Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-01-13
WASHINGTON.

In the Big Bend.
A Vancouver girl has died at the Che
halls reform school.
The Seattle public library contains
over 10000 volumes.
The receipts of the Everett postofice
for 1899 were $1O,920.52.
The lumber mills are unable to sup
ply Spokane's requirements.
The fruit growers of the state will
assemble at Tacoma January Is.
The mysterious disappearance of
Frank M. Clapp is still problem.
There are six suspected cases OF
smallpox at the isloation hospital
Osteopaths can practice in this state
without holding state certificate.
The Stanford football team defeated
the All-Seattle players in Seattle by
score of % to 0.
The Spokane subscription list for the
Beers is growing rapidly, having al
ready reached $1,000.
Smallpox Is reported in the vicinity
OF Alto station on the o. r. & n. line a
few miles from Waitsburg.
The merchants of Walla Walla have
decided to close their places of bust
ness at 6 o'clock in the evening.
President Graves expects an attend
ance Of 1000 at the state university
with the beginning of the new century.
The department of physics and cleo
trical engineering at the University of
Washington shows a most marked ad-
vance.
immigration during 1899 into King.
Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom coun.
ties has been heavier than at any pre-
vious period.
A gigantic fund of nearly $25, 040 has
already been raised by the liquor men
in Spokane for carrying on the fight
against the saloon closing law.
The total monthly pay roll of Ia
number of men employed in the 227 in
dustrial establishments was 4483.
All the overhead trunk lines in the
telephone service throughout the bust
ness part of Spokane have been aban-
doned, and now the buried wires Will
be used exclusively.
During the IL months of the year
ending November 20, the receipts at the
King county treasurer's Office amounted
to 1885, 1917. The disbursements
were $1,343,40596, and the expenses,
5000
Frank Bassendorf, the returned
Klondiker, who was found in Tacoma,
was prominent in Genesee county, New
York. and his friends there are not
ready to accept the accident theory to
account for his death.
An effort Is to be made by the Wash
ington volunteers to have a reunion
and suitable anniversary celebration of
the outbreak of the Filipino war on
February 4, 1899, when the first real
engagement in which Washington reg.
iment was under fire occurred.
News of the governments intention
to fortify at once the entrance to Port
Orchard, across the sound from Seat
tie, where Is located the navy yard and
one of the finest dry docks in the Unit"
ed States, was received here today.
Construction work will be commenced
not later than Feb. /.
The total value of the 597, 100000 feet
of lumber shipped out of Washington
during the eleven months ending with
the close of November was $6,270000,
and of the 3.322,000,000 shingles, $4,-
ASS. 900, with $611, 900 worth of lath,
making a total value of $11, $4,000 in
the product of the immense forests
which was shipped by ship and rail to
! foreign consumers.
The department of agriculture has
received a large number of cuttings
from superior hop plants grown in b.
hemia celebrated the world over for
their wonderful aroma and flavor,
! These cuttings will be distributed
among the hop growers throughout the
United States, and northwest growers
desiring to give them trial, would do
we'll to send in applications immediate
! ly.
The condition of the national banks
of the state of Washington, at the close
of business December 2, as reported to
the comptroller of the currency, shows
! the average reserve to have been 1880
per cent against 43.73 per cent on Sep
TENDER Z, loans and discounts increase
from s., 431, O55 to $11,224.4 45; stocks
and securities, from $1,437,619 to ST.
566,325; gold coin, decrease from ST.
! 544,40 to s2,345,344; total specie, from
s2,787 ,23O to $2,621,7 individual de-
posts, increase from $18,702,972 to $751;
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