Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-11-06
State News Items.

ne vicinity of Rockford
Kent has decided to issue $4,000
worth of bonds to build water works.
A branch of the International Barber's
union has been formed in Spokane.
Port Townsend insurance agents have
organized an association for mutual
protection"
A gang of thieves has been operating
at Anacortes recently and many robber1es
are reported.
special meeting of the state worlds
fair commissioners will be held at Seattle
on November II.
Society ladies of Port Townsend are
agitating the question of establishing d
woman's exchange.
The residence of William T. Bacon at
Rockford was burned October IS, with
part of the contents; loss, $1,000; partly
insured.
Street gamins with slungshots are de-
stroying windows of stores and private
dwellings in an extensive manner al
Port Townsend.
A second carload Of Puget Sound sal
mon has been forwarded to Chicago.
Sound fishermen find a good market in
the Eastern cities
d. G. Dennison, lighthouse keeper on
Smiths island, died suddenly on Tues
day night. Deceased had been on the
station several years and had an adj
venturous career.
Some Of the farmers in the vicinity of
Ellensburg are busy putting in their
fall wheat. But the sowing is confined,
for the most part, to the land that lies
below the bitches.
Acting Assistant United States At
torney- General William B, Shelley is in
Walla Walla from Washington for the
purpose of taking testimony on a number
of Indian depreciation claims.
Libby Meyers, 16 years old, shot
40O-pound bear on her fathers farm near
Meyers Fall, Stevens county, last week.
The bear was killing sheep, when the
girl went to the rescue of the flock.
The Klickitat Leader says the keeping
of the Regulator on the Columbia river
is worth 500 wear to every farmer
owning quarter section of land in the
Kliekitat valley.
A large body Of onyx lying southeast
Of Chewelah has been discovered. 1t
will take on fine polish, and quarrying
this stone will, in the future, be one of
Stevens county's important industries.
Western Washington loggers tel Of an
immense log, recently tioated down the
Snoqualmie river, which five oxen had
difficulty in hauling. 1t was a fir log,
thirty-two feet in length and eighty-nine
inches in diameter at the largest end.
Mrs. Knight, Washingoon's female
miner, has returned to her claims in the
Yakima district with complete sawmill
outfit for cutting lumber necessary for
mining operations. Development work
will be pushed as fast as possible.
A petition is being circulated at South
Bend, asking the city council to submit
to the electors at the next annual cleo
ton the question of advancing the above
town to city of the third class. the
population now being over 1900.
Henry L. Kenzie, who died near Walla
Walla recently, was born in Bertrand,
Mich, in 1910 went to Portland, Or, in
1872, and came to Walla Walla in 1878
where he has since resided and for many
years conducted Touring mill on the
Wellowhawk.
Swan Anderson, aged As, was killed
near Puyallup, while at work on a gravel
train. He was standing on one of the
hatcars, when the locomotive started up
suddenly, throwing him between the
ears, one of which passed over his body.
He leaves wife and three children in
Sweden.
The high embankment west of the
steamboat wharf at Tacoma, which the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company has
been washing into the bay for filling in
purposes, caved in during one of the
heaviest rainfalls of the year The
street-car railroad tracks, street and
sidewalks and three of the railroad tracks
were covered up by the slide. A street
car, filled with passengers, narrowly es-
capped being crushed by the falling earth
The report comes from Shelton that
Allen G. Mason, who bought the Mason
County Central railroad, is arranging tc
connect with the Northern Pacific road
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