Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-03-09
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES

Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Grants Pass, Or, has 4O5 boys and
355 girls of school age.
The farmers about Silver Lake, Or,
are DESTROYS OF establishing creamery.
The school census in Corvallis, Or,
shows 352 females and 316 males; total
66S.
An effort is being made to start up the
| Ocosta, Wash, mill plant that has been
idle for year.
The city council of Seattle has donated
5000 to the Salvation army to be used in
it's labor relief work.
1t is proposed to hold an encampment
of G.. A. X. veterans of Eastern Oregon
at Elgin, July % and "A.
There are $4,000 sacks of grain in the
Monkland district of Sherman county,
Or, yet in the farmers hands.
Four regulars and eight specials are
to be dropped from the Spokane police
force in the interest of economy.
As soon as the weather is suitable the
prisoners in Spokane county, WASH,
Jail will be set to work on the roads.
The wooden mills at Bandon, Or, are
running overtime with orders enough to
keep at it all summer. A shortage of
wool is threatened.
Many owners of hopyards are putting
mp the wire system this spring. 1t costs
but little more than poles and lasts for
number of years.
A public wool warehouse and market
will be established at Baker City, Or. 1t
will be 60xl0O feet, of corrugated iron,
on stone foundation.
1t is said there is to be boom in the
Althouse mining district this year, and
that $50 stamps will be at work in the
vicinity of Browntown.
The Heppner, Or, board of trade has
appointed committee to see what can
be done to open road between that
city and Paris creek.
A subscription is being taken among
the sportsmen of Walla Walla, Wash,
for the importation of 400 pairs of bob
white quail to stock that section.
A Tacoma, WASH, firm is making large
shipments of eggs to Montana. This Is
a result OF the Eastern billiards. cutting
off the supply from that direction.
The business men and farmers of La
Center, Amboy, Chelatchie and Yacolt,
Wash, are talking of jointly building q
good road in that region eighteen miles
long.
There is project on foot to open up
| trail and postal route between Grants
Pass and Gold Beach, Or, by way of the
junction of Rogue and Illinois rivers.
Ilahee, Reuben and Leland.
The Salem, Or, postmaster has been
directed by the postal department to
discharge one carrier from his force. A
remonstrance petition is being signed to
be forwarded to the postmaster-general.
The telephone system from Spokane
to Occur d. Alene is to be extended to
Helena and other Montana points,
TWENTY-FIVE miles of wire being put
under ground in crossing the Occur
d'Alenes.
Captain Maltby has sent the What
com, Wash, board OF trade some sam
pies of Wilson by brid tobacco raised on
his farm at Lynden. This year he and
G.. l.. RamsGel will raise about ten acres
OF the Havana variety.
II. B. Williams, Frank Cook ct al,
have filed articles of incorporation for
the American Patriotic Memorial AS
ISOLATION OF Whatcom, Wash. The OBJ
iect of the association is to furnish
gratuitous instruction to the children of
soldiers and sailors who served in the
| war.
The Tacoma, Wash, committee in
charge of the army post matter has de-
cided to report In favor of ha!f-dozen
sites as follows: East Side OF American
Lake. west side of American Lake. Span
away Lake, Steilacom site, near Albert
WHITES place, Edison site, near Edison,
and Point Defiance.
Olympia people are determined to re-
sent to the utmost the action OF Ia
coma's newspapers and chamber OF COM
merce in regard to the continuance OF
work on the capitol, and business men
are correspondingy grateful for Seattle's
| frendliness on what is to Olympia the
all-important question.
A compromise has been effected in the
affairs OF the Aberdeen, WASH, bank,
and Joint receivers have been appointed
| by the superior court. In consequence
the appeal has been Withdrawn, and the
receivers are now hard at work endeavor-
ing to straighten out the tangle. The
receivers are: j. +. Carson, OF Monte
sano, and Eugene France, of Aberdeen.
Both are well-known business men, and
depositors can rest satisfied that their
| interests will be protected in every way
possible. go,
Senator Campbell's bill, which is prac-
ticallv for the relief OF the city of Ia
coma, WASH, in permitting an extension
of the water system, passed the senate,
and was Immediately transmitted to the
house and passed there. Two years ago
the city of Tacoma at special election
appropriated $500, 900 for the extension
OF its water system to Pattison springs.
These did not have the capacity sup
posed, and as the money was voted for