The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-26
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.

NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
-Four kg.ns are row burning at Roche
harbor-
The public schools Of PEEL are fun
TO oycr1owsng.
The legislature meets the second Mon
day in January.
The Mount Vernon Rural Home has sus-
pended publication.
A cheese factory Is being successfully
operated at Lyndsn-
James Avery. Of Olympia, has been
granted a pension Of = par month.
The new term OF the state agricultural
college at Pullman will begin January g.
The horse packing establishment at
Llnutoa Or. has closed down for the
sea son
H G.. De Pledge, of Pullman. has been
appointed a deputy in the tre4surers Of
fee of Whitman county.
The epidemic Of iiphtheria at walla
Walia has been abated. There are no
cases now in that city.
The Everett Electric Light Company
has agreed to furnish the free reading
rooms Of Everett light gratis.
The Whitman County Poultry Associa-
ton is arranging TO hold poultry show
in colfax, January IL. 10 and II.
A tonsoria. artist a. Washougal exhibits
the following sign in his shop. IF you
can't raise 10 cents, raise whiskers,
On three successive dees recently a
large log raft was tos@d pGt OF Skamok-
ava. the three nggresating 10000 feet.
There were 81 money orslers sold al the
Goldendale posfo.tice during the month OF
November. sggregating the SUN of Sla.61i.
The Goldendale pos;ofiiee viii be in
creased on January !. from a fourth class
TO a presidential Office with salary OF
leo.
A salmon trout weighing twenty pounds
was caught with hook and line in
Snake river by DIR. Steer, OF Asotin, last
Friday.
A defective fiue set the home of c. +.
Clark on fire al Elberton Saturday, but
bucket brigade soon Quenched II with nt-
tie damage.
There seems 20 BE a general shortage in
the Pa.ouse county potato crcp this year
and those having potatoes are getting
fancy prices.
County Treasurer Frost. of Olympia,
was married last Thursday 10 Mrs. Cath
crime A. Turner. Justice Charles -. KING
performed the ceremony.
At Garfield considerable timothy hay in
ba.e IL being hauled in since the shedding
became good for shipment. 1t is worth s.
a ton. Grain hay is worth s.
The Second National bank of CoIfax has
sold to ]. E Triulble of Garfield, for
S45sD the two-story brick In that town
now occupied by Il. II. Field Co.
Nathaniel c. Richardson, prominent
pioneer farmer living near Hiilsboro Or.
died Friday morning. after an illness OF
but few days. he was born in lsos.
1t il proposed to have a goat show in
North Yamhill. Or. in the spring, from
three to five out OF each band being ex
hibited and sheared. under the inspection
OF judges.
Measles have taken a new hold upon the
community at Cheney, the following
families being at present afflicted: J. y.
Irby w +. Mills, John Skinner. +. +.
Fellows A. l. Davis, Herman Zeatzska,
and A. c. Plaster.
Tuesday night the big barn belonging
10 Mr. j. b. McDougal. OF Oriliia, burn
ed 10 the ground. Four head OF horses.
30 bushels OF apples farming tools and a
large amount of hay and grain were con-
sumed by the names.
The plat TO the fractional township 80
north. range east, has been received ut
the United States land office. Seattle. and
wiE be filed on January IS 1899 and the
lands contained therein will be open for
entry on and after that date.
IL. g Converse. formerly chief account
ant of the Grays Harbor Commercial
Company. Cosmopolis. is now confined in
u state institution at Jacksonville. Ill.
His physician states that he has paresis
and holds out no hope for his recovery.
J. F. Wood of Whatcom, has received
a beautifully engraved gold medal award
cd him for the best display OF apples at
the Omaha exposition. some OF the fruit
was from Orcas island. but most OF ii
came tom the Nooksack valley.
Peter t,owan. OF the Cmpqua Or, life
saving station, reports that the crew of
the station had picked vi and buried
twelve bodies from the wrecked AtaIanta,
and that eight more bodies had been pick
ga up by members Of the faQuina sta
tion.
Mrs Josie Carrau OF Sathlamet. Or. Is
residing in thu county iaii. awaiting trial
In the United States court. on charge
of sending obscene matter through the
mails. A comic valentine sent To Mrs.
Alice Wamplsr. a neighbor. Is the cause
of her trouble.
The Democrats of Walla Wa!la are
making preparations To observe Jackson
,3ay with a big banquet. on January 7. IL
f. said that they viii take advantages OF
the occasion to lay the foundation for the
reorganization OF the party and To en-
phaticaily declare against fusion.
Upon auditing the accounts OF III. X.
Sthl.y agent of the Seattle Il lnteTDa-
tlonal Railway Company at Sumas, who
committed suicide at that place the latter
part Of last week. has been found short
ia his accounts with the company. which
furnishes q motive 10 the suicide.
w H. Young hai q valuable cow killed
nv lightning Monday al Castle Rock dur
ing "A thunder shower. The cow was stand
ing un8ev tree which the lightning
struck This IS the first instance where
any Animal Is known To have been killed
BY lightning In thar part 81 the country.
a party under the supervision OF II. y.
Grow representing she United States
geological survey is working in the neigh
h0raood az Cheney. aa,ertainlDg she alti-
ttae - different points and gathering
g; her data for use In making topogfaph-
teal maps This party. whteh IS bEt one
Of many that have been In tn" field for
Vtnrs In Ghe Interest os this great work
takes the altitude AZ least once in every
satiarf MIR. of territory. Cheney Is the
s{xhes, point between the Rockies and the
! Cascades. excepting places In the foothills
| Of TIA, mountain ranges and IT, $40 feet