Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-08-07
NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
NEWS ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON
MONTANA AND IDAHO.
o,.niur of the Yakima indian RES
o,,on-snIe of All the Prunes
Around Kendrick.

The Seattle Post-lntell1gencer mas peeh
sold to George U. Piper and his brother
Edward b. Upper, for 100000. The PIP,
ers have for several years been connected
with the Oregonian.
Representatives of eastern hop buying
firms have been in Chehalis displaying Il
oroat deal of eagerness to make contracts
for the 1897 crop.
Tacoma reports that sockeye salmon
have started to run unusually early thiS
season and the run promises to be extra
ordinarily large.
The new school directors of district
No. |. in Thurston county, have made
horizontal cut of $40 in the salaries OF
teachers in the public schools.
The contractors for the government
lighthouse at Westport have the foun-
dation for the keepers house about com
pletcd.
The lumber yards of Ritzville are un-
able to fill their orders, owing to the fact
tnat nearly all the farmers are doing
more or less building.
Several parties are making arrange
ments to erect a dry house near Sterling
in which to take care of the surplus
amount of fruit raised in Skagit county
The pententiary at McNeill's island
will be condemned and the federal gov
eminent will make arrangements with
the state to keep its prisoners at Walld
Wala.
There is in Spokane county $22,229,3S4
worth of real estate and improvements
according to the assessment Just com
pleted by County Assessor Daniels. OF
this S20,96l 3l3 will be taxed and 81 PCS,
OIL will be exempt, being government
land, school land, church property, etc.
The value of real estate and improve
ments of Spokane city are $l7,0l4,90S.
Judge Carroll of the superior court az
Tacoma has issued an order denying the
legality of the collection of delinquent
taxes prior to June 80, 1895, the court
holding that the debt came under the
statute of limitations and could not be
collected The loss to the county Is
about 100000 The supreme court will
pass on the matter
Judge Williamson of the Pierce coun-
ty superior court has filed an opinion
on the new mortgage law, passed by
the last legislature, which would imply
that the law was unconstitutional and
without effect BY this ruling the court
has ordered the sheriff to act under the
old sale law in the foreclosure of mort
gagged property where the contract was
made prior to June 8, 1897. The opinion
is much the same as that rendered by
Judges Prather and Richardson of Spo
kane county and Judge Mcdonald of
Whitman county, sitting en- banc.
Idaho.
A Joint teachers institute of Kootenai
and Shoshone counties will be held At
Rathdrum beginning August Is and end
ing August 20 inclusive,
Harry l.. Smith, brakeman lost his
life at Nampa while switching. He caught /.
his foot in frog and fell under the cars. (
one leg being terribly crushed. He died
about two hours after.
/. s. Pond of Gentle valley, Ban
mock county, and Thomas Preston of
Weston, Oneida county, have been
spending a few days in Boise. The gen
tlemen are elders of the Mormon church
and their mission is to establish Nor /
mon church in that city.
The Sunday school convention at
Boise elected the following officers Presi
dent, Ii. E. Neal, Boise; secretary, +. C. .
Cook, Boise; treasurer, Mrs. Burton,
Boise; corresponding secretary, Junius
Wright, Boise; first vice president, Mrs. .
j. Ii. Barton, Caldwell second vice pres-
dent, f. f. Kirkland, Pocatello; third
vice president, j. j. Schwartz, Moscow.
The incorporators of the Snake River
Valley Telephone Company held meet
ing at ReXburg and elected officers. The
old telephone poles which were set in the
ground three years ago have been pur-
chased and the system will be in opera
ton inside of 60 days. The following
points will be reached on the line: Me
nan, Rexburg, Salem, MILFORD, Teton and
st. Anthony. Other connections will be
made as fast az possible
Montana.
Attorney General Nolan holds that bet
ting on horse racing is not gambling in
the eyes of the Montana law.
The Helena Independent has passed
into the hands of John S. NJ Neill, the
former surveyor general of the state.
p. j. Moore of the Little Elk, ON the
is better than it has been for % years.
About 300 men are at work in the
mines at Aldridge and about the coke
works at Hom. Everything is running
full blast.
At Great Falls the brewers license is
raised for those of the first class to $75
per quarter. The license of the wholesale
liquor men is raised to the same as that