Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-04
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Bud get of News For Easy Digestion From
All Parts of Oregon, wash
ingtOn and Idaho.

ington and Idaho.
The Dalles, Or, has 3,045 people.
June u is the date of the q. A. r.
encampment at Spokane.
Prairie schooners, headed West, are
familiar sights i'll Walla Walla.
The Lane county, Or, assessor thinks
its population will reach 20, 900.
Grants, Or, is putting up a $1,000
schoolhouse with money raised by a
bond issue.
The present municipal campaign i'll
Spokane is said to be the hottest the
city has ever known.
Whatcom county's (Wash.) floating
debt is 1881 513, and still increasing
Some $50, 900 is for roads, bridges and
bitches.
A subscription is being taken up at
Pendleton, Or, TO clear off the indebt-
edness of the academy there. Some
$500 was raised the first day.
Gillian county, Or, has completed
her semi-annual statement, showing
expenditures for all purposes of 81, 465.
The county owes SIT, 666 on warrants.
The distillery at Grants, Or,
shipped carload of spirits and alcohol
to San Francisco last week, and have
orders for two more carloads for next
week.
A sea lion about ten feet long was
caught i'll dip-net belonging to Sim
mons & Hybierger, at Ilwaco, Wash,
last Friday. Ten gallons of oil was
obtained from the carcass.
r. d. Hume offers to furnish the ma
terial for a new telephone line from
Bandon to Gold Beach, Or, provided
the citizens along the line would give
the poles and place them in position.
1t is reported that the old channel in
Humbug mining district, Douglas coun-
ty, Or, which was 50 rich in early
days, has been cut again, by miner
named Poole, who has already taken
81, 500 out of it.
The total amount of taxes for all
purposes i'll Wasco county, Or, is a
fraction less than $50, 900 for the year
1894. Although the rolls were in the
sheritf's hands only a month, SOL
1886. 10 of the amount was collected.
The first gold ever known to have
been taken from the Middle fork of the
Coquille river was brought into Marsh
field, Or, last Monday and sold to B.
G. Lehmanowsky. 1t was placer mined
from the river bed opposite Enchanted
prairie.
At meeting of the directors of the
Yakima, Wash, Irrigation Company,
Second Vice President G. H. Prescott,
of the Northern Pacific, was chosen
president of the irrigation company to
succeed the late Paul Schulze. S. j.
Maxwell, Mr.. Prescott's private secre-
tary, was elected secretary to succeed
Z. N. Castillo.
Charles H. Squires, a former agent
of the Northern Pacific Express Com
pany, at Seattle, has sued the company
for $40, 900 damages. Squires was &C
cused of completely in the loss of an
express package containing $4,000, in
April, 1898, and discharged, but no
proceedings were brought against him
that he might prove his innocence.
The Union Brick works, of Tacoma,
has been awarded the contract of fur
nishing the Northern Pacific railway
1900, 900 bricks to complete the arch
ing of the great Stampede tunnel in the
Cascades The company has been
gradually replacing the woodwork III
the tunnel with brick for six years
past and this firm has supplied 49,
600, 900 bricks for the work.
The Traders National bank of Spo-
kane has sued the town of COlville,
Wash, upon about $4,000 city war
rants issued in 1891, together with the
interest thereon from their date up to
the present time. The proceedings are
bv way of mandamus to compel the
city treasurer to pay these warrants in
the order in which they were issued.
1t is likely that the town will contest
the action.
A big hotel at the Soap creek sulphur
springs, Benton county, Or, is one OF
the things that is in prospect. T. G.
Baker, the owner, recently bonded the
spring and eighty acres of land for &c.
600 to a New York man. The latter,
according to the statement Of Mr..
Baker, proposes if he completes the
purchase to erect a big summer hotel,
and make the springs famous as a sum-
mer resort.
The fiattering prospects of the Snake
river, Burnt river, Willow creek and
Payette sections, i'll Oregon, i'll a fruit
way have resulted in an agitation for