Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-07-30
NORTHWEST MINOR NEWS
DoINGs IN THREE STATES.
Fruit and Hay Crops Large-De-
crea.e In Assessment Values In
Montana COunties-The Appor-
tionment of Idaho School Money
Looking for a Missing Father.

Looking for mlSslHs
A series of open air meetings is being
held under the auspices of the various
city churches for the benefit OF the large
number of men gathered at Rrtzvllle III
the quest of employment.
Farmers near CrandaH are busy NOW
ing red top and timothy hay. There Is
not very large acreage to cut at present.
Later ON there will be heavy crop OF
red top and low land grass, equal to last
season.
Blaine's school census this year makes
an excellent showing over last year. The
number of children of school age has IN
creased from 255 last year to 403. The
attendance last year in number OF days
was $4,000 and increased this year to
10000.
The fruit crop in the orchards at Han-
sens Ferry will be a large one, Farmers
along the river are pretty well through
haying. The yield per acre was about
three tons, and in few instances reached
over this.
The peaches are ripening so fast on
Purdv F1ints Parker Bottom ranch IN
the Yakima valley that he cannot obtain
enough pickers to place them in shipping
boxes before they are too ripe, and III
consequence he is giving away ripe
peaches by the wagon load to less FORUM
ate friends and neighbors.
L. H. Jansen has returned to Ellens-
burg from his old home i'll Kansas, where
he was summoned to assist i'll search
for his father who disappeared early IN
December. His search was unsuccessful
and it is the general opinion that his
father met foul play, as he had S3OoO
on his person when last seen and was in
the company of three strangers, presum-
ably land buyers
There has never been a time in the his
tory of the Gray's Harbor country when
there was greater demand for laborers
than now. The big jetty is short OF men,
logging camps want them and b. +. lem
pleton needs crew of dykers, all situa-
tons paying good wages, which shows
the country is moving as never before in
a substantial manner. The stores are
doubling up their stocks and working
nights and Sundays to meet the demands.
DR.. ID. A. Smith, who put in salmon
curing plant at Duckabush last year, will
enlarge the factory and engage in the
business more extensively. He took the
output of the plant to South Dakota last
winter and had no trouble in disposing
of it al. -adsome profit. The doctor
Is 1t native OF Scotland where he acquired
the knowledge necessary for the proper
curing of salmon, and now that the en-
pertinent has proven successful he intends
going into it on larger scale.
Practically all the warrants included
in the last call by the state treasurer
have been presented for payment, and no
new forgeries of warrants by George d..
Evans eXdeputy state auditor, have been
discovered. All those included in this
call were known to be in the hands of
various parties i'll Spokane, Seattle, Ia
coma and Portland, and were figured i'll
as forgeries when the matter was first
made public. The total amount of these
warrants thus far presented is $4,000,
$1,000 of which were paid by the treas
Wer, but it is probable that more are
yet afoat
IDAHO.
Sheep men estimate that there are over
100000 sheep in Blaine county.
The assessed valuation of railroad prop
erty in Idaho Falls has been reduced from
$4,000 to $4,000 by the county board of
Heavy fruit traffic on the lower Snake
river has begun and the Steamer Almota
makes about 20 landings now on the trip