Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-05-26

the body Of Miss Nellie Holgate in Lake
Washington, Just back of Seattle, has
given up the search, and it is now be-
lieved that the young lady was not
drowned at all. She has been missing
from her home for two weeks, She was
seen last rowing on the lake, and the
boat was picked up with one oar missing.
Her hat and cloak we're picked up on the
beach She carried a life insurance
policy Of $4,000 and had made a will.
Four Young men Of Washington have
taken a novel way to go the worlds falr
They intend to go in a stage coach.
drawn with four horses. Leaving Sc
attic about three weeks ago, they pro
ceeded through Ellensburg and Walla
Walla to Spokane. From Spokane they
go through Northern Idaho and Mon
tana. enjoying the abundance Of game
and fine scenery. They intend TO arrive
in Chicago in the latter part of the
summer. sell their horses and coach, and
after seeing the sights, return by more
modern means of travel.
OREGON.
Morrow county has paid out in
year $50 as bounty for squirrel scal9s.
Burns, Harvey county, has decided to
issue bonds and make some needed i'm
proyements,
L. Proctor, an old resident Of Peudle-
ton, has been stricken with paralysis,
which. it is feared, will prove fatal,
The contract has been let for new
opera house at Pendleton. 1t will have
seating capacity of about 800,
A barn door fell upon the 6-year-old
daughter of G. II. McCurdy, of Leban-
on, iujuring the spine and producing
paralysis of the lower limbs,
The citizens of Creswell, Lane county,
have decided to offer bonus of 100000
and block of land to secure the location
of the county seat there.
The Sheridan Sun says the Portland
sportsmon who go up to the lamhill
river fishing buy their strings of trout
from the small boys at that section.
DR. Lamberson, of Lebanon, is train
ing pair Of young Hungarian carrier
pigeons. The mother of these birds re-
Gently flew from Portland to Roseburg
in , hours and II minutes,
Seven hundred acres of land in Baker
county that two months ago was sage
brush plain is now covered with grow
ing grain. All crops in that section are
in SPLENDID shape.
The first grand jury of the new county
of Lincoln made this model report: 1--WE,
the grand jury of the Lincoln county,
Oregon, having Completed our labors as
specified by law. ask to be discharged
At the Corvallis city election, the law
and order organization elected two coun
cimen As the rev council stands the
mayor and six councilmen will favor the
buying and improvement Of the old
waterworks system of that city.
David Shindoll and Fred Meinzer met
at Eugene after IA separation of over 30
years. They were boys together on add
joining farms in Wisconsin when the
war broke ont. Mr., Shindoll has been
resident of Eugene over 10 years,
while Mr.. Meinzer is a new arrival,
The Chinese population of The Dalles,
says the Times Mountain, is awaiting
with the greatest anxiety the action of
the federal authorities, Only one of all
the number registered, and he now walks
the streets with the IordlY air Of "A mon
arch.
7. L. Brophy, of Pendleton, has dis
covered an opal deposit near that city,
Mr.. Brophy, who has been in the Idah
opal mines, states that the formation is
of exactly the same cuaracter-an iron
basalt A number Of specimens will be
sent to Portland for cutting.
Ia the Douglas county jail the other
day. the Southern Pacific "hero." Rich
ardson, and Dow, the burglar, had a
scrimmage which Deputy Sheriff Dill
lard had TO use Ills authority to quell.
Dow had a thumb almost bitten off, and
Richardson's eye was blackened when
the conflict ceased
Fears are entertained that c. p. Pot
ter, formerly of Bandon, has been foully
dealt with He left his home in Cali
fornia some time in the latter part OF
March for his place, and has not been
/ ba,rl from, sinoa NTrc Potter has tple-