Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-10-07
THE NORTHWEST.

The majority of the Fraser river
Gamers are preparing to put up cohoes.
Fruit driving is becoming quite a bus.
mess in Asotin county.
The high school at Vancouver, B. c.,
has taken up the first year of univer.
sity work under affliatlon arrange
ments with McGill university.
The appearance of mackerel in Bel.
lingham bay is ascribed to the fact that
few millions of young mackerel were
several years ago placed in California
waters. and some of them have come UP
the coast aad entered Puget sound.
All the salmon trout that are being
caught this year in Hood river are
large. Fishermen say this is an indi-
cation that these fish are not going to
be so plentiful hereafter unless some
thing is done to replenish the stream
with spawn and give them protection.
The whitefish are starting on their
annual pilgrimage up the streams, and
are being taken by thousands and salt
ed away for the winter, says the Kalis-
pei Inter-Lake.
The Elle3sburg Capital reports an ex.
ceedingly brisk demand for hay
The new fish hatchery at Wenatchee
on the Columbia river is mady for op-
Grafton.
Men are in great demand to work In
harvest and every day farmers come to
town looking for more men.
The woods near Murray, Idaho, are
reported to be full of bear, and those
who are fond of that kind of sport
can get all they want OF it within a
mile OF town.
Cougars visited the pasture of Mr..
karr, of HoQuiam, and killed two
calves.
Three Everett boys have enlisted in
the Forty-tiith regiment and will go to
Manila.
Bert Brown, the La Grande youth
who eloped with 14-year-old girl, has
been arrested on that account and COM
mitted to Jail in default of $500 bail.
Incendiaries set fire to and burned to
the ground the church of the United
Brethren, about eighteen miles north
of Lyle. 1t is said the parties are known
and will be arrested.
John Ko1n, who formerly lived at
Oak Point, committed suicide at Adri.
ance, o. He answered a matrimonial
advertisement, became enamored of his
correspondent, and killed himself when
she refused him.
A man named Reed, who carries the
mail from Mount Idaho to Buffalo
last week near Adams Camp. He was
carried into camp by parties who found
him unconscious.
The Atlin Globe says buried glac.
Ter has been discovered on Boulder
creek, covered with eight feet of soil
in which large-sized trees are growing
The ice has been cut through to a depth
thicker it is
Owen Marion, of Upper Sumas, was
attacked by an insane man while in his
| hay field. He was stabbed with pitch
! fork and knocked from his wagon, the
wheels OF which ran over him. His as
sailant, William Moves, is at large, and
is said to be heading for his old home
| in Michigan.
A young woman named Minnie Davis
! has been arrested at Davenport, charg-
ed with infanticide. She arrived there
about two months before from the east
in company with her brother. Her con-
dition was noticed and commented up
on, and afterwards the child's body was
| found in closet. The doctors said it
was born alive.
! A 12-yea:-cld son of Mr., and Mrs. w.
G. Gillespie, of Moses Coulee, was acct
| dentally shot with a rife and killed
during the course of target match.
On the Great Northern railroad from
Glasgow to Kalispell in the construc-
ton work that has been done this sum-
mer six steam shovels were kept con-
stantly ut work all the season, and a
total Of 1900 cubic yards of dirt were
removed.