Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-11-20

' 'O '""ol0 W support ana drunk
enness. They were married at Adrian.
Mich, in 1876.
We are indebted TO Nels Poison for a
tremendous beet which he brought to
this office on the 9th inst. It's weight
is thirtv-three pounds, and was raised
on the ranch of O. Poison. II wonld he
an eye opener to an easterner,-Puget
Sound Mail.
Considerable damage was done to Sui
tan property during the recent flood
4 strip Of real estate about sixty rods
long and about thirty feet wide was
washed away by the raging torrents.
which came very near cutting into the
rear of the sawmiIl.
Says the Centralia News: In these
days of wild speculation people will talk
and people will kick, so don't pay anv
attention to the kickers, but 90 along
quietly and help every public enterprise
to the extent your conscience and peck
etbook will allow"
In sizing up chronic kicker an ex-
change says: IF this paper was printed
on gold, the ink made Of silver and the
subscription price only 80 cents year.
some poor, deluded specimen of human
lty would kick because there was not q
diamond in the corner of each page and
want the subscription price to be only
% cents year"
The Okanogan Outlook states that
large numbers Of settlers have come into
the Methow valley this summer. Many
improvements have been made. and bv
another season all the best land will be
gone. The government surveys, which
will probably be made in that vicinity
next summer, will aid greatly in the
development of the country.
The Jefferson county commissioners
began cutting down expenses recently
by abolishing the Office Of assistant
prosecuting attorney and limiting the
county clerk to one deputy. The county
IS in debt on account Of the expensive
courthouse and numerous other public
improvements, and the condition calls
for all possible economy.
A petition to forecose the mortgage
held by the Farmers Loan and Trust
company Of New York on the property
of the Oregon 4 Washington Territory
Railroad Company was filed in the circuit
court of the United States at Walla Walla
on Friday afternoon. L. L. Macarthur
appearing on the complaint as orators"
attorney.
Charles Bouck, an Englishman, aged
%, Artilio Guargneri, an Austrian, aged
a, were drowned in Henderson bay Sat
urday. The bodies were not recovered.
With James Morrison and Lorenzo
Leonard they attempted to row across
the bay from M1nter. The waves ran
high and the boat sprang leak and
sank. Frank Norton and Herman Jones
went to the rescue, but Bouck and
Guargneri were overcome lust AS the
rescuers arrived.
Ten out Of the fourteen Chinese re-
Gently captured near Point Wilson bv
Collector WATSON, who pleaded guilty of
being Chinese iaborers unlawfuIlv in the
United States, and who were ordered de
ported TO China, the country from
whence they told the commissioner they
came, have appealed from the decision Of
United States Commissioner Baliinger.
The case will come up for hearing before
Judge Hanford in Seattle. The de
PENDANTS, through their attorney, claim
that the commissioners has authority
only to deport the Chinese back to the
last foreign port from whence they
came, Victoria.
Twenty millions OF acres of land in the
state of Washington are covered with a
growth Of wood which will cut an average
OF $4,000 feet OF understandable lumber.
Much of it will cut an average of 100000
feet and more, while single trees are
common that will cut 5000 feet each.
The timber area of Washington is the
most extensive in the United States, and
combines a greater number of valuable
commercial varieties than may be found
anywhere else. The quantity Of mer-
charitable lumber standing in these for
ests (from a conservative s,andpoint) is
estimated at ARCHAEOLOGICAL feet
sufficient TO supply all the markets of
America for untold years to come, and
yet send cargo after cargo into foreign
lands Port Townsend Lea Ter.
The annual report Of the clerk Of the
WaIla Walla penitentiary shows taat
the institution is not, in financial view,
a dead loss tO the state His eYhibi+