Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-02
EASTERN ITEMS
Dig Census to BE- Taken
IN New York.
MANS ASSOCIATION.
o.
Alahoma Territory Yearns for State
hood-Missouri Corn Sells
for $40 Per Acre.
MANS ASSOCIATION.

Is becoming exhausted.
Jay Gould is said to be after the Den
yer and Rio Grande road.
Sixty-two convicts are awaiting death
IN various United States prisons.
Corn in the field is selling as high as
$40 an acre in Platte county, Mo.
The story that the Atchison has con-
troll of the Rio Grande is denied.
Oklahoma yearns to be invested with
the dignities and attributes of Statehood.
The New England tobacco crop is big
ger and better this year than ever before.
The Methodist Michigan Conference
has voted to admit women as lay dele
gates.
A census of New York dogs will be
taken, as Mayor Grant wants every one
licensed.
A little over $14,O0O,O00 of AZ per
cent. bonds remain to be extended or
redeemed
The State National Bank at Boston
has had $l8, 100 returned to its consci-
ence money.
Thirty sod growers from different parts
of the country have put in bids for dec
| Grating the w ORIG Fa1f.
A Baltimore grand jury has declared
that the prevalence of gambling there is
due to negligent city officials.
Chicago traffic officials are grumblng
because the bulk of the wheat traffic
from Kansas and Nebraska is going to
st. Louis,
Secretary Tracy awarded the contract
fpF l11il Il > 10
| Iowa Iron Works of Dubuque, Ia, the
lowest bidder, at Sill, 800.
Texas has fat mans association, the
initiation fee Of which is cent pound.
Men who weigh less than 225 pounds
are ineligible to membership.
The death of large number OF Indians
in Oklahoma as the result of eating wa
termelons emphasizes the great dissimi-
| larity between the red man and the
negro.
United States 2 per cent. bonds are
quoted at 99i2 and British per cent.
consols at only 95. We certainly have a
right to boast of the splendid credit of
our government.
The opening OF the Monterey and Gulf
railroad to 1ampico, Mexico, has pro-
exports at Tampico, it is predicted, will
exceed those of Vera Cruz by January.
1t is probable that, as soon as a new
system of inspecting cattle has been
thoroughly tested, American cattle will
be allowed to enter British ports free
from the ten days quarantine now i'm
posed.
Commissioner Owen OF Washington,
d. c., has directed that fifteen Russian
| Hebrews, who entered the United States
at Suspension Bridge, n. Y, be returned
to Canada. They were in an utterly des-
titute condition.
The arrest of Manuel Seona, attache
Of the Spanish legation, for overdriving
horse at Cape May is likely to cause
serious trouble, as it is claimed there was
no cause of action, and the Spanish Min
lister has taken up the case.
A small oblong steel box passed through
the Chicago Cuscoms-house a while ago
1t didn't look like much of box, but it
contained $4,000 worth of diamonds
and rubies for an Illinois watch com,
pany, and the duty was small fortune,
In the treaty with the Sac and Fox
/ Indians the words "open to white set
Element" occur. These words are apt
to cause some trouble. The Indians say
they will insist on their stipulations and
will not permit negroes to take land in
their country.
Cinnamon are making great efforts to
enter the country at Richford, VT; and
the customs officials are on the alert.
Quite a colony has been at Sutton, Que
bee, for two weeks, awaiting a favorable
opportunity to smuggle themselves into
the United States.
The american Agriculturid declares
that the half has not been told about
the European shortage in breadstuffs,
which not even a bountiful crop this
year would have relieved. The CONT
mental powers, especially Russia, have
suppressed the facts.
The wealthiest insane asylum in Amer
lea is said to be the Sheppard Asylum
in Baltimore. 1t was endowed in 1857
with $3.50, 900. Since that time the trus-
tees, using the interest alone. have ex-
pended $SS0,0)0 in buildings and land.
and still have capital OF 100000.
1t is reported that Miss Vera Ava. who
has created so much noise in the East
over her mysterious disappearance from
Chicago and final reappearanre at Gin
cinnati, lived at Pomona, Cal, at one
time, and that her brother was the au-
thor of the celebrated Murchson letter.
The proclamation OF Garcia, the Mex
lean freebooter, calling upon the people
to assist his revolutionary project, con
cludes by charging President Diaz with
being the arch traitor, assassin and
criminal OF the nineteenth century, !"
and that he has practiced great despot-
ism since his election as President.
A special to the New York Erening
Post from Washington says: New York
may get another Cabinet portfolio out of
the present shifting of things prepare
tory to the great campaign. 1t has de-
veloped that Piatt and Hiscock have
agreed 10 join their forces to put Belsden
IN, and 1t is believed just now that the
scheme will succeed. Belsden. if an
pointed, will probably be given the War
Department.
Irving NJ. Scott of the Union Works
San Francisco, was at the Navy Depart
ment the other day, arranging matters
connected with work now being done bv
his firm for the government He stated
that the coast defense vessel Monterey
was so near completion that it would
probably be ready for the contractors
trial in October and thus be available for
the Official trial early in the winter and
undoubtedly be commissioned in the
spring.
Governor Buchanan of Tennessee
wired Governor Brown of Kentucky
that he had reliable information that
Kentucky miners were preparing to re-
lease convicts in the mines at BriceyiIle
Tenn. Governor Brown said he would
do all he could to prevent a raid of that
character, but called Governor Bucban-
ans attention to the fact that Kentnck-