Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-01-12
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES


Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Spokane built 400 houses in 1894 at
cost of something like $750,OOO.
A. Fetsch, a Medford orr tailor,
drew $500 in a lottery last week.
Fred Hartford of Patha is experiment
ing with new current wheel, for which
he has secured patent. 1t is Tor lrrlga-
ton purposes.
"Uncle Billy" Gillian is circulating
an initiative and referendum petition
in Morrow county, Or. /; also one Tor
new State constitution.
A very pleasant family reunion was
held at the residence of j. +. Humph-
revs in the Waldo Hills near Macleay,
Or, on Christmas day. There were
present seven children and twenty-siX
grandchildren.
The Pendleton Wool Securing and Pro-
ducing Company has filed supplemental
articles showing that its capital stock
had been increased from $4,000 to $2O,-
900. T. B. Wells, T. f. Fell, +. w.
Boyd, w. d. Hansford, R. Alexander,
G. 5. jackson and ii. Shutthis are di-
rectors and incorpOrators.
Ten years ago the thermometer at
Baker City, Or, fell to 40 degrees below
Powder, Or. Weather prophets predict
regular Dakota winter during the next
few weeks. A visitor at PendletOn from
Haines, Or, reports 9 degrees below zero
at that place day or two ago.
J. w. Hockersmith will ship six or
eight cars of cattle out of Southern Ore
gon to the San Francisco markets this
week. Half dozen carloads, mostly
gathered from the Applegate stockmen,
will be loaded at Medford, Or. q. w.
Dunn of Ashland, Or, will send one load
of fat beef with the shipment.
Lizzie j. Anderson arrived at Lake
view with her witnesses from Bowden,
Or, last Saturday to prove up on her
land in that section. BOwden is about
geo miles east of LakevieW in the ex-
IRENE southeast corner OF the State, and
as they had to travel in a roundabout
way, they travelled over 400 miles and
were more than a week on the road.
Initiatory arrangements have been
nerfected for a novel feature in Oregon
journalism. The Salem Statesman ten
dered it's January % edition to the ladies
of that city, they TO do all the office and
reporting work and take the entire pro-
ceeds that day for charitable purposes
A meeting of the ladies was held, the
proposition accepted and the following
prominent ladies elected to carry out the
project: Mrs. Judge Bean, business
manager; Mrs. Olive England, editor !;
Mrs. William Brown, city editor; Mrs.
Patterson, society editor. The remain
der of the staff will be selected soon.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the Secretary of States office at
Salem bv the TilIamook Electric Rail
way, Power and Light Company. The
object is to operate an electric railway
from a point on the line of the Oregon
Central railway in Yamhill county at or
near North Yamhill westerly, following
the course of the North 1amhlll, Mes
tucca and Tillamook rivers to point on
the shore of Netarts Bay, Tlllamook
county, at or near the residence OF Will
lam O'Hara. The capital stock is $500
900. w. H. Cary, David Hess and Will
lam Squires are the incorporators.
Loewenberg Bros. of Spokane have
transferred all their stock and property,
including the dry goods business, the
Loewenberg building, where the Louvre
Theater is, and the residence OF Mr:
Loewenberg to J. n. Glover as trustee OF
a large humble Of creditors, among them
the Merchants National Bank of Port
land of which julius Loewenberg is
President. Julius Loewenberg Withdrew
from the firm of Loewenherg Bros. Octo-
Der |, 1898. His claim against the firm
at that time was $50, 900. 1t is claimed
that this has been increased to 100000.
William P Simpson of the South
Bend broom handle factory, has found
that hemlock, so common in that region,
is the best material yet discovered for
broopo ban6las lder has heretofore
been considered the best, but handles
made of hemlock and sent to customers
in Portland and San Francisco have been
pronounced by them superior to alder.
The hemlock is whittier, polshes better,
is lighter in weight and is equally as
strong. Mr.. Simpson says he has mar
ket for all the broom handles he can
make, and expects premium on those
made of hemlock.
Judge Hanford in the United States
Circuit Court at Tacoma has appointed
President Paul Schultze, Joseph S. AL
len of Spokane and John Donald of
North Yakima receivers of the Yakima
Investment Company, which is the sue
cessor of the Northern Pacific, Yakima
and Kittitas Irrigation Company. The
receivership is granted on the applica-
ton of o. F. Paxton of Portland, repre-
senting the California Safe Deposit and
Trust Company of San Francisco, which
holds as trustee of the Yakima Invest
ment Company mortgage given in 1898
to secure a $1,000 bond issue, which
was to be sold to an English syndicate.
Later the syndicate failed to take the
bonds, causing complications. The COM
pany is said to have floating indebted
ness of $360,0O0, and $45O,OO0 of the
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