Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-17
State News i'm Rrief.


Port Townsend republicans have nominated j.
c. Heath for mayor
salmon cannery will be erected at Wynoo-
che, near Montesano.
Bears are very numerous about Centralia and
scarcely day passes that Mr.. Bruin is not seen
in that vicinity.
Arthur Hamln, grandson of Hannibal Ham
lin, is in Franklin in camp with Company B. of
which he is member.
The report that squirrels and gophers had
seriously injured the wheat crop in Eastern
Washington is emphatically denied.
Mrs. Grace Jackline, pioneer of Washington
died recently at Seattle. She has lived on the
Sound country for thirty years.
An attempt made to burn the city of Ho-
quiam by placing small boxes of PHOSPHORUS on
the planked sidewalks. No clue to the perpe-
traitors.
d. h. French, of Centralia, has received news
that his claim for pension has been allowed
from August, 1864 at the rate of Sc per month.
He will get about $4,000 back pay.
A strange marine arrival was caught by g. s.
Lewis at Sea Haven. 1t was about eight inches
long and as large around a lead pencil with a
long, tubular bill, dorsal fin and very small
fsn-shaped tail.
The second stack of the Tacoma Smelling and
Refining Company's smelter will be started in a
few days, thus increasing the capacity of the
smelter from about fiftv-fve to 10 tons of ore
per day.
Two notorious waterfront thieves of Seattle,
garroted and robbed James McGovern, on King
street, near the coal bunkers in broad daylight
one day last week. They were arrested, and
proved to be old offenders.
lot of railroad spikes, which have been ly-
ing in vacant lot the depot at Centralia
since last summer, and which belong to G. w
Hunt, are to be sold by the sheriff to satisfy q
Judgment of s649 The spikes are said to be
worth any where from $40, 900 to 100000
Mrs. George Winchell, of Yakima, sent her g.
year-old daughter Beatrice up stairs for spool
of thread. While looking for the thread she
found some matches which she ignited setting
fire to her clothes. She was so terribly burned
that she died the next day.
The Peshostin mines in Kittitas county, which
were discovered thirty years ago. are again at
tracing much attention. report is in circula-
ton that good wages now being PANIED out
in that district, and that from 500 to 1000 paying
placer claims could be located on the Peshastiu
and Eagle creeks.
Emma Glenn, aged 8 years, was drowned Sat
urday in Mason lake, Mason county The father
Of the little girl is electric motor conductor
in Portland During the holidays, last winter,
his wife and son died, and his daughter was
taken by Mrs. s. A. White to live with her on a
ranch on Mason lake.
The new boat which has been built for the
Okanogan trade is named the Wenatchee and
has been expressly designed for plying on the
river. She is fifty feet in length and draws but
one foot of water when loaded. 1t is said that
the Okanogan is more sluggish than other streams
in that portion of Washington, and will there
fore, be easily navigated.
Fish Commissioner james Crawford has gone
TO the Okanogan country to put fish rack across
the Methow. This rack is in the form of a
picket fence stretched across the river to pre-
vent the salmon going up. The commissioner
will make an approximate estimate of the num-
Der of salmon in the river for the purpose of de-
Gliding whether or not it will pay to put in a
hatchery.
The penitentiary at Walla Walla now contains
1898 prisoners, which is somewhat of crowd on
the limit of one criminal to each 1000 of popula-
ton, and the penitentiary commissioners have
concluded to have still another cell wing erected
with 81 cells, capable of accommodating 16S
prisoners. Bids for the construction of both
cell wing and cells will be opened on August
and the contracts awarded. The commissioners
state that they expect the new cells will be about
all filled before they are completed.