Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-10-13
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-NumerouS Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A fuel famine is on at washtucns


A fuel famine is on at Washtucna.
After a hop picking season lasting
month, the 1906 Yakima crop is har-
vested and 1t is known that it will fall
at least 90 per cent below the 1905
crop. Ii is estimated that the product
for this year will not exceed $4,000
bales, while last season it was approx
imately $4,000 bales. The slump is
due to unfayorable weather conditions.
The September report of the Wash
ington state finances by State Auditor
Clausen shows expenditures of $685.
1880 and receipts of Sal, 227.58 for
the month. The balance in the gen.
eral fund October is shown at $685.
625.3S.
Tacoma journeymen plumbers have
made a demand on the master plumb
ers of the city for an increase in
wages from So to $3.50 per day.
King county property owners oppos
ing the Lake Washington canal pro
posed by Jas. A. Moore, have begun
an action to restrain the bond issue
carried at the recent election to pro
vide S5000000 toward financing the
enterprise The county commission
ers and Moore are named as defend |
ants.
Application for new trial will be |
made by the O. r. & N. railway in
the case of joint freight rates between
the o. r. & N. and Northern Pacific
oh IN |
sound in which Judge Chadwick of
Colfax handed down a decision ad-
verse to the railroad company.
The Methow-Barron state road, for q
which the last session of the state
legislature appropriate $4,000, $4,000
of which was to be spent in Okanogan
county, and for which county has al
ready spent or appropriated more .
than similar amount, is nearing com d
pletion.
Melvin A. Edwards aged 36, died as "
a result of scalds received at Milan, 9
Wash, through the explosion of the II
boiler in the engine room of the Spo- -,
kane Lumber company. AZ
The first trains over the Spokane u
International railway will be operated III
some time next month.
]. B. Wisdom suffered stroke of II
paralysis Thursday while at work on
ais ranch northwest of Wilbur,
Australian markets will be sought
or big red apples grown in the Wen -
ltchee valley. E. Wagner, leading -
grower, will start soon for the orient
With 5000 boxes, making six carloads. "
Archie Williams, a boy, met VIC -
ent death near Brewster recently "
lie was jolted off a wagon and the :.
wheel passed over his head. =
The main line of the Vancouver,
Victoria & Eastern railway from Ferry =
and Midway, B. c., to Nelson, Wash. =
IS practically completed, and will be
N operation the first of November. :
Palouse warehouses are glutted with :,
grain and hay, as it is impossible to {,
secure cars. Several warehousemen
have been compelled to ask patrons
to suspend delivery until the car sit
the local market at so cents for red
Russian and SO for club variaties. Few
farmers are selling.
AS the commencement of a cam
paign to raise an additional $4,000 for
the Young Mems Christian association
building at North Yakima it was de-
cided to have special programs in the
churches October a. which will be
known as Y M. c. A. Sunday.
State Treasurer George G. Mills has
completed the biennial report of his
Office for the two years ending Sep
TENDER 80 1906. This report shows
that business had quadrupled since
1904, although there has been abso-
lutely no increase in the Office force
and but $45 a year increase in sala-
ries. The two years receipts were |
$S,937, SOB 81 and disbursements were !
$500, 00096.
The big Indian powwow is on at
Toppenish. and viii continue until Oc-
tober %. Racing will be the principal
pastime during the daytime, and at
night dancing and other forms of In
dian entertainment will be INDUCED
in far into the night.
Frank Baker, one of the convicts
employed at the state rock crushing
camp at Meskill, Lewis county, has
escaped.
OREGON NOTES.
A decided slump in the price of wool