Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-02-05
NEWS OF THREE STATES.
no1uTs IN SEASONS BUSINESS
ora of Crimes and Accidents
..ber with - Summary of the
happenings In This Part of the
trx-A Look All Around.

.,a;, of a scarcity of smelt.
w,.o thousand tons of 1907 crop OF hay
v;u Re shipped from Palouse, Whitman
emmy this season.
About 100000 eggs have been put IN
- trouohs of the new fish hatchery on
~ white Salmon in Klickitat county.
Whatcom county man has started
.,r 1esiccator, which is producing 5000
onndq of evaporated potatoes daily. Two
r pso,ss are employed and the plant is run
the entire "a hours.
Port CANDLES total foreign cargo ship
ants in December were 1887 feet OF
,.,n,hc, lO5. 375 lath and 100000 shingles
rho total coastwise shipments were l,746,-
acA feet of lumber, 500 400 lath and 20
500 shingles.
The Washington state fish commission
:, A G. Little, is making an examination
Il the Des Chutes river at Tumwater with
view to putting in fish ladder Tor
which an appropriation of $500 was made
hy the last legislature.
Fish Commissioner Little has been pre-
narng his annual report of the fish and
sbellhsh output of the state OF Washing
ton for the past year. His report Will
show the salmon pack of Puget sound as
4e49o6 cases, against 3l2,36l in 1886, an
increase of 1865 cases, or over ID per
cent
A large panther was killed the other
1av near Ludlow by a farmer OF that
section and taken to Port Townsend. The
animal succeeded in killing five OF the
ceurtryman's COWS before bullet ended
his career. Heavy snow and consequent
scarcity of food in the mountains IS drlV-
inc The panthers into the valleys. But re-
Gently one was seen in the suburbs OF
Port Townsend.
The total Indebtedness of the city OF
Montesano on December 81, 1897, was
S47A474l Since the city clerks report
was made, the county treasurer has re-
mitted to the city 81 1884, amount OF
taxes collected during last quarter. This
would reduce the debt to $45 ,30S.47. De
eember 81. 1896, the debt was S45,079'Oo;
December 81, 1895, it was $40, ll9.91.
entralia-County Treasurer Maynard
has lust completed his annual statement
al receipts and disbursements for 1897.
Total collections, $l4l, 1920 disburse-
ments. SIG ,426.36. Receipts, state school
hnd, Sll,478.G5; state general, $l2,-
sG2S: county general, $23,7l5.36; county
bridge, ST GIT. SO; county school, Sl61475;
special school, $40 1886.
Superintendent Brintnall of Thurston
county is in receipt of numerous appllca-
tions from country districts in Ihurston
county for teachers Quite a number OF
the country districts of this county will
have eight months of school, and almost
none of them will stop short of six months
of school for the year. The scarcity of
teachers gives wages an upward tendency.
Yhur4ton county teachers have been
teaching for an average of $25 to $50 per
month in the country districts. The
wages now offered range from $50 to $40
per month, says the Olympian.
Montana.
There ere l22 dentists authorized to
practice in Montana.
William f. Cody, better known the
world over by the cognomen of Buffalo
Bill, with a party of friends is Ell route
for his ranch in the Big Horn basin.
Tn preliminary organization of the Flat
head County Fruit Growers Association
has been effected at Kalispell, Mont,
pwonty-three names were enrolled as
members.
United States District Attorney Leslie
has instituted in the United States court
IA suits against parties accused of illegal
ly fencing the public lands. Most of the
suits brought are against parties living III
Feton, Cascade and Choteau counties.
A horthern Montana wool growing firm
that shipped clip of about $4,000
pounds to Boston last July, has just re-
eeiycd returns on the consignment. 1t
sold for 49, cents in the original bags,
netting the owners 1910 cents, which is
the best result yet reported in this vi
entity.
Range cattle in the Milk river country
are picking up, but need water badly.
Ranch cattle that have been fed and wa
tered are in splendid condition. Wolves
and coyotes are still numerous on the
range and those who have hounds have
Aaa good sport killing these pests.
in an opinion addressed to Rev. George
=, stull of Billings, Methodist minister
Of the gospel, Attorney General c. B. No
IAN holds that all property of churches,
except places of actual public worship,
are subject to taxation AS such church
property as parsonages has been consid-
eleu exempt in almost every county in the
STATE the opinion is of decided interest,
anect'ng as it does almost every church
~ Montana. In conversation with Rev.
mn stull some time ago the attorney gen
eral expressed the opinion that such prop