Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-06-22
NORTHWEST NOTES.


SPOKANE II contributing libtIdllN W
the Conconully sufferers.
Walla Walla's financial statement for
May shows net debt OF S14,4l7.
Whatcom county expects to have thir-
ty-four miles OF planked road by the
end OF the year.
Everett's offer for the county-seat OF
Snohomish county will be twenty twen-
ty-fve-foot lots and $50, 900 cash.
The survey for the Blaine and Eastern
is completed, and belief is proiessed that
trains will be running by October.
A movement has been started in Port
Townsend having for its object the reor-
ganization of the city government under
the general law.
The Whatcom Board OF Trade has
committee at work trying to secure the
removal of one of the Oregon City -four
ing mills to that place.
Petitions are being signed at Hoquiam
protesting against the sale of water
bonds now being advertised and pledging
money to fight the sale in the courts.
Twenty-one out of Whatcom county's
seventv-one school districts have an ag-
gregate bonded Indebtedness of $3.50, 800.
OF this $SS 900 is WhatcOm's and $40, 900
Blaine's.
Walla Walla county has paid out $l2,
600 annually for some years for the Grad
cation OF squirrel and gopher pests, and
now it is rather discouraging, but appar-
emily true, that these animals are more
numerous than ever.
Walla Walla county's assessment roll
is made up 1t shows for 1894: Real
v,aVgprol I'll
172,31S; improvements, $7S7 ,62O; total,
81, 397 ,678. This is an aggregate decrease
from 1898 valuations OF $685. 67,
Receiver Flournoy of the Spokane
land office in his report for May says the
total receipts of the office were 81 ,72S,
the largest reported for more than I. year.
The biggest item was $3.50 for thirty-nine
homesteads, embracing 5,725 acres.
Wilbur has a gold excitement OF her
own, and is fast being depopulated by a
rush to Hellgate Canyon on the Column
bia, twelve miles away, where the pre-
cious mineral is reported to be hidden
in the sands in large quantities. Nobody
has seen any gold yet, but the report OF
a syndicate's extensive filings has pre-
Cipitated an excitement.
In different localities in Eastern Wash
ington threshing is again in operation.
1t is found that by exercising little
care in trimming off all the damaged
grain from the tops and sides of the
stacks pretty fair grade OF wheat is OBJ
tanned where the stacks have been well
built. The grain is still little soft but,
by scattering the sacks about on boards
or rails for a few days the sun will har-
den it, Oakesdale millmen, who have
been buying some OF this grain, recon-
mend this treatment, and say a few days
hot sun will make it worth at least 5
cents more per bushel.
Joe Scott, President of the Montana
CattleInens Association Frank Robin
son, Henry Tustler of Miles City and j..
r. Boardman of Deer Lodge have just
completed cattle-purchasing tour OF
Eastern Washington. They bought To-
600 head, the prices averaging $40 for
yearlings, $l5 for two-year-olds and 500
for three year-olds. 1t is estimated by
cattlemen that 10000 head will be taken
out OF Washington and Oregon into
Montana this year. The Montana cat
tlemen are prosperous again, and these
purchases will materially relieve the
financial stringency in Eastern WASH
ington.