Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-24
State News in Brief.

Vh'' buil' ny private subscription, has been
d for travel
luiet war between Seattle electric light com
has resulted in the reduction of the price
c lights from Sl2 and Sl4 to $40 and Sl2
Month.
attic has lawyer who is brother of An
st Neebe, now doing fifteen years in the
DIS state prison for participation in the
market riot
he dead body of German, whose name is
"o~zl was found in the woods ne4r Arcadia.
He had evidently committed sui
FOOTING himself
As reported in Seattle last Thursday that
.ael Davitt, the well-known Irish patriot
arrived in the city incognito. However no
person could be found
avid Colyn, a small boy of Seattle was com
ted to the reform school on the application of
father David is 10 years old but his parents
Id do nothing with him.
he people of Mount Vernon are not at all
cOuraged by the fire. Several tents have been
up, and the owners of the burnt buildings
making plans for rebuilding
large black bear slowly ambled across the
.ck of the Puyallup motor line in front of the
ain as it was approaching Midland Wednesday
ser are also often seen in that vicinity
The Indians of Eastern Washington complain
at there was light run of salmon at the Gle,
nm falls this season. They will he consideru-
short on salmon when winter comes.
An attempt made to burn the Agnew hote
Centralia Tuesday. Rags saturated with kero-
were found burning by the night clerk, who
h water near at h nd, easily put it ont.
Ellensburgh has awoman barber who has beer
business for several months. Many incipent
cards and mustaches, as a consequence. have
cen sprouted since the advent of this new ton
orial artist
There is great indignation through the Sound
ountry about the way in which the game laws
ire being openly broken, and young grouse served
up in Seattle every day. twill spoil the legiti
mate season altogether.
Samuel Cheny and William Riley assaulted Ed
ward O'Shea at Kirkland, near Seattle, Wednes
lay, and during the fracas O'Shea's nose was
bitten off His assailante have been arrested Oh
charge of MAYHEM.
zeph Allison, timber-land cruiser. who has
just come in from the vast Undiscovered are,
east of Centralia, states that never in his recol
lection have bears been 80 numerous and carelcs,
n showing Themselves
The Goblin moth is getting in its work in good
shape these warm nights in the vicinity of Forest
Grove. The late rains have washed off what
spraying has been done, and there is nothing
now to check its ravages.
Robert Shores, young man employed at =
factory in Olympia, received a severe wound oi
the eyebrow and forehead, extending to the
skull, by a fragment from an iron wheel which
burst while making $500 revolutions per minute
The fishing smack, Lady George, of Tacoma,
while on cruise in the straits WAS blessed Will
good luck. She brought back about 25.OO(
pounds of fish, mainly cod and salmon. A
halibut ID feet long is also among the catch.
with monster shark.
Elias Thompson, an old resident of Pacific
zw~"r''>- cove hast sun
day morning by the upsetting of skift, his body
being caught in the ant hor line. Deceased was
r native of Norway, aged d years, aud has lived
ON Shoalwater bay thirty Years.
T. e. Nicklin and William Mckee, of New
Whatcom, want citizens of that section to assist
in developing the hidden resources of the country
by subscribing $4,000 to prospect for coal oil
and gas Excellent indications for gas aud oil
have been found
One hundred and twenty patients were re
moved from the Steilacoom asylum on Friday tc
the Eastern Washington asylum for the insane al
Medical Lake, which has at last been completed
The state of Washington now has two of the fines
homes for unfortunate people in the country.
There arrived at Tacoma on the Northern Pa
cifc Thursday, from the East two miles of cable
to be laid by the government from Tatoosl
island to the Cape Flattery lighthouse. The
cable was transferred to scow at the railroad
wharf. on which it viii be conveyed to Por
Townsend.
Another county seat fight will soon be in full
blast, this time in Sherman county. The people
of Moro have inaugurated the fight by purchas
ing the Observer, heretofore published at Wasco
and will move it over to their town 10 advocate
their interests. The location now lies between
these two towns.
Mrs. David Dowden. while guest of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Slocum in Tacoma, ate corned beef and wa
Immediately taken sick. MIR. Slocum and wifi,
also ate of the corned beef and are still confined
TO their beds, while Mrs. tDowden has fully re
covered. 1t is supposed that the food wa
POISONED in some way.
GEORGE Perry, negro miner and stable bos
al the Franklin mines. was the victim of an &C
cident Thursday afternoon by which he has los
his left leg. Perry was going down the slope Il
the mines on coal car and in some manner los
his hold and fell off. The wheels of the car RAJ
over his leg and crushed it frightfully below tn
knee.
Enpnsc ViaxNS IN tho Now Land Iaus