Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-08-18
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES
A. interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
y, n miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
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WASHINGTON.
Ualla Walla is to have (, new electric |
light plant.
There is a big demand At Oakesdale
for harvest hands who will work.
Snokane is witnessing some good ball
oames this fall. She has strong team.
Fine prizes will be the rule in the
cnokane Industrial Exposition this
year.
The increase in population at Bolster
is clearly demonstrated by the way new
structures are going up.
The new fish hatchery on the North
1rmpoua at Tipton's is now we'll along
toward completion.
The store belonging to Peter B. Mel
son was burned to the ground recently
at Nelson. The loss was $4,000, partly
insured.
Ward Barnum, assistant professor of
mechanical and electrical engineering
II the Washington Agricultural Col
1ege, has resigned.
Within so days from the present time
articles of incorporation will be filed
for the Hayden Lake Irrigation Com
pany with a capital of 100000.
Work has been commenced on a new
creamery plant in Ellensburg. The
buildings will have good location
and be furnished with new up-to-date
machinery for first-class work.
The Inland Telephone company has
a large force of linemen at work put
ting on the wires as fast as the posts
are set on the line between North Yaki-
ma and Ellensburg.
A party of surveyors under the direc-
ton of F. H. Newell of Washington, D.
c., will soon make preliminary surveys
of the headwaters of the Ahtanum and
Klickitat rivers with view to locating
reservoir sites.
The Washington Evaporatihg & Can
ming Company, new firm which has
just been organized in Spokane, will
erect $4,000 plant this fail for the
purpose of making Spokane che center
of this kind of work in eastern Wash
ington.
NJ D. Harpole died in North Yakima
recently from the effects or dog bite
Being poor and having no medical at
tendance, he did not have the wound
>cauterized. The bite apparently healed
but in few days tulned to blood-poi
soning.
The hop-growers Of Yakima valley
are expecting better prices this year
than have prevailed for some time
The general snortage throughout the
hop sections of the United States gives
this assurance Reports from buyers
in the market centers give the estl
mate of this years crop at fully 20 pei
cent less than last years.
While many of the orchards in thu
valley will fail to yield a crop this
year, the prune orchard Of Wright Cal
breath & Goucher, west of McM1nnvllle
is a notable exception. Throughout tn
entire 70 acres the petites are abund
ant and have required thinning, Whli'
the Italians will average half crop
The favored fruit section this yea
seems to be in the foothills of the coas
mountains
The big liner Glenogle cleared Taco
ma last week for Japan. There wer
only a few cabin passengers and aDou
20 Chinese in the steerage, but she cal
ried 99,460 sacks of flour, mostly tn
product of Washington mills, destlne
for Japan and coast cities In emma
In addition to the -four she has grea
quantity of general store supplies
About $500 steel rails were taken I
Japan to build driveway tracks In tn
mines.