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

leH ana Otner 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 go to the pen.
Jurymen, prosecuting attorney and
committing magistrate sign the prison
er's appeal.
The body of a 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.
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
was used as a ballroom, and the gay
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 Grande's schools
has reached cal.
Helix has formed an athletic club
with 40 members.
Tillamook's postofice issued money
orders amounting to S4,339 during No
vember.
The Heppner Touring mills report
DEFENDERS business the biggest in it's
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,
Clackamas county.
In the Juntina neighborhood of NAL
heur county it is said 5000 jackrabbits
have been killed this winter.
The torpedo boat destroyer Colds
borough, which the Wolff & Zwicker
Iron Works of Portland have practical
ly completed, was given her first con-
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
| al fn nd Achu
| 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 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 it's building record over
that of 1898, says the Oregonian.
The HeDpner Times reports the sale
of 5000 bushels of wheat at the Balm
Fork warehouse, at from 33 to Al cents,
the wheat belonging to j. w. Beckett,
| Theodore Anderson and oliver Pierson.
Most of this wheat had been stored
there for about 13 months, and there
is yet about $4,000 bushels in storage.
While the first day of the Yuletide
season brought happiness to thousands
In Butte. a tragic death was Daniel Sui
livan's Christmas portion. He was
shot and almost instantly killed by Ed
ward Gilman In the Dowd annex to the
Dugan boarding house. The killing