Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-02-23
NORTHWEST ITEMS.

1t is estimated that 1900 immigrants
reached Spokane on their western Jour
ney one day last week, over the North
ern Pacific and the Great Northern.
G. A. Smith, a baker residing on
Eleventh street, Tacoma, claims to
have been assaulted by burglars in his
home last week and robbed of $125.
The death at Helena, Mont, of Rev.
Thomas Van Scoy will cause a shock
both of surprise and regret to his many
friends in educational and church
work in Oregon.
FiftysiX farmers from Walla Walla,
Prescott, Waitsburg, Dayton Pomeroy
and other points visited the agricul-
tural college and experiment station at
Pullman recently.
At Colfax Fred Brown shipped three
carloads of fat hogs to Seattle The
hogs were bought in the country
around Colfax, Mr.. Brown paying 434
cents per pound on foot.
1t is the unanimous opinion of the
sporting fraternity that the fight be-
tween Bill Langley Of Wallace and
Charles Jost of Portland, which came
off last week in Wardner was for blood.
Jost won in the 18th.
The sum of $3.50 is offered by the
county commissioners of Snokane
county as a reward for the arrest and
conviction of W. A. Lewis, an attorney
and fugitive from justice of the state
Of Washington, charged with larceny
by enlightenment
1t is expected that the Wenatchee
Chamber of Commerce will soon take
up the matter of the high line ditch.
which will put water on all of the land
of that valley. The estimated cost of
this undertaking is from $4,000 to
100000
Maps of definite location, just filed
in the land Office at Wateryille by the
Northern Pacific Railway Co, indicate
a purpose to extend the Central Wash
ington branch from Coulee City it's
present terminus, to Bridgeport on the
Columbia river.
Norman Mills, the defaulting clerk
in Tacoma treasurer's office, was ar
raigned in the superior court on two
charges of forgery and ENLIGHTENMENT.
He pleaded not guilty and was released
on $1,000 bail in each case, his father
being accepted as security. The short
age has been made good.
The largest judgment ever granted
in Jefferson county has just been rem
dered by Judge McClinton in the fore
closure case instituted by the Bank of
British Columbia against the Moore &
Smith Lumber company. The amount
of the judgment is S477,00 and covers
the property known as the Port Dis
covery mill, together with thousands
of dollars worth of fine timber land
The Bank of British Columbia is said
to have found a purchaser for the prop
erty and consequently instituted the
foreclosure suit to quiet title.
While Harry Romer was playing bill
lizards in his saloon at East Helena in
the presence of six or seven spectators
a man about five feet eight inches high
entered at the rear door and aiming
revolver at the party, called on them
to hold up their hands. Romer was
robbed of 1857 and watch. The bar
tender was compelled to open the cash
register and put all the money on the
bar, where the robber took it, and all
others were obliged to give up. The
police have suspicious of the robbers
identity. He is believed to be a man
named Johnson, seen around East Hell
ena recently. He has probably gone
over the hills toward Butte.