Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-01-28
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Whitman county has 99,044 cash in its
treasury.
A non treating club has been organized
in Wenatchee.
State warrants are now quoted at 81 pei
cent premium.
A pickle factory is new industry re-
Gently established at Spokane.
The Tacoma council has reduced the
food supply OF city prisoners to two meals
day. e
AS a result of the extreme cold spell at
Colville two eases OF freezing are re-
ported.
The grip is prevalent among the Col
vile Indians, and many deaths are re-
ported.
Minnie Henfel has been appointed post
mistress at Gold Basin, on the Everett &
Monte Cristo railway, in place of Mrs.
Katie Moffatt
A. j. Symes, now in the Colfax jail, is
condemned to nineteen years in the pen.
itentiary. This sentence has been con-
firmed by the supreme court.
DIR. Henry Wells Dewey has been re-
elected president OF the Pierce County
Medical Society. The society has 80
members, gain of II during 1898.
Deputy Auditor Burnham, of Spokane
county, has computed that the delinquent
taxes of the Northwestern & Pacific Hy.
potheekbank amount to $79,O4l9O.
Frank McNally, found dead on a ranch
near Edgewood, is believed to have been
poisoned by drinking water from we'll
into which poisoned rats had fallen.
The inaugural message OF Mayor Rein
hart, of Olympia, recommending repudia-
ton of certain city Indebtedness, has had
the effect OF defeating several proposed
real estate deals.
A boy named Delano living at Meeker,
was playing with a gun and cartridges,
when one OF the latter exploded and frag-
ments of it hit him i'll the face, causing
the loss of one eye.
On January 10th the state land COM
missioner sold the timber on forty acres
of land in Skagit county for 1880; also
eighty acres in Thurston county, one
'iAiiN A''AiA VI iiipA''s ioA PI,IJu'
An Everett dentist is said to have EN-.
ployed a professional hypnotst to assist
him while extracting a tooth from a
young lady residing at Florence, and that
after the operation the young lady
claimed to have experienced no pain.
Father Chiniquy, a celebrated Catholic
eX-priest, died Jan. 10th at Ottawa, Ont.
Father Chiniquy took an active part in
the organization of the A. p A., and is
said to be responsible for the story that
the Catholics connived at the assassina-
ton of Lincoln
The collection of fines from the gam
blers and immoral women of Spokane for
the month of December Melted the city
81 $50. This is one of the heaviest col
lections in the history of the city, being
only $22 less than October, 1898, the
record month.
Erie Freder, who had been under treat
ment at Rossland, entered a coupe Sun.
day evening, Jan. 18th, at Spokane, and
asked TO be driven to hotel When the
vehicle arrived at the hotel Freder was
dead. He had left Rossland to take a
train for Harrison, Idaho, to attend the
funeral OF a friend.
A dispatch was received at Walla Wal
la announcing the death of Allen Carlyle,
member OF Company |, First Washing
ton Volunteers, now stationed at Manila.
His death was caused by typhoid fever,
and he was III but a short time. This is
the first time Company l has been called
on to mourn since entering the service.
Young Carlyle was twenty years old.