Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-06-05
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY's RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of Cen
eral Interest in Idaho. Montana
and Washington.

/ over 1000 bicycle licenses have been is
sued at Tacoma.
/ Washington state university at Seattle
has graduated a class OF Is members.
A shipment of 200 head of cattle mas
lust been made from Montesano to Butte,
Mont.
J OF the 40 applicants for teachers certif-
icates in Pierce county, % successfully
passed the examination.
The doctors have discovered that BAD
water in the cistern from which the
school is supplied has been the cause of
a large amount of sickness among the pu-
pills at Port Townsend.
Goldendale reports that one Dand OF
1900 sheep, just sheared at Indian Springs,
averaged u pounds of good marketaple
wool
Governor Rogers appointed eX-Mayor
Belt of Spokane Paul D'Heirry of Seattle
and Colonel c. p Ferry of Tacoma rs
members of a commission to represent
this state at the Paris international expo
SitiOn of 1900.
Norman B. Colt, one of the earliest and
Oldest of the citys real estate brokers',
is one of two claimants for $1,000000 of
the estate of the late Samuel Colt, fire
arms manufacturer of Hartford Conn.
The other claimant is James Is. Colt OF
Washington City, a brother of Norman
b. Colt. The two are nephews of the dead
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from the will of the deceased arms manu-
facturer, through, as they claim, undue
influence of the wife, now widow, of their
uncle.
Idaho.
The total assessment of AlturaS county
amounts to $647, III.
The supreme court of the state has de-
cded that a Elard of county commits
sionerS cannot Employ counsel to assist
the district attorney in criminal cases.
The Metzel herd of cattle, numbering
between $500 and 5000 head, are about to
be driven frome the winter range in the
upper Ruby to the summer range in the
Centennial valley.
John Long has been convicted at Silver
City of murderTp the second degree for
killing Thomas Mnnel near Oreana April
I huns 1s'f jari rwo vi0"S trials resulted !"
A party of tourists in special car ar
rived in Boise th% other day. The people
composing the ~s~ty are from Genoa and
Fullerton Neb, There are six families,
20 people in al They left Genoa last
Saturday and made their first stop at
Mountain Home. They are west with the
intention of locating and when they find
a place that suits them they will be the
means of bringing out about 20 families
more.
The five counterfeiters convicted at
Moscow have been sentenced, as follows:
James Eddy sSsars at hard labor Nor in the the
a fine of 5000; John Eddy. IS years at hard
labor in the Detroit house of correction
and 5000 fine; Emmett Taylor. Is years at
hard labor in the Detroit house of correc-
tion and 5000 fine |. w. Spaugh, eight
years at hard labor in the Detroit house
of correction ard 800 fine; Frank FIRE.
leigh, six years at hard labor in the De-
troit house of correction and 800 fine;
Stan Splaugh, two years without hard Ia
Dor in the Detroit house of correction and
$1,000 fine; Newton Eddy, 20 months with
out hard labor at the Detroit house of
correction and $1,000 fine.
Montana.
About $50 horses are already on the Ana
conda race track.
The creamery at Burton is running full
blast and ordinary mich cows are report
ed to bring in to the farmers So a month
per head.
Rapid progress is reported on the re-
pairs on the West Gallatin Irrigation
Companys canal and that % miles are
finished, with water in ready for irriga-
ton.
Two bands of Teton county sheep re-
Gently passed through Fort Benton on
the way to point farther east for shear
ing and shipment. One band numbered
r. 900 head and the other 5000 head.
The county attorney of Cascade county
holds that a police magistrate is entitled
to no compensation IN cases tf1ed DeIore
him when a trial is a violation of the
state law.
The county attorneys Office at Butte
has recently received a communication
from the attorney general calling atten-
ton at the request of the governor, to
the Inheritance tax law, and arguing the
necessity of seeing that its provisions are
observed in the administration of estates
in Silver Bow county
The president of the West Galatin Ir-
rigation Company has been visiting Mon
tana with a view to establishing a beet
sugar refinery, provided he could obtain
the necessary capital 7 he estimated
cost of the machinery and buildings will
be about $500 900, the whole of which can
readily be secured in the east, but it is
thought best to have as much of the
stock as possible owned by Montana peo-
pie, and it was with this end in view
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