Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-09-04
PACIFIC COAST.
Fruit-Growing in Ari-
IONA Territory.
POPULATION OF MINIVOK.
Two Hundred Miners Arrive in One
Day at the New Mining
Camp in Utah.
POPULATION OF MINWOK.

Strawberries grow in Alaska, and now
is mid season for them.
Arizona hopes soon to be a rival to
California in the fruit-growing line.
1t is again reported that the Dunsmuirs
have sold the Wellington collieries to a
syndicate.
1t is reported that within the last six
months $50 young women have taken up
timber claims in the State of Washing
ton.
The infected Tahiti trees landed at
San Pedro are being closely watched by
horticulturists, who claim they are filed
with insects.
The government steamer Albatross,
which has been in the service of the
Fish Commission since July l6, is at AS
toria, and will await orders there. The
Commissioners have gone East.
A party of land swindlers have been
arrested at Portland. They have been
locating parties on land on the payment
of 500, and claimed that a syndicate
they represented would buy the land at
an advance.
The sheep industry in Oregon is
growing one. Oregon is now furnishing
sheep for the Black Hills country. The
other day 145 carloads left Pendleton for
Mandan, n. D., where they will be put
on the range.
Port Townsend according to official re-
turns cleared III more vessels during the
first three months of this year than New
York did. The tonnage of the ships
cleared was third more than that of
those from New York.
The run of salmon has begun in dead
earnest and large catches are reported
all over the Sound. The Myers cannery
at MukilteO is receiving between 5000
and 5000 fish per day, and is now can
ming them as fast as received.
Seventeen cases in which the United
States brought suit against the Puget
Sound Mill Company have been decided
by the acting Secretary and the rulings
of the Commissioner in the same re-
versed. This is a victory for the COM
pany.
The crew OF the bark Pisagua, which
vessel has Just reached Victoria, B. c.,
complain of having been fed with rotten
meat, which they could not eat, and they
had subsisted on bread for weeks. The
captain had the mate and two men in
irons, and charged them with mutiny.
At San Francisco Colonel G. f. Crocker
was quite seriously hurt the other day
by falling from a street car. He sit
ting on the railing of car, and when it
started suddenly he fell of, and his head
struck the paving. He was at once taken
to his home, and a surgeon was called in.
The new freight rates established by
the Oregon Railroad Commission are a
reduction on an average Of nor less than
SO per cent. on grain and miilstults and
about 10 per cent. on horses, mules etc,
in carload lots. The Union Pacific will
with the Southern Pacific, contest the
matter in the courts.
The population OF Minivok Island in
the Behring Sea consists of over 500 ma
tives. 1t was previously supposed that
not over 800 people lived on the island.
There are no white men there, and the
natives live in the most primitive style.
Their only food is the flesh of the wal
rus, and their only possessions and wealth
consist of ivory obtained from the tusks
of that animal.
Fresno vineyardists have been at last
obliged to employ Chinese to pick their
grapes. They tried to get Indians, and
sent agents to the mountains to bring
all who would work, but not enough
could be had to pick the crop. The Ce-
lestials are at Fresno by thousands from
all parts of the State, and have entered
into a combination among themselves to
strike for higher wages. Many have
found employment at $1.75 day.
The opening of the terminal road ia
Long Beach and San Pedro, which will
take place within six weeks, will be at
tended with considerable improvements
at those places. A new hotel will be
erected either at Long Beach or on the
Rattlesnake Island terminus Of the line
which will be renamed and made q sum
mer resort. The Southern Pacific will
also probably erect a new hotel on the
site of the structure recently burned al
Long Beach.
Nearly two years ago quite stir was
made at Mills College, Cal, about the
loss of a valuable diamond pin belonging
to Miss Maud Sparks OF Reno. Servants
and pupils were suspected, and much
notorietv was given to the case in the
papers. Miss Sparks was removed from
the school in consequence OF the sup
posed theft. Lately, when one of her old
gowns was being ripped, the pin was
found in the drapery of the garment
where it had been safely concealed al
this time.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com.
many has advanced a claim for all odd
numbered sections Of land in the cedeC
norton of the C@ur d'Alene lndian res
aarration which falls within the limit:
"a =
Iad;o1s $500 900 for these lands ant
$50 900 as quit-claim tor all right The
Indians claimed in the lands in Wash
ington State. OF these latter the rail
I'D company got every odd-numbereC
roaG Il Is not probable that tht
seC'no ill he considered, as the terms o
all grants say that lan9s III a state o
reservation are excepted from the terms
A+San Francisco the Arbitration Com
.,;ttee of the Water Front tederatIoI
LIED upon Goodall, Perkins y 90. t
IAN for settlement OF the dliIlcnit9
9Th the striking stevedores. A eco %
W ,,ambers of the committee Tue urn
E W To concede the advance III wage
aoi,ad Int agreed to take the stni ht,[
SooI at the old rates OF ~ Genus PEI w.; LOU =,
I'd 40 cents overtime. ms Is oo 20 . .
an an haen acceded to by Mr. Ieii'V NJ,
t hns' Pacific Mail COMPANY an{ ia ais eonside
the proposition The s. e%P po agreed pit
S;scbaroe the non-unlon men VII Ill NV
b baTe employed on the dock anu W W.T. t5er
Ia strikers employment ohly a.
w he opening for them