Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
A Tradueer Of Ladies is
Egged at 0akesdale.
SEATTLE & MONTANA ROAD.
A Superior Judge Decides a Railroad
Can't Condemn Private Prop
erty for a Branch.

Artesian water is found at depth of
sixty-tive feet at Seattle.
Tacoma has built twenty-eight naph-
tina launches III ten months.
Hotel bell boys in Seattle have petit
toned the Board OF Education to estab-
lish night school.
The Postal Telegraph Company an
nounces that it will have a wire into
Spokane in two months.
The cutter Wolcott is doing excellent
service on Puget Sound in preventing
the smuggling of Chinese.
The light on Destruction Island, off
the coast OF Washington, will be burn
ing from and after Thanksgiving day.
The men who made the arrest of Al
bertson, the Tacoma bank thief, near
Gardiner have been quarreling over the
$500 reward.
The resignation of Colonel w. L.
Sharpe, chief of ordnance on the Gov
ernor's staff, who has left the State, has
been accepted.
1t is claimed that the first court ever
held in the State OF Washington was at
Chinookville, below Knappton, just north
of Astoria, Or, in the summer of 1855.
D. P. Ball, well-known lawyer OF
Olympia, has disappeared, leaving his
wife and two daughters entirely unpro-
vided for. 1t is reported that he has
gone to Australia.
A proposition is now being considered
for making park of the tract of land
between Fairhaven and New Whatcom,
upon which is located the high and rug
ged hills rising back of Sehome.
State Treasurer Lindsey has issued a
call for unpaid general fund warrants
from No. 6720 to $50, there being sufi-
cient funds in the treasury to pay them.
The call includes all unpaid warrants
issued prior to May y, 1899.
John Phillips, a half-breed on the
Okanogan reservation, shot and killed
white man, whose name is unknown.
There must have been strong provoca-
ton, as young Phillips was noted for his
quiet and inoffensive disposition.
Colfax post0flice receipts indicate the
growth of the town. For the six months
just ended they were S., $50, or 1914 in
excess of the receipts for the correspond
ing period last year, and the heaviest
during any six months since the office
was established.
At Oakesdale D. b. Sutton, President
of the Farmers Alliance of Washington,
was severely egged while trying to board
a Northern Pacific train. The citizens
were indignant over his alleged scandal
Gus references in a Spokane paper to the
virtue of Oakesdale ladies.
~ L
ward Albertson in the Fidelity Trust
Company bank robbery, has pleaded
guilty to grand larceny before Superior
Court Judge Beverly. When arraigned,
Chandler was very composed and lis
tened with manifest interest to the read
ing of the information.
w. ). Wood, mining engineer for the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
says he does not doubt that glass-making
sand may yet be found in Washington
although all tests so far made have
proven unsatisfactory, the samples either
containing too much silica or other inn
purities, or being too flinty.
The project of bonding Snohomish
county for the purpose of building much
needed roads and bridges has been
agreed to, and it has been decided to
call a special election, to be held No
vem Der II, for the purpose of voting
$3.50, 900 bonds, bearing not to exceed [
per cent. interest, redeemabe in twenty
years.
The last spike on the Seattle and Mon.
tana railroad has been driven, two miles
north of Stilaguamish river. The road
is S712 miles in length. and runs from
Seattle to Jannan Prairie, Skagit county
where it connects with the Fairhaver
and Southern, which runs to New West
minister, B. G. Both these roads are the
property of the Great Northern.
The new Catholic hospital in Tacoma
was dedicated Sunday by Archbishop
Gross. The hospital was built by gen
erous Catholics of all classes, and mo-
alone by the Germans or any other race
They have all contributed to the fine
new building, which has been erected
at a cost OF about $50, 900, and all unite
in pride of it and in support of its char
tiles.
Lieutenant-Colonel Trotter, U. S. A.
assigned to duty as instructor of the
Washington National Guard, has beer
instructed to proceed to Goldendale
Centerville, Waitsburg, Dayton, Pom
eroy, Spokane, Sprague, North Yakima
and Ellensburgh to instruct the com
panies of the Second Infantry Regimen
and the First Battalion of Cavalry il
the use of small arms.
Captain A. WATSON has received the
appointment as disbursing agent for tn,
government at Port Townsend to super
sede C. M. Bradshaw. The duties of the
Office are to disburse the government
moneys for the Custom house and pay
the officers and crews of government yes
sells. WATSON will assume the duties al
soon as the commission as Collector o
Customs arrives. Bradshaw is ready t
turn over the Office now.
A party of Indians camped in the
main street of OrtinC the other day,
and there. unnoticed to passers-by, ;
little babe was born. To the white PEG
pie who passed and repassed a dozer
times there did not seem to be any eX
element or anything unusual going on
and when the train came along tina
evening the mother, with the newborn
babe slung in a shawl, was able t
chamber into box car unalded.
suit has been brought in the Su
nerior Court at Port Townsend by An
drew Matson, a dairyman, against th'
Port Townsend Southern railway iol
S12l2.51. for alleged damages 20 hli
property and for land taken tor right o
way. The railroad company mas al
vided his farm by an emoanKihen
twelve feet high. The road also passe'
within seventy-fve feet OF his parh
which is also in great danger from sparks
from passing engines.