Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-03-14
State News.

state News.
Bellingham's electric railroad will be
in operation March Is.
Skagit county has just disposed OF
$4,000 worth of school bonds.
Port Angles is to have new saw mill
hat will cut 100000 feet a day.
A Bohemian olavonic Benevolent asso-
ration has been organized in Tacoma.
A diamond drill is to be put at work
in Whatcom county searching for coal
and oil.
Walter L. Stabler has rendered his
resignation as agent of the Yakima In
lian agency.
Ballard citizens held an enthusiastic
meeting last Monday night and organ
jzed a chamber of commerce.
The municipal court of Tacoma has
been organized with E. N. Parker as
Judge and Mr.. Lurty as police clerk.
The PortiAngles chamber of commerce
has revived. New officers have been
elected, and the bylaws revised.
Seattle police circles are still in a dis
turbed condition. Officer Krebs is the
last to have charges preferred against
him.
Five inches of snow in Whatcom
turned the entire population loose on
'eoasting, suG3balling and kindred
amusements.
Seattle is just now indulging in the
luxury Of street car fight. Two rival
lines are striving to secure a franchise
over the same streets.
Pierce county is trying to persuade
the legislature to give it slice of terri
tory off of King county. The people of
King county have entered protest.
John Fl. Randolph, colored resident
of Seattle, has received notice that he
has fallen heir to $4,000, left by an
uncle, j. II. Hunter, Of Orange county,
New York.
Lieutenant Gorham, of Company B,
n. G. W., stationed at Seattle, has been
reinstated by the courts in the position
from which he was removed by court
martial last June
A hunter recently shot bird of the
albatross species, measuring seven feet
from tip to tip, down on the tide flats Of
Tacoma. 1t is said to be the first of the
kind ever seen in the city.
The wholesalers of Tacoma and Seat
tie met last Saturday evening and Or
gained an association. Its purpose is
to bring about uniformity in the whole
sale business on Puget Sound.
There was large falling off in the
mines of the Northern Pacific Companv
at Roslyn last month. The output
amounted to only 28,939 tons, owing to
the mines running on half time.
The Blue canyon coal mines now have
tramway running to Lake Whatcom.
where the coal is to be shipped in scows
across Lake Whatcom, and thence by
wagon to Bellingham Bay.
The llwaco cannery of Mr.. Seaborg
has doubled its capacity at an outlay of
$4,000 for improvements. The capac-
ity is now 1000 cases day and the
owner expects to can $4,000 cases of
salmon this season.
W. d. Tillotson, prominent business
man of Tacoma and representative
from that city in the state legislature
has received the appointment of consul
to kanagawa, Japan. This is the posi-
ton to which John D. Convey, of Olvm.
pla, was appointed, but declined. The
place is considered a desirable one and
carries salary of $1,000 a year.
The generous citizens OF Puyallup
have been giving heed to the story Of a
seemingly truthful woman whom mis-
fortune had rendered destitute, only to
find, after substantial aid had been aY.
tended, that she was full fedged mem
Der of the genus hobo, and had worked
upon their svmpathies with tales invent
ID as occasion required. Women tramps
ire quite rarely in the Northwest, and
Ter presence in Puyallup created SEN
'ation for time |