Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-03-02
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES

Bud get of News for Easy Digestion from
Different Parts of the states of VI ash
ington. Oregon and Idaho-It-uIs of
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Joseph Dame has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Ashland, Or, mine.
Herrick's new cannery at The Dalles,
Or, is being put in shape Tor work.
A Tacoma man has applied for di-
vorce because his vile called him a
! fraud
The bonus and easements for he Med
+ ical Lake, WASH, sanitarium Lave all
been secured.
! There is a movement on foot in Ia
coma to raise bonus among the fruit
men for cannery.
The fruitgrowers of Salem arl vicin-
ity have formed an association 10 build
and operate cannery.
Albany's, Or, new charter provides for
issuing $40, 600 in bonds to pay off ac-
cumulated Indebtedness.
A New Whatcom, Wash, mill has
contracted to furnish a Chi cago firm
SOC, 600 feet of fir wagon-tongue plank.
Everett, Wash, has taken fit of spite
against Seattle, and will show ] by join
ing Tacoma in calling Mt. Rainier Mt
Tacoma.
Lieutenant George H. Fo'tson has
been elected captain of company at
Seattle, to succeed Captain l.. 5. Booth,
resigned.
The Great Northern has as sured the
Shippers Association of SEATTLE that
suitable terminals will be constructed
Immediately.
The Lakeview, Or, Exami ner is cir
culating a petition to have United
States army post at LakevieSy, as sub
stitute for re-occupving Fort Bidwell
should it be decided to restore that
abandoned post.
An unusual and peculiar disease is
spreading among the Indian ponies on
the Umatilla reservation and causing
much uneasiness to white sc ttlers in the
vicinity. The horses afflicted reel and
stagger, hair drops off and sores break
out all over the body.
The fishing fleet at Astoria, Or, will be
augmented this year by several new
sloops and couple of napfltha tenders.
The cannerles oil to-day are far in ad-
vance of what they were few years
ago, and it will be the modern cannery
OF the future that will make salmon
packing profitable business.
The Weiser FIGURING ILLS Company
of Weiser, Idaho, is lookir G into the ad-
visibility OF removing its plant to Baker
City, Or. 1t is said that the proposition
has been favorably consid cred, and that
the mill would be moved if the citizens
| TO hI1u h.A If
mill. There is no better point in the
state for the establishment of Touring
mill than this. Powder liver valley pro-
duces more than enough wheat to keep
100 barrel mill running night and day
the year round, and the products of the
mill will find ready sale IN the adjacent
mining camps and supply points.
The board of curators of the Washing
ington State Historical Society is COM
posed of EIwood Evans, Tacoma, presi-
dent; Henry Roeder, Nhatcom county,
vice president; Gener al l.. Z. Bradley,
Pierce county, charm an; B. F. Barge,
Kittitas county; A. A. Denny, KING
Chehalis; j. II. Long, Lewis county;
Miles c. Moore, Warla Walla; w. F.
Prosser, Yakima; All en- Wier, Olympia;
ing held in Olympia the other day Ezra
Meeker, of Puyallup, was elected a
member of the board to succeed the late
j. P. Stewart, of Puyallup.
The coast and geo(letic survey steamer
Hassler is practically out of commission,
and will be sold to the highest bidder on
or about March 20. The Hasser has
wintered at Tacoma for two seasons.
No appropriation was made by congress
to continue her in ne service, and rather
than have her lay up possibly two or
three seasons in ch arge of a shipkeeper
it was decided to sell her. The Hassler
was built in 1871 and cost about $40, 900.
She went into commission in 1872, and
has been in contip ual service ever since.
Her commander i ! Lieutenat q. H. Har-
Der, who commanded the expedition
sent to the Arctic regions to recover Ex-
plorer Longs body
The cannerymem on the Washington
side of the river are interesting them
selves in an effort to secure the estab-
| lishment of ha tchery on the Kalama
river, in Cowlitz county, as we'll as one
on the Chinoolt river at or near the
point where Deputy Fish Commissioner
| Al Houchen conducted his successful
ex periments III salmon Matching last
fall. The Gamers expect that the re-
cent appropriation of $4,000 by the
Washington lie gislature will be sufficient
when economi, ally expended to estab-
lish two hatcheries at the points named
on such scale as will prove powerful
argument in favor of more liberal APP
preparation By the next legislature.
At recent meeting of the Tacoma
chamber of commerce the following
resolution WIS introduced by r. q. Hud-
son and passed: "Be it resolved that it