Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-10
State News in Rr;of


a man at Port Angeles is RAISING g..
fully. ngS success
several feet of snow still remain on +ho -
nit of the Cascades. sum
mill to grind 1900 barrels Of aonu
projected for Spokane u'S Is
Inc Fort Townsend Y. NJ C. A. has raised
S9OO for their new building.
Inc Eplscopalians have commenced tho oroo
uon OF new church at Ballard
only four inmates are at present confined =
'he state reform school at Chehalis.
olympia's harbor needs dredging ont and +bo
Board of Trade is moving to that end
All the Spokane saloons closed promntIv nj 10
O'CLOCK Saturday night according to law.
a snip load of iron pipe arrived at Seattle +ho
other day to be used in extending the ,yotor
mains. WAFER
Inc papler mache model of Port Townsend
and harbor exhibited at Spokane last vaar viii
be sent to the worlds fair.
Twenty-Five applications have already boor 70
oelVeo from old soldiers desiring to live at the
AOOCIlI1y ueulcdJed at Ortinp.
Ihe Spokane council has finally settled the
s'reetnumbering question and the CITY enpinear
Is at work making new map of the city.
colonel N. ii. Owings has asked President
Harrison to retain Bradshaw as collector of the
port OF Puget sound So has Governor Ferry.
The work of excavating for the foundation of
the Seattle opera house is in progress. 1t is ex-
Pected to have the building compIeted nv Tho
LIST of November.
Inc school lands in Chehalis county are being
sold by auction to adjoining settlers at their
own price, there being no outside capital repre-
sented at the sales
W. b. McEwen, formerly connected with the
Ahacortes American, will start new paper at
Mount Vernon, the first number to be issued
about the middle of July.
Charles White, rancher near Slaughter. went
crazy over the Henry George theory, and threat
ened to kill his family. He was arrested and
will be sent to SteiIacoom.
Miss j. Steele, matron of the Tacoma White
Shield home, collected between $50 and $40
from Snohomish citizens last week towards the
erection of the new building.
party of six gentlemen have Just left What
com to ascend Mount Baker. few weeks ago
party from Blaine assembled the mountain
5000 feet and located some mineral veins.
Fairhaven city bonds, to the amount of $780,
600, for general municipal purposes, were sold
last week to the Rollins Investment Company Of
Denver to run for twenty years at per cent
A great siwash potlatch was held at Port
Hadlock on July 4th, with 5000 or 1000 Indians
in attendance. One chief donated $1,000 in
money toward the affair. The potlatch house
250x54 feet, is being built.
The total taxable property of Walla Walla is
50, 1876, 290.10 Property owned and controlled
for educational purposes in the city is valued at
S136, $50. Wa la Walla is progressive place.
and Walla WaIla is very rich.
Quite phenomenon can be seen in the yard
of Mrs. Bergs, says this Sumas News, in the
shape of young cherry tree not more than
three feet high, planted last fall, with sixty
large, handsome cherries on its branches.
The Regulator, the new freight boat just
launched, will be ready to run ON the middle
Columbia about August LIST. The new boat is
$50 feet in length and carry 240 tons, and
will be capable of making seventeen miles an
hour.
The Big Bend Empire and the Waterville I'm
migrant have consolidated, L. E. Kellogg, the
pioneer journalist, having disposed of the first
named paper to D. c. DeGolia, publisher of the
Immigrant. The name of the Immigrant will
be dropped and the Empire will be improved in
many ways.
A genuine waterspout burst near North Yak
ina last week. A severe hail accompanied the
storm, and at one place almost a wagon load of
hailstones were washed up into heap in can
yon. The berries have been badly injured by
the continued rain, and the last storm slit the
corn and knocked the ripe raspberries from the
bushes.
Captain W. P. Gray, of Pasco, has completed
arrangements that will enable the running of
boats on the Columbia river from Pasco along
the shores which border the Klickit,t grain
fields. The farmers will haul the grain to the
river bottoms and the steamboats, will take their
cargoes to Pasco, where the wheat will be re-
loaded on the for shipment.
Spokane will have an industrial exposition
this year, beginning October and lasting twenty
DAYS Articles of incorporation of new expo
sition company have been fled with capital
stock of $4,000 controlled by ten shareholders.
One of the features of the new exposition will be
an extensive exhibit of mining machinery which
the Edison company of New York will supply.
The Spokane Review says that it is quite like
" that spur will be built from the Spokane d
Northern at Meyers Falls in the near future.
When this is done boat will be put on the Col
umbia to run as far as Fort Spokane. BY this
means a market hitherto beyond reach will be
opened up for the energetic young city OF Kettle
Falls, and rich and rapidly developing section
will be made tributary to her.