Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-22
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Ke'
ports of Late Events
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Ruax., os News Fer Easy Digestion From
All Parts Of Oregon. WASH
ington and Idaho.

on trial in klamath Falls, Or
Orders have been issued for the pur-
chase of one dozen McGritf tire-eXtln-
guishers for the Washington reform
school.
The citizens of Roseburg, Or, are
agitating the question of the early con-
struction of the Roseburg, Coos Bay *
Eastern railroad.
Oregon Railway & Navigation Off
cials have decided to remove the dis
Watchers from Walla Walla to Star
buck on the Washington division.
Major WorGon, alloting agent OF tho
Klamath Indian reservation, is now at
work on allotments of land between
Williamson river and Chiliquin bridge,
Or.
The mail service between klamath
Falls and Fort Klamath, Or, has been
changed to daily service, with con-
tractor John ID. Shallock still running
it.
The Montana jack rabbit has taken
the place of the large Whitehall rabbit
at Walla Walla, Wash, and is report
ed to be doing great damage to gar
dens and fruiC trees.
Telephone poles have been distrib-
uted by the Blue Mountain Telephone
g. Telegraph Company to Ukiah, and
it is expected to have the line COM
pleted to that point by July |.
Definite arrangements have. been
made between William d. Humbert
and the owners of the Ashland, Or,
wooden mills, by which the mills will
be started up within a month.
Mrs. Samuel G. Slaughter, of Taco
ma, is doing missionary work through
out the state in trying to persuade the
women to patronize state and home
products and manufactures whenever
possible.
A few days ago Russell Dement,, OF
Curry county, Or, brought eighty head
of beef cattle to ROseburg and sold
them there at an average of $37. 80 per
head. They cost him, in Curry county,
$lS head.
The people of Ballard, Wash, have
entered protest against the filling III
Salmon bay tide lands. The merchants
and mill men say that to fill them
would ruin the mills and injure the
North canal.
Horse and cattle thieves are reported
to be at work again in the western part
of Whitman county, Wash, i'll the
country known as the Rocks" around
the vicinity of Rock lake, and south
west to the mouth of the PalOuse river.
The housewives of Colfax, Wash.
have decided that professional tramps
can no longer dine in their back yards
without first doing good work. Large
gangs of these fellows come into that
city at regular intervals, while smaller
groups are arriving constantly.
Contracts will be called for the con-
struction of bridge across the Wenat-
ehee river the first of next month. The
bridge will span the river about one
half mile from the mouth, connecting
Kittitas and Okanogan counties, Wash.
The Blade Company, consisting of
Messrs. Teck, Hug, Seigfred q Brown,
Of New Whatcom, Wash, has pur-
chased the type and machinery consti-
tuting the old Express plant, from the
receiver, and has moved the place of
business to the Lighthouse block.
Sheriff Stinson is on the trail of 80
600 sheep that are being driven into
and through Kittitas county, Wash.
from without the state, for the pur-
pose of collecting the tax provided by
the last legislature on migratory stock
The law provides that in case of refusal
to pay the assessment a levy and sale OF
the stock may be preemptorily made.
The Puyallup, Wash. Indian COM
mission has received many applications
to purchase Indian lands in ten-acre
tracts. The applicants say they want
small farms They represent that they
are unable to buy forty acres of land
in one piece. In order to accommodate
those who want the ten-acre pieces,
the commissioners have made applica-
ton TO the department to be allowed to
sub-divide the lands into tracts of the
size named.
About year ago George Cochrane
bought band of sheep in his fathers
name, the latter furnishing the money.
Last November the sheep were sold
under an execution in favor of J. d.
Tunny, Mr.. Tunney being the pur-
chaser and the date of the sale being on
Sunday. A jury at The Dalles, Or,
rendered verdict last Sunday in favor