Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-10

the bank, waived examination and was
held in $4,000 bond for the grand jury
or the district court, which sits March
20. Benjamin Il. Smith and BENJAMIN
Walls of Boston were accepted as sure
ties, Cole was brought here early in
January from Los Angeles, Cal.
After joint conference lasting near
| ly two weeks at Indianapolis, Ind, the
delegates from the United Mine Work
ers of America and the Interstate OPP
orators Association finally adopted a.
scale which is q compromise between
the first demand of the former and the
first offer of the latter. The scale adopt.
ed Is general advance of 2.21 per cent
and is satisfactory to miners and oper.
ators of Ohio, Pennsylvania and In.
diana and will be accepted by the I'LL
nois miners and operators.
In the great rush to Cape Nome peo-
| pie from Dawson will travel 260O miles
The transport Indiana with the bodies
OF 200 dead soldiers has arrived from Ma.
Mia.
Mrs. John Tenny, lady formerly OF
Seattle shot herself while in Juneau re.
Gently.
The recent storm in the Palouse was
he most violent disturbance of the kind
this winter
The gasoline schooner Nettie Lowe was
capsized off Bowlinas, near San Francisco,
during a northwest gale.
| In a fire at Tampico, Mexico recently Ii
retail houses and one wholesale house
were destroyed; loss, 100000.
/ Mrs. n. w. Harrison of Spokane, Wash,
was recently robbed OF 81 400 by a bell.
/ boy by the name of Frank Roberts.
The report from Major Taylor, chief
military surgeon, says the bubonic plague
i'll Hawaii is getting very serious.
Mrs. Lambert of Winona, Wash, re.
Gently horsewhipped w +. Wilson, the
schoomaster of that place, for slanderous
remarks
The mortality one day in Bombay was
unprecedented, there being a total of 40o
deaths The situation is aggravated by
/ the advent of famine refugees.
! The White Pass Yukon railway has
resumed through train service between
Skagway and Lake Bennett January 81,
!
Colonel Richard w. Thompson, ex-sec-
rotary OF the navy, is critically i'll at his
home. Unless the invalid rallies the worst
is feared. Colonel Thompson is 81 years
! H.
The Indian government has arranged to
recon half erore of rupees and has also
bought enough silver to coin crore of
new rupees. These operations are expect
ed to meet all present requirements 50
that no further coming is contemplated.
The silver Was purchased quietly without
disturbing the market.
During the big fire in Dawson January
II Robert t. Switzcr, clerk Of the court,
vas assaulted and robbed of 81 ,545 court
funds No clue has been found to III
pefpetrator
The Pendleton (Or.) Commercial asso
citation has inaugurated movement to
build a railroad from Pendleton south
through the Camas Prairie region and the
John Day country to the mining district
OF Granite
An unknown man was found dead in
q cabin at Kent, Wash. A bullet hole
through the stomach told how he died.
! The cabin is known to have been the
rendezvous for band Of crooks who OPP
Grated in Seattle,
| According to adYices received at the
democratic national headquarters there it,
a strong disposition among the leaders
OF the party, including William J. Bryan,
/ to settle upon June as the date for the
national democratic convention.
! Senator Shoup has introduced an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill ex
tending the time Of payments due from
settlers on Indian reservation lands pur
chased by the government from Indians
and sold to settlers, for another year, or
until July /, 1901.
Only delay will result Is the opinion
Of leaders of the senate on the canal treaty.
but it will finally pass. Opposition comes
from Observation-Disclosures headed by
Mason. Senator Morgan says there are
men in the senate who would offer amend
ments TO the ten commandments.
The text of the canal treaty secures to
every ship equal rights at all times and
to have no forts near by; when the Mica
raguan waterway is built its safety is as
sured. 1t contains an ownership clause
saying America may collect the tolls or
may allow private corporations that priv
lege
/ 1t is generally believed in Pekin that
the dowager empress will not attempt the
formal deposition OF the emperor at the
present moment, though that this was her
first intention there is little room to doubt.
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sources that the dowager intended to car