The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-18
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.

Friday, October :. has been designated
fair.
Patients in the insane asylum a. Salem.
Or. cost the state an average of S9.a per
month per capita.
H. S. Grove has Just finished the work
Of computing the altitude Of North Yak
ina which he finds 10 be 1.dsSI feet above
mean low tide.
a surveying party of thirteen men left
vancouver Tuesday to survey the right
of-way for the Portland. Vancouver &
Yakima railroad. from the end Of the pres
ent line TO North Yakima.
The Prohibition party Of this state has
Issued a call for convention 10 meet In
Seattle September 70, for the purpose of
nominating two candidates for congress
and two candidates for the supreme court.
Peter and Fritz Bunt. aged respectively
u and II years. were drowned in a mill
pond at Mou;ray. The boys started out 20
hunt the COWS and had occasion 10 cross
the pond on logs. They fell in and sank
Immediately.
The new building TO be erected in con-
nection with Whitman college az Walla
Walla VIII be known SIS Whitman Memoir
al building. President Penrose has just
returned from the Eas, and says the build
ing viii be commenced n the spring.
The Pierce county auditors office has re-
fused 10 take deeds FOR fil.hg which are
stamped only TO cover the nominal value
named in the transfer. Revenue stamps
must be placed on the deed sufficient 10
cover the assessors valuation of property
The vote at the primary election in cas-
tie Rock precinct shows that the Rep9b-
lican vote has increased twenty since the
1895 election. There were 10 votes east at
the primary, and there are twelve or If
teen Republicans who Il IS known did not
vote.
Mrs. w. a Pearson of West Fork. Lane
county. oregon. accidentally shot herself
day or two ago She vas out riding on
a railroad veiocipede. and had j revolver
with her She accidentally dropped he
revolver, and II was discharged. the ball
entering her hip ana making a bad hesh
wound.
The skeleton OF man, excepting the
head. was found near Wapiniiia. Wasco
county, Oregon, several days ago. There
MAS no clothing on Tie body and no prop
erty that would lead 20 Identification The
belief Of the people of the neighDoraood
is that a murder was committed two or
three years ago. II IS probable taat the
coroner viii investigate.
Some unknown parties fired into 81 bana
az sheep belonging 10 q. f. Farnsworth
Heppner, and killed over 30 besides
v.ouudng Il large number \ gang
- el-hI 81 ;en men Is said 70 have been
the perpetrators Of the outrage. Farms
worth mas offered a reward % S5V} for the
arrest and conviction Of the parties. Th-
Heppner Wool Growers Association also
offers reward of sl,"D
Red" Wilson. the convIct who refused
70 testify in the Harrison murder case.
which was tried in the WaIla WaIa supe-
rlor court = couple of years ago and
vas sentenced 10 three months IN the
county Ja5l for contempt - court by Judge
UPTON. VAS released from the penltentIary
Wednesday. Deputy Sheriff Young, On
learning OF his release. at once hunted him
~ ana took hin in custody. Wilson rss
expecting =. and knew what was coming
when the officer approached He viii ,ow
serve cut the Sentence imposed by Judge
Upon,