Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-08-07
THE NORTHWEST

one OF the largest foundrleS In that
state, were destroyed by fire last week.
Three thousand and five hundred
persons are homeless as a result of the
fire that destroyed the town of Fernie,
B. c., and many suffered from expos
ure and lack of food
Major j. E. Hanford, for forty years
paymaster of the Southern Pacific
railroad company, with headquarters
at SanFrancisco, has resigned his po-
sition.
Millions of feet of standing timber
have been destroyed during the past
few days along the Pend d'Oreille
river by forest fires. Large forces
of men are fighting the flames. At
Standpoint, Idaho, several houses were
burned from sparks from the fires in
that vicinity.
Plans are on foot at Huntsville to
establish home for aged and infirm
persons, as a private venture, local
people agreeing to secure buildings and
land and place the institution on
sound basis. Nothing of the sort is
known to be conducted in the north
west.
Washington school and granted lands
to the value of S28, 700 were sold at
Seattle Saturday. The whole amount
will be apportioned by the authorities
at Olympia and will go to the state.
All land with two EXCEPTIONS was pur-
chased by men located on the property.
A small strip of tide lands on Vashon
Island was purchased at $50 an acre,
the appraisement being only S37.
Ninety per cent of the men confined
in the Washington state penitentary
use or have used cigarettes. This
estimate has been prepared after due
deliberation and careful study of the
1920 men serving sentences for crime,
by men in touch with that institution.
And, while it may seem strange, the
most desperate criminals are those who
have used the deadly "ccffin nail''
until they have discolored the fingers
and thumb to the second or third Joint.
Proprietor Cookery, of the hotel by
that name at Moscow, Idaho, which
was destroyed by fire last week, has
decided to repair his hotel as soon as
insurance matters can be adjusted. He
estimates his damage at about $40,
600, with $4,000 insurance. Mr.. Francl,
owner of the Moscow brewery, which
was destroyed by the same fire, has
announced that he will rebuild the
brewery as soon as Spokane insurance
adjusters can adjust his losses. The
brewery building was burned to the
ground and the $l2, 600 worth of ma
chinery which it contained is com
plete loss.
A complete plated TOWNSHIP, some
of it already improved with store and
other buildings. has been bought at
Outlook, Wash, near Sunnyside, by
O. l.. Smith of Sunnyside and Robert
f. Edwards, an eastern man. The
price was SIS, 500. There are 40 acres.
374 unsold lots. in the towanste. 1t
VISA bought from Stephen E. Chaffee
and c. w. Taylor. Outlook is six
miles west of Sunnysde and in the
heart of the irrigated district.
The Oregon Railroad and Naviga
ton company is defendant in a suit
for 81, 1928. 20 brought against it by ].
L. Dumas, of Dayton, formerly super
intendent of schools at Pullman. That
amount is claimed as damages sus-
tanned by the plaintiff on account of
failure of the railroad company to fill
a contract entered into last September
relative to the shipment of Dumas
apple crop. Dumas alleges that owing
to the failure of the railroad company
to bear out the contract for cars he
was unable TO fill his agreement with
H. N. White and company of New
York regarding the sale of his crop
and as result that he was damaged
in the amount asked.