Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-11-20
NORTHWEST IA.PARAGRAPHS
NEWS GATHERED AND CONDENSED
Fruit Shipments and Grain Receipts
-MOntana's Soldiers HOme-Ida-
hos Insane Asylum - Notes i'm
General.

! Seattle merchants are complaining of
an increase in rents
! Vancouver is shipping about six car
loads of prunes week.
The women of Chehalis are interesting
themselves in the cleaning of the towns
! streets.
About 25 carloads of wheat were ship
ped from Mabton, Yakima county, during
October
A steamship line is to be put on next
summer tbeween New Whatcom and
Dawson City.
Most of the wheat tributary to Gar
field has been hauled in, not more than
one-fourth being left to be delivered.
Six sections of pasture land belonging
to the state have been leased by the Co
lumbia county auditor They brought
from SIP to $40 per section a year.
The receipts of the Everett customs
house for the last month were $l6,26S.2l,
which is the largest months business
that has ever been done in the history of
the office.
w. IL. Brown, insect inspector of fruit
pests for King county, has made the
alarming discovery that the perncious
San Jose scale, the greatest of fruit pests,
has at last gained foothold in King
county
Much comment is being caused by the
report that there is a probability of work
being resumed on the proposed railroad
from Portland and Seattle and Tacoma,
practically paralleling the Northern Pa
cifc track. The opinion at Seattle seems
to be that President Hill of the Great
Northern is back of the scheme.
A New England party of II men, whose
ultimate destination is yelled in mystery.
have arrived at Seattle The party is
headed by +. Herbert Haincs of Salem,
Mass, who will only vouchsafe the in
definite information that his party is
headed for the Copper river country, Alas
ka, where great amount of gold awaits
them.
1t is reported that the Great Northern
railway has engineers in the field making
surveys for cutoff from the main line,
by which a new entrance will be obtained
to Seattle through Cherry Valley. This
valley starts the slope of the west side
of the Cascade mountains 1t will bring
the road to Seattle by saving of several
miles.
The steamer City of Seattle has just
sailed for Skaguay and Dyea with 10
passengers and full cargo of freight. The
latter includes 81 head of cattle belonging
to the Smith party, which will attempt
to drive them over the Dalton trail. The
vessel also took out carload Of machin-
cry for the Chilkoot Tramway Company,
which is building a road across the pass
idaho.
Senator Heitfeld and family have left
Lewiston for the national capital
Boise valley has shipped ll6 carloads OF
fruit the present season.
There are 100000 bushels of wheat
vet unthrcshed on the Nez Perez reserva-
ton.
Bonner's Ferry reports that Great
Northern officials are looking up the mat
ter of opening IA stone quarry at Gale
ma Landing
A Squaw Butte rancher, near Emmett,
had quite a crop of black walnuts, white
walnuts, or butternuts, and japanese wal
nuts on his farm this season.
Considerable whiskey is being INTRO
duced on the Nez Perez reservation by
white men from the towns OF Camas pral-
RE.
The report of the business transacted
/ in the Lewiston land Office for the month
/ of October is as follows; titty-elght
home entries, S00443 acres: II final home
entries, 250395 acres; cash entries,
l6602 acres; state selections, GAO acres;
contests filed; total receipts, 81 lSr0o.
/ The following are some figures from
the last quarterly report of the asylum
for the insane at Blackfoot Number OF
patients received during quarter ending
October Is, IS; number of patients DIS
charged, 10; number of patients died z;
number of patients remaining, male, ITO;
( female, 60; total, us.
Governor Steunenberg has received the
resignation of John Jackson, commission
err for the Third district of Washington
county. His successor will be appointed
/ in short time. The reason for the reslg-
nation is not stated in the otficlal com
munication, but it is understood MI
Jackson is going to Alaska.
/ Montana.
Hundreds of prospectors make their
winter quarters in Butte.
John Gaeble, one of Butte's best known
labor leaders and editor of the Butte by
stander, is dead
There are "a inmates in Montana sol
diers home at Columbia Falls ana seven
applications ON hand, with places 1or only
about four more.