Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-04-20
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget of News For Easy Digestion From
All Parts of Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho.

Curry county has extended the time
for paying taxes till July.
The Bonanza mine has sent into Ba-
ker a seven-days' clean up of 81, 500.
Salem is raising a carload of seed po-
tatoes for Nebraska's drouth sufferers
Mosgrove, the new penitentiary war
den, is nephew of eXsheriff WOolery
of Seattle.
In Looking Glass valley, Douglas
county, $50 acres of prunes have just
been set out
The snagboat Corvallis is at Eugene,
Or, and reports the channel i'll good
boating condition.
A Walla Walla, Wash, genius has
inst finished violin made entirely Of
Washington wood.
The destructive gillnet is forbidden
on the Snohomish river, and the county
attorney is preparing to prosecute Of
tenders.
The Ellensburg normal school board
of trustees have reelected the present
faculty to serve another year, with Pro
fessor Getz at the head.
H. V. Gates has signed the contract
for an electric light plant at klamath
Falls, Or. Gates is just home at Hills
boro from a California trip.
A likely job for some promoter would
be the establishment of an electric line
from Goldendale to the Columbia river
Much local aid would be subscribed.
Extensive improvements are under
way at the Warm Springs Indian agen-
CIV, in Oregon. A 500, 600 appropriation
is now available for erecting new build
ings, etc.
Spokane, Wash, is much interested
in a report that Kansas City capitalists
have offered 81 900, 900 for the War
Eagle mine The Josie and lie Rio are
also, it is said, being negotiated for.
A reward of $3.50 will be paid by
Union county, Or, for arrest and de-
livery of one George f. Chamberlin,
murderer of James George, near Sparta,
into the custody of the sheriff Of Union
county.
Interest in telephone connection with
1t,
is believed that enough aid can be enlist
ed to complete the line from Elgin to
La Grande. The amount required to
continue the line thus far is placed at
$1,000.
A project is being workerd up among
the residents of Coburg, BROWNSVILLE,
Or. and vicinity for cooperative as
ISOLATION to buy a sawmill and operate
it, A committee is already at work
looking for mill.
An enterprising member of a Port
Townsend, Wash, church has secured
the wooden pistol used by the late
Thomas Blanck to effect his escape
from the King county Jail, and will
place it on exhibition, charging an adj
mission of 5 cents to see the erstwhlle
curiosity.
A protracted fight has just been
brought to a close in the Empire City
town board as to whether stock should
run at large. The 'hOrse" ordinance,
as it has been known, was put to rout,
and domestic animals of all kinds will
have the perfect freedom of the city.
The Tacoma smelter shipped 2,400
bars of bullion, weighing 247,017
pounds, and valued at $57, 1888. 05, dur
ing March. The product consisted OF
1,572. 80 ounces of gold, valued at $780,
SOB. 81; 12,370.25 ounces of silver,
valued at $14, O93.25,: 257,274 pounds
of lead, valued at $7,846. IS, and 49,
740 pounds of copper, valued at $2,-
694. 80. The company employed sixty
three men and disbursed IS, 1862. SO in
Wages
The Douglas county, Or, court has
decided to Systematically grade all the
rilroad lands in the county. For that
purpose two crews of men, under eX-
perienced deputy assessors, stare out
this week to view this property and give
it just and equitable grading. The
railroad owns over 500, 900 acres in the
county, and even at low assessment
the taxes that will be derived from the
company will amply repay the expenses
of putting so large force of deputies
in the field
Messrs. Banta and Wirk, who went
on the Curry county, Or, beaches sew
eral months ago to try their new lnven-
lions on good black sand property, are
said to be making success OF their IN
vention, and are saving good snug sums
of gold and platinum at their property
the Zumwalt claim above Port Oxford
which they purchased. Their process
consists mainly of chemically charged