Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-12-18
Through The State.

thousands In Skagit county.
Port Angeles will sell $4,000 worth
of bonds to the highest bidder.
Spokane butchers want a cattle in
spector appointed by the city.
Port Townsend will have free mail de-
livery service after January LIST.
Norman R. Smith was elected mayor
Of Port Angeles without opposition.
The Roslyn coal mines are now run
ming full force and are behind in filling
orders.
The Port Gamble Mill company has
secured orders for 100000 feet Of
lumber
A new postoffice named Morris has
been established on the Wishkah river
at Aberdeen gardens.
Work on the Yakima irrigation ditch
will be closed down this week. Work
will begin again in the spring.
Water was pumped INTO the pipes of
The new water works system at Water
vile for the first time last week
On Thursday an immense body of
gray copper and bromide was struck in
the Monte Christie, on Shields guIch
near Osburn.
New Whatcom has sold $267, 900 worth
of municipal and funding bonds to Rol
Inns & Son, of Denver, Col, at 7 per
cent. discount,
The Yakima Land Company has let
the contract, and thirty men are at work
in clearing 1900 acres of sage brush in
the Mckee valley.
The Aberdeen Ferry and Transporta-
ton company is preparing to build
new ferry boat to run between Ocosta
and Peterson's point.
A syndicate of business men of Palouse
City, recently bought forty acres Of Ida
no school land, two and half miles
from town, for a race track.
The ship now expected at the Cornwall
mill is to take 100000 feet of lumber
to London at so cents per 1000, the
lowest price yet made for freights to a
European port.
A stockman at Walla Walla will stall
feed $50 head of cattle this winter, on
which he expects to make handsome
profit in the spring. This plan is new
in that section.
Every day witnesses hundreds of acres
OF soil turned over in the PalCuso coun-
try, and prospects for bounteous crop
next season could not be more hattering
at this season of the year.
The Catholic school on the Umatilla
reservation has now eighty-f four Indian
pupils in attendance. 1t is the inten
ton to build brick structure for the
use of the school next spring.
Logging operations in Cowlitz county
have practically been suspended for the
past year on account of the low price of
logs. Good logs are only worth from 81
to $40 per 1000 feet, and at this price
1t does not pay to get them out.
A mail route between Waterville and
the Okanogan mining country is becom-
ing necessity. The roundabout way
that mail matter now takes to reach
Ruby and Conconully is absurd and not
at all creditable to the postal service
E. Meeker & Co., of Puyallup, Thurs
day shipped trainload of hops, consist
ing Of LOO bales, to London, England.
Two shiploads, of 3,4l7 bales, have just
left Baltimore, Nd, for London This
company estimate that they will ship
this year, somewhere near 10000 bales.
The mining properties beyond the
head of Lake Chelan grow into grand
proportions as one inquiries into their
worth. There will one day be the Wild
est mining excitement about the Stehe-
kin and Bridge creek that the state of
Washington has ever known Big
Bend Empire.
The great bulk of the oat crop on the
Swinomish fats has been moved There
are only few lots of first class oats
left, and they are held for raise Re-
ports say there are probably 100000
sacks OF slightly damaged oats yet on
hand, and raise is not probable until
they are disposed of to feeders.
Mrs. Gilbert NJ Ward, of Oakville,
Chehalls comfy, attempted suicide. on
Tuesday night, at the Olympia hotel, in
Montesano, by taking twelve morphine
pills. By free use of antidotes and
continued exercise she was saved To
no motive other than temporary insanity
can the act be attributed Mr.. Ward
says they have always levd happily TO-
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