The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-01-04
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.

NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
The Montesano sash and door factory
has resumed operations.
Beach robbers are manifesting con-
siderable activity near Edmunds.
The fifty cent boat rate between Ia
coma and Seattle is again in force.
Valuable quartz discoveries are re-
ported in Tacoma residence district.
The snow plows on the Grea North
ern line have found constant employ
ment.
Wala Wallas rainfall so far this
year is twenty-one inches, the heaviest
on record.
j. E. Monroe has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Island County bank at
Coupeville.
George d. Bryan has filed notice Of
contest for the office of city marshal
of Fairhaven.
Walter Smith, until recently employed
by Merrick Bros. of Tacoma, is wanted
for forgery.
The state fair at North Yakima prom
ises to be success in every particular
next season.
La grippe is worse on Bellingham
bay than ever, even the year of its
FIRST appearance.
Williams, Moss & Co.'s lumber yard
at Pullman was damaged by fire. Loss,
81 800; insurance, 81 200.
OThe quartz mill in Peshastin is
pounding away with good results, and
some sixty men are given employment.
James Marsh and helper were ar
rested at Walla Walla for stealing a
band of cattle from Umatilla county
farmers.
Jerry Flowers stood up before Ike
Hayes of Helena at Wallace Christmas
morning. He lasted about twenty
minutes.
The Ballard council has petitioned
Senator Squire to apply for an appro-
priation of 100000 for dredging
Salmon bay.
The strange disappearance of Rich
ard Gelinus from Ballard affords the
third mysterious disappearance of the
kind in the past two months.
The state land commission announces
that it will take Official cognlzance of
the hard times and be easy on delin.
quents who show good faith.
Representatives of a considerable
colony of Manitoba German Mennonites
are prospecting WILDLY island with
colonization schemes in view.
A company has been formed and sur
veys made for the irrigation of $4,000
acres near Asotln. The principal stock
holders live in Walla Walla and Lewis
ton.
L. G. Kann alias Hart who skipped
from Buckley, Wash, last month
with $4,000 of the funds of the Buckley
ssate bank has been arrested in Balti-
more.
Fred Brannan, the Freewater boy
shot at a charivari, is dead and
Len Grahrm, the youth who fired the
shot, it is said accidentally, has been
arrested.
Clearing work has been commenced
on the new site of the state un iversity
in Seattle. A large collection for the
university museum has already been
secured.
Burglars entered the residence oil
Lewis Stewart at Vancouver and
chloroformed Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart
while sleeping and got only $40 fol
their pains.
Gen. ]. w. Sprague died at Tacoma on
Christmas day. He served with dis.
tinction in the civil war and has beer
prominent In many business enterprises
In Washington.
Anderson & Singleton have been
awarded the contract for building the
Guide Meridian road, five miles, from
Whatcom. 1t is to be planked 16 feet
wide. The contract price is sci, 094.
Interest In the Christian church re-
vival at Walla Walla is phenomenal.
Even the rostrum is so covered with
eager listeners that there is barely
room for the speaker. Fifty-seven have
professed conversion.