Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-13
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An interesting Collection of Items
Erom the Four Northwest states
81 n miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The bench show of the Seattle Ken
ool club was held April 10 to 13.
The March receipts at the Seattle in
+ernal revenue office were nearly $780,
000
plans are now under consideration
for the establishment of a tannery in
Tacoma.
The supreme court postponed the
date Of examinations for admission to
the bar for the May term until June 5.
II has been practically decided that
the law creating fire marshal for the
state will remain imperative for the
next two years.
Fred Moore of the junior class won
the gold medal at the Stanford club de-
hating contest held at the Spokane
high school last week.
a Some of the fruitgrowers of Yakima
valley are making preparations for pro-
tecting their orchards against late
spring frosts by fires.
The o. r. & N. is to extend its line
from Washtucna, in Adams county. u
miles west to Kahlatus, and work on the
proposed line viii be begun about May l.
Laura Morgan, who disappeared from
Celfax Tuesday evening, March IL, is
said to be located in Arizona, and her
relatives have strong hopes that the
missing girl has been discovered.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared final dividend of per cent
to the creditors of the defunct B. B. Ma
tional bank. This makes a total of 80
per cent paid, says the Whatcom Blade.
Mike Denko, employed at the Carbon
ado mines, was run down by North
ern Pacific train last week, between
that city and Wilkeson, receiving inju-
ries which caused his death two hours
later
Because his wife commenced divorce
proceedings against him, Paul Prose-
committed suicide at New Whatcom by
jumping into Puget Sound. He left a
letter stating that life without her was
not worth living.
At Spokane Cisco Bullivant, light
weight amateur champion wrestler of
luO 1dCluS SOdSIg WlC6IlCQ IWO twenty
minute bouts with H. o. Delano for the
middleweight championship of the Y.
M. G. A., last week. The judges gave
the contest to Bullivant on its merits.
Secretary Long has appointed
board Of naval officers to inquire into
the advisability of utilizing a large
fresh water lake in the state of Wash
ington for the purpose of accommo-
dating vessels of war. 1t is proposed
to dig canal connecting the ocean
with this lake, to be used for CONNER
cial purposes, but the board is to in
quire whether the plan should not be
enlarged so as to take into considera-
ton the needs of the navy.
The influx of homeseekers to the In
land Empire is, perhaps, felt in no
place more than at the land Office. Rec
ords there show that the entries for the
nrst three months of this year were
greater in the amount of land covered
IMAM during many entire years dur
Ing the past decade. During January,
FEBRUARY and March there were 418
homestead entries made in Spokane.
there being represented $4,000 acres
settled. This is a greater settlement
tnan during any year between 1893
and 1898.
twenty townships in Stevens, Ferry
and okanogan counties, between the
columbia and Okanogan rivers, will be
surveyed and plated into townships by
surveyors in the employ of the federal
government this summer. These
iands are mostly in the north half of
the Colville Indian reservation which
was thrown open for settlement in 1890
ny the government. Two of these town
snlps are on the boundary line between
.ne United States and British Column
Ola, which up to this time has never
been definitely settled.