Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-07
State News In Brief.

State News In Brief.
snohomish City will give a''good subsidy for
saw mill
Centralia's W. C. T. U. opened free reading
room the other day.
The assessed valuation of property in King
county is 81, 952, 800.
big single mill will be in operation at
Blaine by August Goth.
new academy recently finished at Fidalgo is
one of the sightliest buildings on the island.
Last week Mrs. Davis of Skagit river sold figs
on trees growing on five acres of land for 1880
Fairhavenites have decided that they do not
care to incur further Indebtedness by issuing
school bonds.
Forest fires are raging to the north and west
of Clallum and large area of timbered land is
being laid waste.
Samples of asbestos from number of mines
in Skagit county have been sent to Germany in
order to be tested.
About EIGHTY former 1llinoisians picniced at
Lake Whatcom on Thursday. A state organi
zstion will probably be formed.
Lewis county people are anxious to see a
statement of the indebtedness of the county be-
fore issuing bonds for 100000
A lodge of the Ancient Order of Foresters has
been organized in Fairhaven with thirty charter
members and this week branch of the A. o. U.
W. will be formed.
st. Johns hospital at Port Townsend has been
completed and will be dedicated sometime dur
ing the present month. The institution will be
under the charge of Sisters of Charity.
A trio of accomplished operators of the film
fam game are said to be working on the Cascade
division of the Northern Pacific, between Ellens-
burgh, Green River, Hot Springs and Seattle
The High Private is the name of a small, four
page paper recently established at Vancouver
Barracks. 1t is conducted under the auspices of
the Loyal Temperance league
petition is being circulated, to go to the
Western Union Telegraph company. to induce
them to extend their line to Hoquiam. Free
othce rent is offered them and operator for
enc year for Is per cent. of the receipts of the
Office
There is a cedar tree eight miles above Stan
wood, in Snohomish county, the farm of an
old gentleman named Furniss 1t is II feet in
diameter thirty-three feet from the roots. This
giant blew down seven years ago, but is still in
good state of preservation.
The Bellingham Bay Express says: GA thrifty
preacher dropped into the den this morning and
said that he no sport, bat he had $500 that
he would put up that he would hold service at
Lake Whatcon one year from to-day and ride
there on the street car
The lightning struck in the timber on the
mountains north of Lake Whatcom last Saturday
and set the woods on fire. This is the second
time THIS freak has occurred in this vicinity
within the past five years.
TOWNSHIP has been plated at the junction of
the Fairhaven & Southern with the Seattle &
Montana railroad near Jarman prairie. The
new town is called Montana Junction, and a
hotel will be erected at once.
F. A. Parker, formerly of the milling firm of
Parker, Woodin & Laplan, has erected a mill at
the junction of the Seattle & Montana with the
Fairhaven & Southern. The mill is now run.
ming and shipments of lumber will soon begin.
The chicken raising industry in the neighbor
hood of Wilbur is seriously hanpered by the
presence of innumerable hawks which swoor
down upon the domestic birds at all hours of the
day. The shotgun and the scarecrow seem to be
equally ineffective as aggressive and precaution
airy agents.
The survey of the middle irrigating ditch
across Kittitas county has been completed anC
the call issued for the formation of the district
1t is ffty-two miles long and will be twenty fee
wide on the bottom and sixteen on top and will
carry four feet of water, and as surveyed viii
cover 81, 900 acres of land. The estimated cos
about 5000 ZOO, and it is expected it will b,
finished within eighteen months.
Good progress is being made at the friedrich
works south of town, says the Ellensburgh Cap
ital. An experimental oven has been finished
and the large one will soon be ready for charge
large number of bricks are moulded and ready
to put in and our people will soon have the sat
isfaction of seeing some homemade friedrich
The machinery works well and after run com
mences there need be no delays of any accoun
and the output will no doubt be steady and tn
product irst-class.