Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-06-15
NORTHWEST BREvITIES.


packing house in the State.
The Tacoma Ledger is suing the city
for printing bill of 81, 100.
The new coal shaft OF the Roslyn mine
is said to be the largest in the United
States.
The Port Townsend nail works have
resumed operations after two months OF
idleness.
4 thousand Tacoma school children
are being rehearsed to sing for a charity
performance.
The saving effected by the Tacoma
! School Board in the reduction of teach
ers' salaries is put at So, 1877.
The settlers of Quinault, despairing OF
county aid, will build a road to Hump
tulips by giving each ten days work.
The Whitney County Commissioners
have extended the time for the collection
OF delinquent taxes on personal property
| to October Is.
| An unusual measure went through at
| the last session of the Everett Council
| One Rogers was hired to remove fifty
seven bodies from one cemetery to an
other at the price OF $40 each.
John Hudson, a South Bend taxider-
mist, intends shortly to enter upon the
very odorous job OF cleaning and mount
ing the bones of the whales recently
stranded on the beach near Tokes Point
and on the ocean beach. He thinks he
can sell them to advantage to some mu
scum.
4 piece of creditabe artistic enter
prise is on foot at North Yakima, and
consists of d project, now assured, to
build a boulevard from the town out to
the State Fair grounds. The road will
be graded, trees planted, irrigation
bitches put along its full length and
twelve foot sidewalk on either side. 1t
will be done in time for the fair.
Pennington is much agitated over
some promising nuggets brought down
from the Hoodoo diggings. The nuggets
range in size from a small shot up to as
large as a kernel OF corn, and contain
scarcely any quartz, nearly all of them
being pure gold.
A Shaker camp meeting has just been
brought TO a close on North Beach,
Gray's iiarbor, at which nearly all the
Indians Whereabouts were converted.
The church took in fifteen from the Qui-
nault agency, fourteen from the Hump
tulips and nine from the Oyehut.
Oregon.
Lumber is being sawed at the YainaX
mill, Klamath county, for building
bridge 200 feet long across Sprague river
near Eagle ford.
The baccalaureate address to the State
Agricultural College graduates is to be
delivered June "a by Rev. Thomas J..
Cole OF Trinity Church, Portland.
After several months of quiet Astoria's
Salvation Army has commenced holding
opcn-air meetings again, and more
trouble with the hoodlums and author
tiles is anticipated.
Three men went over the Barlow road
from Lebanon to Wamic last week. They
report the snow as covering the road for
about fourteen miles and its greatest
depth about twelve feet.
suit Tor $1,000 has been brought
against the corporation OF Eugene on
behalf OF Claiborne Bonney, a tive-year-
old child, who fell through defective
sidewalk, sustaining permanent injuries.
BY man in a position to know it is
stated there is at least money to the
amount of 5000, 900 hid away in jars and
socks by the different owners in Clatsop
county, waiting to be banked or invested
when confidence is restored.
Mr.. Morrow of Dallas has two Indian
skeletons, one being that of an old man
and the other that of boy. Both skel-
etons are well preserved, and have at
tracted considerable attention. The doc
tor dug them up from an old Indian
burial ground on Long Island, just below
Umatilla,
The Board of Prison Directors, Gov
ernor Pennoyer. Secretary of State Nc
Bride and State Treasurer Phil Metschan
have advertised for sealed proposals for
the construction OF an addition to the
south wing of the state penitentiary.
These proposals will be opened at the
executive office AT noon on Monday,
June IL.
The Butte Creek Coal Company has
Incorporated by filing articles with the
Secretary of State. The incorporators
are c. II. Hougham, b. F. McLoney and
l.. II. Tarpley. The duration OF the COM
panv is fixed for twenty years, and the
principal office is at WOodburn, Marion
county. The amount of its capital stock
is $4,000, divided into 500 shares. The
termini of the tramway il proposes to
construct are to be at Mount Angel and
in section 4, township south, range ,
east, in Clackamas county.
In the United Presbyterian General
Assembly held at Albany these recon-
mendations of the Committee on Re-
form were adopted; Protesting against
Catholic entertainment of Indians, and
especiallg against the measure before
Congress to appropriate $365, 900 for ex-
penditure by the Catholic Church for
this purpose protesting against Sabbath
Dissertation; favoring suppression of the
liquor traffic; favoring amendment to
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