Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-01-12

seven carloads oil lute have Just ar
rived at the penitentiary.
The Duke OF Tacoma is to start east
this week to lecture on Washington's re-
sourcesI
A special grand jury has been called at
Tacoma, in response to the water works
agitation.
The Salvationists have given up Day
ton as bad job, to the delight of the
Chronicle.
Nooksuch Presbytereans held "wood-
ing bee and got out 20 big ricks along
side the church.
Cyrus Mason, an unmarried mill hand,
of Bothell, was killed Friday by a train
he was attempting to board.
A temporary bond OF $4,000 has been
fixed for L. G. Dillman, assignee OF Mon
teith & Stetenbach, Spokane.
Dir. L. T. Seavey has been adjudged
health officer OF the Townsend district,
thus unseating DR.. G. NJ. Baldwin.
Miss Lizzie Bartlette, OF Sumas, is only
about IA years old, but one man has
been shot and another is to be hung on
her account.
A carload OF gold sulphurates from the
Monte Cristo mining district, which as
says $500 per ton, in on its way to the
smeter at Tacoma.
Lake Colville is frozen from one end
to the other and the skating is fine. The
ice is perfectly safe, being from four to
six inches thick.
A bloodhound owned by Jack Melon
aid, of Union precinct, Lincoln county,
caught and killed a coyote one day last
week.
Four thousand acres of river bot
tom a,ove and below the town of Leav-
enworth were located in three days last
week as placer-mining ground.
Johnny Macdonald, of Skamokawa,
lifted so hard on a heavy timber as to
send him to bed with an internal hem
orrhage from which he is slowly recov-
ering.
What Herman Chase, OF Spokane, had
against his servant girl was that she
would not wait on his sick wife. So he
pinched her arm. This, he says, is all
| the basis there is for her charge of Grim
| inal assault
The largest tree within a radius OF 20
miles of Edmonds, it is said, is now be-
ing worked up into four-foot wood for
Mr.. Brackets wharf. 1t is located just
outside the city limits, on the farm OF
Thomas White, and measures "a feet in
circumference and will make 35 cords OF
4-foot wood from l00-foot body.
At Walla Walla the county commits
sioners compromised with the Union
| Pacific accepting a tender of taxes on
valuation of $4,000 mile, though the
county board had left the assessment at
$4,000 a mile. This will also affect the
Northern Pacific road and makes a saw
ing to both of $4,000.
While crossing the railroad track,
about a mile of Sprague, with load OF
hay, the team and wagon OF w. p. Early
was stalled. A freight coming along at
| that time played havoc with the wagon
and its load, scattering both in all direc-
tions. The horses were frightened and
ran away, and were cut up some, but
not seriously.
The Whatcom item about Maj Cloth
ier's Plymoth Rock cane has led to the
hunting up of the genealogies of many
people. 4 letter to him from Burling-
ton, VT, from granddaughter OF Rev.
| John Leland, who made the speech at
the presentation OF the great cheese,
shows Mrs. George G. Dellin.er to be a
lneal descendant OF the Mayhower NJ
SON. J.. r.. Mason, the well-known
Whatcom grocer, is also a lineal
descendant OF the same Pilgrim
father, and to be accredited in Boston at
any time as the salt OF the earth.
There is work enough on hand at the
Tacoma smelter to keep the full force
employed steadily till the LIST OF Febru-
airy, 1895. Manager w. X. Rust tells the
Ledger that he has just closed deal for
the purchase OF 1900 tons OF gold ore
from the Custer mine in Montana. The
purchase price was 100000, of which
$50 900 is to be paid monthly. Manager
Rust said also that the smelter was pros
pering, even during the general stagna-
ton. Since the depression began it had
paid off debt OF $l30, 900, and was now
entirely free from incumbrance. He
proposes to put in next spring two more
roasters, thus doubling the capacity OF
the plant.
| IN Old Eriann.