
hay per acre.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

A. S. Billion, editor of the Wheat
land (Dak) Eagle, contemplates moving
his newspaper plant to Palouse
City, Exchange.
If this proves to be the case, the
HERALD can congratulate Palouse City
on the acquisition. Mr. Billion is not
only rafting good newspaper man,
but most genial fellow as well. Pa
louise needs lively paper the worst way.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
Land Office at Walla-Walla, Wash. T

O4lICS az w til1Ct- w did. w dolI L =,
Jan 5, 1889. Notice is hereby given that the
following named settler has filed notice of his in
tention TO make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the judge, or, in his absence the clerk of the
probate court of Whitman county, at Colfax,
W. T., on February 21st, 1883, viz:
PETER c. KLEaGARD,
Hid. 257S for the ne 4 sell sec 20, and S = nw14
NV 4 sw i sec. q, twp II n, r fl e. He names
the following witnesses TO prove his continuous
residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz:
Robert A. Farr, Addison A. Rodgers, of Ewarts-
vile, w. T., Monroe Bryant, Erastus J. Bryant,
of Pullman, W. T.
Any person who desires to protest against the
allowance of such proof, or who knows of any
substantial reason under the law and the regula-
tons Of the Interior Department why such proof
should not be allowed, will be given an oppor-
tunity at the aforementioned time and place to
cross-examine the witnesses of said claimant
and to offer evidence in reSuttal of that submit
ted by claimant. r. GUlCHARD,
I1w6 Register.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

THE Northern Pacific officials say that
the mild weather in the territory trav-
ersed by the line has been the cause Of a
large immigration into the northwest.
During the first nine days of last month
there was greater number of settlers
coming to Washington territory than
during the entire month of January
last wear.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09

THE Idaho Legislature has decreod
that the territorial university shall be
located at Moscow. That polite body
hopes by this means to endear the pan
handle to the citizens of Idaho. Nos
COW is jubilant.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
A Girls Toilet Articles.

A sensible girl will not keep a lot of
cosmetics and drugs on her toilet
table, but there are a few articles she
should always have in convenient
place. She should have an array of
glass-stopped bottles containing alco-
hol, alum, camphor, borax, ammonia
and glycerine or vaseline. A little
camphor and water may be used as a
wash for the mouth and throat if the
breath is not sweet. Powdered alum
applied to fever sore will prevent it
from becoming very unsightlY and
noticeable. Insect stings or eruptions
on the skin are removed by alcohol.
A few grains of alum in tepid water
will relieve people whose hands per-
spire freely, rendering them unpleas-
antly moist A few drops of sulphuric
acid in the water are also beneficial
for this purpose, and are also desirable
for those whose feet perspire freely.
We should always recommend care in
the use of scented soap; in many cases
the perfume is simply a disguise for
poor quality. A good glycerine or
honey soap is always preferable. Of
course, one may rely on scented soap
from high-class manufacturer, but it
costs more than it is worth. In addition
to the soap for bathing, white CASTLE
should be kept for washing the hair.
Occasionally, little borax or ammo
MIA may be used for this purpose, but it
is usually too harsh in its effects. -
Halls Journal of Health.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
FISHING WITH A RIFLE.
Exciting Sport Shooting the Wary Sea
otter in the Pacific.

Surf shooting is practiced in Oregon
and Washington, but chiefly in the vi
cjnity of and to the north of Gray's
Uarbor. Formerly all the shooting
was done from the beach, or from
the bluffs, but as the otter became
scarcer, increasingly wary, and so
more difficult to obtain, other methods
had to be adopted.
The sea otter shooters of this coast
devised the plan of building scaffolds
in the water out beyond the surf from
which to shoot At the lowest tides
in the spring they plant firmly in the
sand three or four long poles so that
they shall form the angles of triangle
or of a square. These are braced by
means of Stats nailed from one to the
other, which also form ladd er by
which to ascend, and at the top of the
poles a platform is built with sides and
a roof, forming a suficiently-comfort-
able house, forty feet above the waters
surface. These shooting scaffolds, or
as they are called locally, ''derricks, !"
give the otter shooter great advantage.
In distance he gains four to five hun
dred feet, while the elevation above
the water greatly extends both his
range of view and that of his rife. In
fair weather the shooter goes to his
derrick before daylight in the morn
ing and returns at night to the shore,
h,1f Iryhon tho lido &c hicrh
and heavy surf is rolling, it may be
impossible for him to get to it for
week at time, or he may be unable
to reach the beach for the same Pc
riod.
The skill attained by these men in
rifle shooting is something almost be-
yond belief. 1t will be readily under
stood that the head of the sea otter
the only part that is seen above the
water-is very sma mark, certainly
not more than three or four inches in
diameter, and yet it is said these
shooters not unfrequently kill at a
distance of one thousand yards. Most
of their shots are made at two hundred
yards and over. They use heavy
Sharps rifles, fitted with telescope
sights, and shoot always from rest
When the sea otter is killed it sinks
at once, and it may be several days or
aweek before it rises to the surface
and is brought by wind and current
into shore. The hunters employ
Indians to patrol the beach and secure
the dead animals, and in occasional in
stances where the otter does not sink
dogs are employed to bring it to land.
Owing to its exclusively marine habits
and its great wariness, we may assume
that it will be many years before the
last sea otter shall have been killed,
but it must always be very rare ami
mal.-Forest and Stream.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
Queer Things About Seeds.

