Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-01-06
NORTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

com county, was burned to the ground
last Tuesday night, Loss, $4,000; no
insurance.
Carey L. Stewart, merchant of
Slaughter, and Miss Jessie jackson, Of
Puyallup, were married last Mondak
after courtship of IL years.
Harry Heath of Portland, recently
sold over 600 acres of land on the Che
halls river to Tiffany, the famous New
York jeweler and capitalist,
Conconully had a social dance the
other evening and the Hon. G. E. Laugh
ton, lieutenant governor of the state OF
Washington, fddled for the dancers.
1t was good fddling, too.
A citizen OF DAYTON, Columbia county,
who owns COW, was somewhat surpi ised
one morning recently when he went out
to milk her, to find placard attached
to her horns and staring him in the face,
bearing the words, "Go down and pay
for the cabbage [ devoured last nightw
The house of Andrew. Carlson, one
and half miles below Willapa, was
burned TO the ground Saturday night,
with all it's contents, Carlson and family
barely escaping with their lives. The
fire caught in the attic in an unknown
way.
The property of the Walla Walla in
dustrial exposition was bought at sher
ifs sale Monday by Joseph Moore for
the Baker estate, the price being So, 800
The property was sold to satisfy judg-
ment against the corporation by G. w,
Babcock, amounting in all, with the
costs, to SS,004.04.
There is much rivalry among a GER
tain class OF politicians to secure the po-
sition of messenger to convey the result
of the vote of the state for president to
Washington city. The mileage of 90
cents per mile each way makes the posi-
ton a very attractive one as it is esti-
mated to pay from 81 200 to 81, 400 for
taking pleasure trip,
Fred w. Daniels of Seattle, obtained
divorce from one wife June II, 1892,
and married another September 26
Now he seeks freedom from the latter
on the ground that he could not legally
marry until six months after the date
of the divorce Mrs. Daniels No. 2
shout retaliate by sending her recreaut
husband to the penitentiary.
Frank Young, the president of the
Sturgeon Fishermen's Union of Kaama,
has circulated petition and obtained
the names of over 200 sturgeon fisher
men, asking that law be passed pro-
hibiting the catching of sturgeon during
the summer months. Representative
Brock met the fishermen in Kalama on
last Tuesday and conferred with them
on the subject.
Officer Brignold, of Spokane, CHANGED
to see one man trying to sell piece of
jewelry to another. As the former acted
suspiciously, the officer placed him un-
der arrest. He was weighted down with
jewelry. Warehouses;. chains and lockets
bulged out his pockets. AT the station
house he said he stole the stuff at
Goodrich's jewelry store. The latter
was sent for and identified most of the
articles. The thief gave his name as
Fred Anderson.
Roadmaster Thomas Block had mar
row escape while riding in the cab of an
engine near Wilbur, The rod connect
ing the big driving wheels broke while
the train was running at good speed,
and one end of the rod struck the bot
tom of the cab directly underneath where
Mr.. Block was sitting, but did no appar-
emit damage beyond shaking up the roau
master, who Immediately stepped over
to the other side, where the engineer
was sitting. The next blow of the rod |
smashed that side of the cab into splin-
tiers.
w. H. Gillespie local manager Of the !
Western Union Telegraph Company, at
Colfax, has invented an automatic re-
peater." The object of the instrument
is to enable officers on two different and |
independent wires to communicate with
each other direct. About two years ago
Mr.. Gillespie invented "button re-
peater" to do the same work performed
by his new device, but the "button re-
peater" required the attention of an OPP
orator, while the new instrument is aut-
omatic.