Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-29
State News in Rriaf

weighed fifteen pounds.
vein of potters clay of fine onol;+u -.
covering loo acres of area has been found near
Coifax The vein is three feet thick.
Fred Michelkoepk was fatally injured in !.
Seattle sawmill about o'clock Friday and d;od
Sunday morning about o'clock.
The Indians at the Warm Springs agency
have ordered monument, to cost about S75 70
be placed over the remains of their chief W;n
lam Chinook.
r H. Trudell of South Bend, Wash. while
unpacking bunch of bananas came across a
large scorpion that had secreted itself and bad
been transported from the tropics. The snidar
was promptly killed by Mr.. Trudeu.
The police of Butte last week made a raid on
several of the opium dens of that wicked citv
The raid brought to light the fact that several
married women of the most respectable families
We're addicted to the habit of 'hitting the nna ;,
The Seattle Suicide club was organized in tina,
city Thursday night. Several doctors. LAWYERS
and ex-preachers, four high arch Bohemians.
JlIted lovers, unhappy benedicts, disconnected
Bohemians, skeptics, misanthropes, and dysnen-
tics comprise the membership.
The Seattle Press-Times says: 1t seems prob-
able that Seattle may be visited by her animal
typhoid epidemic earlier that usual. Most of
the doctors in town have several cases. DR.,
Sparhng OF the board of health has typhoid case
on hand, and says he is doing his level best TO
prevent the disease making the headway it did
Tal TTpiap 10 al
large percentage of Seattles drinking water,
and is little better than a vast cesspool.
There has been but one Chinaman in Puyal
lup in six months.
Mount Vernon will ask the city council for g.,
electric street railway franchise
handsome brick building will soon be COM
menced by the Knights of Pythias in Spokane.
The steam launch Aquilla met with an acct
dent at Port Townsend, scalding two of the
party on board and disabling the launch,
Governor Ferry is improving in health every
day, and says he feels much stronger and health
Ter than he did while in California.
The Humane society at Spokane has been re-
organized and intends doing works of charity and
humane assistance.
Rev. G. w. Ross, of Spokane, was severely
criticised by the elders of his congregation for
preaching funeral sermon over variety ac-
tress.
The members of the Congregation Emanu-El
of Spokane have elected as rabbi Rev. Carr of
Philadelphia and will soon erect house of
worship.
10 T,(N1
continued all mail for that city from Mount
Vernon has to go by Anacortes, thence by steam
via Deception pass.
Hon. Ezra Meel1er of Puyallup, has been
chosen state executive commissioner of the
worlds fair.
Wanicut Lake is becoming noted as a health
resort, and commodious hotel and bath house
is being built there.
Okanogan county has just been visited by
copious showers of rain, which puts at rest all
fears of short crops.
The city council of Steilacoom, having raised
the license fee from $500 to $500, all the saloons
in that place have closed their doors.
A citizens association for the advancement of
the interests of Port Angeles has been formed
by the leading business men of that city.
The wool clip in Eastern Washington is pro-
crossing and the clip averages about eight pounds
per head. The estimated clip of Lincoln county
is 100000 pounds.
Atimber fire on the hillside south of Fairhaven
threatened section of the city, and when the
alarm bell was sounded it created almost panic.
The fire was delusive, however, for it burned
o1,+ without dac+royipo opv b1il1iD0c
The state treasury has received S25, 377.29, be-
ing five per cent of the net proceeds of the sale
of public lands by the government in this state
from November II, 1889, to June 30, 1890. The
money will be placed in the school fund.
The Seaton log drive was finished on Wednes-
day evening of last week, and over 5000 logs
now lie in the fiume at the Seaton mill on the
Teanaway Two weeks were consumed in bring
ing the logs down, the expense exceeding $1,000
The mill will be put in active operation in a few
days, and the timber hand is sufficient in
quantity to keep the saws buzzing for several
months.
Steel rails for double-tracking the Northern
Pacific from Tacoma to Puyallup at the for
mer place and work will probably be COM
menced soon.
Port Townsend's bond election illegal.
The city election was held under the old law
and pending the printing and sale of the bonds
the new state law went into force, which raises
question as to the validity of the 100000 issue.
Another election will be held.
The state board of education will hold their
meetings this year beginning June 2 at Olympia,
and two additional sessions of the board will be
held; both in August, one at Olympia and one
east of the Cascade mountains. These two latter
meetings will be held for examination of appli-
cants for the state certificates and life diplomas.
A jury at Spokane, unable to come to an
agreement after "a hours consideration of
highway robbery case, were ordered by the judge
back to the jury room until they reached YER
diet of guilty, no food to be supplied them IN
the meantime. Ten minutes of incarceration IN
duced them to find verdict.
The Medical Lake insane hospital is now ready
for patients.
The Snohomish & Fort Gardner Electric rail
road has been incorporated at Snohomish, with
capital of S1,O0O,O0O.
Olympia is becoming quite m manufacturing
center, EMPLOYING 32S men and having
monthly payroll of S22, $50.
Puyallup is having built %, $50 feet of new
sewers exclusive of sub-sewers. Puyallup is
growing to the dignity of city rapidly
The Coupeville Times wants the Chinese ques-
ton on WILDLY island settled now, before ther
are too many of the yellow men to dispose OF.