Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-02
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
A Review From the states of WASH
ROn-Ncws of the Past Week
boiled Down to Suit Our busy
Readers.
WASHINGTON,

spokane banks were never in better
condition than at present.
On account of bad weather at Repub-
lie freighting is almost suspended.
Seventeen-year-old John Bechtel, "A
Colyille boy, is in Jail and admits he is
a horse thief.
Governor Rogers says he has not of
fcred a regiment as reported in a Sc
attic newspaper.
Seattle P.-I. eXcursionists are under
investigation by an Alaska grand jury
for taking a totem pole last summer.
The Kettle river is above high water
mark for this season of the year. Two
spans of the Helphrey bridge have gone
cut.
Last week Leslie Belt, son of ex-
mayor of Spokane, was in Jail for strik-
ing a woman. He was refused bail by
the chief of police.
Three new school buildings are to
be begun in the spring at Spokane
Seventy-fve thousand dollars is to be
expended on new sites.
The revised estimated 1899 pack of
Puget Sound salmon places the number
of cases at 81 500, as against a total
of 355, O00 cases for 1898
State Treasurer Young has issued a
call on the general fund for warrants
from Nos. 47,616 to 1885 inclusive.
Total amount of call $4,000. The call
natures Dec. 4, 1899.
Arthur Huey of Walla Walla is miss
ing. He is young man 16 years old,
five feet one inch in height, has dark
hair, brown eyes, full, round face, and
walks with a slight limp.
The brick walls of Science hall at
Pullman, the last of the two new col
lege buildings are up, and the roof and
cornice are being put on. The brick
work on the walls is completed
A literary and social cooperative
club is being organized in Tacoma for
the study of municipal affairs and so
cial intercourse, non-political and non
seCtarian in every sense of the word.
The Spokane jobbers will unite. An
organization has been formed already
Twenty-four merchants already inter.
ested in the association. A. w. Doland
is president and r. c. Dillingham; sec
rotary.
The price of wheat in the local mar
kets of Colville remains at 1925 per
hundred, and eggs command a cash
price of SO cents per dozen, and it
seems impossible to get poultry at any
price.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Washington State Dairymen's Associa
ton will be held at North Yakima. De
cember IS, 90 and So This organiza
ton is the strongest and most active
one of any on the Pacific coast and
at the annual meetings there is always
large attendance.
Information comes by private
sources from Waterville that the Col
vile Indian reservation will be thrown
open for homestead settlement about
the end of January, 1900. AS Water.
Vile is the headquarters of the United
States register of lands for that dis,
trict it is more than probable that the
information comes from some official
source.
Mr.. John H. Ogden, who for the past
two years has been manager of the Spo.
kane branch Of the American Type Foun
ders' Company, has resigned that position
to go into the job printing business with
+. NJ. Winship, in the old established
Quick Print" at Spokane, doing all
classes of up-to-date printing. Mr.. A. D.
Alexander assumes the management Of the
Spokane branch Horace Brown remains
as superintendent.
IDAHO.
Two carloads OF apples were shipped
to Helena Mont last Meek by ea 2