Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-10-20
NORTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Tho Presbyt,ry of Spokane met at
sDkoane Tuesday
. lodge of the old ForesterS is being
armed at Spokane
c;,vor. backed salmon are running IN
l.. streams about Port Angeles.
o,walIs Walla's s3S, 743.45 city taxes
,,ly s4,s52.25 is delinquent
M. telephones in the spokane schools
,al be taken out unless the rates are
lowered.
The suspended Bank of Everett has
.omuloated reopening scheme which
! meeting favor with depositors'
DR. A. N. Gill, under four years SEN
.,nce at Chehalls for manslaughter. is
!. ;o;l again, having been surrendered
BY his bondsmen'
A. Port Townsend Judge Ballinger
h. ordered the grand jury convened on
,ho Dad inst to inquire into the alleged
;.,ooulsrities in the auditors office. -,
At Colfax, Judge Sullivan has dis
.;.ood the case of John j, Maraseck,
who was charged with knowingly reeeiv-
inc stolen cattle, for want of sufficient
ovidepce to sustain the charge.
A coachman at New Whatcom had a
miracul, us escape from fright'u! death.
Ha WAS carrying two valises across the
,o,,,a1 track when he was struck by
the engine OF moving train and hurled
Martha Jane Wood, who committed
suicide at Colfax recently, had been a
very handsome girl, and even dissipation
had not yet deseoiled her of beauty,
She was "a years old last May. Her
maiden name was:Jordan, and she was
married to George Wood at Eugene
Or. October 80, 1886, when II years of
age. Her mother still lives in Salem,
Or.
A female tramp, % years old and
good looking, is betting her way along
the Union Pacific toward Pc tland, hav-
inc in view California, where she claims
to have friends. She says she started
from Peoria, ILL.,, with enough money TO
paw her way to Los Angeles at 3 cents
mile, but that her money gave out at
Bozeman, and now she hides herself
wherever she can about freight trains.
Word has reached Spokane that Chas.
Wright and Ed Smith, two prospectors,
quarreled near Bonners Ferry over tho
possession of their camp utensils. They
had worked together all summer. Wright
shot Smith in the back. Smith ran
through the woods and got in rowboat
and Wright fired several Intellectual shots.
Smith drifted into town and was rescued.
Sheriffs are hunting for Wright, Smith
will probably die,
james d. Murray, of Ilwaco, who was
first officer of the ill-fated ship Strath-
blame, which was wrecked on the weather
beach near Ilwaco three years ago, has
erected monument over the grave of
brave Captain Cuthel and the men who
persisted with him. Mr.. Murray made
trip to England last fall and carried
the captains last message to his yonng
wife over the sea, duty made doubly
sad through the fact that the bereaved
lady had refused to believe that her hus-
band would meyer come back, but still
anxiouslY awaited his return.
Sheriff Pugh, of Spokane, has received
telegram from Arlene, Mont, stating
that Louie Stemsto, the murderer of
Mah-So- Lab at Spokane, August Is,
was under arrest there. 1t was signed
by Joseph T. Carter. Louie Stemsto,
or Louie, Ms he is known, is a Spokane
ln'ian. On the night of August 16,
near the old Twickenham power house,
Louie, Con Con-Spokane and another
Indian, while under the influence of
liquor, killed Nah So-Lah, young In
dian from the Flathead reservation, who
was in Spokane on visit. Louie is
said to have knocked him down, when
when Con Con took the piece of iron
pipe and crushed in his skull The In
dams all escaped and these facts were
developed at the inquest. Louie will
be brought to Spokane at once.