Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-11-27
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
PROGRESS IN BUSINESS CIRCLES.
i"""os tame Law Held to He Inco,-
misunderstanding Apples to
honolulu ON n Sailing Vessel
mont"nn's Inheritance Law.

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at Hoqwam with go charter members
The city council of Seattle has elected
|. d. Humes mayor to succeed w y
Woods.
Three prisoners escaped from iaiI at
Mount Vernon by locking in the taller
when he brought their supper.
The attendance at the public schools
OF hendrick has reached 1853.
William OXley was killed at Delta.
falling from wagon and breaking his
neck
The Banner Mining Company at Wal
lace has completed its cabins and has
two men facing up for the tunnel until
the contract for running it is let.
The telephone line which is under con-
struction between hendrick and Pierce
City and Nez Perez will be completed as
far as Leland at once.
The experiment of shipping apples to
Honolulu on Il sailing vessel is being
tried at Port Townsend
The liveliest demand is reported on the
part OF eastern railroads for Washington
fir for car building.
The years shipments of salmon, cod
fish, oats, lime and shingles from Ana
cortes to points outside of this state foots
up in value to $GS0.00O
flathead county, Montana raised 400
600 bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels of
oats and 100000 bushels of barley the
past season, valued at a total of nearly
half a million.
Warrants OH the special school fund for
any particular year, it is held by the at
toney general, must be paid in order of
issue from any funds in the special levy
fund in county treasurers hands to the
credit of the district
Editor F. A. Hazeltine of the South
Bend journal finds himself and wife
somewhat affected by the recent passage
of civil marriage law in the Peruvian
congress. About three years ago Mr.. Ha-
zeltine married a Methodist missionary
then located in Peru, the marriage being
considered illegal there, as neither party
was Catholic.
Eleven Hollanders and two Frenchmen
have formed a colony to file upon land %
miles from North Yakima. There are %
children in the settlement. The head OF
each family contributed $25 towards
sinking an artesian well, work upon
which will be begun at once. The land
selected is wonderfully fertile More
Hollanders from Michigan are expected.
Montana.
A car load of horses has just been ship
ped from Hamilton to PASSPORT, Kan
Missoula's wholesale merchandise bust
ness has been unusually heavy this fall.
Work has been begun on the railroad
south of Whitehall known as the Parrot
& Ruby Valley
1t is estimated that between 900 and
300 fruit trees have been delivered III
Beaverhead county this fall
The wolves and coyotes continue III
great numbers in the upper Sand Coulee
country and are very troubesom, to the
ranchers and stocllmen.
While hunting at Potato Hill lakes
near Phllipsburg the other day, Burt
Tarr GOT within rifle range OF flock OF
10 wild swan, and succeeded in shooting
enc of them, which weighed 10 pounds
The supreme court has sustained the
eonstitutionality of the inheritance law
passed by the last legislature. The law
imnoses a tax of 5 per cent on bequestS
TO any beneficiary not relative, "heie
the estate amounts to over 500.
The report of the Lewiston land Once
for the month of October shows 3'fo'
acres entered under the desert land act
and final proof made on $50 acres ui'u''
that act 20 homestead entries aggreSaI-
;ng 633 acres, and nine homestead
proofs aggregating LAO acres; TWO UNI c
Der culture final proofs agrregatinS %"
acres. and one sale of public lands III
Guiding l2l acres no
Good prices for sheep and cattle nave
had the effect of almost clearing ''ie
ranges in eastern Montana, and Doth cav
tlo mon and wool raisers are alarmed as
thoy do not know where they VIII get
new supply. - +ho Fort
Peck Indian reserve went up ii'to INV
th;ra fourth and sixth points, on the
tT;ssour; river. and killed enough deef
a. God +ba wards of the government iol
tho noxt 10 years In one day out %
one noint, they butchered something IKE
200 deer. l., 10 ho Iaav.
Antelope are again reported to o., De ,o l1rs
ing the Yellowstone park Tor lhe .,n ,U"I
country, where they are re, being ;as slaas Of
tered bv the hunters Inc lesiu'n
the upper Yellowstone are DESTROYS rnts OF an
ford;ng these animals every prolecvion
nrovided by the Montana game laws anu
paua netitioned the board of county com
n n%sG for the appointment OF Spe-
eial game warden for that Sec''on
Idaho.
Probate Judge Clinton of Elm0re , coam,
tv holds the game law invalid declaring
ho ia NOT been passed in con