Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-09
STATE NEWS.
Spokane Forbids Games
Of Hazard.
WATER WORKS AT COLFAX.
A Swede is Arrested at Anaeortes
for Counterfeiting Swedish
Bank Notes.
WATER WORKS AT COLFAX.

Mayor rockingham of Spokane has
issued an order to the Chief of Police to
suppress all games OF craps and hazard.
About 100 ladies OF Tacoma have or
ganized rainy-day club" and will
wear short dresses when the streets are
muddy.
A petition is being circulated at Seat
tie and Tacoma to obtain the resignation
of Ad jutant-General O'Brien of the State
militia.
The Columbia River Methodist Con-
ference at Spokane resolved to vote only
for those who unequiyocally declare for
absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic.
The election at Colfax to bond the city
for $4,000 to put in water works was
carried. Colfax will have a water system
which will give a force Of about fifty
pounds to the square inch on the mains
in the city.
The land recently purchased by the
government at Port Orchard for naval
station was formally taken possession of
the other day by United States officers
in obedience to the orders OF the Secre-
tary of the Navy.
Hop picking is now about over, and
Yakima growers say they have never
had bigger yield or finer quality than
the yards are turning out this wear. The
low price offered is the only thing that
seems to make the hopman unhappy.
Army officers at Spokane attribute but
little Importance to the Indian scare in
the Pend d'Oreille country. Indian
Agent Cole has gone to the scene Of the
reported danger, and General Carlin will
do nothing further until he hears from
him.
Lands in Asotin county are said to be
very cheap this fall because of the lack
of transportation facilities for marketing
their products. As that section is very
fertile one, it is quite probable that this
state of affairs will not continue for any
length of time.
The rumored extension of the Tacoma
Eastern railroad to a mine near Mount
Rainier seems to have evolved from the
fact that ex Chief Engineer Bogue of the
Union Pacific has been engaged by inter
ested parties to inspect the property and
make report on the same, giving, of
course, actual facts from close observa-
ton. This he has done, and upon this
report it is expected that the interested
parties, including two or three of the
most prominent real-estate dealers and
bankers, will be enabled to raise money
on the project or sell out entirely to
other parties.
Henry Hewitt, Jr., Bethel J. Rucker
and Wyatt J. Rucker through an attor-
ney recently rendered to Land Commits
siOner Forrest the sum of 81 900 as first
payment on 3,709 acres of Port Gardner
tide lands, appraised at 81 per acre, and
their notes for the balance of the APP
praised valuation. Mr.. Forrest declined
to accept the money on the ground that
the tide lands in SnOhomish county can
not yet be sold, the harbor lines not hay
ing been established in the county.
Messrs. Rucker filed a separate applica-
ton to purchase after the rejection OF the
tender. The tender was made for the
purpose of preventing the lapse Of any
rights which the parties may be entitled
to as owners of the abutting uplands
under an appraisement, which according
to the opinion of the Attorney General
was prematurely made.
At Seattle Mrs. Kate MCGEE attempted
to kidnap her eight-yearold daughter
of the Good Shepherd, on Eleventh
street near Jefferson, and meeting with
resistance, she dubbed and almost killed
Sister Teresa, one of the guardians of
the home. Mrs. McGee, who is a short.
buxom woman, and who has several
times appeared in court in various roles,
turned over her daughter to the home
last January, and promised to leave her
tbara until che bapa of Che 10
manded the return of the child last
August, but the refusal of the manager
OF the home was the cause Of the
mothers recent action. The woman was
accompanied at the time by two grown
daughters. A warrant was sworn out by
the Sister Superior of the home, charg-
ing Mrs. McGee with assault and battery.
Olof Siodin, Swede, has been arrested
at Anacortes by the United States au-
thorities for cOunterfeiting Swedish bank
notes of the denomination of 1000
kroners ($250). Stockholm. Sweden. has
been flooded with false notes, and some
time ago Sjodin's brother was arrested
there with a package of them on his per-
son. The package had been mailed from
Anacortes, Wash. The Swedish author
tiles turned the case over to the secret
service department at Washington, and
agents have been at work on it for some
time. Siodin, who keeps a saloon at
Anacortes and is known as Olof Albert
son. was fixed upon as one of the guilty
narties. He was arrested and his place
searched. but neither counterfeit notes
nor mates were found. 1t is thought
that he did not manufacture the notes
himself but was merely used to handle
them. 1t is probable that other arrests
will follow.
The new dry dock being built at Port
Haddock since early spring by Captain
p w De Lion has been launched sue
cssefnllv. The structure is 500 feet Ions
Nv 12O wide. 1t was expected II Woulc
bs necessary to have tugs pull 1t iron
+be ways into the water, but 1t had peer
20 carefully planned and built and To-
oo+ed go advantageously that. when a
AZ sonnd of a pistol shot the Immense
;aoLscrews were turned simultaneously
bab;nd II the big dock slid quietly anl
ao,oothlv into the bay. When aioat' !
nno fonnd that the dock only SANK Il
Nc rEater twenty-one inches, ana II Il
ea that. when completed al. ~
S',;nned with all its machinery. IL VII WI
pnIv overweight inches IN an
Snn one months work will be require,
Fl Eu noym U1Ie the deck and put the pump
to to G nositon The total cost Of the ~, wor,
IN mi pJ ha ahout $3.50. 900. The citizens. =
P P6l r. Townsend aided materially in ar oud
inc the dock by donations ana anu tber,
andem 1t Is though the other cities q
P1cet Sound are bidding for e. o.rnSWa
be the first dry dock on 'n ond Is greatl,
needed by the shipping