Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-04-27
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget of News For Easy Digestion From
Different Parts OF the states OF WASH
ington, Oregon and Idaho.

ington, Oregon and Idaho.
Seattle's canal subsidy has about
reached the $500, 900 mark.
Spokane, Wash, has a class of young
ladies who are taking fencing lessons.
Dougblas county's debt is $124,-
256.51, less by $40, $40 than that of a
year ago.
Machinery is on the ground and be-
ing put in place for sash and door
factory at Snohomish, Wash.
Marshfield, Or, expects good many
horses from the valley at its summer
racemeeting which begins July 3.
A ferry has been established across
the Grand Ronde river, Or, for the
road between Wallowa and Lewiston,
/ Or.
Five hundred head of Wallowa
county, Or, hogs have been taken to
Island City to feed for Eastern ship
ment.
Between $50, 900 and $4,000 taxes
have gone delinquent in Jackson
country, Or. A good deal will yet be
collected.
The Salem wooden mills is said to
have run without stopping, except for
Sundays and holidays, day and night
for three years
1t is rumored the regiment at Fort
Walla Walla, Wash, will change sta
lions with the English cavalry, now at
Fort Meade, S. d.
Between 1000 and $500 returns of
incomes for taxation have been made at
Seattle. Three persons returned in
comes in excess of $50, 900.
Lane county, Or, has 1923 children
of school age, 5,191 being enrolled; PA
teachers; 1853 districts, with $97, 900
in buildings. The schools cost last year
$54, 666.
The Union, Or, street and suburban
railway is to be extended up Catherine
creek into the extensive timber belt
east of the Grand Ronde. The survey
is now being run.
The semi-annual report of the Jo-
sephine county, Or, clerk shows that
the total liabilities of the county are
$76, $50. 40; resources, $31 ,418. 80, leav-
ing the net Indebtedness $40, $780,. 80.
Tacoma is making considerable prog
ress in the Detroit plan of caring for
the unemployed. Offers of a good deal
of vacant land have been made, includ-
ing one by Judge Stallcup of $50 lots.
Linn county, Or, has 1875 children
of school age, 4,961 being enrolled;
1O5 male teachers, 1872 female; 116
school houses, worth 1927, 900; 1870 dis
tricts. The schools cost $73, 525 the
last year.
The First National bank, of Port An
geles, has been closed by the bank ex-
aminer. Assets, ST. 900; liabilities,
$4,000. The bank was closed once
before, and has merely been liquidat-
ing its indebtedness as fast as securities
could be realized upon.
An active and experienced Whatcom,
Wash, lumberman is working on a
scheme to have the Bellingham bay
mills establish branch lumber yards
throughout their entire tributary terri
tory, and it is meeting with considera-
BILE encouragement. Some yards have
been put in at Montana points.
Lord Messiter, of Stuttgart, Ger
many, who has been in correspondence
with some klamath Falls gentleman
relative to big game, announces that
he will be there in July or August
with a pack of hounds, and will hunt
the grizzly bear. He is very wealthy
gentleman, and an enthusiastic bear
hunter.
The Myrtle Creek, Or, West Orego-
Man understands that the Divelbiss
Quartz Mining Company, which erect
ed the mill at Salmon, has commenced
action against the discoveries OF the
rich mine for $1S, 900 damages, for not
CARRYING out their contract, and thus
preventing the mill from running.
The principal news ON Rogue river
| continues to be the new town building
by r. d. Hume, across from Gold
Beach, Or Work on the cannery has
been suspended, owing to the nonarri-
val of machinery. Buildings are still
going up, and ferry has been put on.
Foot passengers are charged % cents;
two-horse team, s.. etc.
The band of wild cattle which has
been in the habit of ranging on Joe
and Fawn creeks, branches OF Agency
creek, in the Coast range, have changed
their range, so hunters say, who have
been looking for them. This band OF
cattle has ranged in the Cascades for
nearly twenty years, and has weather