Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-09-15
NoRTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON

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md foundry this fall
Thirty thousand apple trees nave Oeeo
1,t this year OIL orcas island
w. ~, First Baptist church of Rankin
l orntv. was dedicated last Sun
1,hr p. Green's $4,000 combined har-
'O h,rrsd near Sedalia during the
poon hour
u thermometer stood at "a deg. at
Olympia rhursday-'ho h'gn''' po'D'
rAached in II years.
Ate, spending $500 on its artesian
~ pomeroy has decided to discontinue
nork 1t was sunk $50 feet.
r.id on the Chinese gardens below
c,l,av was repealed by the celestials'
who shot at their uninvited visitors
MI Tacoma chamber OF commerce
Ill not send a delegate to the Pan
American bimetallic conference at Den
YER.
o,o thousand boxes of plums were
Lid from two acres of ground on the
Scott ranch, in Cowlitz county this sea-
SOD.
The product of the Tacoma Smelling
Raining Company for August aggre-
GATED s28,S25 in gold, $26, l2l in silver
and $lO,849 in lead.
Eddie Jameson, the Everett bartender
,hot and killed John H. Doudridge,
negro bootblack, has been held In $lo'-
mn hail to answer to the superior court
IN account of the limited number of
man available, Secretary of the Navy
uorhart states it will be impracticable
% locate the Nipsic at Tacoma as re-
ceivng ship
On his Mill creek farm cas-. of Walla
WsIIa Thomas Gilkerson threshed on
81 acres 1900 bushels making an average
or 70 bushels par acre. The wheat is of
extra fine quality.
James W. Bailey, for shooting John
Downey in quarrel over woman at
Newcastle last May, has for second |
time been found guilty of murder in the
second degree, at Seattle.
The Lewis county commissioners
have adjourned to September IT, Com
missioner Lowry filed his $4,000 bond
with Clerk Lenbyer who approved the
same. Mr. Young's bond was refused
because not properly executed.
A numerously signed petition will be
presented to the Whitman county com
missoners at their meeting tomorrow,
asking that a turnpike road be built
from Colfax to Elberton, with branches
to Garfield and Palouse City, in all 20
miles.
Although diligent and continued
search has been made for George Thorn
as, who disappeared SO suddenly from
Spokane several weeks ago, no trace
can be found, and hope has almost been
abandoned. There is little doubt now
that he was drowned in the Spokane
river
Troops d and H, Fourth cavalry.
have left Fort Walla Walla for Spokane,
where they will go into camp with
troop G, Fourth oavalery, and several
companies of the Fourth infantry sta
toned at Fort Sherman. At the close
Of the encampment troJ up G will return
to Fort Wala Walla to remain.
Port Townsend advices state that the
board of county commissioners have &C
cepted the resignation of W. j. Rohde,
school superintendent, and removed A.
W. Buddress from the same position
whom they appointed few weeks ago
to succeed Rohde. Each of the commis
sioners has a favorite for the office,
and they are unable to agree.
An investigation instituted by the Ia
coma Commercial Club has resulted in
showing that large number of letters
addressed to Tacoma, Wash, have been
delayed by being sent to Tacoma Park
suburb of Washington City, The
club will forward a petition asking that
the name of the Washington City suburb
be changed.
U. W. Lund, Waterman at Ia
coma grocery store, was recently arrest
ed on charge of stealing goods. 1t
was believed that he, with others was
systematically robbing the establish
ment. Subsequently he was released,