Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-28
State News in Brief.

ABOUT so many Boston k1utchmen picking
berries at the berry patches.
Charles Nopens, a prosperous contractor OF
Centralia, has mysteriously disappeared and nc
cause is known for his action.
Five cars of gravel train loaded with work
men were derailed by an open switch near Mon
tesano Wednesday, but was injured.
The Elakomen loggers have been pretty activ,
for the past two months, logs having beer
placed in the river at the rate of $4,000 feet
per day.
About $4,000 worth of gold bullion has beer
shipped from the new stamp-mill of the War
Eagle and Black Bear mines, in the Conconully
dissyict
Twelve sections of land in township 80, range
5, in Whatcom county, have been selected by the
state land commissioners as a part of the grant
for scientific school
John Eckerson, while engaged in loading
some heavy timbers on the cars at Centralia.
last week, got his leg caught between two o.
them and it was broken above the ankle
A heavy rainfall occurred at Stanwood las
been damage to the oat crop, and there is som,
danger of its causing the ripening fruit to rot.
Mrs. Joseph Woods of Montesano, eloped las
week with hired man called Hastings, takin,
her two children. Her husband followed, ant
they were arrested and brought back for trial.
Charles Brooks, the old negro who murdered
his young wife in June at Spokane says: "Th,y
will hang me because | am old and black, arc
have no friends nor money. You see there ha,
been twenty-three murders in this county ant
they have never hanged any one yet, so 1 thin
they will commence on me-
Considerable stir is being caused in WAIKIKI
KUN county over the recent demand of the gov.
eminent for an additional payment of s1.25 per
acre on patented land within the confines of ths
Northern Pacific land grant. The government
now holds that the lands IN question were double
minimum lands. and that the price should have
been $3.50 per acre to purchasers.
The Salvation army bass drum blower makes
more noise than q common boiler explosion.
This fellow has an awful dose of the ''thumps"
and should be regulated at least to conform with
doesn't make racket enough to disturb the peace
of the whole community. He pounds the re-
lgion all out the community In
dependent.
rumor has reached the city that on Satur-
day or Sunday last very rich strike was made
in the lower tunnel of the Orphan Boy mine. 1t
is said they struck a seven-foot vein of solid
galena of fine quality and very valuable. Par
ties owning properties in the Silver Creek dis
trict will soon be able to demonstrate to ever
the most skeptical that there is ore there in i'm
mense quantities and of paying qualities. The
Eye.
Eugene Guard: Dealers in agricultural i'm
plements say this has been a busy season for
them, and more cutting implements, reapers,
headers, mowers binders, etc, have been sold
than in any previous year for a long time. In
fact, all who have had the best kinds of machin-
cry have sold all they have had. Self-binders
are still in favor in the Willamette valley, but
headers are largely used in eastern Oregon and
Washington.
The litigation feared over irrigation enterprises
in Walla Walla valley will probably come to
pass. Ninevan Ford, who claims that residents
in his neighborhood will be damaged by the Mud
Creek Irrigation company's project, has brought
suit to restrain members of the company from
turning water into the canal which they have
constructed. Papers in the casc were fled with
the clerk of the court at Pendeton Tuesday by
Sharpstein & Shardstein, attorneys for plaintiff
The report that 5000 Scotch crofters are com
ing to settle Vancouver island from Scotland
is piece of news that shows the tendency of the
old world farmers to better their condition
They are virtually driven from their homes by
the exactions of absentee landlords These
hardy agriculturists will be welcomed by the
people of the west, and if they settle on Van
couver island they will in few years add to the
general wealth and prosperity of that region.
The Yakima hop growers have determined to
organize, in order prevent the secret agents of
the Puyallup yards from coaxiug their Indians
away They claim that last year they suffered
great hardship from this cause, and besides the
Indians were kept loaded up with bad whisky
over on the Sound, and returned home in a de-
: moralized state of civilization. The noble red
man is great lover of Sire water and will do
almost anything when bottle of whisky is the
inducement.
Several hundred dollars worth of jewelry was
stolen from the residence of Mrs. Drigs in North
Seattle last week.
The county commissioners have added $500 to
at the Tacoma exposition.
John Lansing and Jerome B. Griffin, justices
of the peace at Falls City and Gilman precinct,
respectively, of King county, have resigned.
A son of ]. W. Sampson, of Washougal got
his hand caught under a rock the other day and
SO badly smashed that two fingers had to be am
Putated.
The area of Tumwater has recently been re-
dncad nv the county commissioners to one mile
souare, to conform to the requirements of the
law on the subject passed by the last legislature
Henry Hansen, living near Cowlitz, while cut
ting down a cedar snag last wsek. was IL some
wav caught by the falling snag, which STRUCK
h;n, on the hack of the neck, killing him in
stantly.
woltar Dufour, Seattle aucuoneer, has
broppht suit against Aaron and Esther Levy fol
saving he got drunk and used his store for al
designation house.
The 10-stamp mill for the Culver mine is ly
ing at the depot in Ellensburgh, awaiting trans
portation into the mines. Two miles OF 'h'
road from the sassa ranch into the Peschastli
remain unfinished.
Circulars have been sent ont TO the thinning
- of the men who first settled on Puge
.Lov, for n lock of their hair an