Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-02-02
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Dressed steelheads sell fer two bits at
South Bend,
There are three public reading rooms
in Wenatchee,
Fifty men are at work on the North
east diagonal road
Unknown miscreants are robbiug Tou-
Chef sheep camps.
/ 1t is thought that about 370O voters
will register at Spokane,
New buds an inch long are sprouting
on shrubs in Puyallup door! ards.
Sleighbells are tinkling over thirty
inches o. snow in the White Salmon dis
trict
Representatives of colonies of Eastern
settlers are prospecting about Goshen.
Four inches of snow fell in two hours
on Klickitat county farm one day last
week.
About $4,000 worth of opium is
ready to be SO d at thu Port Townsend
custom. house,
The contract will be let within 30
days for the $4,000 waterworks at the
Townsend government quarantine sta
ton.
/ At Walla Walla's hard times ball the
prizawinner wore dress of grain sacks,
which, we are assured, Gifted nicely to
her body"
A new gold-saving machine is being
tested at Button. Gold has been dis
covered also in the high bluffs, and con-
siderable excitement prevails,
W. S. Lefevre passed through Golden
dale Friday with 5000 pounds of dressed
hogs on bobsleds. They we're bound
for the steamer landing for shipment.
Some people are never satisfied, Amer
leans at Kent are kicking because the
new Norwegian evangelist is not in
splred with English words while he is
] about it.
The Port Townsend Leader goes on
at considerable length to tell the boys
how Collector Blackman is going to
give out his clerkships. To show how
well it knows him, it calls him will
jam"
Ernest Hazard whose affair with
Minnie Collins, at Tacoma, created SO
much talk, claims to have been hypno-
tized by the woman, and wants his wife
to take him back. She has not, However,
so far done so.
John Mesch had a narrow escape
from drowning in tie Columbia last
week. His boat capsized off Jim Grow
point and he foated down, hanging to
it until opposite Brookfed, where he
was picked up half dead from chill.
William Russell, a negro miner of
Franklin, lies dying from a pistol wound
in the head, inflicted by fellow laborer,
William Holmes, 1t was RusselPs own
weapon he was shot with, Holmes hav-
ing stolen it, and that leading to a
quarrel.
Mayor Roberts, of Walla Walla. re-
caiypd visit last week from a man who
insisted on paving him some conscience
money. 1t was for Babbitt metal the
man. then a small boy, stole from the
ruins of Mr.. Roberts store which burned
IL years ago.
About the most destitute man re-
lieyed by the proceeds of the Whatconl
charity ball was heard to say to loan
agent: well, I've got a grub stake
now, and guess | won't sell that note
There appears very little actual want in
the place,
At th9 penItentlary they hola rellB'
ious services every Sunday, Rev. '
Marshall Law conducting the exercises
in default of a stated chaplain. The
prisoners gather in the dinrng-room
ana as it will only accommodate about
one third OF them, they are segregated
INTO three divisions and take turns.
john Hudson, superintendent of the
state taxidermy, fisheries and ethnol
ogical exhibits at the worlds fair, writes
from South Bend to say that the exhib
its turned oyer to private firms weT'
loaned ones and such disposition wa'
made at the owners request. He ii
ready, he says, to account for ever!
,;,,,I 6sb hind and butterfly collected