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


! Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Joseph Dame has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Ashland, Or, mine.
Herricks 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 the Med
! ical Lake, Wash, sanitarium have all
! been secured.
There is movement on foot in Ia
coma to raise bonus among the fruit
klen for Cannery.
The fruitgrowers of Salem and vicin-
ity have formed an association to build
and operate cannery.
Albany's, Or, new charter provides for
issuing $40, 900 in bonds to pay off &C
cumuated Indebtedness.
A New Whatcom, Wash, mill has
contracted to furnish Chicago firm
600 600 feet of fir wagon-tongue plank.
Everett, Wash, has taken fit of spite
against Seattle, and will show it by join
ing Tacoma in calling Mt. Rainier Mt.
Tacoma.
Lieutenant George H. Fortson has
been elected captain of company at
Seattle, to succeed Captain L. s. Booth,
resigned.
The Great Northern has assured the
Shippers Association of Seattle that
suitable terminals will be constructed
Immediately.
The Lakeview, Or, Examiner is cir
LOT RI
States army post at Lakeview, as sub
stitute for re-occupying 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 settlers 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 naphtha tenders.
The cannerles OF to-day are far in adj
vance of what they were a few years
ago, and it will be the modern cannery
OF the future that will make salmon
packing profitable business.
The Weser FIGURING Mills Company
of Weiser, Idaho, is looking into the adj
visibility OF removing its plant to Baker
City, Or. 1t is said that the proposition
has been favorably considered, and that
the mill would be moved if the citizens
will guarantee to buy the product OF the
mill. There is no better point In the
state for the establishment of a Touring
mill than this. Powder river valley pro-
duces more than enough wheat to keep
a 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 Elwood Evans, Tacoma, presi-
dent; Henry Roeder, WhatcOm county,
vice president; General l.. 7. Bradley,
Pierce county, chairman; b. f. Barge,
Kittitas county; A. A. Denny, KING
county; Senator F. q. Deckenbach,
Chehaljs; j. H. Long, Lewis county;
Miles G. Moore, Walla Walla; w. F.
Prosser, Yakima; Allen Wier, Olympia;
Charles w. Hobart, Tacoma. At meet
ing held in Olympia the other day Ezra
Meeker, of Puyallup, was elected
member of the board to succeed the late
y. L. Stewart, Ol Iuydllup'
The coast and geodetic survey steamer
Hassler is practically out of commission,
and will be sold to the highest bidder on
or about March 20. The Hassler has
wintered at Tacoma tor two seasons.
No appropriation was made by congress
to continue her in the service, and rather
than have her lay up possibly two or
three seasons in charge OF a shipkeeper
it was decided to sell her. The Hassler
was built in 1871 and cost about $40, 600.
She went into commission in 1872, and
has been in continual service ever since.
Her commander is Lieutenat q. ii. Har-
Der, who commanded the expedition
sent to the Arctic regions to recover Ex-
plorer Longs body
The cannerymen on the Washington
side of the river are interesting them
selves in an effort to secure the estab-
lishment of a hatchery on the kalama
river, in CowlitZ county, as we'll as one
on the Chinook river at or near the
point where Deputy Fish Commissioner
AL Houchen conducted his successful
experiments in salmon Matching last
fall. The Gamers expect that the re-
cent appropriation OF $4,000 by the
Washington legislature will be sufficient
when economically expended to estab-
lish two hatcheries at the points named
on such scale as will prove powerful
argument in favor of a more liberal APP
preparation by the next legislature.
At recent meeting of the Tacoma
chamber of commerce the following
resolution was introduced by r. q. Hud-
son and passed: 'Be it resolved that it
is the sense of the Tacoma chamber of
commerce that it is unwise, and will
necessarily result in great loss to con-
tinue the construction of the capitol
building now in course of erection at