Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-06-16
NORTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

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II. Christopher. He was last heard OF
at Ellensburg,
The Ellensburg Register announces
that company has at last been organ
led and work has begun on the con
struction Of a water canal, to cost $780,
600, which will reclaim 10000 acres OF
sage brush land lying north of the Ell
lensburg ditch, in East Kittitas county,
The Northwest Wat II company, OF
Blaine, refused to furnish water for pro
lection from fire to the international
shingie mill, because the former owner
of the mill was indebted to the company
in the sum of 5000. An order of court
was necessary, and the water is now
turned on.
Charles Anderson, a restaurant-keep-
er at Tekoa, has been arrested at
Sprague for ENLIGHTENMENT. Anderson,
who had a partner. handled the funds
of the concern, and was last week dis-
covered to be short about $1,000. He
disappeared and reward Of 500 was
offered for his arrest. Marshall En-
glish, Of Tekoa, gets the reward.
Otis Perdue, aged II years, son of
james Perdue, of Salmon creek, Clarke
county, was drowned at the old Dubois
mill Sunday morning. He was warned
by his father not to go near the creek,
but Otis and younger brother stole
away and went swimming in the pool
below the mill While wading around
he stepped INTO hole, and not being
able to swim, was drowned.
An emigrant outfit with two wagons
and four fine horses passed through
WalIaWalla the other day on the way
from Gillian comfy to'Canada to hunt
up farm. Upon protest been made
for leaving this country, the woman of
of the family said there were lots Of
good farms here but they belonged to
someone else. This appears to be the
trouble everywhere.
petriied fish has been found i'm
bedded in solid bedrock % feet beneath
the surface of the ground on William
Judges ranch near Pampa This pc
culiar formation has every appearance Of
being petriied salmon, as the layers
of rock are in the same position and look
like the formation or the flesh in a sal
mon. At tho time of finding the petri-
fcation it looked the shape of an entire
fish, but on being exposed to the air the
head crumbled away.
The shingle. weavers lately employed
at the International single mill, at
Blaine, are holding the product of the
mill now on hand with shotguns. W
Il, Pettibore, who has been operating
the mill, recently assigned, and num-
Der Of men were creditors, They re-
solved TO take possession of the shing-
les, aud they did. The Blaine city mar.
shall, who went to the mill to talk to the
men. was driven back, and the men were
left in peaceable possession of the shing
les.
State Librarian Moore takes pleasure
in showing the rare old books, bound in
vellum, that belong to the state. A
number of them are 300 years old
They are printed in Spanish, on good
paper, and display degree of perfection
in presswork that is scarcely excelled at
the present time. One of the books con-
tains a letter from Christopher Columbus
soon after his discovery of America
This is really a very valuable book, and
could readily be sold for several thous-
and dollars.
The rock quarries 10 miles above Van
couver are busy scene just now. F,om
early morn till shutdown the boom of
blasting is heard and a constant run of
rock-laden tram cars may be seen going
to the government barges in the Colum-
bia, to be used at the jetty at the mouth
of the river. At least $50 men are en-
gagged in getting out the hl ge rocks re
quired. At one Of the several quarries |
last week 1000 kegs of powder were put |
into one blast in an attempt to blow out |
a large quantity of rock.
Henry W. Hammond, the we'll known |
civil engineer who died recently at San
Francisco, came TO Port Townsend four
years ago, claiming to represent large
English capitalists, and interested citi-
liens in a scheme to construct a mann
9th steel plant. He presented letters OF
credit from responsib lie San Francisco
and London bankers, and soon won the