Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-03-17

damming up the middle and south chan
nels, turning the water into the north
channel This work will require about
five or six months time.
OREGON.
Forty seven editors in Oregon have
expressed desire to attend the national
meeting at Chicago May l6.
There is a movement on foot to secure
the 10 alton of the proposed soldiers'
home somewhere in the vicinity of Rose
burg.
Polk county has paid all she owes on
the big bridge at Salem. Treasurer
Cospsr took up the warrant last week,
am uniting to $4,000.
Captain" BRYAN and his wife, of the
Salvation Army, are holding a religious
revival at Philomath Over 100 con
versions are reported.
Tho Dalles wooden mill has been sol@
at sheriff's sale to John Walker, a Cal
ifornia capitalist, for the amount of his
claim, Sj67436. There are still out
standing claims and Judgments against
the company to the amount Of $1,000.
Miss Doering, of New Era, is cool
headed young lady. When a lamp fell
upon the floor and scattered the burn
ing OIL she had presence Of mind to
throw a bucket of ashes upon the flames,
which quickly smothered item,
The patrons Of the South Tualatin
creamery in Washington county, have
adopted the very profitable practice of
meeting once a month at the creamery.
This meeting is held on the day on
which the monthly returns are declared.
Nathan Wiley, of Newberg, while
plowing in bis field, struck stump,
which thraw the pillow handles against
bis ribs with such force as to completely
knock the breath from his body. He re-
NAMED unconscious for long time, and
is still suffering very much.
Some time ago Mrs. Seldom Warner,
of Brownsville, instituted a suit against
her husband for the purpose OF securing
a divorce, and getting an equal division
of the property, The property was dI-
vided before the divorce was granted,
and now the two have decided to live
under one roof. There is d lesson IN
this to husbands who always carry the
family purse.
The first discovery Of gold Eastern
Oregon was made in the summer of 1862
by party Of prospectors from Califur-
MIA and the willamette valley, who we're
making their way to mines on the Sal
mon river, in Northern ldaho. They
camped near the pressrt townsitt Of
Canyon City, where gold was discovered
and which for several years made the
Tliveliest mining camp on the Pacific
| coast
The finding Of conch shell on the
summit of one Of the highest buttos in
the john Day mountains, 5000 feet
above sea evel, is or should be no mys
terry. In the Rocky mountains, at even
higher elevation, fossil shells and fish
are to be found in tie rocks, showing
conclusiyely that the backbone of the
American continent at some time in the
worlds hi tory was upbeaved from the
oceans bed by some mighty CONFUSION
Of nature.
Walter White was drunkard who
went to Coos bay, grew sober and mar
ried His child died OF dipatberia The
mothers grief did not cause her to get
drunk and commit a crime, bat Walter
says that is why he forged a check
Now he is in the penitentiary and wants
tho governor to pardon him, urging us a
reason that Lis wife haa fallen in love
with another man. For that she is
scarcely to be blamed, but it is hard to
see why Walter should be pardoned on
that account,