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

Wenatchee city fathers are discussing
plan for lighting the town by cleo
tricity,
Watervllle has taken lease OF and
will conduct its own electric light and
water plant for the next year.
Thirty thousand acres in the state are
planted with fruit trees. This acreage
will be greatly increased during the
coming spring.
Josep Hewitt, one OF the oldest and
best known engineers on the Washing
ton division of the Union Pacific rail
way, died recently at Walla Walla'
The Columbia river at Chelan Falls is
frozen over and people are crossing on
the ice. This is the first time that the
stream has been bridged with ice at that
place within the memory of the oldest
Indian.
In the Puyallup Commerce office is to
be seen the first seed drill ever used in
Western Washington. 1t is constructed
of cedar and rawhide, and is shod with
copper. Although primitive, it is still
in serviceable condition.
Here is new version of Beautiful
Snow" from the Waterville Empire
beautiful snow, oh-oh-oh! Why
don't You go? Go-go-go! faint
right, you know, to linger 80 in statu
quo on this plateau. Gosh darn you.
| Snow
Slush Ice, by ologging the water
mains, shut off the supply of water IN
EHensburg for few days recently.
From the same cause the electric light
plant could not be operated, and the
city was without light or water long
enough to enable the citizens to app g.
ciate both when they we're once more
supplied.
A Troy correspondent of the Water.
vile Index says "The well on the Sill
verthorn place is an increasing curiosity.
Almost any time steam can be seen
coming from it in volumes. 1t is be-
lieyed by many that drilling would re
suit in the discovery of oil; Others
think it sure indication that artesian
water abounds'
3 The citizens of Ritzville have sent d
petition to the Legislature asking an APP
preparation for an artesian well in Adams
county. The sum of 81 ,230 still re.
mains in the treasurer's hands from the
old fund, the remainder of which WIS
frittered away without either Adams'oI
Franklin counties receiving any benefits
thereirom.
Par on Quinn is the oldest settler on
Pataha creek, IN Garfield county, havir g
located there 80 years ago, He has
never been out of the state, except when
he visited Lewiston to purchase supplies
few years ago, Last week he went to
Pomeroy, taking his first ride on rail
way train since he settled in Washing
ton territory,
A cougar or mountain lion measuring
seven feet and II inches in length was
killed last week at OrLing by hunter.
The dep snow has given the hunters
chance to track the animals. This is
the largest cougar killed for many years,
It has been purchased by Edwards Bros.
of Tacoma and will be mounted and
sent to the worlds fair as a part of the
state exhibit.
Rev. Wallace Nulting, o Seattle, esti
mates that the late Rev. Gushing Eells
du ing his life gave $25, 900 to benevo-
lent societies out of his small salary
from the Home Missionary society.
Truly he was patron saint" said Mr.
Nutting "The winds might blow and
toss him about, but his purposes were
so clearly defined in his mind that moth
ing could turu him. I never saw man
with sub tenacity. An object before
him, he would reach it if it took him 10
years.
State Fruit Inspector, D. NJ. jesse,
has just finished thorough inspection
of DR.. n. G.. Blalock's mammoth or
chards near Walla Walla. He found
that the frost had damaged the peach
and cherry trees to a great extent, and
the prospect for a crop is very discour-
/ aging, The prune, apple and pear
trees have been injured to great ex
/ tent, but not so bad as TO materially IN
jure the prospects for fair crop, Mr.
LESSEE reports that the frosts have PLAYED
havoc with all kinds of fruit, and 10 the
] mill h.