Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-05-04
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Kittitas county is calling in warrants
to the amount of $1,000.

| Snohomlsn VoJes on gown 5Ohooi
funding bonds Saturday.
A Kansas man is talking of starting
paper mill in Spokane
or Lewis county's $4,000 tax, S47,
900 becomes delinquent.
The building for "A tub and pail fac
tory is about completed at Ocosta.
Superior court sits at Ellensburg May
7, with one rape and two murder cases
on the docket.
Gold placer mining is now being car
ried on with some success near Sumner,
Pierce county.
Some $500 worth of opium brought
1925 a pound at a Townsend custom
house auction.
The Chehalis furniture factory turns
our five carloads of furniture a week,
and employs 30 men.
Joseph Stallings, of Aberdeen. was
fined $50 and coste for brutally striking
his wife in the face. Then he left town.
A lower schedule of wages is an
nounced in the Roslyn mines, to take
effect May l.
A 80 per cent. dividend is to be paid
depositors of the Port Townsend national
bank which suspended September Is.
Some Townsend sardines, put up in
oil, ha been tested by connoisseurs,
and pronounced equal to the Fiench ar
ticle.
Edward II. King, we'll known Cakes
dale lawyer, has been declared insane
and committed to the asylum at Med
ical Lake,
The contract to grade % miles of the
Blaine and Eastern railroad has been let
to M. j. Henry and work was com
menced May l.
Aberdeen merchants give free excur-
sions from the lower Gray's harbor
towns every Saturday. They sell enough
goods by it to justify the expense.
Senator Squire has telegraphed to Sc
attic that Secretary Herbert contem-
plates visiting and inspecting the site of
the Port Orchard naval station.
Chehalis fails to get a telephone ex-
change, because the council insisted on
having five per cent. of the gross earn
ings, and the Sunset people refused to
give it.
1t is reported that the skeleton CT one
Of the crew Of the Albercorn has been
washed up by the sea, and can be read
lily seen by persons passing up and down
the beach opposite Hoquiam.
Over 600 conversions are said to have
resulted from the revival labors of Rev.
Thomas p, Boyd, of Portland, in Walla
Walla, Spokane and other points during
Jne pdSJ lour ulohCus'
H. Withered shoU one of the silver,
tipped offers last week at Copalis rock,
Gray's harbor. This is one of the most
valuable furs known, and this single skin
is probably worth $500.
Captain Charles Carlson, of the Chill
-. l;al -, C,ot,lo y,bila baipu tnlyan
from the boat to his wife's rooms in a
carriage. Deceased lived at Astoria,
but was well known and popular all over
the Northwest and Alaska.
The expense bill IN the trial of the Ed
mission case has been received at Walla
Walla from the clerk of Garfield county.
1t is as follows Bailiffs, $66 $40; wit
nesses, $1309.40; jurors, $685.; t,tal,
$2060S0
Contract has been let for completing
the survey of all the lands in Okanogau
valley from the Salmon river to the Brit
ish line. This will throw open the whole
unsurveyed lands along the Okanogan
river for rs miles.
Several miners and ranchers are
camped along the border Of the Colyille
reservation awaiting the time it will be
opened to settlers, SO that they may
have an early opportunity to procure
the choice ranches or mining property.
The state board of horticulture has
arranged for a series OF meetings during
the latter part of May in Pierce, King,
Whatcom, Jefferson, Snohomish and
Chehalis counties. and at these meetings
the subject of spraying, Kidding trees of
pests and fungus and also the besy meth
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