Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-04-04
State News,

Ballard by a log rolling on him.
Wild geese are swarming around
Quinault lake in large numbers.
The Allyn sawmill, after being idle
several months, has begun work.
An immense acreage is being planted
IN fruit this spring on Orcas Island.
An organization of the Farmers Al
lance has been formed at Hartland.
The Elma Chronicle has come out in
an enlarged form and improved appear
ance
The voters of Aberdeen have voted to
bond the city for $25, 900 to build high
school.
Two hose carts and hose wagon
have been ordered by the city council of
Olympia.
On Saturday, April 4th, the citizens
of Centraha will vote on extending the
city limits.
Pat Lennon, well known logger of
Snohomish, was recently robbed of $40
in a saloon.
The real estate transfers at South
Bend for the past thirty days amounted
to S236,000.
The citizens of Pasco desire to have
their town organized as "a city of the
fourth class
A flag pole 125 feet long was cut on
Nashon Island for the new King county
court house at Seattle.
After deadlock of three months the
city council of Snohomish has elected c.
II. Anderson city engineer.
The price Of wheat steadily advances.
the Davenport markets now paving IS
cents loose AMI IS cents sacked.
A clam cannery at Hoquiam is run
ming IN full blast and is putting up an
Immense quantity of the bivalves.
A postoffice to be known as Quinault
has been established on QuinauIt lake.
about forty miles north Of Hoquiam.
Ed, Sloan, working man from Stella.
COON, committed suicide in the Spokane
Falls lodging house, Tacoma, Friday.
Fire trustees of the state normal school
have decided to open the institution at
Ellensburg the 1st of September next.
The Seattle house of delegates and
the board of aldermen are at loggerheads
over the appointment of a chief of police
In the United States circuit court p.
ID. Olphant was appointed United States
commissioner at Ritzville. Adams coun-
ty.
A pc. deer knocked a little girl down at
Sedalia, and began paving her to death.
She was rescued just in time to save her
life
Port Townsend city council has adopt
ed an electric fire alarm system at a cost
OF $4,000. A fire bell has also been
purchased and lot Of new hose.
The employees of the Orting Manufac-
turing company struck on Tuesday even
ing for their pay, refusing to work unless
all arrearages were settled in full.
4 quarter section of school land on
Chehalis river has been purchased by
the county commissioners for a county
poor farm. The purchase price was $50
per acre.
The Sunset Light and Water company
Is the name of the corporation formed
TO supply South Aberdeen with water,
The water will be taken from noun
tain stream.
The corner stone of the new churc b
which is to be built at Battle Creek,
Lincoln county, will be laid on the
second Sunday in April A large con
Sregation is expected.
Andrew Peters, a rancher of Snoho-
mish county, went deer hunting last
week, and, losing his way, wandered
about four days before he reached a
house. He was nearly starved.
The big dry dock at Haddock is half
completed and forty mechanics are hur-
rying the work to completion. Captain
de Levie, the protector, is very ill, and
fears of his recovery are exposed.
J. j. Holland, of Ballard, is building
large stern wheel steamer at Gray's
harbor
While Mrs. G. G. Stambaugh, of
Walla Walla, was splitting kindling
wood, piece few up, striking her in
the eye, the sight of which she will
probably lose.
The Davenport Times says: 'Horse
and cattle thieves are still abroad in the
land, and the determination of the pub
lie to rid the country Of them seems only
to awaken their energies to a greater
degree in their work of plumber.
Scarcely a day passes but some report
is brought in of stock being run off. P"
Mollie Adams, an ex-resident of Opera
alley, Tacoma, for the past two or three
years, but since last November the
room mate of John Foren, a gambler
employed at the Theater Comique, in