Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-11-10
NORTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Spokane institute
rho first twenty miles of the Ruby
.ok rrail are done, at cost OF Sl2,UOo.
Wolves ere prowling along the road
,,noan Hoodsport and Lake Cushman.
Oracle Northrup, Is months old, died
.t Seattle from eating bunch of
matches.
Tacoma's match factory is running
with forty hands and daily output Of
200 gross.
rverett's output for the year was:
Lumber, 23,3O0,0O0 feet; shingles, 49,
100000,
Ubatcom county will need to raise
,o,+ 100000 on its assessed valua-
ton of $l2, 951,O 900.
Councilman Steep, of Spokane, is now
demanding his salary to date, claiming
b,s suspension was illegal.
r NJ. Palmer, Of Walla Wal.a, shot
himself in the leg while out hunting and
narrowly escaped bleeding to death,
Officer Hamilton, of Seattle, shot at a
avipg thief, and wounded Jerome Hack.
pey, a bystander, in the heshy part of
the arm.
John Woods was thrown from horse
IN the Colfax racetrack, and received
injuries from which he will likly not re-
cover
George Mcnamara, just appointed post
master at Port Townsend, is broker,
and was postmaster under Cleyeland's
first administration.
Thomas Connors, a logger. threw
some bricks through some 5000 worth of
plate glass in Tacoma window and is
accordingly in Jail for it.
Fairhaven requires its naturalized
citizens to bring their naturalization
papers along when they register for
the approaching city election,
Bids for the Bellingham Bay-Port
Townsend mail route have been forward
cd to Washington. The present con-
tract is about $4,000 per year.
Four Of the IA Tacoma juvenile Hal
lowe'sn offenders we're sent to jail and
the others are out finding and restoring
the scattered objects of their pranks.
McGowan's cannery on North river is
running full capacity of $50 cases
daily, and upon closing down on the
18th inst. will have put up $4,000 cases
for the season.
John DoughertY and ]. j. Wilson,
two professional gamblers of Colfax,
have been held to answer for conducting
gambling games. Their bail was fixed
at $500 each.
G, G, Johnson's fish packing and cur
ing establishment at Seattle was pre-.
Cipitated into the Sound by a broken
pile Faiday, about $1,000 worth of cured
fish going back to the deep from which
they came.
Louie temsto, the Spokane Indian,
who knocked Nah So Lab, the Kalispel
Indian, in the head with piece OF gas
pipe, after which Con Con finished the
deed, has been held for murder without
bail
Several hundred pounds of copper
wire, supposed 10 be that stolen from
the tidalgo & Anacortes railway recent
ly, has been found in the possession of
man on Aliens Island, near the latter
city. He was melting it up.
The Cathlame, Gazette sums up the
result of logging on the Wahkiakum
river for the season just closed, and
gives tables showing the total output to
have been 25,l75,000 feet, as compared
with 100000 feet last year.
A new bridge is to be built across the
gulch on Union avenue, Tacoma. 1t is
to be $40 feet long, 60 feet wide, and
100 feet high at the greatest depth;
10000 feet of lumber will be used in
Its construction, and its cost will be
$500,
A Nooksack rancher opened up his
heart 10 Seattle the other day, and took
apoor friendless girl home with him to
save her from the dangers of the great
city, After a days drunk with her
on his RANCH he sobered up to find the
good girl gone with $S5 OF his good
money.
AT Snohomish the trial of George
Robinson and John Livingston. the