Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-06-07
STATE NEWS.
Ritzville wants a Touring mill.

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The Ellensburg new militia company
} has thirty-fve members.
In Florence, Snohomish county, there
are seven women whose aggregate
weight is 1870 pounds.
While fooling with pistol 12-year-
old boy named Irish shot and killed his
mother at Wilkeson last week.
At the recent election Blaine opened
a straw ballot box for residents not quail
fled to vote. Counting these, 65S votes
were cast.
The incorporation of Pasco was de-
feated by two-thlrds majority. This
is only the second town in the state that
has taken this position on reincorpora-
ton.
An Indian living near Port Discovery
caught salmon in the bay last week
which weighed seventy pounds. This
is the largest salmon ever caught in the
bay.
The business men of Tacoma have
subscribed the $4,000 subsidy asked
by the Pacific Mail Steamship company
for establishing its terminus at that
place.
Spokane job printers struck last Mon
day because the employers wanted to
reduce their pay from $3.50 to 1918
per day. They commenced work at the
rate next day.
Just mile and a half east of Ed
monds, Snohomish county, stands prob
ably the biggest fir tree in the world.
1t measures forty-four feet in circum-
ference and its heighth is over 325 feet.
There will be an abundance of brick
for all purposes in Walla Walla this
season. At present the warden of the
penitsntiary has over 100 convicts at
work daily, and 10000 brick are laid in
the kilns every day.
ga big tree was brought down the
Satsop railroad last Saturday." says the
Shelton Journal of the Both. 1.-THE
butt was marked, This tree is 8 feet at
stump, scaling over 10000 feet, 3 cuts
Another on same train was 105 feet long
and 5 feet at the butt"
At Port Townsend, on May %, man
named Morrison, inspired by the morbid
fear of the vengeance of the Masons,
swallowed a poison which he had dis
titled from tobacco leaves, and died about
ten minutes later. A few days ago he
told some one that he had betrayed just
one word of Masonic secret, and that
he had ever since been in mortal dread
of vengeance. The coroner's jury found
that he was temporarily insane.
Lincoln county Times: This is the
season of the year when the ignoble In
dian deserts the reservation and scatters
himself around the country. He enjoys
life basking in the warm sunshine, while
the squaw hustles for grub Life is a
dizzy round of idleness with him, and he
is no good only as a curiosity to people
from the far East who never saw a wild
red man. on his native heath. There is
a whole gang of them killing time in
camp near this place.
Mrs. Captain W.. P. Gray, Of Pasco,
has an interesting history. She was
born on the bark Rising Sun near the
Falkland Islands, June 2, 1849, and
named Oceana Falkland Bush. The ship
had sprung a leak, the sailors had worked
at the pumps until exhausted, and re-
fused to labor any longer, when couple
of doves alighted, and at the same time
notice was given that another human
being was born. The superstltions and
svmpathies of the tired sailors we're
aroused, they worked with renewed en-
ergies and the ship and people were
saved. -Pasco Headlight.
G. Redmond, the we'll known aeronaut
and parachute jumper, travelling with
the McMahon circus, was instantly
killed Friday evening at Snohomish.
He made splendid ascension, but the
balloon was carried away to the east of
the town, where it landed on the top of
tall pine tree, probably 200 feet IN
heighth. Redmond was thrown out OF
the balloon, fell to the ground and was
, almost instantly killed. Before making
the ascension he said it was the most
} dangerous p4,, of country he I'd ever
assembled from and said good-oy to
number of his riends who were near.
The Baltimore Journal of Commerce
: in recent article states Washington's
comparative resources with those of other
states in this novel way: Briefly stated
the facts as presented show in Washing
ton there is an unoccupied area that Is
larger than England, and which is cap
able of sustaining a larger population
than England has to-day. More market
able timber stands on Washington's soil
than ever stood on the soil of Michigan,
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