Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
State News.


900 head without the lambs. There
the biggest crop of lambs this spring
allied for several seasons, the average
ing over 100 per cent. OF all the
lnds inspected but two showed signs
scabs, and these only in a slight de-
rec. The wool is of better quality this
ear than ever known before, being long,
right and clear with no break in the
bre, and the estimated shear is $4,000
ounds.
Friends and relatives of the late A. J.
iunt, the gambler lynched at Walla
Valla, write to John Picard, of that city,
egarding the estate they suppose he has
eft. The letter states that thew under
TODD he owned horse ranch near The
)alles and wish to know if it is true.
All the property Hunt had when killed
vas the clothes on his back and a To-
cent piece in his pocket. Outside of
ms he had nothing. Picard says he in
ends to send them the dime
The conductor of the east bound
Northern Pacific train, on the eastern
side OF Pasco, reports finding the dead
body OF stranger lying on the track at
Scott siding Yesterday morning The
head was nearly severed and terribly
mutllated. 1t is the opinion of the
trainmen that the man, in a drunken
stupor, had laid down on the track and
been run over by a passing train. His
name is not known.
Louis McAdams, alias Elder Glrard,
the clever clerical opium smuggler of
Hover pot fame, has been released on
$500 bonds. McAdams was for some
time a resident of Victoria, says the Port
Townsend Leader, where he got into
serious trouble by making free with the
signature of prominent business man.
For this false step he has only lately
completed three years term of i'm
prlsonment.
The Washington Pottery company,
organized about two years ago, at Spo-
kane, was recently reorganized with an
increased capital. The company will en-
large the plans to more than double its
present capacity. The new building
viii be erected fourteen miles from Spo-
kane, on the Union Pacific railroad, and
ready for the machinery in August
Two hundred thousand dollars is to be
expended.
The mayor and all officers of spokane
are interested in devising some means
whereby the morphine and opium fiends
who infest the city may be dealt with.
They think the city and county COM
missioners will arrange for some place
where they can be sent, treated and DOS
sibly cured. The physicians say there
are fully 900 opium and morphine eaters
in the city, many of them helpless.
Congressman Wilson is just now be-
,~o SB64ibarded VIII applications from
all clasps of young men for positions in
the academies at Annapolis and West
Point. The letters are largely from
Vancouver, and of the entire number
but two prefer the navy to the army.
That so many come from Vancouver
may be found in the location at that
place of the soldiers.
DR.. w. W. Elmer, of Spokane, by
means of an immense steam pump and
scow will experiment in irrigating. He
owns 1000 acres of land, part of which
he expects to put in grain this fall. He
believes he will be able to produce thirty
bushels of wheat per acre at an expense
no greater than is customary with other
farmers
Edward Gibbons, one of the four
charged with the murder of Fredricksen
and wife in Pacific county, has been re-
leased from the Montesano jail. The
ground on which the attorney asked his
discharge was that there was no evidence
to be found of the prisoners guilt, and
from all that could be learned Gibbons
knew nothing of the crime.
A big strike was made in the Colville
mining district last week in the original
Summit mine, about twenty miles from
Chewelah and ten miles from Addy post
office, on the Spokane & Northern rail
road. Digging down twenty feet they
have a seven-foot ledge, running 125
ounces in silver and about rs per cent
lead.
The first shipment of mohair ever sent
out of Asotin county was made the other
day. 1t has been proved that Alpaca
goats will thrive and do well in that
section, and this will undoubtedly be-
come an important branch of stock rals-
ing in the future.
Great preparations are being made il
: Port Townsend for the annual meeting
of the pioneers in June. The PORT
Townsend railway offers all facilities free
and an order for fifty bushels of Discov
ery Bay CLANS has been given.
Harry Pickering, the champion long
distance bicycle rider of New England
and his two friends, Harry Clark and