Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-07-06
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
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SudEst of News Fer Easy D,xs.t,en Fro
All Parts of Oregon. wash
ingtOn and Idaho.

All Parts Of Oregon, wash.
inGton and Idaho.
Much anxiety is felt in Whitman
county, Wash, for the wheat cron. hot
winds that come at this time of the
year being very much feared.
The superior court of Thurston conn.
ty, Wash, declined to compel the CITY
clerk of Olympia to register Mrs. Res.
sic j. Savage, who wishes to vote.
A. +. Hunt captured black bear in
the Dead Indian country recently. Tho
bear was an unusually large one for
the black species, weighing about 500
pounds.
George Bailey, charged in Aberdeen.
Wash, with arson, murder resulting.
was dismissed after preliminary ex.
animation on the ground that there
was not sufficient evidence to hold
him.
The commissioners of Pierce county.
Wash. have decided to fund outstand.
ing legal warrants to the amount of
IS, 66l by the issuance Of bonds This
is preliminary to funding still larger
Indebtedness.
The grasshopper pests have been
making inroads on crops along Trout
creek, Or. Not a green blade is left
after their devastating visits, and the
stalks of wheat and other cereals are
leveled to the ground.
d. NJ. Jesse, member of the state
board of horticulture, in his recent in
spection of orchards along Asotin creek
/ Wash, found an instance of the dread.
/ ed scale. The owner of the orchard has
taken measures to prevent its spreading
to other trees.
The $6, 900, 900 contract between the
Seattle South Canal Company and the
Bowers Dredging Company, has been
drafted, the Tacoma Ledger says, and
sent to G. II. Prescott president of the
dredging company at Portland, for sig
nature.
A German colony, numbering ten or
twelve families, has settled on Little
Salmon river The male members are
busy from sunrise until dark erecting
comfortable houses and outbuildings,
while the women are employed in gar
den planting.
The irrigation ditch, near Ontario,
Or, which is TO be twelve miles in
length and cover 10, 900 acres, is nearly
completed and one lateral is already
built. The main ditch is fifteen feet
at the bottom, twenty-five feet at the
top and five feet deep.
A prize-fght with bare knuckles be-
tween Billy Webb and Loren Bussei.
of Walla Walla, is said to have been
fought in Washington near the state
line. Russell knocked his man out i'll
the second round. About 100 specta-
tors witnessed the fight.
In the Mcbride case, involving title
to valuable tract of land i'll the city of
Tacoma, Secretary Hoke Smith has de-
cided to supplement the testimony al
ready taken by an independent examl-
nation to be made by a geologist OF the
geological survey. The case has reach
ed the secretary on an appeal, Mcbride
having won in the lower tribunals.
Commissioner Lamoreux, OF the gem
eral land Office, has dismissed the pro-
test of o. T. Smith, b. ii. Taylor ana
number of other Stevens county men
against the granting of patents to the
Northern Pacific for the lands in town
ship go, range SO, township 30 and 81
range 81; township 30, range 3S; town
ship 80; and townships 81 and 81,
range 40.
Ten jurors out of twelve i'll the United
States court in Seattle last THURSDAY
brought in a verdict for the defendant
in the case Of Eliza NJ. Hill vs. the
Oregon Improvement Company, Ior
damages for the death of her HUSBAND
/ at Anacortes. The new law permit
ting ten jurors to bring in verdict
will in this case, be tested, as TO ltS
application to the United States courts
Inspector Fisher, of Port Angeles
Wash, has seized $500 worth OF goods,
and taken into custody two Makah lH-
disan, charged with smuggling the
goods. The Indians freely admit that
they were the smugglers, but say that
it is, and has been for years, the gen
eral custom for Indians OF their tribe
TO bring over from Victoria whatever
they wish, and that thousands OF dol
lars worth of goods have been so
brought over.
A barbecue was held near Palouse,
Wash. last week in the interests OF
the new beet sugar factory at that
place, and 5, 900 people attended. The
bonus committee report showed cash
subscriptions to the amount OF $40, 600,
donations of labor 1900, forty lots IN
e DoIouca 900 acres of