Seeds are queer things. They all
look as if they were dead, but there is
a good deal of life in them; they are
only asleep, and the moist ground will
wake them up.
They are scattered in various ways.
The wind is a great carrier of seeds.
taking them far away from where they
grew. Animals carry them about, too,
in their hair, and drop them here and
there. They often stick to your own
clothes, and when you pick them off
and throw them away you help to scat
ter them, too.
Some seeds have a sort of wing to
make them fly. The seed of the maple
is one of these. Did you ever look at
the feathery ball of the dandelion when
the flower is gone? Blow it and you
scatter the seed everywhere. Each one
has some very fine fibers on it to help
it to fly. These send it a very great
distance. The down of thistles has this
same seed, and very large wing to fly
with. Seeds of MOSES and ferns are
very small, and they blow about more
easily, often lodging on the very top of
high mountains. Mrs. G. Hall, In. Our
Little Ones.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
Pigs Killed by a Turtle.

A remarkable story is told by a
Beatrice, (Neb. paper of the killing of
thirty pigs by a turtle. F. M. Pethoud,
who resides some four miles north of
Beatrice, on Indian creek, missed his
young pigs, one or two going each
day. Thorough search threw no light
upon their mysterious disappearance
until one day the hired hand saw the
hogs considerably disturbed by some
thing, and hearing young pig squeal
he rushed down to the edge of the
creek, and there he saw large turtle
with a young pig in its mouth. The
turtle had killed the pig and was eat
ing it. The man killed the turtle, and
it measured nearly two feet across the
back and had a head as large as his
two hands,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
London Saloonkeepers.

Saloon-keepers should take trip
to London and SEE how the law about
closing drinking places at certain hours
is inforced there. If resort of that
kind does not have its shutters up as
the clock strikes the hour appointed
the policeman approaches and calls
out "Timer' and if in twinkling aft
er that every thing is not closed the
liquor seller is notified that he will be
summoned. In the large and fashion
able cafes and drinking saloons in Lon
don on Saturday night, when the law
is to close at II, the proprietors will
not serve suppers after 11:30, so fear
full are they of being led into trans
gression of the law. The police are
always on hand, carefully supervising
every thing.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
BeIgium's HatIess Monarch.

Leopold, King of the Belgians, is a
sworn foe of tobacco and an ardent
supporter of the Belgian Anti-Tobacco
League. He is, as we'll, man Of
simple and severe way of life" He
rises early, breakfasts sparingly, and
"a rare thing on the continent-takes
his morning tub with all an English
mans fervor. His wide sympathies
embrace vegetarianism in their scope,
and his most notable passion, perhaps.
is for going about without a hat.
Whenever the weather is suitable,
King Leopold goes abroad in his gar
den as hatless as Adam, exulting in
his freedom from the conventionality
of headpiece. He has some strange
craze about the winds action on the
brain, and he puts his craze in prac-
tice whenever possible. In fact, &C.
centricity of the intelligent kind
marked him for her own. He is
linguist of rare acquisitions, and is al
ways deep in the study of some new Ian
guage or other. Music is one of his
aversions, but the sister art OF paint
ing finds in him an appreciative and
enthusiastic amateur His face is strong
and intelligent, without being hand
some, and a beard OF appropriately
regal length sweeps his chest, s~Lon-
don Court Journal.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-21
PITH AND POINT.

waltz who declares that dancing is sim
ful.-N. Y. Journal
Some persons of weak understand
ing are SO sensible of that weakness
as to be able to make good use of it.
If there has been no temptation,
there -can be no merit; if there has
been no struggle, there can be no vic
tory.
There is no fit search after truth
which does not, first of all, begin to
live the truth which it knows. III.
Bushnell.
The man who never takes exercise
is often called upon to mourn an ath-
letic friend who took too much
jamestown Journal.
DO not deceive yourself in trying
to deceive others. Every man and WON :
an of sense knows what muddy eyes
and tallow face means.
If you would be a clear speaker,
aim at clearness of thinking. If you
would be clear thinker, aim at clear
ness of speaking.
The most unfair thing that hap
pens to women is that engagements are
so short and marriages so long -Bing-
hamton Republican.
Some men are called sagacious,
merely on account of their avarice;
whereas, child can clench it's fist the
moment it is born.-Shenstone.
1t isn't always the man who
really catches the most fish who is the
hero in the eyes of his friends. -Mer-
chat Traveller.
Whenever accident or ability
sends man to the front it is popular
to say he has the big-head-that is,
you had better say it if you are a fool
and have the small one.
The time to push at the cart is
when it is going up the hill. When
the top has been passed and the de-
scent gained there is little use or wis
dom in still furiously pushing away at
the same end. Advance.
The covetous man heaps up
riches, not to enjoy them, but to have
them; and starves himself in the midst
of plenty; and most unnaturally cheats
and robs himself of that which is his
own; and makes hard shift to be as
poor and miserable with a great estate
as any man can be without it.-Tillot-
son.
Don't suppose that people are hos
tile to you in the world. You will
rarely find any body designedly doing
you i'll. You may feel often as if the
world is obstructing you, more or less;
but you will find that to be because
the world is travelling in a different
way from you, and rushing on in its
own path.
"A good name is a valuable posses
sion; but, like all valuable possessions,
a good name is not so easy to get as it
is to lose. 1t costs something to ac-
quire good name; and unless a good
name is guarded jealousy, it will be
lost to him who acquired it. He who
wants to keep his good name must be
faithful in guarding it.-Sunday-School
Times