Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-01-06

The members of the Athletic Associ.
alton of the university at Moscow are
preparing to give their annual enter.
tainment January II.
The Lewiston city council after a
! spirited session passed a resolution in
structing the city attorney to draw up
an ordinance calling for an election to
be held to determine the will of the
people in regard to bonding the city for
the purchase of the water works sys-
tenn and other improvements.
| Up to date there have been FIVE cases
| pronounced smallpox, in two of which
there seems to be a marked difference
of opinion among the medical frater-
nifty at Wardner.
The dedication of the new school
building erected by the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan Company, and presented by
them to Kellogg district No. 9, occurred
| Wednesday.
| w. b. McGraw of Moscow asks for
pardow. He is waiting to so to the pen.
Jurymen, prosecuting attorney and
committing magistrate sign the prison
ers appeal.
The body of man named Johnston
was found in Canyon creek at Gem.
His jaw was broken and the body show
ed other signs of violence 1t is claimed
Johnston drew $500 and returned to
Gem, where nothing was known of him
until the body was found.
Five years ago the law was changed
in Idaho regarding the date when taxes
become delinquent from when taxes be-
linquent, from the second Monday in
December to the first Monday in Janu-
airy. The provision with regard to the
poll tax penalty was not changed and
still remains as in the earlier law. The
majority of the assessors of the state
failed to collect the penalty required
on all poll taxes not paid by the second
| Monday in December This has been
responsible for much litigation.
Salute your partners! Eight hands
round. Ladies to the right! Swing.
All promenade" Revelry reigned SUI
preme for several hours recently at
Wardner at the most unique dance ever
given in the northwest. The morgue
dancers pirouetted and whirled around
the room, which smelled of coffin var
nish and seemed peopled with shades
of the departed. Never was such a
dance heard of in this quiet town, and
nothing has caused such comment since
the mine explosion of last spring
OREGON.
Enrolment in La Grandes schools
bas reached Gal.
Helix has formed an athletic club
with 40 members.
Tillamooks postoffice issued money
orders amounting to $4,339 during No
vember.
The Heppner Touring mills report
DEFENDERS business the biggest in its
history.
The steam launch of the United
States revenue cutter Commodore Per.
ry was sunk by running on the Sylvia
De Grace rocks, about 600 yards from
shore, at Astoria.
Coyotes have recently been very trou-
blesOme to goats in the Molalla country,
| kldCKdmaS county.
In the Juntina neighborhood of NAL
heur county it is said 5000 jackrabbts
have been killed this winter.
The torpedo boat destroyer Colds
borough, which the Wolff & Zwicker
Iron Works of Portland have practical
tractors trial on the Columbia last
week to the satisfaction of all.
The Dufur Dispath describes an irri-
eating scheme to turn the waters of
the Deschutes river onto the sage brush
lands of Crook county. Over 100000
acres of land are capable of being re-
claimed.
A number of the large ranchers and
stockmen of the southeastern part of
Wasco county are organizing a COM
pany to build telephone line to con-
meet their ranches and to run from An
telope to Muddy, Ashwood and Hay
Creek.
Over 10000 packages of green, fruits,
berries and vegetables were shipped
from Ashland by freight and express
in the season of 1899, aggregating in
weight about 100000 pounds. or 125
carloads of 10 tons each.
Portland architects report a growing
tendency to build on the part of own
ers of city real estate, and the year 1900
it is thought will witness the erection
OF more new houses than even 1899.
which doubled its building record over
that of 1898, says the Oregonian.
The Heppner Times reports the sale
of 5000 bushels of wheat at the Balm
Fork warehouse, at from SO to Al cents,