The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-28
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.

Reynolds & Davis Of Napavine. will put
In sawmiil at PeEn shortly.
Charley Christian. Ok Auburn. lost his
right eye through the firing pin OF his
shotgun blowing out.
Joseph Martin. committed TO the Medi,
cal Lake asylum from walla Walia, died
there shortly after his arrival.
The Spokane Chamber OF Commerce has
appointed committee to work for the
overland route TO the klondske.
The Cosmopolis Enterprise says that
the towns OF Winlock and CoSmopolis will
have their debts wiped out by January !.
lSsS.
During the past year PuyaIlup has re-
dueed its Indebtedness by $4,000. and when
the taxes now due are paid the town viii
be entirely free from debt.
The Blue Canyon Coal Mining Company.
In Whatcom county. has increased its
were shipped TO Everett Thursday.
Inspector D. n. Littleaeld is temporarily
on the Kingston while the regular man,
ID. w. Bidwell, Is recovering from the eff
fects OF meet" with Inspector Jossey.
The superior court Of Pierce county has
also set aside the assessment of 1897 on the
lots. fixing a valuation of $3.50 per acre.
Twenty-one wagon loads of fat turkeys,
chickens and pigs came into Chehalis on
Monday, brought In by the rancherS to
ship to the Sound towns for Thanksgiving.
Braid and Wood Roberts, two boys iiv-
ing near kalama, got lost while trailing d
wounded deer last week, and spent a cold
night In the woods. The younger boy had
his feet badly frozen.
from Boise, Idaho. to Pendleton, will be
wintered near Pendleton. 1t is said they
Will be shipped to the Kiondike in the
spring to make mutton for the miners.
The Vancouver, Klickitat & Yakima rail-
road was sold at receivers sale last Sat
urday, to satisfy the claims OF the mort
gage bondholders, amounting to $31 $50. 1t
was bid In for the bondholders for SIC. 900.
A Chinese employed by Emil. scharfr. of
Monument, Or, as sheepherder. was as
sauited Monday evening by another sheep
herder, and badly beaten with rocks and
cut with knife SO it is thought he can
not recover.
A number Of prominent hopgrowers in
the vicinity OF Brownsville. Or, are said
to have pooled their hops, and next week
VIII send a man East to dispose OF the
hops. Almost 500 bales are now In the
pool, and more are expected.
There was a wreck near Walla Walla
Thursday. Freight engine No. $50 climbed
the guard rail OF a switch, and. after
tearing along the ties for thirty yards,
over. No one was hurt. but the locomo-
tive was badly damaged.
More than $4,000 has been expended in
permanent improvements in Everett with
IN the last few months. The improvements
house. $50, 900: Commercial Club, 5000;
Schmalz' brick store, $500; Christian
church, 1850; Times office. 500.
The schooner Jennie Thelin has been
Northwestern Lumber Company's dock at
South Bend. About the only damage to
her bottom found was that her shoe was
gone and she needed some caulking, hav-
Ing strained herself on the sands.
'Tekoa is having an egg famine. although
merchants are onering ~ cents a dozen;
but the town Is making large shipments
Of poultry to Wallace, Wardner and other
carries large number OF coops of
ducks, geese. turkeys and chickens TO
the mines. The p.fce is unusually high
for this season of the year.
Sunday night Joseph Mcvey. OF Horn
brook, Or. closed his saloon. and was on
his way home, when he was met, sand
Ragged and robbed of $40 in money. his
watch and gold =, nugget valued at $ss.
the robbery was rendered unconscious by
the assault and did not begin to regain
consciousness until Tuesday evening.
The Pierce Farming Company will next
year harvest 5000 acres of wheat, 1000
more than the season just closed. The
extensions have been made mostly in
Union county, Or. the company not In
sreasing It's nh, holdings on the Umatilla
next season with four combined machines,
that Will be kept busy forty or forty-five
days, the average daily capacity Of each
harvester being about forty acres
William Koehler, a native OF Hanover.
Germany. aged a. was found dead in his
cabin four miles west Of Corvallis Or His
body was half dressed. Life had evidently
been extinct several days. koehier was
last seen alive Sunday afternoon. when a
neighbours boy carried him bread. The
furniture and other articles in the cabin
were upset and scattered about, indicate
ing that the death struggle had been yio-
lent. The coroner, who went to the scene
to investigate, reports that death was the
result of natural causes.
John Horning. who lives on the Toutle
river. not far from Castle Rock, in Cow
litz county, says that he has solved the
problem OF perpetual motion. or rather
has completed his fathers life work. w mich
his fathers father began many years ago
The father and grandfather are both dead
now, but their descendant. the present
John Hornine. says he has finished the in
vention- When | meet a man who will
honestly put up the cash on reasonable
time, | Will produce the proof of what /
claim" says Mr.. Horning