Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-05-05
NORTHWEST NEMS.I
WASHINGTON.

600 for irrigating bitches this season.
The present quarterly apportion-
ment of money to the schools of Whit
man county is the largest ever made,
being SO, 12l6, as against S26, 6S3.3S
for the same, quarter last year,
Stephen P. Flynn, of West Bay City,
Mich, William A. Mcdonald aud John
Dawson, of Seattle, have filed articles Of
incorporation as mill company, with
a capital OF 100000. They will erect
large saw mill and shingle mill in Sc
attic
David Mcclure, age 10, son of Mich
ael Mcclure, rancher near Colfax, has
been committed to the asylum at Med
zeal Lake. The boy suffered a sun
stroke a year ago, and has never been
sound in mind since. He wanders aim
lessly about endangering his life.
Edna Mitchell, the little gill who was
run over and horribly mutilated by a
cable car at Tacoma some time ago, was
awarded a judgement against the Ia
coma Railway & Morton Company for
$4,000. The suit was brought for
$4,000 damages,
The people of Spokane are highly in
dignant over the action on the Pacific
Insurance Uniou in increasing rates,
which was brought about by the pass
age OF a law by the last leRis. allure, i'm
posing tax on the gross amont of pre-
miums.
Louis Cohen. of Tacoma, gave John
Malone a check for $40 on a bank in
which he had no money, last week, and
left the city From Portland he tele-
graphed c. o, d. to Malone hold the
check until he heard from him again,
and at last sccounts he is still holding it.
The vast tracts Of timber land in the
Black Hills, owned by the Puget Mill
Company, have been sold to William
Mcdonald and others, OF Seattle. A
railroad, extending from tidewater at
Mud bay into the hills, is also included
IN this purchase. Mills will probably
be erected at Olympia by the new com
papy.
closed last week on account of sickness
among the pupils, and teachers also
The school building needs renovating,
says the Register, and the lack OF pro-
per sewerage facilities is problem the
directors will be called upon to solve
before Lealth amoug the the pupils is
assured
Fire at Woolley, near Sedro, Thurs
day morning destroyed a dozen small
stores, shops and saloons; loss, about
$4,000; insurance, $7750. The prin-
cipal losers vera Bingham & Holbrock,
Ford 4 Hosch, w, A. Austin, f. A.
Douglas, and Chamberlain & Co. Two
Oregon insurance companies are inter
ested, the Northwest Fire 4 Marine, of
Portland, and the State, of Salem.
Rival irrigation companies near Walls
Walla are having lot of trouble through
right-ofwa dispute, and the men en-
gagged in construction have been filing
up the bitches of each opposing company
at the dispute point. One is the Walla
Walla Irrigation Company, in which
Messrs. j. f. Bower, T. j. Kirk and
others are interested, and the other is
ar enterprise in which Contractor H. c.
Willis is interested.
White river valley hop growers have
perfected an organization, with DR..
Hughes as president and James Hart
secretary and treasurer. The prime OBJ
ject Of the association at this time is to
obtain and disseminate among members
reliable information concerning the hop
crop and the hop market throughout
the season of 1898, and to act in con-
junction with the New York association
aud othor similar organizations.
Charles Martin, who was a laboring
man at Everett, accidentally fell off the
wharf of the Everett Land Impr jvement
Company last Tuesday and was drowned.
Captain John f. Ryan. the deepest
diver in the world" was telegraped for
to make search for the body. The
captain, returned to Seattle Thursday,
and reported finding the remains under
the wharf in 39a feet of water. The I'M
fortunate man left wife and sly child
rem unproylded for. Captain Ryan re-
ports having received $50 for his work
and made the further statement that in
view OF the distressed condition of the