Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-01-08
POINTS IN NORTHWEST NEWS
.rs1NEss OUTLOOK GENERALLY
..rations for the Rush to Al"sk"
s.ock Interests in Montana
.ou branch of the Northern
pac,fic-Facts From british 90
Iumbia.

'ii Tacoma firm is making portable
.onaa 1890 feet, to be shipped to Skaguay
eor railroad contractor.
councilman w. ID. Lambert OF Wala
uolIo is dead He was born in England
- 1898 came to California in 1852, and to
wolla Walla in 1868.
R. Hawk, a pioneer of Washington,
,;od at his home, four miles south of Roy,
- Pierce county, the other day. Mr..
Hawk came overland to Washington with
h;s parents in 1852 and was widely known
throughout the state.
Tacoma man has closed a contract
eor three twinscrew steamers for use on
7 axe Teslin in connection with the Stick
o,n river trade The boats are expected
70 make l6 knots an hour.
Wheat is beginning to move in linn
tied way at Rosalia, in Whitman county,
hut the sales are kept pretty quiet; they
arc in he neighborhood of 50 cents for No.
and 63 to "a cents for good to choice
No.2.
The transportation companies are eX-
neriencing a demand for freight space
which is giving them more than they can
handle by the steamers now on the route
between Seattle and Alaska ports.
Tvee salmon are running fairly well in
ouartermaster harbor. They are there in
greater numbers than any other place in
that part of Puget sound, being attracted
10 the locality to feed on the Numerous
herring that frequent that harbor.
The mammoth tramp Steamship Algoa
has lust sailed from Tacoma with the
largest cargo of grain ever loaded in
single bottom. The cargo comprises H.
$50 short tor American) tons of Washing
ton wheat, amounting to 81 800 bushels,
and valued at $4,000.
The state board of audit and control
has decided to raise the price of sacks
made at the penitentiary jute mill from
S525 to $40 per 100. 1t is claimed that
the mill ought to pay interest on the
money invested
South Bend reports that during the
food of last week the log boom i'll the
WiIapa and North rivers broke, and the
former freed million and half feet of
they reached the pay by parties in every
Imaginable kind of floating craft. The
boom in Smith creek, containing 2OOO
feetof logs, also broke, but they fortunate
" tanned and few were lost.
Commissioner Hermann of the general
land office has decided that no entries or
disposas of any non-mineral lands in the
north of the Colville Indian reservation i'll
Washington can be effected until after
the lands are surveyed and the presidents
! proclamation is issued opening the same
to entry. As to issuing permits to cut
timber off such lands, he holds that 1T
caS1 not be done Timber cutting is UNI
lawful until after entries are allowed, eX-
eept as to timber growing on mineral
claims and for use in the ordinary work
ing of such claims.
The records in the office of Treasurer
Alexander of Clarke county show the to-
tai collections for taxes i'll that county
during October and November amounted
to over $4,000 OF this amount about
$4,000 for for delinquent taxes for years
prior to 1896 The collections made dur
ing the first half of the year brought the
total collections of 1896 taxes up to about
$4,000 The levy for 1896 was $4,000.
The amount of delinquent taxes for the
year is 100000, a smaller amount i'll pro
portion to the amount levied than for
number of years