Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-03-30
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES
an Interesting collection of Items
From the -Four Northwest states
of n Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The total registration of Spokane is
1850.
w. A. Richie, the Spokane architect,
may superintend work on the capital
building.
wenatchee will soon have electric
lights.
Miss Laura Morgan of Colfax is still
missing.
A great deal of land is being taken up
in the vicinity of Wenatchee.
A voluntary fire department was
formed in Wenatchee last week.
Washington will have no fire marshal
because no salary is specified in the bill
recently passed
Some irrigation districts of Yakima
valley will suffer from the shortage of
water this season.
The Yakima Creamery & Produce
company has been organized to do bust
ness at Yakima City.
The Wenatchee chamber of COM
merce is talking of an excursion to Ev-
erett in the near future.
Ellensburg is being greatly improved
this spring by the many trees which are
being planted by the property owners.
Some person wrecked the plant of the
Republic Pioneer last week by burning
the type and using a crowbar to the
presses.
S. A. Anderson, wiper at the round
house at Leavenworth was recently
struck by an engine and received fatal
injuries.
At Seattle last week S. Christianson,
a grocer. was held up by two masked
robbers. beat over the head and reliev-
ed of $50.
The Yakima milling company has
closed operations for week to put in
new machinery and increase the capac-
ity of the mill.
There are three new cases of small
pox in the family of George Neal, a
south of ColfaX.
Lieutenant Colonel Will Luhn of the
35th volunteers received a warm well
come home from Manila at Spokane
last week by relatives. comrades and
citizens
The body of Thomas Doherty, who
was drowned in the Snake river at the
Trade Dollar dam and power plant on
February Ia last, has been recovered.
Doherty was an engineer from Joliet,
III. The remains will be shipped to
that place.
One of the most important bills pass
ed by the last legislature was intro
duced by Representative Gunderson of
Mason county, providing for the selec-
ton of text books by counties instead
of by the state board of education, as
heretofore. This was the last bill re-
manning in the hands of the governor,
and he has vetoed it.
c. H. Sinclair government expert,
will leave Seattle within a short time
TO remark the international boundary
in the Mount Baker district Captain
J. F. Pratt of the United States coast
and geodetic survey states that the
boundary is not to be changed, but is
simply TO be remarked.
Andrew Merchant, a pioneer of the
hoA I'll W est dtiu a DiOll6I Vi ILOD6TJ MET
chant. a Seattle commission merchant,
died recently at the family residence in
Seattle from heart failure, aged 81
years, Andrew Merchant settled in Or
egon few miles south of Portland in
1S47. he being one of the pioneers of
that state.
The membership of the Northwestern
Sportsmen's association embraces clubs
and individual shooters OF the states of
Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
and the province of British Columbia.
The tournament scheduled to take place
at Walla Walla in June is the seven
teenth annual event of the association.
Trophies valued at $500 and cash pre-
miums of $1,000 are offered for the best
Stub and individual scores.