Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-16
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
Review From the States of wash
ROn-News of the Past week
Boiled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.
IDAHO.

Sam Beck one of the old pioneers OF
Boise is dead.
The expenses of the United States
court in Idaho for the year were SOS,
$3.50.
l.. A. Hyde has been appointed post
master at Bruneau valley.
William l.. Sipe has been appointed
postmaster at Brannan.
A postoffice has been established at
Mica, Kootenai county.
A postoffice has been established at
Willola, Nez Perez county.
Henry L. Wadsworth has been ap.
pointed postmaster at Lapwai.
strong effort is to be put forth
again to secure the opening of the Fort
Hall reservation.
cave-in occurred in the tunnel OF
the Clear Water branch of the North.
ern Pacific near Orofino last week, Kill
ling workman.
Senator Shoup has departed for
Washington. The senator is an ar.
dent eXpansionist and an advocate of
the building of the Nicaragua canal.
New pensions have been granted to
the following residents of the state of
Idaho: Charles York, Nampa, Sc per
month; Francis NJ. Mckenzie, Swan
Lake, Sc; Richard Barrett, Emmett
$12; Isaac w. Porter, Arco, SO.
ID. w. Ross last week picked out
from a sluice box on the Pioneer plac.
ers, of which he is manager, nugget
3 inches long, 21a inches greatest
width and l inch thick, being some
what egg shaped and worn perfectly
smoothe.
Fifty people have dragged the bot
tom of the Snake at Payette for the
body of Walter King, who was drowned
without success. Wire fences have
been planted across the river in two
places in the hopes of catching the
body.
There is much activity in the timber
sections of the Potlach country. Con
tracts have been let for 100000 ties
and the woods are full of workmen
Much heavy timber is being manufac
tured at the mills which will be used
in the construction of a large mill al
the mouth of North Fork next spring
The mill will have capacity of 100 ,OO(
feet daily.
The labor situation in Chicago is nj
more reassuring than for several weeks
The building contractors make no Sc
prpt of their in tonfion of dootro,,irc, I,
unions, and the latter are determined
to pick up the gauntlet if it is thrown
down on January /. Outsiders seem tt
think there is a great deal of bluff or
both sides, which, of course, is nothina
new for Chicago.
WASHINGTON.
The diphtheria scare at Colfax is {
thing of the past.
A school teacher has a light form O
diphtheria at Pullman.
Spokane business men favor a per
manent exposition home.
The Jobbers' Association of Spokan,
will give banquet on Jan. 4.
The Cheney liquor license is 5000
and slot machines 500 a year.
The council has ordered saloons shu
from Il to $50 a. n. at Spokane.
Practically the whole of the Stucl
river valley is one vast sheet of water
j. d. Murray is bound over at Walls
Walla on the charge of stealing hogs
A new postoffice has been establish
ed at Pinhook, to be known as Rice
postoffice.
James B. Martin of Peola SAYS tn,
farmers in that section are still bus,
seeding.
Farmers around Dayton are com
planning of damage done by the recen
heavy rains.
The -four mill at Harrington has be
gun operations. The mill has a capac
ity of 200 barrels a day.
Hog cholera has made its appearance,
in the vicinity Of Dayton, a number O,
animals having died of it.
The Pataha City mill has started
grinding again after being entirely re
modelled with the wing system.
Work on the improvement of the Ok
anogan river has been carried from
Johnson creek TO short distance below
Alma.
Capt. James Robertson and Eli w
Hansen, master shipbuilders, have de
cided to locate in Anacortes and estab
lish a shipyard
Benjamin Briggs, aged 81 years, was
drowned recently while attempting tt
wade the Nooksack river near the fish
hatchery at Welcome.
Minnie, 15-year-old daughter of M
]. Bridges, OF Ellensburg, committed
suicide last week while in a fit of an
ger, taking three ounces of carbolic
acid.
Joseph Steele, pioneer of Whatcom
county, was found dead at his home