Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-03-30
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 WASH
inRton, Oregon and Idaho-Items OF
Interest TO Pacific Coast People,

Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Yakima connty's, Wash, hop acreage
| is shown by careful census to be $40
acres.
Kittitas county, Wash, has 200 600
acres of irrigated lands, capable OF sup
porting $4,000 people.
A much larger acreage of corn than
usual will be planted in the Palouse,
! WASH, country this season.
The Red Crown Touring mills of Al
bany, Or, have be II closed by creditors.
Negotiations are pending for resump-
ton of business.
E.. McClanahan is shipping from
Eugene, Or, to the state fish and game
warden of California, at Santa Ana,
twenty Chinese pheasants for breeding
purposes.
The Spokesman Review has a report
from Cofax, WASH, that buyers there
are beginning to contract for wheat for
next falls delivery for 40 cents per
! bushei.
A pine-needle factory company has
agreed to establish its institution at
Grants Pass, Or, if $4,000 is raised as
bonus for them. Subscriptions are
being taken now.
A gold nugget weighing a fraction over
$50 was picked up in the gulch below
the Virtue mine one day last week by
| Mr.. Casbeer, who intends placer mining
on this claim in a few days.
J One hundred and fifty pounds of pre-
pared opium passed through the Ia
coma, WASH. custom house Wednes-
day, paving 5000 in duty. 1t is i'm
ported in competition with the SNUG
gled article.
Fourteen of the principal placer claims
along the Grand Ronde river have syn
dicated, and it is expected that inter
ested persons will arrive at La Grande,
Or, in few DAYS to examine them with
view of closing a deal for the entire
lot.
The Entiat Irrigation Company of
Waterville, WASH, has commenced work
on large irrigating ditch, taking water
from the Entiat river near where 1t
empties into the Columbia, and re-
claiming several thousand acres of land
especially valuable for fruit raising.
Placer gold which will pay So day to
the man has just been discovered on
Mason creek, Kitsap county, WASH,
and in consequence great excitement Is
occasioned among the settlers. The dis
covery has been made very recently, and
it is said the vicinity of the find has al
ready been staked off by speculative
people.
The work of rebuilding the Hume cam
merry at Gold Beach, Or, on the north
side of Rogue river, Is going steadily on.
The contract has just been let for NOV
ing the boiler and retorts, and men are
now at work launching them. They
will at once be placed in position in the
cannery, ready for use when the fishing
season opens.
petition asking for the re-establish-
ment of Fort Klamath, Wash, is in
circulation, and has already received
the names of number of prominent
men, Lakeview, Or, is also in the field
for this plum. The Jacksonville Times
saws it is a fact beyond contradiction
that the post should be established
somewhere in Southwestern Oregon.
Union Or, has failed to raise the sub
sidy asked for the proposed beet-sugar
factory, and it is now too late to get the
seed or put up the building in time for
use this wear. The hope is to secure an
would be accepted for another year. The
subsidy asked is 3 800 acres of land.
Several days ago some Indians were
cleaning streets in Pendleton, Or, while
working out fines. Over on Lewis street,
in East Pendleton, they raked up can
nom ball, which was taken over to Tall
mans and found to weigh two pounds
and ten ounces. Where it came from is
not known. 1t must have been there
many years and dropped by troops dur
ing the Indian fighting days.
Two petitions are being circulated
among the depositors of the Wall Wala,
Wash, Savings bank asking for the re-
moyal of Receiver Paine. One petition
will be presented to Mr.. Paine and the
other to the court. The depositors think
it about time they should have a state
ment, as the bank closed in December,
1898, and Mr.. Paine has been drawing
$500 per month for services since that
time.
Tacoma, WASH, Odd Fellows are MAX
ing preparations for the seventh annual
communication of the grand lodge IN
that CITY June 4, in connection with the
grand encampment and the grand as
semblv. About $50 representatives to
these bodies in addition to their officers
will attend, and with them will be a
large mum Der of fraternal visitors, many
of whom will be accompanied by their
families, so that not less than thou
sand visitors in all will make Tacoma
their objective point.
For several years the high waters OF
the Willamette have been encroaching
not little on several places along the
river in the vicinity OF Sladden's rifle,
in Lane, county, Or. Several of the en-