Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-12-01
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
of Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON.


The fire equipment of Walla Walla
is reported inadequate.
1t was thirteen degrees below zero
in Spokane last week.
Snow has made the alfalfa market
active in Yakima valley.
The Russian government will on Jan
put duty of 80 cents a barrel on
-four.
Oregon capitalists have been granted
a franchise for an electric plant at Wal
la Walla.
J. f. Davis was found dead in bed
at his home four miles from Prescott
last week.
Gov. Rogers has granted pardon to
Geo. w. Boggs, former city treasurer
OF Tacoma.
Mr.. Orendorf, living at Princeton,
Ida, was found dead in his doorway
by neighbors.
A counterfeiter's den was discovered
last week in an old building in Spo-
kane. Part of the outfit was captured.
A report comes from Tacoma that
trains will be running through the
Great Northern tunnel within a week.
Nels p. Peterson of Little Falls,
Mimi, while temporarily insane, shot
and killed himself at Tacoma last week.
John Bradsky fell dead in the post
Office at Palouse last week. Mr.. Brad
sky was a pioneer of Whitman county.
1t is reported that Walla Walla will
try to influence the legislature to move
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that city.
Washington's total hop crop yield is
put at $4,000 bales. OF the $4,000 bales
shipped, fully $4,000 bales were export
ed to London.
1t is reported that there is consider
able sickness in the vicinity of Colfax
at present, including a number of cases
of pneumonia.
The next legislative assembly will be
asked to create a new county to be |
known as Riverside, with Prosser as
the county seat.
James, the 11-year-old son of Mr.. and |
Mrs. John O'Leary, of Mount Vernon,
met death while coasting on the side
walks last week.
ALL Japanese laborers have been TAX |
en- from the construction work of the |
Great Northern yard at Everett, and
now IS white laborers are earning 81
per day.
According to statement submitted
to the public by the Ladies Relief So
ciety of Walla Walla there was bal
ance in the treasury up to November l
of $66S.71.
Up to date twenty-one carloads of ap-
pies have been shipped from Garfield.
Some of the apples are marketed as far
east as Kansas, with the bulk going to
Montana points.
State Auditor Cheatham has issued
Is state bonds of $4,000 each On the
permanent school fund for the redemp-
ton of state general fund warrants.
The total amount of state bonds now
issued is $4,000.
The last of about thirty carloads of
sugar beets are being loaded at Gar
field for the beet-sugar factory at Wav-
erly. The crop this year has averaged
as high as 20 per cent in sugar, and
yielded between four and five tons to
the acre.
The gold deposits at the Seattle
assay Office from July to November
18th this year amounted to 1882, 900.
For the entire fiscal year ended June
30 last the deposits at that Office were
$13,630,326 and for the previous fiscal
year $6,5O4,9O5.
The body of Charles Kramer was
found recently hanging to ropes end
in Meyers old slaughtering house be.
low Republic. He was generally des-
pendent. He lost 500 on the late cleo.
ton and it is supposed this fact Undue,
ed him to take his own life.
AT South Bend the jury last week
brought in a verdict of guilty of muir
der in the second degree as to ]. H
Gates ana acquitted Louritz Olsen. The
jury recommended Gates to the elem
ency of the court. Gates and Olsen
were accused of numbering Captain
William Beeson of the gasolene schoon
er Leonore on the Willapa river on the
night of August 2 last.
IDAHO.
A Chautauquan circle has been or
ganized in Boise.