Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-02-09

Work ON reconstruction of the West
mill at Aberdeen, Wash, will be COM
menced at once.
A new telephone line is soon to be put
in between Ocosta, Takelund, North
Cove and South Bend, Wash.
The people of Warrenton, Or, and
Clatsop Plains have subscribed 500 for
building good road between those two
places.
The Lombard Ice Company has begun
harvesting a crop loot thick at Hood
River and expects to put up Is, 900 tons
in 10 days.
The stockmen of Eastern Oregon gen
orally report stock doing we'll and
enough feed on hand TO pass through
the winter In good shape.
Steps are being taken to open wagon
road from BrooktieId, Wash, to Fran
ces, station on the railroad from Che
halls to South Bend, Wash.
Yakima, Wash, parties want to buy
the machinery of the old Tacoma starch
works and move it to the Yakima Val
ley to make starch from potatoes.
A number of citizens of Dungness,
Wash, under the lead of Rev. Robert
Lee, a Methodist minister, have begun
a crusade against saloons and vice.
1t is reported that the Oregon I'M
provement Company will build four
cantilever bridges across the rivers south
of Port Townsend, Wash, at a cost OF
$250,000.
An effort is being made to secure $40,
600 in subscriptions of stock at Salem
for the proposed railroad from indie
pendence, Or, to Salem, ten and one
hall miles.
The survey of tide lands OF the third
class on Gray's Harbor have been COM
pleted. Gray's Harbor has twenty
seven miles Of tide lands-more than
any other harbor in the State.
Typhoid fever has become so preva-
lent IN Seattle that the Board of Health
is making special investigation into
the cause. Among other things there
will be archaeological analysis of Lake
Washington water.
A petition is being circulated in East
ern Oregon asking the Legislature 10
provide Tor a reduction OF grain rates.
it is being freely signed. 1t is stated
that reduction of cents on bushel
would save the farmers there $4,000 a
year.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
has appointed a committee to receive
the St. Louis capitalists who will visit
that city February s. to look into the
south canal and tide land improvement
scheme, the bonds for which they have
purchased.
Much excitement prevails among the
farmers about Uniontown, Wash, oW-
ing to a rumor that one OF the proml-
nent wheat buyers had been deceiving
them ever since harvest by false reports
OF market prices, thereby cheating them
out of several cents on each bUshel sold.
Governor McGraw, of Washington,
has made the following appointments OF
| lum Der inspectors: Edward McMonogue.
Seattle. second district; Albert Taggart,
Utsalady, first district; James H. Kuhn,
Hoquiam, fifth district; Il. B. Brown,
Willapa, sixth district; Clinton Cutler,
Vancouver, seventh district.
Umatilla county, Or, keeps up her
record. of twenty indictments at the
present term of court there have been
seventeen convictions and three acqult-
tails: ten men have been sent to the
penitentary and seven fined. Five OF
the latter were wel-known citizens,
who pleaded guilty to charge of gam
bling, and were fined $50 each.
Mr.. Gibbs, prominent hortculturist
of Orcas Island, who devotes much time
TO special researches in the line OF agrl-
culture and promology, believes that the
NoOksach Valley is wonderfully well
adapted to the raising OF chlcory, ana
that such an industry would prove very
profitable there, as the annual imports
of chicory root from Europe are very
large.
julius Ehrlich, manager of the Inter
national Commission Company OF Mel
son. b. c., loaded a car with fresh vege-
tables at Colville. Idaho, last week. put
in a stove and took passage for Nelson.
He saws this will be the only fresh vege-
tables that Nelson will have during the
cold spell, and he will be amply com
pensated for his trouble by being able to
furnish the market with the unlrozen
product of the Colvil!e Valley.
A new ditching and grading machine,
capable of excavating sand, ore, gravel
or dirt, has been invented by Louis
Pickard and Thomas Cleft of Walla
Walla, Wash. 1t was tested with a
three horse power gasoline engine, and
did work to the satisfaction OF those who
witnessed the performance. As 1t will
handle yard OF dirt per minute with
ten-horse power engine it is likely to
prove an important factor in the new ir-
rieation schemes now under way in that
section.
The J. F. Hart Lumber Company, OF
Everett. has sued James J. Hill, presl-
dent of the Great Northern, and w. ).