Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-18
WARRINGTON.


Colfax is having its annual scarlet fever
scare There are two mild cases in town.
The municipal taxes of HOquiam are 81
mills, Of Montesano % mills, of Aberdeen
20 mills.
Consolidation OF whatcom and Fair
haven is being talked very strongly now
in both towns.
Davenport boasts of well twenty
three feet deep, in which ice remains froz-
en- the year around.
a party Of as arrived at Oakesdale last
week from Tennessee, all of whom will
settle in this neighborhood.
Stevens county warrants are at par.
Two years ago they were going begging
at 80 cents on the dollar.
Melville Nee has been sentenced to
three years imprisonment for robbing the
mail at the Miles postoffce.
Robert Morrill,. who is installing the
new electric light plant in Nelson, is
pushing the work with vigor.
During this month Walla Walla will
have for its guests the members of the
Inland Empire Teachers Association.
The annual oratorical contest of the
Washington agricultural college is set for
March H. at the auditorium of the col
legc.
The Columbia and Citizens bank of
Dayton have consolidated and will here
after be known aa the Columbia Nstional
bank.
During February the local police of
Spokane made 260 arrests, POI of the ar
rested persons being males and 81 fe-
males.
An attempt WAS made last week to
burn the large grain warehouse of Aaron
Kuhn, on the O. K. &. n tracks, west of
the depot at Pullman.
Tom Trask, late proprietor of the
Olympic saloon, was found dead in his
room over the Nevada saloon ut Tacoma,
from the effects of bullet wound in the
head.
William f. Randall OF Centralia, a man
about - years old, was kicked in the alb
domen By II horse, from the effects of the
injury ne died. He leaves wide anr
children.
Father lIylebo- of Tacoma announces
the receipt OF n letter from Ireland say.
ing small colony would soon start for
the sound to settle on lands of the Puy-
allup reservation.
DIR, Bill, an Indian medicine man of the
Tumwater tribe OF klickitats, reports
that the Rock creek Indians have suf-
fered more sickness this winter than ever
before i'll their history.
Northern Pacific work train, near Che
halls, was run over and badly mangled
by the cars at Winlock last week, and
died few hours later.
Jack Cronin, who was shot by Sheriff
Billings in Olympia after throwing a
lighted lamp in the face of the sheriff,
in an Intellectual effort to escape from
jail, is lying in comparatively easy CON
dition.
The board of regents of the agricultural
college will meet at Pullman this week.
The college has recently received three
new cream separators and new com
bined chuin and worker, all donated by
manufacturers.
II the bill is not vetoed by the gov
ernor granting cities of the fourth class
the right to establish Are limits and &C
quile property by two-thirds vote of
the electors. Wilbur will purchase nat
nral park site IN the western part of that
city.
The governor is in receipt of numerous
letters from the parents and friends of
Nashington's soldiers killed at Manila.
asking what steps are TO be taken toward
bringing their bodies home The govern
or states that he has written General
Corbin Mt Washington regarding the mat
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhinehart, at Walkers
Valley, two miles west of Biglake, on the
Seattle & international, went ont to work
IN the woods, locking up their three small
children in the house, and in the evening.
when they returned, there was nothing
but heap OF ashes to show where the
house had stood, and their children had
evidently been consumed in the flames
The children were small, the Youngest
being | year old and the eldest only 5