Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-09
State News in Brief.

ID at Fairdale.
The Tumwater ice company has incor-
)orated; capital stock, $4,000.
Artesian water has been secured il
Seattle at a depth of sixty five feet.
Many elk are being destroyed in the
Olympic mountains just for sport.
Pumps for irrigating purposes are be
ing put in on several farms along the
lower Yakima river.
The harbor at South Bend has been
relieved of 50, 400 cubic yards of mud by
the Bowers dredger.
E. Il. Fuller, Whatcom walI-pape
dealer, has made an assignment, with
S6Gl2 liabilities and small assets.
1t is reported that the government
coast surveyors have found Indian bay,
GA Shaw island, to be natural drydock.
Aberdeen has voted to issue $4,000
worth of bonds TO purchase the old water
plant and pay for the new one pur-
chased
A clam cannerv will be located at
Ocosta in the near future, at a cost of
$4,000, which will give employment to
sixty hands.
The international single mill at
Blaine has started up with 100000 daily
capacity. The dry kiln in connection
holds 100000 shingles.
There is d movement on foot to take
the eastern portion Of Clallam and JEFF
ferson counties, separated from the
Sound by the Olympics, and form a
new county of then.
An adjustment Of the loss Of the Cheney
normal school, which was burned recent
ly, has been made by the state auditor
and the companies, and $1,000 has been
paid in by the latter.
a silverside salmon was taken at
Ilwaco last week in whose stomach was
found seventeen sardines. This ought
to contradict the statement of those who
claim that the salmon eat nothing after
entering this river.
Skamokawa ships more dairy products
than any other town on the Columbia
river. The butter from one farm shipped
from this point to Astoria and Portland
from the 23d Of April up to this week
was fifty boxes Of sixty pounds each, or
5000 pounds. This vas from the farm
Of Mr.. Robert Burch. There are other
farms in Skamokawa which ship as much
and one or two ship more
Frank White, who Is IN jail at Port
Townsend, is troubled by the delusion
that his head is full of little wheels, and
he is waiting FOR the machinery to run
down, because he believes that it needs
oiling. He also thinks that his arm is
glass, which causes him to shed copious
tears.
Colonel Barney McGee, conductor on
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern. is by
the Skagit county Times awarded the
palm as a man Of large appetite and
great tonnage. The Times says that
upon wager between two friends Bar
ney devoured one peck Of boiled pota-
toes, whole spring chicken, pound of
bacon and two leaves of bread, using a
roll of butter as accessory to the accom-
plishment Of the feat.
On Sunday, September 81, while hunt
ing bear on the reservation, Peter Mer-
shon discovered the bleached and wealth
er beaten remains of man on the shore
of the Columbia river, three miles below
Kettle Falls All that was left Of the
corpse was pile Of bones, Enthusiastically
those of a Chinaman, from which every
vestage OF flesh had been taken off by
the clements or ~ coyotes and buzzards.
The clothing consisted only of pair of
overaIs in tatters, hand sewed shirt.
the color OF which had been obliterated,
and part Of rubber boot. On the right
side of the skull, over the eye, was an
indentation and "a small hole, both of
which might have been made by blow
from weapon or by falling upon a
jagged stone
Fred j. Zorn shot his wife and mother
in law and then shot himself last Friday
afternoon. He placed four shots in his
mouth and bullet lodged in his brain
He is still alive and conscious, but can
not live. His wife was fatally wounded
in the right lung. His mother-in-law
has fatal wound. Zorn was divorced
from his wife last summer, but went to
the house and the women refused him
Abundance. He burst open the doc,
and commenced firing. The shooting
occurred about ten miles from Wala
3 Walla on a ranch. Zorn was in WalIa
E Walla Friday night and was drinking
? heavily. He has had trouble with the
. women before and made threats against