Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-01-26
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
Of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES


Different parts of the states Of wash
ington. oregon aud IdHho-Items Of
Interest 10 Pacific Coast People.
The Seattle pickle and vinegar works
were destroyed by fire the other night.
A Cotton Wash man whipped an
other because he called him Popullst.
A. j. Barlow's hotel and six lots at
Gold Hill, Or, have been sold to ..
swacker for $2,271.
The Tacoma Poultry Associations first
annual show began in that city Tuesday
with more than 500 birds on exhibition.
DR.. Y. c BIalock, retiring fire chief OF
! NalIa Walla, was presented with cane
by the members OF Tiger Engine Conn
pany.
1t is reported that the Weyerhauser
syndicate has purchased 5000 acres OF
timber land in the Nasel country, Wash
| ington.
There is active opposition in Astoria
to project by Portland men to convert
the Sturtz Theater into beer hall and
concert garden.
Thomas O'Leary has secured a judg-
ment for rs. 900 against the Puget Sound
and Alaska Steamship Company Tor
| damages at Seattle.
A second county division scheme has
cropped out in Linn county, this time
! for the creation OF Santiam county with
! SCio as the county seat
j. A. West, superintendent OF the
| Sumpter Valley railroad, was severely
in jured recently by velocipede car, on
which he was riding, jumping the track.
The Newsboys Union of Spokane has
boycotted the Chronicle because it will
not take back unsold papers at cost price.
| Every body who buys one Is to be listed
as scab."
News has been received in Tacoma
from the East that Paul Schutze has
succeeded in placing 81 600 600 bonds OF
the Sunnvside ditch III the Yakima Coun-
try, Washington.
Hilda Johnson, girl Is years OF age,
living at Oalla, kitsap county, WASH,
took strychnine and died in two hours in
great agony. She wanted to live in Sc
attic if she staid on earth at all.
President Penrose has raised half of
the $780, 900 necessary to secure the en-
dowment of SOC, 900 offered upon that
condition by DR.. Pearson of Chicago for
Whitman College. He has gone East to
secure the remainder.
The result of the election held at Ba-
ker City, Or, for leVying IA 81, 900 tax for
the support OF the public schools was Il
complete vindication of the management
of the schools. The vote stood 2l6 for
the tax and 81 against.
The railway company has put in tel
egraph office at Steinman, Or, to faciIl-
tate the handling OF trains over the Sis
klyous during the winter storms. Here
tutore there has been no telegraph station
between Ashland and SiskiyOu.
The peculiarities of the Chinook wind
are shown in the region south of The
! DalIes, Or. All the snow on the high
ground from Tygh Ridge to the Blue
Mountains has disappeared, while win
ter still reigns in the lower attitudes.
A petition is being circulated asking
the Oregon Legislature to appropriate
! SIC, 900 Tor a State wagon road into the
Bohemia mining district, the road to run
! from Sharp's creek at Frank BassfOrd's
to Fairview Gap. 1t now has POO sigma
lures.
Two carloads of provisions will be sent
! from Spokane to the Nebraska sufferers.
| The Mayor and prominent citizens are
at work. 1t is expected to send five or
six carloads from that city. The sur
rounding towns will also make ship
ments.
The survey for the extension of the
Jacksonville branch railroad was sus-
| pended after the surveyors had reached
| Central Point, Or, and a plat of the
| line between that point and Jacksonville
was ordered made by Superintendent
| Graham.
At Pendleton Judge Fee has granted
the order for the return OF execution in
the Oregon Gold Mining COmpany's case.
| The effect will be to postpone the sale of
the mines, valued at $500, 900, which had
been set for January 10. Some condi-
| tions were imposed protecting the for
mer attorneys in the collection OF over
| So, 900 fees.
All the logging camps will start up in
Washington and British Colum bia within
few DAYS. There are only $4,000, 900
feet of logs on hand in Washington,
hardly enough for months run. Prices
are already stitfening, and dealers are
elated over the prospects OF upward
tendencies OF prices and an increased
demand.
Word has been received at Tacoma
! that the Everett smelter has closed down,
| leaving the Tacoma smelter the only one
! in operation north of san Francisco and
west OF Helena. Lack of ores to mix
with the Monte Cristo ores, it is said,
caused the shutdown at Everett. Six
weeks ago the smelter there was started
for the third time since it was finished
two years ago.
A correspondent OF the Albany Or
/ DEMOCRAT saws: "The Railroad Com
mission claims to have brought about