Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-02

John Ryan is locked up in jail at
Seattle nursing several painful cuts OF
his arms that were inflicted with a
butcher knife In the hands Of an angry
Chinaman. Friday night Ryan was
drunk and he went into a Chinese laun-
dry on Jackson street. He attempted to
clean out the place, but was himself
nearly killed.
At the meeting Of the prespytery Of
Jhe state, held at Spokane, the Indian
churches of the state were represented
by the Revs Samuel Boyd and Thomas
Garry, full-bIooded Spokanes, who con
duct churches near Fort Spokane. The
Rev. boyd states that his church has a
membership Of forty-seven, and the Rev.
Garry dispenses The gospel in liquid
Chenoob to congregation of sixty.
Prospectors are pushing into the Cas-
cade mountains as fast as the snow melts,
and development work Will be done this
summer on many claims located last
season. Although Central and no,h-
western Washington is UNNECESSARILY
rich in mineral wealth, says the Spokane
review, the rapid Development of the
mines will be retarded until railroads
are constructed into the districts.
Washington financial statement:
There is $I50,0C0 in our tide land,
school, state library and interest funds,
but not cent IN the general fund
Last year the assessed valuation Of
property il Washington was $217,O00,-
300. This year the. assessors are as
sessing all property at full value, which
viii increase the taxable valuation TO
between S400,000,0O0 and $5O0,O00,000.
Our bonded Indebtedness is 100000,
redeemabIe after five years and not later
than 10 years"
At the Puyallup encampment the
veterans organized a new state body to
be known as the Elk Prisoners of War Of
the Rebellion. There will be one such
division in every G. A. r. post of Wash
ington. and subordinate bodies will be
duty notified Of this action. The cleo
ton OF state officers Of the organization
resulted in the following choice: Colonel
T. NJ, Hanson, of Seattle, president:
I. W. Kellogg, Of Fairhaven, vice-pres-
jdent; Daniel Williams, of Seattle. sec
rotary; A. J. ID. Leroy, Of Seattle, treas
urer; directors, F. NJ. Waite. of Port
Angeles, and John F. Glynn, of Tacoma
The Westminster Ledger states that
a huge mountain lion was shot on Hunt .
ington townsite Thursday last by one Of
the settlers up there. The pelt was one
of the finest for its size and quality that
had been seen for long time. A large
black bear was also killed on The town
site last week. A butcher in Sumas
City says that for many nights running
a big panther has come right into the
heart Of The town and fed out Of some
swll barrels behind his store. The
brute will be shot at the first Upper
tunity
Skagit Tom, wealthy Indian of the
classic Nooksack, has disappeared.
Thomas was worth some $4,000 and
loggers in his neighborhood owed him
$500. His family thinks he has re-
paired suddenly to the happy hunting
grounds where he awaits their coming.
Thomas in early DAYS was a medicine
man and some of his diagnoses were not
correct at all, as he was unable to repel
the approach of the more or less grim
reaper, and he had few bitter enimies
who have long expressed desire to vim
dictate their deceased relatives and wipe
out Thomas and the stain upon their
good name at one and the same moment.
1t is thought that some of these have
put the ex-medicine man on the perma-
nent retired list.