Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-23

will probably be accompanied by j. C.
Baker.
"A. ]. Cole. the man who sells
trees, says that his sales this spring
in the vicinity of Pullman have been
exceedingly large, nearly every farm
err around making some addition to
his orchard.
The rivers are fast rising from
the heavy rains and melting SHOWS,
the Snake having gone to "high
water at date much earlier than is
usual. The country was never so
completely soaked before.
w. H. Harvey went to Spokane
Wednesday to meet his brother in-l law,
John S. Boyer. of Picqua, Ohio, who
was in Spokane en- route to the B. c..
mining fields, where he was contem-
plating making investments.
Professor Lawrence passed the
first of the week at Quincy, seeding
spring wheat at the experiment sta
tion located there. He also completed
arrangements for establishing the dry
farming experiments in connection
with the station.
e. w. Downen is having the cor
ner room in the Hattrup block, recent
ly obtained by him from w. L. La
Toilette, fitted up for a real estate
and insurance Office. which he will
open in few days. Mr.. Downen is
not an experiment in these lines, hav-
ing conducted like business in Pull
man several years ago.
One of the heavy freight engines
recently put on the Palouse branch of
the Northern Pacific, tore up some of
the siding in the yard here Thursday,
breaking one of the rails i nto several
pieces, and finally running off the
track but luckily staying upright and
out of the ditch. The engine was
too heavy for the light siding and
rotten ties.
R. G. Favor. who recently left
with his herd of cattle for his stock
ranch on the upper Snake, returned
yesterday. He reports the grass as
now excellent on the range, and the
cattle that wintered in that region as
in good condition. He lost two of his
own in driving them over the Snake
river bluffs, the unfortunate ones being
crowded off the narrow trial.
Stanley Piper, who was here last
spring investigating the problem of
the squirrel pest in the Palouse
country for the department of agricul-
ture, will arrive from Washington
City next week to continue the work,
the experiments being carried on in
cooperation with the experiment
station here. Mr.. Piper believes that
some method of exterminating this
menace to the grain fields will be dis
covered through the efforts of the
The Whitman County Press AS
ISOLATION met in this city last Satur-
day, and elected officers for the ensu-
ing year, the new officers being Ivan
Chase. of the Colfax Gazette. presi-
dent MILFORD Allen, of the Pullman
Herald, vice president; j. C. Round,
of the Uniontown Press, secretary;
and B. M. Schick, of the Palouse Re-
public, treasurer. Considerable bust
ness of interest to the newspaper men
was transacted. An excursion to the
st. Joe river is contemplated by the
at the time of the June
meeting.
Captain Kimmel returned from
Walla Walla Tuesday where he went
to inspect the grounds offered by that
city as camping place for the w. S.
c. cadets. Several sites were offered
and the one finally selected was the
city park. 1t is not as large or as
convenient as the camping ground at
Charleston, where the cadets camped
last year, but it answers the purpose
very we'll. Over 400 hundred cadets
will go to Walla Walla this year, re-
luiring a special train of ten cars.
The encampment takes place from
April l6 to 20 inclusive.
The department of animal hus-
bandry shipped carload of fattened
steers to Mitchim Bros, of Spokane
Monday. The beef sold at $3.50 per
hundred. They were fed from last
December to January on common fod-
der, and since then ON hay and chop
ped wheat. The chopped feed given
ranged from three to seven pounds
per day. The experiment in feeding
was to determine the percentage of