Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-04-23
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO MONTANA
Cattle Owners Giving More Attention
TO the improvement of Their
Herds-New Telephone Line In
Idaho-MOntanR Men Who Wish
10 Go to Wnr-News of NeighbOrs
who Are in the KlOndike COun-
try.

Asotin county cattle owners are giving
more attention to improving their herds
than they have ever before.
Sunnyside farmers, in Yakima county,
are all busy with their spring work, and
quite number are preparing to SOW large
areas Of alfalfa.
Farming is well advanced in the Bick-
elton country and some are about done
seeding Sheep camps report good lamb
ing this spring.
The organization of company of vol
unteers has been completed in New
Whatcom by the mastering of 80 mem
beers, SO of whom are sons of veterans.
/ Cargo shipments of lumber from
| Grays Harbor during the month of
March were: Hoquiam, II cargoes, 4,553,-
600 feet; Aberdeen, cargoes 2,l75,000
feet, Cosmopolis, cargoes, 100000
feet; total, 8,748,OO0 feet.
Treasurer Huntley of Centralia has just
issued his quarterly report. The city has
| $50 1854 in warrants outstanding and
$4,000 in bonds sold for the purchase of
the electric light plant two years since.
| This is the entire debt of the city,
amounting to $43,675.44.
Six healthy, husky, energetic Salvation
Army officers will leave Spokane May 4
for the Klondike They 60 on a relief
expedition, but one not like those that
have preceded it and failed. Theirs is to
carry the gospel to the people OF the Yu-
on; their mission to relieve and lessen as
far as possible the evil influences Of a
wild frontier life.
Fees were collected by Clarke county
officers during March and turned into the
treasury as follows: Auditor, $234.25;
clerk, Sl3O.O5. One hundred and ten in
struments were recorded by the county
auditor during the month. as follows
Deeds, patents, bonds for deeds, etc, 60;
mortgages, liens, etc, 80; mortgage salts
factions, 6; miscellaneous, IA.
There were IS deaths in Seattle last
month, a number larger than has ever
before been recorded in any one month,
except in March, 1891, when there were
50 deaths. 1t is also important to note
that Is people succumbed to pneumonia
alone Seventy one cases of infectious
diseases were reported, as follows: Diph-
liberia, Is; scarlet fever, IL; measles, "a f.;
typhoid fever, 4; whooping cough, Z.
Thomas H. Cavanaugh, formerly sur
veyor general of Washington, now at De
troit, Mich, has written letter which
has been filed with the president tender
ing his services in the event of war with
Spain. General Cayanaugh desires an APP
pointment as captain and assistant quar-
termaster. At present the president and
the war department are giving no heed
to the very numerous offers from all
over the country of those who desire to
be officers in the coming struggle, for
peace will be hoped for until the last
hour.
jesse Kerns. being of mechincal turn
of mind, has conceived a plan to capture
the willy sea otter. In the shop of n. S.
Sorenson, in Hoquiam, he has built a
uniuqe craft. 1t is in the form of big
log, "a feet long, with both ends tapering
down to one foot. 1t bulges out in the
middle, large enough for man to stand
up, for the purpose of shooting the otter.
In the center is also a propelling and
steering apparatus.
The lumber industry in Tacoma is
thriving The mills are humming filling
orders from the east and locally for car
building material, and orders from coast
wise and foreign ports for general mate
rial The building of thousands of rail
road cars throughout the country has
created very strong demand for the fir
of this state, and the mills have in many
instances accepted contracts for heavy or
ders from various roads.
Idaho.
Plans have been accepted for $4,000
theater at Lewiston
A telephone line from st. Anthony to
Dubois will in all probability become
materialized fact in the near future.
The plans and specifications for the