Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-11-23
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES

"Parkhursting" is not unknown in
Tacoma.
Spokane pays $1,000 monthly for its
electric lights.
The Bucoda-Tenino Enterprise is go
ing to move to Cosmopolis.
A stage is to be run from Fort klam-
ath to Crater Lake next summer.
Spokanes City Council proposes to
pay only IS a month for arc lights.
The first pile has been driven for a
new cannery Sam Gilmore is going to
build at Astoria.
A threshing hand in Wallowa county,
Or, has spent $50 trying to collect $27
due him for wages.
Representative Belts is shipping 200
Oxford grade bucks from Pendleton to a
Montana purchaser.
The Spokane bureau of immigration
has decided to repeat the fruit fair next
year, the date selected being the. first
week in October.
A lot OF nursery stock shipped from
New York infested with WooIly aphis
was destroyed by State Inspector Ton
neson at Winlock recently.
Work has begun at the Cascades on
the job OF raising the State Portage rail-
road to higher ground, SO as to get 1t out
OF the way OF the canal work.
St. Joseph's Hospital of Aberdeen has
issued a neat pamphlet commemorative
of two years of very successful work on
the part of the Sisters of ST. Dominic.
1t is thought now that the county seat
will remain at Nnohomish, as three
iifths vote was required to change it and
this, it is believed, Everett failed to Sc
cure.
The questions of special tax levies for
light, water, fire protection and street
Improvement purposes are to be submit
ted to the voters of Port Townsend on
Wednesday OF next week.
Marshal Drake saws that four men in
Guiding the cook are now guarding fifty
eight convicts in the McNeil's Island
penitentiary, and that the walls OF the
penitentiary are old and crumbling.
The attendance at the Cheney Normal
School continues to increase, and now
the enrolment in the normal depart
ment is ninety-eight, the largest number
ever enrolled at this season OF the year.
Klamath and Lake counties, Or, will
sell in all this fall about $4,000 head of
cattle. Will some local statistician let
us know whether the increase in sight
is sufficient to make up for this drain
upon the herds?
Many of the farmers around Spange
are going into hog-raising quite extern
sively. There will be a large number OF
hogs ready for market next year. The
farmers are anxious to see a large pack
ing house in Spokane, so as to have a
home market.
John w. Clinton is logging opposite
Coquille City on an extensive scale this
season, employing about eighteen men
and two teams. He has six acres of low
ground completely covered with logs,
waiting for high water to run them out.
In the cases of the State against Potts
and against Parker, charged with murder
in the second degree, tried last week in
Harvey county, the verdicts were guilty.
Parker was sentenced to seven and one
half years and Potts to twelve years in
the penitentary.
Oakesdale's water and electric light
projects have finally come to grief
Judge Sullivan has sustained and made
permanent the injunction against the
proposed bond issue. The bonds exceed
the towns legal Indebtedness, and the
electric light plant, the court finds, has
decreased in value.
A firm of Walla Walla horse dealers
have just shipped four carloads of horses
to Vermont. In order to have the ami
mails in good condition it is proposed to
allow them to rest every alternate twen-
tv-four hours, thus occupying thirteen
days in the journey. Though the freight
per car is $345, the firm expects to real
lie a handsome profit from the venture.
The United States grand jury at Walla
Wala returned thirty-seven true bills.
One of the prisoners when called upon
to plead, said: 81 will plead guilty if |
can't get more justice than | got before
the Judge who sent me here" Judge
Hanford, with the "icy" look that he
has always on the bench, directed the
clerk to enter plea of not guilty. Most
of the offenders had sold liquor to In
dians.
The November issue of the Puget
Sound Lumberman SAYS: 1.-THE recent
shipment OF 500 red cedar doors and a
quantity of window frames to Johannes
burg, South Africa, per bark Levenbank
by Wheeler, Osgood & Co. of Tacoma
marks another epoch in the door trade
of the Pacific Northwest. Only three
years ago the red cedar door trade was
unknown east OF the Cascade Mountains.
The doormen OF the Pacific Northwest
will, however, have the same difficulty
in introducing their goods that the cedar
single men had, namely, the prejudice
of custom. 1t is always hard to intro
duce any new material in the older COM
munities; but, once introduced, the ex-
celence Of the material will speak for
itself. The door trade of the Pacific
Northwest in our humble opinion has a
bright future ahead"