Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-04-09
NEWS OF THREE STATES
ARE PAYING OFF MORTGAGES
Sales of Railroad Lands in Montana
-FiftH-Five of the $50 Names on
the Fremont County, Idaho, Jury
List Are Those of Women.

taking their nets out OF the wafer
The superintendent of the jetty work at
Gray's harbor entrance says that tully
1000 feet of work will be built this year,
Governor Rogers has appointed PROBES
sor /. d. Goshall of Everett member of
the board of regents of the state unYer-
sitv for the term ending March, 1904.
vice b. /. Houston, of Tacoma, term eN-
PRED
Auditor Mann of Douglas county has
figured up the amount of debt Cancelled
bv paving off mortgages in Douglas con-
ty from January |, 1897 to March q,
1898, and finds it as follows: Real estate
mortgages, $53, OH: chattel mortgages,
S27, 1879; total $80,243.
William Rice Dunbar, who has been APP
pointed register of the land office at Van
couver Wash, was born in Schuyler
county. ILL.,. April !, 1899. He crossed the
plains with his parents in 1916 to Oregon.
His father, Rice Dunbar, was one OF the
first pioneers to file on a donation claim
in the Waldo hills, near Salem, Ore.
During the Il months ending March 81
there were 1874 deaths in Spokane and 5l3
births While all deaths are reported and
included in this statement, large por-
ton of the births are not. On these fig
ures it will be seen that Spokane, calcu-
lating on a basis of population of 10000,
has death rate of $50 and a birth rate
of 1892 in 1000.
The postoffice reports for the fiscal year
ending last night show a wonderful in
crease i'll business at ColfaX, and receipts
are now large enough to advance the Of
flee from third to second class. The re-
ceipts for the year were $SO25. This will
affect the change in the class and increase
the Dostmastel's salary from $1,000 to
$4,000 per year, beside increasing the al
lowance for clerk hire, rent, etc, about
5000 per annum.
Pierce county has begun suit against
] Sheriff Mills and 400 other defendants,
who occupy or claim some title or inter
est in 50 acres of land comprising part of
the Tacoma Niger tract" The county
seeks to esta blish its right to an undivided
/ one-siXth interest in such 50 acres by
/ operation of the law of escheat. 1t al
leges that in 1879 one George Luviney,
who owned such one-siXth interest died
leaving no heirs; that D. b. Hannah was
/ appointed administrator Of such estate
in 1888, and in 1855 the probate court
decreed that Luvney's interest escheated,
from which no appeal was made.
! Out of a total of 1899 foreign born in
Tacoma but one first saw the light of day
in Spain.
The Vancouver saw mills have secured
contract for 100000 feet of lumber,
which will be used in the construction of
a wharf at Fishers rock quarry
! Wheat receipts at Tacoma for March
have amounted to $50 cars, according to
Inspector Wrght's report for the month.
! The total receipts to date, since Septem-
/ Der ! amount to 96l6 cars, or 7,269,69S
bushels. 1t is estimated that abou4 3
/ 100000 bushels will yet bes hipped before
/ the season closes.
! Word has been received at Vancouver
of the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the 18th infantry. He died on
/ the evening of March 10, of eerebro-s spinal
meningitis, after an illness of only three
days. A letter from Dyea says that he
was strong robust and healthy up to the
| hour of being taken with the disease,
and his unexpected and untimely death
has plunged the regiment into grief and
alarm.
John p Anderson, more familiarly
''Pete" Anderson, one of the Puget sound
pioneers, died the other day at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Rogers, after
few days of intense suffering with
pneumonia. Mr.. Anderson was an old
steamboat captain on the sound, and sery-
ed a term several years ago as surveyor
of Snohomish county. He was one of
the pathfinders of this country, being IA
miliar with every square mile OF its terri
tory, and for several years has followed
timber cruising and private surveying.
He leaves quite a large family OF chill
dren, all grown, his wife having died
several years ago. He was about I'll
years old.
Montana.
The lists of County Assessor Daniel
show that the sales of railroad lands IN
Park County during the past year amount
to nearly 5000 acres.
The city council of Kalispell has re-
Suced salaries. That of the police Judge
was cut form $25 to SIS, and the mar
shall from $S5 to SIS.
Complaint comes from Havre that the
poison scattered over the pralres Tor the
purpose of destroying wolves is playing
havoc with the hounds used for the same
purpose. ....
The longest telephone communication
in the world will be established this sum-