Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-06-11
THE NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
GLANCE OVER THREE STATES.
Many of the Heaviest Wool Growers
Are Having Their Crops secure"
AT Home-Shipment of Mules Tor
the recommendations Here and
There.

Nineland is to have a $1,000 school
building.
SNOW is four feet deep in the Mount
Baker district.
,od Ignite coal has been found in the
KlRkitat pass.
Ex-confederates took part in Memorial
services at ColfaX.
\ company of volunteers has been or
ganized at Goldendale
Stephen Bloomfield died last week near
Pomeroy, aged So years.
McGregor Brothers are taking $4,000
sheep from Colfax to the Occur d'Alene
reservation for the summer.
lie Roi stock is offered at $3.50 and the
minority is trying to unload before the
new managers take charge.
The English syndicate controls more
than half of the lie Roi mining stock, so
the recent sale cannot be defeated
The young corporal of Company f who
refused to enlist at Camp Rogers was
hanged in efiigy on his return to Dayton.
Six warrants just called by the city
treasurer at Cheney have run so long that
the interest amounts to two-thirds of the
principal.
Grace seminary in Centralia will prob
ably be opened soon. 1t has been closed
two years. The building is owned by the
Baptists and cost $4,000.
Many of the heaviest woolgrowers Of
the state are having their crops secured
at home They are storing it until the
fall. in anticipation of higher prices
The organization of a company of vol
unteers is proceeding rapidly in North
port, under the direction of Capt. a. 6.
Ferrandini. The company will be known
as the Stevens county volunteers.
Leonard Gould, l6-year old boy, and
three companions were horse racing
through the streets of Spokane the other
evening when young Gould was thrown
to the ground. The horse ridden by one
of the others boys stepped on his head,
crushing the life out of him instantly.
Negotiations, which may in a very
short time lead to the consolidation and
sale of all the street ear lines in Seattle,
are in progress and may be closed up at
any time. The capitalists who are inter
ested in what is known as the Traction
company, of Tacoma, are said to be be-
hind the deal.
The formal dedication of the Whitman
monument occurred at Wailatpu, Mem
orial day. Rev. +. NJ. Condit delivered
the dedcatory address. DR.. Myron Eells
and President Penrose of Whitman col
lege made short addresses. Over 200 peo-
pie from Walla Walla and vicinity wit
messed the ceremonies.
The Olympia committee, appointed to
present flag to the cruiser Olympia, has
been advised from Washington that the
navy department will not object to the
gift. However, it is recommended that
the presentation be deferred until the
cruiser visits Olympia, which will be at
the close of the war.
At llwaco, joker hoisted the Spanish
flag over the Stars and Stripes ON the
tagpole of prominent store, and before
the proprietor knew what was going ON
an angry mob entered his place and
threatened all manner of punish ment.
The situation was soon explained and the
matter adjusted by hauling down the vel
low offender.
II. f. Burnett arrested in Spokane on a
charge of murder committed in California
20 years ago, was well known in ColfaX,
where he worked two months as brake
man on the ColfaX Moscow freight train.
Burnett boarded with j. O. Housekeeper
while there, and Mr.. Housekeeper speaks
in the very highest terms of him. He
went by the name of Ed Burnett at Col
fax.
The last chance for a new trial for
Charles Creams, who was convicted in
Tacoma of numbering a half breed woman
named Celia Hansen, has expired After
being found guilty he was sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. 1t was
expected his attorneys would apply for a
rehearing within the specified time. which
has now expired. This was not done and
the prosecution has applied for the com
mitment of the prisoner.
Montana.
Ranch hands get $50 a month in the
valleys.
The Deer Lodge penitentiary is now
lighted by electricity.
Only six per cent of Montana's first call
for troops was rejected.
Sheep owners are confident of a fair
crop of lambs and big yield of wool.
William Jackson, one of the surviving