Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The game season &c pov On

SlV SedsOn is now on,
harvesting has begun throughout
the entire Big Bend.
An enraged steer ran wild in Seat
tie recently butting people right and
left. Of-e ISM anu
Inc fruit crop is abundant this
year and the quality is up to the
standard.
AN enormous amount of hay is com
ing into Palouse from the big mea.
uoWs along the Palouse river.
The Cucumber industry is GAINING a
toothold among farmers east of Spo-
kane. 1t is said they can clear 5000
an acre.
Gotfreid Closner, who escaped from
the Medical Lake insane asylum. has
been captured at the farm of his
brother near Colfax.
The water has been pumped out of
the Princess Maud workings at Repub-
lie. In few days the work of stop.
ping ore will begin.
The demand for timber land Is so
great that all the government timber
trict is being rapidly exhausted.
An estimate of S350000 for a new
city hall in Seattle is in the report
OF the city engineer. There is also an
estimate Of 100000 for a new iail.
The Turner extension is now in run
ming order and the o. R. & N. and
w e c. R. will run trains alternately
to Turner.
II Warehousemen cannot tell the
county assessor and the board of equal.
ization to whom the wheat belongs
in their warehouses they must pay the
assessment
Notice has just been received at
Fort Wright, near Spokane, that the
government will erect one field off
GERS set and one double captains set
at the fort in addition to the improve
ments now under way.
The Snohomish County Agricultural
association is closing the entries fo,
the race meet to be held in Everett
September 9, 10 and II. The entries
include many Oregon, California,
Idaho and Colorado horses.
One of the boldest holdups in Walla
Walla for years took place last week,
when two unmasked men pointed
guns at Antoine Besette, night bar
tender at the Eureka saloon, and got
away with SIS and Bessettes watch.
| Mrs. Josie Adams holds the record
this year for having packed the larg-
est number of crates of pound tins OF
salmon at Blaine. The other day she
put up 139 crates of "a tins each. In
order to do this she had to handle
1926 pounds of salmon.
L. H. Hopkins, superintendent OF
the Congress mine, on Bridge creek
is in Republic. He states that small
forces are working on the Congress
Robin and Art Dumont claims, ant
that the outlook for these properties
was never brighter than at this time
The Eagle roller mills, at Colfax
burned recently, making the third fire
in a week within radius of 300 feet
all believed to be of incendiary origin
The fire started under the floor of a
three-story frame structure run by wa
ter power.
Mary Garner and Hilda Koenig, two
girls 7 years DID, while at a picnic
of the Presbyterian Sunday school at
Buckley recently, fell into the river
from a pile driver. William Dau
Cutlery, a timber cruiser, jumped in
and managed to save Hilda Koenig
but the Garner girl was drowned.
Receiver Eastman of the First Ma
tional bank at Vancouver announced
that he would declare a Is per cent
dividend to the depositors. This will
make total of 80 per cent declared
ir dividends, and the receiver believes
that 100 cents on the dollar will be
paid within a short time.
A man, barefooted and bleeding
from several severe knife gashes In
the neck and over the heart, was
found wandering around through the
field east of Hatton last week. 1t was
evident that he was robbed at Con
nell, as that is where he was to get
off the train, and the parties doing
the work attempted to murder him,
but he got away and ran all the way
to Hatton, a distance of about IL
miles.