Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-02-24
OREGON.

| OF hooded cellars IN luaL Guy was lue re-
suit.
For few DAYS last week Pendleton
was afflicted with a sugar famine but a
carload of the saccharine substance soon
did away with the sour looks Of the
people who ran out,
While Robert Montague, of Lebanon,
was tying up a COW the animal ran one
OF her horns up lis nosa tearing 1t loose
from his face. He came very near bleed
ing to death, a physician being unable
to stop the blood for rbout 70 hours.
Josephine county has no county sur
veyor, no deputy United States mineral
surveyor, and Grants Pass is without
any official wbo can give proper grades
for sidewalks, etc. There is an opening
in Grants Pass for scientific veyor,
Pend,eton pessimists declare that frost
uas ruined the chances for a peach crop
along the Umatilla river for this season.
But little Of this fruit will be raised this
year in that section, where last season
the crop was abundant and of fine quail
ity.
Several substantial buildings will be
erected at Grants Pass this summer,
among which are a new $1,000 depot, a
new brick hotel at a cost of at least $40
600, and the corner brick of Williams
on Sixth and H streets, next to the
Blackburn hotel, which will cost about
$500.
There is a mean girl in Wasco, and
the story or her mearness has just
J leaked out. She bet a kiss against a
dollar with tho editor of the Wasco News
tibet Harrison would be elected, The
stakeholder II the dollar was a homely
old maid, AMI when lie claimed the kiss
from the girl was coolly informed that
the stakeholder held both bets and would
r cheerfllly deliver them on demand,
Frank Fletcher who has been sen
fenced to the penitentiary for life for
the murder OF Charles Pe'rie, is Only Is
years old and was a society favorite
His father is a well-to-do merchant Of
Pendleton. The conviction was made
; on purely circumstsntial evidence
Young Fletcher was away from home or
! the night of the murCer and could not
satisfactorily account for his wherea
= bouts.
, The sandy loan soil Of the Neha'en
yields hops equal to the famous Puyai
. Iur hop fields. 1t also grows tobacco
in 1onderful luxuriance These indus
tried only wait on railroad connection
Thomas L. Adams, for Il years a resi-
dent OF the middle Nehalem, and raised
each wear small patch" FOR home con.
sumption, finds the average yield pei
acre is 5000 pounds OF medium quality
tobacco.
lee in the Columbia at the Dalles
gives evidence of soon going out. The
Chronicle reports hat it has all moved
out from below Memaiuse island and is
breaking up at that point and fast clear
= ing out. The whole body of ice is sof-
tening rapidly through the influence OF
the warm weather, and from appearances
the river will be freed from blockade in
few days. AT that city it begins to
show that the channel is getting in its
work of clearing
Tucker French. of Pendleton, lost a
two year-old colt, of Morgan stock, val
ued at $3.50, at his Mckay creek ranch
the other day in a peculiar mannar. The
colt was found in the morning sitting
on its launches, stiff in deaoh, with a
rope tightly twisted about his neck.
The rope had been left hanging between
a wagon brake and hay rack. and the
colt evidently put its bead over to reach
some hay. BY a peculiar twist a moose
was formed about his neck and tight
ened with its struggles until death from
choking occurred.
J. W. Hill was student of the State
Normal school at Monmouth support
lug himself by working on a farm dur
ing he summer. His brother was lost
in tho Cascade range, ard bis body was
not found until about two months ago.
He paid for the shipment o: the remains
OF bis unfortunate brother to Texas,
their former home which used up his
savings Returning to work on a farm,
he applied the mathematics 10 had
learned at school to the construction of
a one-man stump. puller, on which he
has inst obtained a patent, and fer
which he has been offered $4,000.