The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-15
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.

NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.
A farmers meeting is called to convene
al Deming next Saturday.
Mayor-esecs Sparks. Of Tekoa. occupies
the position Of constable and city clerk
Rev. o. s. Haines has been ordained pas
tor Of the Congregational church at Fern
dale
Mayor f. p. o.mzseasi. OF Spokane. has
gone TO the Sandwich islands IA the hope
of regaining his health
A $eso dwelling for the lighthouse at
DnnSenesS has been recommended By the
secretary % the treasury.
The new city officers OF Garfield are
pledged IN favor Of 10 license and for i'm
proving the water system. streets and side
walks.
With the beginning OF the new year the
county win pay bounty GA cayoees, Wild
cats and lynx killed in Yakima. OF - cents
per scalp
John Rcst, = pioneer business man at
Roeeburg, Or. died Thursday night of
Bright's disease He has lived in Rose
burg since fst4-
round up at Spokane OF gamblers,
keepers OF nsekel-in-the-slot machines and
fallen women, Melted the city treasury re-
Gently over n.3n.
The government telegraph ONCE at
Pysht Will be moved next month 20 Twin
Rivers. in Ciallam county. and located
there permanently.
The olympia Bicycle Path Association
has expended E5s.7S the past year in build
Ing pathways and improving the ap-
proaches TO this city.
Spring Creek e.eamery. Ellensburu. T. p.
Sharp. proprietor, has made 0.000 pounds
e sasssr and pSunas Of ch ,ss from
Residents OF Republic, the new mining
camp. want Stevens county divided, and
viii petition the legislature to that effect
At present Republic ID eighty-five miles
from the county seat.
Her majesty's land forces both at Ee-
Qutmalt and Halifax are TO be increased,
the Steamship 0aliia having been chartered
to leave Portsmouth on December 10 with
SO additional men for the two stations
The big steel bridge now in course of
tween Vineland. Wash. and Lewiston,
Idaho, Is to be .4SS feet long and 50 feet
above high water. The total cost will be
t1iA000.
at the Royal Columbian hospital at New
Westminster was one OF the pioneers of
British Columbia an old 50 miner. He
had been an inmate Of the hospital during
the past two years
H c. butcher, owner OF the traction
engine which recently went through the
old Waddell bridge near olympia, has
sued Thurston county In the sum OF ST.
55s.75. claiming that the county ia response
bic for the accident.
iege condemned and ordered to be shot
recently. three horses belonging to Chas.
Gnavaugh. who lives near Alto. Two other
horses have been placed under quarantine.
The horses have the glanderA
A petition is being circulated ana freely
signed asking the legislature to approprf-
ate $500 for the determination Of the Rus
sian thistle. Considerable interest IL be-
ing taken in the matter, and large pet-
ton will be presented when the legislature
meets.
The work OF laying steel rails on the
Colfax- Moscow branch is still IN progress.
but Will be discontinued In few days The
steel ones as far as Guy. The crew ex-
poets TO reach a point three miles below
Pullman before stopping.
While returning home to his ranch from
a trip to Huntington. James Martin lost
his way ana wandered around TIL ne be-
came tired out and finally laid down by the
side of the road. When he was found the
next day by the Malheur City stage driver
he was unconscious and his feet were
frozen
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Saunders, OF Yakima, while playing with
a wire. managed to run the sharp instru-
evidently to pierce the brain. Physicians
were promptly called in and everything
possible done for the little sufferer but
without avail, as death soon same to his
relief.
Justice of the Peace Banks. of Everett,
served notice on County Auditor Headlee
that he had applied TO the judge OF the
superior court for a writ OF attachment
charging Mr.. Headlee with contempt of
court In not issuing warrants in accord
ance with the decision OF the superior
court in the justices case.
The Auburn Argus says: During a pro-
tracted spree last. week j. C.. Cleavy, OF
Fir Grove, disposed of his ranch. valued at
about 81 900, for S.s. Cieavy's friends, hear
ing OF his foolish deal, hunted him up,
finally locating him in Auburn. The pur-
chaser Will be made to return II, for the
reason that Cleavy was so crazed from ex-
cessave drinking that he did not know what
he was doing.
Judge Fullerton will have to get along
with one az In his name, so far as his
official connection with the state IL con-
cerned. during the next six years. says the
Oiympian. in certifying his name as
nominee OF the Republican state CONVEX
ton. its secretary spelled his name "F'ule:-
tom and in this name he will have his
certificate issued and warrants drawn dur
ing his term OF ONCE.
II. A. Griffin. of North Yakima. has
valuable curiosity in the way OF an Indian
highly, and for which he has been offered
a tempting price. Ii is of antelope skin.
and so heavily beaded that the Indians
property OF sitting Bull and was captured
by Gen. Miles. who presented il To the late
Mrs. Griffin, then employed by the govern
ment as an instructress on the Sioux reser-
walton.
A vineland, Asotin county. correspond
ent. writes that strawberries there Las.
summer paid growers over $50 an acre.
and they failed 20 meet the demand from
Lewiston and the hin towns. Melons were
easier 10 grow--as easy rs potatoes, and
paid Sis net and more per acre The yield
is wonderful. Onions and all other high
grade vegetables pay handsomely Next
season the direct railroad connections with
Spokane and other markets viii greatly In
crease the demand.
A marriage ceremony has been solcna-
mixed on the top OF mountain in East
kootenay. The local paper says that a
pretty wedding ceremony was soIemnized
at the Sullivan mine on Thursday, Novcm-
Der q. Mr.. Edwin Smith and Mrs. Ellen
Mott were the contracting parties. The
event Was attended by a number OF init
mate friends OF the contracting parties
and was the farst marriage ceremony per-
formed on the mountain top In East
Kootenay.
The necessity OF keeping an eye open in
stamping documents on which tribute Is
laid by the war revenue measure WAS made
manifest the other day to Corvallis. Ore
Eon, man. who bought a mortgages to