Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-03-09

shipped from Winiock last week.
A plank road costing $4,000 is to be
built across the big Snohomish marsh.
The insurance OF the Waldron fire at
Fairhaven has been adjusted at S42,037
A raft containing $4,000 feet of logs
is ready at Skamokawa for the Portland
mills
The Spokane council sat down on an
initiative and referendum scheme by a
vote of IA to l.
Fairly closing campaigns have been
carried to successful issues at Spokene
and Walla Walla.
Baar, OF man-tap fame, will not, it is
now said, appeal, but puts his trust in
executive clemency,
The saloon license at Cofax has been
raised to 5000 a year, with Sunday
closing clause inserted.
Rev. W. F. Ford. formerly of Baker
City, began Sunday his new pastorate
with Grace NJ. e. church, Seattle.
Three men we're sentenced to 10 years
each at Seattle Saturday two for high
way robbery and one for rape.
Lizzie Lewis, member of the Spo-
kane demo monde, goes up for three
years for stealing $500 from patron.
| Some Clallam Indians gave an inter
esting exhibition of aboriginal medicine
: and war dances for the Townsend Red
Men.
A post-mortem on Seattle COW de
velcped the fact that she had been liv
ing for some time with a steel wire
tt rough her heart.
Ernest Slim the Tacoma opium snug
gIer, gets off with four months at Me
Neips islard His friends will make up
his 500 fine among them.
The Union Pacific has laid off the ex-
ira passenger between WaIla Walla and
Dayton 1t is said the patronage was
substantially confined to editors on
4 passes.
J. NJ. Turner, Walla Walla money
i loaner, is not, and is thought to have
E: absconded, owing considerable about
g town. His effects, what there are, have
{ been attached.
q Eleven tramps came near burning to
/ death in the jill at White River last
y week They had built a fire IN the
/ middle Of the room filled with straw,
g and it got beyond control before the
D door was unlocked.
Within a quarter Of mile of Lake
L Whatcom, on the Austin ranch, is a fall
? en- monarch solid as the day it fell, on
0 top of which are three cedar and one fir
/ tree the smallest being five feet in di-
> ameter and the fir almost eight feet in
diameter.
The Mail considers Spraguo a wonGer-
full city. AT 10 o'clock Wednesday
night the water was foot deep in the
prInci al street, and at 10 o'clock the
next morning the street was dry enough
to cross without wetting ones feet. 1t
is all due to the gravelly soil through
which the water Sits.
The cost of harvesting is to be re-
duced by the invention, by A. T. Time
, we'll, Spokane architect of machine
for sewing sacks filed at the thresher
with grain. The new invention is to be
made at Spokane, company with cap
ital of $4,000 having been organized
for that purpose.
! The output of the Gray's harbor llm-
3 Der mile for 1893 is figured by the
3 Hoquiam Washingtonian at 100000
r feet. There are at present on the har-
3 Dor about 100000 feet of logs uncut
> all except 100000 Of which havy been
sold.
Miss May Clark, a Goldendale school
teacher, was tried before Justice Camp
bell last week for inhictng severe cor
poral punishment upon a pupil. She
was promptly acquitted, as the prose
cution failed utterly to prove it's case,
and the young lady's frients made up a
purse to pay her lawyers fee. The
Judge, jury aud defendant were loudly
cheered at the conclusion of the trial.
Colfax has received SCOTIA taxes
paid in by its citizens to the Whitman