Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-03-31
NORTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

600 to wipe out its floating indebted
ness.
The Bellingham Ray Fish company
will equip two schooners, one Of 80 tons
burden, for fish ng in Alaskan waters.
viii +. Bylrs, son OF Surveyor
General Byare, is now editor aud bust.
ness manager of the Goldendale Senti-
mel.
The Pasco News advocates the passage
of an ordinance compelling property
owners to plant shade trees along resi-
dence property.
There is considerable activity in the
logging business on Lake Whatcom.
One camp alone is putting 10000 feet
per day into the lake.
One sheep owner IN Garfield county
reports his Hocks, which he wintered
without feeding, in excellent condition.
His losses we're exceedingly small.
Ross II Co. OF Puyallup, have sold
100000 hop Ioots to parties in Yakima,
and Frank Corlss has purchased a.
900 for his ranch on the Sunnyside.
The deep snow in the mountains of
Okanogan count, has driven the deer
from the high mountains INTO the lower
elevations, where many, like the cattle,
have persisted with hunger.
There will be horse show in Ellens-
burg on the LIST day of April. s. r.
Credits says that Kittitas county has a
greater number of blooded horses than
any other county in the state.
Two trappers who have been spend
irg the winter on Railroad creek, in the
Chelan district, have succeeded IN tax
ing 43 marten, four wolverines, two
foxes, one lynx and one mountain lion.
The loss of stock by the deep snow
in the Big Bend country is compensated
to some extent by the killing of thou
sands Of squirrels They made their
appearance before the grass started and
persisted from hunger and cold.
George W. Slack, Il settler near We
natchee lake, fell from cliff while out
hunting, and his badly mangled body
was found four days afterward in
canyon half mile below the spot from
which he fell. His small family, left in
almost destitute circumstances, is being
cared Tor by neighbors.
The gamblers of Roslyn we're routed
by the city council and fled to Gle
Elum, where they have opened up on a
grand scale. That Roslyn may still
have the benefit of their calling, they
have established line Of free 'busses
between Il cities for the accomm 'da.
ton Of the devotees of the tickle god of
chance
Diver Christianson is making an at
tempt to raise the sunken tug Mystic
by singing the vessel with chains,
which he will fix at the bottom of the
sound, instead of attempting the sling
ing from the scow at the surface as here
tofoTe. The diver is obliged to work
under enormous pressure at depth of
from 30 to 40 fathoms.
A Mr., Langenour has submitted the
proposition at New Whatcom to remove
his wooden mill plant to that point and
invest $4,000 if a bonus to the value
of $4,000 in land or money be offered
A committee has been appointed to raj
the bonus required. The mill is to EN-
ploy 40 or 80 people and guarantees not
to remove for term Of years,
c. A. Sempert has completed arrange
ments for the erection of furniture and
woodenware factc ry on deep water near
the lagoon at Burrows bay, near Ana
cortes, The factory will be a frame
building, 50xl00 feet, and two stories
high, and will manufacture furniture
and wooden articles of various kinds.
1t is proposed to establish saw mill in
connection.
In regard to the development Of the
marble ledge in Spokane county, the
Medical Lake Ledger says: The new
engine has been received. 1t was
bought and shipped last fall, but has
been sidetracked somewhere until a
short time ago. Now they will be able
to get out large blocks which will show
the quality and colors of the marble
much better than could be done with
the small pieces already on exhibition,
and these elected wonder and admira-
ton enough to prove that the investi-
gaticn will be paying one.