Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-06-10
WASHINGTON sTATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest From Every Nook an.
Corner.


Spokane has taken to running its ho-
boes out Of town.
Judson Murray has 800 acres in peas
near Waterville this season.
Walla Walla has easily raised its
quota Of the immigration ha&Fds' fund.
Thirty timber cf&rhs have been
taken up about Brooklyn, in Pacific
county, recently.
The city Of indianapolis has ordered
nearly 400 cars of cedar blocks for paw
ing purposes from the state of WASH
irigton.
The Steele fishtrap on Sandy point,
Lummi island, has started to catch
fish. The trap is supposed to be the
largest in the world.
The Walla Walla council has appro-
priated $3.50 to help pay expenses OF
the firemen who are to take part in the
tournament in Pendleton.
All proceedings against original set
tlera in township 21-9, in Chehalis
county, have been ordered discontinued
by the land department..
There were twenty-five deaths and
thirty three births in Spokane last
month. OF those born, fifteen are
males and eighteen females.
A new store was opened in Garfield
last week, the second store within two
weeks. The proprietor is T.. M. Jack
SON, who brought $1,000 stock from
Omaha.
Captain Adams, commanding the
state troops at Ilwaco. says that his
men are anxious to return home, and
thinks they may be soon replaced by
another company.
A. B. Alexander, fisheries expert Of
the United States fish commission
steamer Albatross, is in the Sound for
the purpose of making an investiga-
tion of the fisheries
Mrs Mary E. Bent has begun suit
against the city of Walla Walla for the
sum of $4,000, as damages for injuries
sustained by her in falling ON defec-
tive sidewalk last December.
Miss Lulu Abernethy, Spokane
girl, has been chosen as one of the ora
tors who will compete for the Kirk or
atorical prize at the Northwestern uni
versity. She will have four competi-
tors. all males.
Treasurer Mish, of Snohomish coun-
ty, has filed new bond in the sum of
! 800, 00e, which is satisfactory to the
commissioners Snohomish county
will now receive the $23, 900 ON deposit
in the Bank of Everett probably by
July /.
Over 600 head Of cattle were sold one
day last week from the ranges in Asotin
county, and over $6, 900 were disbursed
among farmers and cattle men. Last
months sales ran mp into the thousands
of dollars. and another shipment will
be made this month.
Major Sears has dug up from the
musty documents in the Office of the
city clerk of Walla Walla the patent
to the original site of Walla Walia,
comprising eighty acres. The old
paper, which bears date Of July 30,
1869. is signed by President y. S.
Grant
w. Fl. Babcock and George Struthers
sold to William Jones 65, 900 bushels Of
bluestem wheat. almost all of the
wheat remaining on Eureka Flat, says
the Walla Walla Union The oonsid-
GRAFTON is not made public, but it ID
rumored that the price paid was 90
cents per bushel.
Judge Hanford, of the federal court,
sitting in Seattle, recently rendered a
decision, which in effect releases the
city Of Seattle from all liability to pay
outstanding street grade warrants in
cases where the city has lost the power
to collect the amount from delinquent
property y-owners.
Newton and Barnes, Fraser river
fishermen, are making cannery at
Chuckanut The capacity of the can
merry will be 80, 900 cases, but it is not
! the intention of the promoters to put
up large quantity of fish this season,
: as preliminary preparations can hardly
be completed in time
Orders have been issued to the In
dian police ON the Colville reservation
to permit no cattle or horses, not used
for transportation, TO remain on the
reservation, without special permit
from the Indian agent This is to pre-
vent stockmen from grazing their ami
mails at large on the range.
The amount Of hogs shipped from
Garfield during the past six months is
enormous for country not rated as q
hog country. says the Enterprise. Since
, last fall 3. 900 head of hogs were ship
ped from there, to say nothing of the
large quantity of dressed meat and
:, bacon. Duling Bros. have a record Of
: their shipments, SO that it is not mere
: ly a guess. This firm has paid out for
! this number close to $40, 900.
i Attorney General Jones has appealed
y from the decision of the register and
Q receiver of the Spokane land office in
y the consolidated cases of the state OF
y Washington and the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company against the Pacific
a Coast Marble Company. The grounds
i set forth are error In holding that the
Q lands involved were not the absolute
/ property CT the state of Washington,
n and error in holding that marble Ii
: mineral within the meaning Of the law
y relating to the location and purchase
of mineral claims.
The recent troubles in South Afries
10 have called attention to the fact that
II there is already under way largs
le amount of electrical construction worl
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