The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-18
>oRTHwEST NEWS NOTES.

R:eceeiyer Powell las, week. in Yakima.
sold 30 ~ the suiDes horses for S3.5oe
A blizzard ragged in the Palouse country
the latter part Of the week. Snow drifted
badly am travel was iUpedci
VI u ana " T. Hurnes Of New York.
while hunting Ia the Olympics. few sniie@
Np the Elisha. ran into a hand Of forty
e.k They satisfied themselves with one
i'm" bull. although they coald have killed
a dozen
The estimate Of the .ninsral production
Office. gives me following figures. Gold.
800 Aa3 silver, s. 1ieDA lead s. 90 lso:
total &i3,uo,ea. an Increase over 1885 Of
:l.&5S 155.
The long-delaved Whitman memorial
slab whi0h Is 70 be placed over he grave
Wala. The slab j. l1te fec, high, ~
inches Wide and inches thick ana weighs
agA pounds.
The suspension bridge over Big Fan
ist"d. tie p"ti'ioncr~ for the ht3dSe hav-
irG Furnished everything t7r fhe t~.1Ee
szeept The eaals Tbs snan Of tn fridge.
joan Jordan sr and John Jordan tr.
we're arrested q Pcint Roberts charged
with selling 5tQSCr without license. Tire
caee against shs eIder ,f'dan was noe
g1lJy and was fined SSG wbica 80 pail
\ man n2meI Frank Boar3naa is iata
t1n IN Moor S lodging house ~ T-}iCusae'l~n
N3th , crushed mp, caused hy i1c
thrown from SLED attarht3 20 r7oavray
Feam II sh~ A~aast1sS cauy0r He was
discovered ae t'hariaz Morgan aud braucht
80 toNn fer medical :rsr.rnCrt.
Rerulok McCas7vtoa ard waiter T.eff,ia.
ar0f J; ara =. ara whose home Is iu Occur
d A}ef%. Ed7AG passed through 'ce Ea(0Nss
coyutTy GO kors back. erd broks {nto auF
robbed several he ees - -3a3-e They ws~=
rested III po~7eFcy. mitch ~ t}e stolen
prcusrf% recovered and were brought back
% Caifax for trial
The 4-vear-ol3 daughter = /. II Darn.
Nttn~ rsar Sos}.hw{ek Idsha met w;.h
ter~.ble fit- "wednesday morning. Sv b.irs
burned ~ death TIE child Was IN room
nv itself. 10 which there Is = IireDl2ce- ard
II s9oae 4nk2oN 2 manner h.r clo. ;s
she Vas Hurncf 70 death.
I. Is reported that range horaes n East
ern Washington arc dying OF from Starva-
of winter an8 the craSted snow nrrvFn
1awine. The winter has pat casn severe
enough - Ca1ses much suffering among
stock bn, n fAe wholesale diving NJ true <
can be attributed "a starvation.
The puT shIrz'e u,E1 a. kei~o. Ass }ee2
rented ~ Thinker & Brewer 40 Castle
Rock. who VII take possession about the
~ bolts a. tho mouth of he CoxNez river.
art they vii 10 brought 20 che mill on
Slows snd g; into sa,neSles Tue, flrm
hoard rsost 81 the men.
C;us Miller and Al Italian, ho5n former
corvlcts have been arrested ia WaHa
Malta In the cabin where thrv lived tge-s
was gouuG y" pounds - -four and r WAGON
las$ ~ groceries. valued n SO Tfa
r~0Tertv vas stosRn from Thcunss T.
poyIe's resideeee ana from Dement, Bvos
warehcrs> The 8lsn stoutIy protested
tAsir Innocence but Ni,leVs wife confessed
their gG.tt.
The pioneers - COOS AMI Curry co;ln-
tiSS up. have under way tha compilation
- history NJ the earsy settlement Of that
portion Of the state. TIE bistrisn hss col
lacted @orSA data and statistics - sac In
dan ws~ Of 1875 nor heretofore published.
TIE wcrk - Under she SlpaTV 80 zH II 4
cogE T1ittess ~ pi0reerS. and Il Is exgectcti
that IL w53 he a YeatRh3e one orvIt beige.
a pioneer Is ire compiler Of the n story
ana as off{Ee a. Myrtle Pctat Is The center
- Interest a. :Ge early settlers.