Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-04-07
NORTHWEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

railroad is building new depot at
Walla Walla, at a cost OF $4,000.
Over 100 citizens Of Dixie met the
other evening and passed resolutions
disapprovilg of the hanging in efligy of
Rev. w. B. Eakin by other citizens.
d. T. Denny & Sons, who recently
purchased the stock and bonds of the
consolidated street railway companies of
Seattle, have now bought a controlling
interest in the cable lines.
The Hoqmam Basket company last
week shipped by the Point Iona to
San Francisco 100000 berry baskets,
10000 cheese boxes aud $4,000 jackets.
The jackets are made to surround oil
cans,
Mrs. Elizabeth Holhster, who died
near La Camas March %, was born in
1916, and was well known throughout
the neighborhood in which SIZE lived for
her kindly disposition, loving heart and
generous soul.
One of the new industries going in at
Anacortes is a barrel-hoop factory.
Barrel hoops will he manufactured from
spruce, and a contract has already been
secured for furnishing the big barrel fac
tory at Roche Harbor.
r. L. Abingdon is constructing a
lumber and shingle mill at Hamilton,
and will manufacture about 900 feet
Gaily Of cottonwood lumber for furn-
ture making, aud to be used for fruit
boxes, besides 100000 shingles,
Weak-kneed Christianity was demon
s,rated in Seattle the other dav to
marked degree. A poor betrayed girl
was refused shelter in so called Chris
tian charitable home, and was forced to
! ask quarters in the Jail, whore she gave
birth to baby eight minutes after her
| reception.
There is quite a demand in Seattle for
rhode dendrons, the state flower, and
almost every steamer from Kitsap
county brings over daily bushes for
transplanting, This year will certainly
demonstrate whether this plant will
grow after transplanting. Most people
say it will not survive,
That fruit culture in this state is
about to receive considerable impetus is
evident from the interest in horticul-
tural matters which IS being manifest
in all parts Of the state. Secretary
Tonneson, of the state board of hon
culture, has received over 4Q.Ss-rlrSssssast. i
during the past month from parties
wanting information on the subject of
fruit-growing,
h. Schmidt as filed a claim against
the city Of Yakima IN the sum of 500,
91S.53, as damages for the refusal of the
city to allow him to compete sewer con-
structinn. OF this sum the city ac-
knowIedges that $4,000 belong to
Schmidt. but the council has been eau
toned by counsel not to pay it, because
Of numerous claims of private indiyid-
uas agpinst either the city or Schmidt.
Miss Anna NJ Pence. daughter of
Captain j. \. Pence, of Fairhaven, went
to Seattle three weeks ago to receive
treatment for consumption aud there
died Her ailianced, W II. Hoffman,
clerk Of the board of county commits
sioners, when he heard the news, at
tempted to blow out his brains with
revolver. He was disarmed and then
placed in custody on a charge of in
anity.
The fruit crop of Walla Walla bids
fair to be the best this year that has
been known for years The cause is
the backward season, which retarding
the blooming Of the buds, enables them
to resist any slight frost, which other.
wise might kill them. The past winter
killed very few buds, and the WalIa
Wala Statesman learns the same from
the peach country on Snake river, which
the pessimists, weeks ago, claimed we're
killed beyond Resurrection.
The steamer North Pacific, on the way
from Victoria to Tacoma, ran down the
little schooner Russell at Seattle. The
schooner was at the spot where the
Mysti, Is sunk, and has been in use in
connection with the raising of the Mys-
tic. On the schooner at the time Of the
accident we're Lem Miller, lG years old,
and Harry Crosby, ii years Old. They
were asleep in the little cabin when the
North Pacific struck the schooner, which