Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-02-16
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES

Budget of News for Easy Digestion From
Different Parts of the states of WASH
ington, Oregon and IdahO-Items OF
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
The Salvation Army will establish
barracks in PendletOn.
Tacoma women are organizing a Free
kindergarten Association.
Half dozen brick buildings will soon
he under construction at Whatcom'
Wash.
A project is on foot at Salem to estab-
fish creamery 10 use 5000 pounds OF
milk daily.
The Tacoma News will soon get out
one of the fad woman's editions for the
Children's Home.
The Corvallis Carriage Works has
turned out its first farm wagon, and 1t is
all of Oregon wood.
The Indian War Veterans will meet
at McMinnville, Or, February y, and
will be addressed by Judge Caples.
Hobos were caught at Olympic, Wash,
trying to cut up and carry away a huge
copper malt pan from the brewery.
The Oakesdale, Wash, Packing Com
pany has been Incorporated at that
place for packing both beef and pork.
The County Commissioners of Walla
Walla are perfecting a scheme for sys-
tematic poisoning OF ground squirrels.
The Rosyln and Wilkeson mines have
each rendered the required thirty tons
of coal to the Mohican for an official
test.
Ferndale, Wash, has been compelled
as a matter of economy to substitute
small gas jets for its thirty-eight arc
lights.
A townsite will be laid out at the Roy
Kendall Mine on Huckleberry Mountain.
Twenty buildings now form the nucleus
OF town.
A car of provisions for the Nebraska
sufferers was gathered, loaded and
shipped at Creston within forty-eight
hours this week.
Ben Swan, one of the oldest miners of
the Pacific Coast, making his headquar-
tiers at Spokane, WASH, has been miss
ing Tor three months.
1t is estimated that the damage done
by the Quicene, Wash, floods in Jam
uarv to the railroad, personal property
and the county roads and bridges reaches
$4,000.
One hundred carloads of ore have ar
rived at the Everett, WASH, smelter
from Montana within the past ten days,
and arrangements have been made for
regular supply.
w. Dougherty of Clackamas county,
Susan Littlefeld of Coos, A. M. Peak OF
Benton and Delphine Clark of Portland
were received at the Oregon Insane Asy-
lum the other day. The total number
now in that institution is 1901. This is
the first time in the history OF the asy-
lum that number has been reached.
Loggers on the Nehalem for fully sew
enty-hve miles from its mouth are pre-
pairing to open up new camps when the
mills at Nehalem City commence oper-
atoms. 1t is said by mill-owners that
logs can easily be floated for ninety
miles down the Nehalem river, and logs
from the finest timber belt on the coast
are directly alongside the banks OF this
stream.
A Justice of the Peace at Port Town
send, Wash, has rendered a Supreme
Court for that State unnecessary by
passing upon the constitutionality OF a
city ordinance. Ten Cinnamon were
arrested for opium smoking, but the
Justice decided the ordinance to be I'M
constitutional, dismissed the defendants
and returned them their captured pipes
and layout.
The extensive stock shipments from
the valleys of Burnt river, Powder river
and Grande Ronde have compelled the
O. r. & n. to increase its facilities for
taking care of this branch of its traffic.
1t has been decided to build stockyards
at Baker City and Durkee, Or, of TWEEN
tv cars capacity and to double the ca
pacity of the yards at Union, which are
now of about eight cars capacity.
Among the bills of interest introduced
in the Oregon Legislature the past week
is one by Representative Gates, designed
to replace the existing laws on the sub
iect of unwholesome foods, drinks and
medicines. 1t makes it unlawful to sell
or exchange any adulterated foods,
drinks, medicines and fertilizers. The
bill was adopted by the Oregon Dairy
Association. The main feature is in the
protection of dairy interests and con-
sumers of their products, especial at
tention being paid to the protection OF
milk from impurities by reason of I'M
cleanliness in care of and milking cows
and the substitute OF oleomargarine for
butter.
One day last week serious and nearly
fatal accident occurred at the Weather
wax mill at Aberdeen. While gigine
back the pony-saw carriage a silver
caught in some way, throwing the cant
over against the saw, breaking it as well
the saw arbor, belts and other machin-
cry around there. Sawyer Johnny