The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-14
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.
college opens September u.

Whitman college opens September IL
Trains are uow running regularly be-
tween Spokane and Lewiston. Idaho.
The recons issue Of civic dsben;ureg. aus
lheglEed hy the city of Vancouver. II. c.
requires thak The mayer sigh his name
thereto 9,tso times.
H. :. Wilson has been arrested at New
Westminster on 4 charge os passing two
forged checks which had tho signature Of
John Heaary attached
Three children Of one family In South
Bend picked ard sold during the season
24s gallons Of Wild h,ackberriss and thirty
Ive gallons OF other berries. earning there
by ABOUT siso.
The British steamship Manauense. after
making two or thTee more voyages into
northern waters. viii, II is understood. be
placed as direct boat between Vancouver.
Victoria and San Francisco.
Farmers around OakesdaIe are complain
Ing OF daily theets committed by travellers
and haryesters from the WalIa Waiia and
Eastern oregon districts. The thieves do
hot hss,nis T. enter s s1asa s ss IN - The
some instances newly throxhea grain in
sack.
Rev. Allen W. whaley. "a colored min
lister. WIG oihe!ated az pastor Of tho
afterwards at Seattle. and who later ere
ated "a sensation by leaving the ministry
FOR the law. Is now under arrest In Boston
charged with obtaining money under false
pfetsnses.
VI. Wachsmuth Of Oystervllie, has by
close observation settled a mach disputed
point as 70 the growth of oysters. He has
discovered that oysters vii attain the sizo
81 a hNcent piece within three months from
| the time the spawn IA deposited. 1t has
/ hitherto heen consended that II wonld take
year for them to grow that size.
Major" a pretty well known Indian,
who arrived IN Yakima last week 10 pick
hops and help paint things at the fair.
nearly killed,a nnarshai and two inotyensive
Citizens at Nenai hee last Monday. wi!a
en- route there. He was drunk ana spelling
crowd ard made few lungee with knits
at u hys;ander. hut fortunately hurt no.
bouy. lie VAS cent racing out OF that burg
70 the tune OF rife and revolver bullets
fired with intent TO kill.
About q year ago Charles s. Rughes. a.,
energetic and exemplary young man. q
years Of age. left his widowed mother In
souih Portland and started for the kion-
aike Portland wholesale house. fur
nisned him with an ample outfit on time
The ether day his mother received n letter
from him enclosing draft In fun paymen,
Of MS Portland Obligations. In addition hi.
renitted sl.ata to pay note OF mis- father,
Who die! In San Francisco two years ag.
He writes that his Alaska adventure viii
net him AZ least $500 and that ha Ia
coming home this fall TO e.. married
The long contested case over the lard
known as the oid Mission" -ip the Anita
closed 10 lot No. by me issuance OF \
patent 10 the Catholic bishop. The satho-
has have not had possession OF the prom
cry Tor several years, but & IL now prom
ape they VIII reoccuuy II. wins Smith ia
tire contestant for THIS lot and while he
ioaes hts Hfst Gaze he has another contest
against the second subdivision OF the orig
nal Catholic fling TIE leg for which pat
ground upon which the old Log house 20
long stood.