The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-27

Spokane IL TO have q $ls.e0e creamery.
Asotin cocnty taxes are oniy 8 mills TIN

Asotin county taxes are Only 3 mills thu
year
Pomeroy schools are closed on account OF
an ep1denic OF measles.
A cheese factory and skinmsng station
has been established at Quflcene.
Hiilyard has = relic ~ Manila In the
rebel
The city authorities Of New whascom
are Considering the paving Of Elk street
win asphalt
The governor has signed the new bscy-
10 levy license tai OF 81 on each bicycle
The Trail smeissr viii soon be supplied
with lime from the newly discovered guar
ry few miles from Nakusp. l; Is said
10 BE OF most excellent quality.
J. F. Woodriax. Of Mission, realized 81 3
box over all expenses on The carload OF
Mission apples he recently took TO ST.. Paul,
ana has contract TO ship two or THREE
more carloads
From eighty TO 100 members Of the west
ern Canadian Prese Association will viss.
Seattle and the Coast about June Var
eouver. II. G.. has voted $50 Tor the par
tvs entertainment
IL u altogether likely that the Doern-
Ns, VIII nor move TO Portland. after ali.
the parties there having failed 10 raise
the promised bonus.
The state board OF audit and control will
Investigate the charges made by q special
legislative committee against DIR. Lock
hart. superintendent Of the Medical Lake
yum, az its meeting 10 be held in Taco
ma On April !.
1t viii COST Lewis county over l.2oo for
the trial OF Walter Taylor the young man
who was accused Of causing the death OF
v. A Ntd6angh at Bolstfort, January 3D.
This year Taylor WIS acquitted by the
jury after twenty minutes elaboration.
Harry Smith a well known Tacoma ash-
Il a AS@fir H.. .h Ioa
According TO the Boston Herald there are
twelve candidates for the pitchers posi-
ton al Harvard. one Of them being
the dental school.
Fairfield Is To have a beet sugar fac
tory. Spokane capital L. interested. and
work has already been begun on the plans
for The building. and contracts are to be
iet Tor the machinery soon. 1t will cost
s1e. 500 and il promised 10 be ready for
business this year.
Al the regular meeting Of Waila walla
Lodge: No. nj. b. +. o. E., Tuesday night.
ford +. L. k Charles Van DeWaier. r.
/. X. William Ritz; +. L. X. C. 81 Me-
Lean: secretary. II. s. Jackson: tyler,
William Forster
A real live lord was compelled to stop
over ard view the sights of Northport the
other day. He wanted the train held while
he was looking after his ''brasses" hut
has having 70 take on case OF eggs at
Boggsv!lle for Colvtlle baker who had q
cake to make for a wedding.
Governor Rogers has been in communi-
cation with J. J. Cunningham. Of Salem,
Or, concerning the use Of max tow In the
manufactnre OF grain bags az the peniscn-
tiary. and Dir. Cunningham has offered to
donate two bales OF the material to be
experimental with By the superintendent
OF the jute mill. II the experiment is sat-
fsfactory. IL In the purpose OF the board TO
use home grown max In place OF the Jute
that Is now imported from India.
On Sunday las. United States Customs
Inspector Brown, OF Sumas arrested j. f.
MeSorley. OF LINDEN. for smuggling, and
seized Loo pounds Of Canadian sugar. i;
has been known or suspected hy the Gus
toms officials for some time that McSor-
ley was engaged In smuggling. bur he prov
ed TO be hard bird to catcb. He was
taken 10 Whateom TUESDAY, where he
pleaded guilty at the preliminary exami-
nation and gave bonds To appear before the
United States court
The Pullman city council and saloon men
are having trouble with the proprletors OF
card rooms. and the matter wifi probably
be taken into the courts The council re-
Gently passed an ordinance placing a II b.
cense or $50 per annnm on each table
where Grads are played for checks or Iner-
chandise, excepting saloons The prophet
ors Of the cardr5onls objected 10 this
claiming II is class legislation and en-
pioyed an attorney TO fight the case en-
and no; another.
Charles Madison. an employee of Ben
sons upper logging camp, near Rainier
or, met horrible death about s o'ciork
saturday evening. He had finished his
work and was on his way To the camp
when 81 log started on the skids The In
cline was very steep and the log came
down with great speed Mattson attempt
ed 20 get out Of the way. but was unable
10 do SO. aud was caught between the
two logs The unfortunate man was
trlghtsuls crushed about the lower limbs
dying an hour and a half later.
Rev o L. Doane. missionary to the
Nooksaek Indians. Is authority for the
statement that the Nooksack tribe Is rap
Idly degenerating. At present the number
OF TIE Nooksaek tribe has dwindied down
10 lao, which are gcatseren along the river
from f.ynden up to- HoIl.ngsworth Fifty
wears ago there was an Indian village oil,
the banks OF the Nooksack river near CO.
Sben, Inhabited by about 30 dusky braves
souaws and their progeny. and today there
are only about twenty left there TO tell
the tale Of the primitive happiness once
now. with innrmities and sorrow repre-
sent.
Dennis Hayes, a former resident OF VAN
couter, now VITA the Fourteenth Infantry
at Manila, has written a letter TO hts wife
there. In which he give. a good Dissertation
of the hattie In which the Fourteenth vas
hoffy engaged an the ith ~ February He
ehsracterises Capt. Murphy as man de-
void Of fear. and refers with true so.der.y
pride Ia the gallant bravery OF he boys OF
the Fourteenth. aud refers In terms OF
praise Ia the caudect Of the Second Wash.
ingsan troops, which we're in the same en-
gagement. The letter is prtYe1 by Mrs
Hayes "a a souvenir. being written on
some sort Of Spanish document which
Hayes says he picked up on the battle
field.
In addition so all the ether plans for the
development OF the INLAND Empire and the
country along the Columbia and Snake
rivers. there Is announced enc nv which
nr. y. q B3aloek. Of Walia wala and
others vii BE- PUT osa the river. Upper ard
lower, a ano % boats. with a portage. sats-
way a. ire rapids. With spurs running 20
various rentaes cf production E'cr several
months ~ Bialock A. w Mariner and
y. smith the Latter fwa living on tho CO
{gfnssa river, have been a work making
the necessary aFrau Eerssasasz by securing
the right - way ard financing FRA scheme.
IN the hzss sri aow che information IS
given cast tAat everything is ready COR
active operations 20 begin. fhe projectors
claim fhaf IN a few &aSs engineering fe~ges
VIII ~ IN she ff@id. and that snon there
afre~ rien ard teSTs@ wi 90 to work on
shs spar s{9es which are - 10 TIE feeders
81 ths steamboat lines
Arrangements ava hs.inS Frr@se hy the