Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

the publication OF "The Diamond But
tom this week.
Cranberry sauce, preserved peaches
and strawberries, horse -radish, tomato
catsup, self-rising bnckwheat -four, in
fact the most complete line of fancy
groceries in the city at the Variety Store.
Archie and Will White returned
from their trip to the Sound last Tues
day evening. VIII, who graduated at
the Portland medical college on the 3Oth
ult., has hung out his shingle to Pull
man breezes. See his card on our eighth
page.
Mrs. F. E. Carpenter has just received
a large stock of spring millinery goods,
direct from the east, and the ladies are
requested to call and examine them.
This stock will be sold as cheap as is
possible for the best quality of goods.
The N. P. r. r. Co. will sell tickets
at one and one-ffth fare, from Pullman
to Ellensburg. on April %, 20, and 80
The tickets will be good for returning
only to May 4, 1890. The occasion of
this reduction is the G.. A. r. encamp-
ment at Ellensburg.
People in and around Pullman
should realize and appreciate the fact
that Vedder & Windus have the most
complete and best selected stock of fur
niture in the Palouse country. They
are now unpacking a carload OF fur
niture that is truly worth seeing.
Thomas Smith, of Colfax, has been
appointed president of the agricultural
college, and also member of the COM
mission to locate that institution, and
still that ambitious city is not satisfied.
She now wants the college itself. Col
fax is the hardest town in the county to
satisfy.
1t is important to all who are about
to make changes in their houses, after
house cleaning, that in few days Vedder
& Windus will be able to show fresh
and well graded stock of carpets, all new
and sold at "hard times" prices. Also
oil cloths in new patterns, and window
shades of all grades. If
Assessor Boone has appointed the
following deputies to assess Whitman
county; John A. Clark, Pullman; o. L,
Kennedy, Cotton; G. N. Zumwalt, End
icott; G. W. Kendrick, Rosalia; W. G.
BraStain, Pennington; Thos. Smith, Pa
louise City; A. S. Hamilton, Diamond;
G.ko. Allen, EndicoIG; y. u. Elliot, Aiki.
DR.. Fleming and his troupe Of COM
ed1ans, wire walkers, etc, showed in
Pullman the last three nights of last
week. The show part of the affair was
to gather a crowd while the doctor sold
his medicine, pulled teeth and did sur
gical work in general. His tooth pull
ing was said to be a painless operation.
If Superintendent Porter, of the
census bureau, can perform as well as
promise, the country is to be congratu-
lated. Mr.. Porter has thoroughly re-
formed the plan of his bureau, and he
promises that large proportion OF the
results of the enumeration will be pre-
pared and published within a year from
the completion of the field work, and
that the succeeding volumes will be pub
lished in rapid succession. The last
volume of the last census was not issued
till few months since.
-Four tramps struck town Tuesday
afternoon, and when the Spokane papers
arrived, announcing the jail delivery in
that city, it was suspicioned that they
we're some of the parties wanted, and
were taken in custody and lodged in the
town jail. The sheriff of Spokane coun-
ty came down, Wednesday evening, and
on his statement that they were not the
men they we're released. Some of the
boys who assisted in making the arrest,
we're spending money freely on the
strength of the reward they expected to
receive.
Evening Star lodge, Knights of
Pythias, of Pullman, conferred the de-
gree of knight on several new members
last Monday evening, and several visitors
from neighboring lodges were present,
Colfax being represented by A. d. Baum,
J. NJ. Smith, W. H. Miller, and E. Far
nitzer, and Cotton by N. T. Shelby, A.
Rocks, N. NJ. Maynard W. Rickett, Ed.
Skeels, w. 81, Barnett, W. W. Renfrew,
G. W. Richardson, and others. A good
time made the hours Of the night pass
rapidly, and it was $50 o'clock before
the boys finished their business, pleasure,
etc.
The Portland boy who dropped a
lighted cigarette into keg of powder
was martyr to good cause. He lost
his life, it is true, and caused the de-
struction of considerable property. be-
sides severely injuring several other
boys; but the story of his experience
may save the lives of thousands. There
is death at all times in the cigarette, and