Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25
THE NEWS OF The CITY.
Record Of happenings of q Week
In Pullman.
What People are Doing and how
They are Doing it.

George Martin, of Moscow, was
in Pullman Thursday.
Attorney Pickett, of Moscow,
was in Pullman last Sunday.
w. G. Emery and wife visited
Moscow the first of the week.
Foster Hall and wife, of Mos
COW, were visitors in our city last
Sunday.
Frank Eberls, of Juliaetta, was
soffered $4,000 for his vineyard last
week, but refused to take it.
1t is NOT generally known that
Uncle Sans volunteers are entitled
to 100 acres of government land
wherever they may fnd it;after be-
ing mustered out of service.
Metz Williams, . little shaver
from Moscow, stayed all night in
Pullman this week. He was OH his
way to Spokane, Moscow being too
tame for his adventurous spirit.
The smallpox scare at Spokane
is over, the usual time having
elapsed without new cases since the
delirious subject with that disease
wandered around the streets of that
city.
There has been a draw famine
IN Moscow for the last week or SO,
the streets in that city being i'm.
passlble. Even the mail had to be
transferred to and from the depot
on wheeibarrow
james Corbett, the o. r. 4 N.
bridge carpenter, whose skull was
crushed by falling from bridge in
this city, as reported in laat weeks
HERALD, died at st. Ignatius hos.
pital at Colfax on Wednesday
morning,
OF the 50 teachers who took
the regular examination at Colfax
in February. 45received certificates.
OF these four received first, II re-
ceived second. and the remainder
third grade certificates.
An exchange says it takes a
rich man to draw q cheek, pretty
girl to draw attention, horse to
draw cart, a topper to draw cork,
free lunch to draw q crowd, and
an advertisement in the home pa
per to draw trade.
Ed Larson, native of Sweden,
attempted to commitsuicide at Lew
iston last Sunday, by throwing
himself in front of passing train.
The brake beam threw his body off
of the track, but his arm was fear
fully lacerated, and had to be am
putated. He ia believed to be men,
tally unbalanced.
--Gainford Mix was down from
Moscow last Saturday from the IT.
of !. to confer with the athletic as-
sociation here in regard to field day
sports and base ball games for tho
coming season. Field day will be
held at Moscow this year, and .
three-cornered series of six ganaas
each of base ball have been decided
on between tho y. of l., agricultural
college and Whitman college.
-~~The Colfax city councii passed
&C ordinance this weak placinz Z
license fee of$l2.W per annum on
Rickle-in-the-slst Enachises, and
the propristors refused 70 pay il,
claiming that the ordinance is lille
gal in that it licsnsas gambling de-
vices. 1t is likely that . test cass
will be made in the courts to ascer-
tain whether the ordinance will
stand
The students OF the college are
raising and supplies to hs sent 20
their fellow students ube ara now
at Manila fighting for thair country.
The citizens are also taking an in
terest in the Haattsr, and are donat-
ing iiberaIly. Whitman Post, G.
A. r, donated $4,000. The gifts
will b. sent to ali who went from
Pullman, there being fourteen of
these, seven of whom were studenas
u the college