Pullman Herald from Pullman, Washington • Page 3

NEWS OF I NORTHWE3I MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS A Hcvlevr Krom of liliilio. Mmiiliimh and of the Dolled Down. WAsmnGTon. North Yak ma growers aro elated over hops going higher. They will get fifteen cents per pound.

Buyers already intimate they will pay that price for choice bales. Two American-born Chinese are registered voters of tho city of Seattle. Le Ah Sam and Tu Tu Chin, young slant-eyed Celestials, have resided in Seattle for several years, have attained the legal age of 21 years, have overcome the Chinese disrespect of American institutions, have had name3 regularly entered upon the registration books, and on November 6 will probably both deposit ballots at the polling place of the Fourth precinct of the First ward. Signor Giorgio Minoliti was presented by the trustees of the Spokane industrial exposition with a handsome gold medal as a slight token of the appreciation which the exposition officials and the public generally wished to convey to the Director of the Royal Marine Band of Italy. The Fairhaven Canning Company plant is closed down for the season.

The cannery put up about 20,000 cases third of last year'- pack. Tho Carlisle Canning Company's plant, on Lummi island, also ceased operations recently. Edward Sutherland is guilty of a sault with intent to commit murder, 3 found by the jury at Wf.lla Walla. He also stands convicted of assault, Emma Kidwell, aged years, being the victim in both cases. Sentence has not yet been pronounced.

The death rate of Seattle during September, based upon an estimated population of 90,000, was 6.66 per cent much lower than for several months. The track-walker for the Spokane Falls Northern at Marcus was waylaid by masked men near that place last week.knocked down and robbed of his cash. No clue of the robbers can be obtained. The track-walker had over $100 in bills sewed into a pocket under his shirt and a few dollars in change in his pocket. The bills were taken but the change was unmolested.

D. S. Hyde was found dead in a room in the Pacific hotel at Wilbur. He used morphine and strychnine to end life. The alumni association of the Puget Sound university has purchased the building iu Tacoma, which the school has used for the past five years.

The purchase price was $5,000, and $4,100 of this has been raised by the association. The other $900 is to be secured by popular subscriptions. The Puget Sound canneries are rapidly closing down on account of the extremely scant run of sock-eye salmon, and the additional very apparent fact that the sockeyes are the only kind of salmon that will put in an appearance thia season. The Seattle International passenger train was wrecKed near Cathcart, about 30 miles from seatle. None of the passengers were seriously hurt, and after an hour's delay the train proceeded on its journey, leaving the tourist and parlor cars across the track.

Only about 50 per cer of the wheat crop has yet found its way to market, and that was when it was commanding 48 to 50 cents per bushel. The Seattle public library contemplates the addition of about 10,000 volumes during the remaining months of this and next year at an expenditure of $13,000 to $14,000. Tho establishment of a sash and door factory in Seattle is matter that now Is being given considerable attention by millmen and others in Seattle and vicinity. The council of Olympia has fixed the city tax levy at 12 mills on the dollar. E.

B. Simpson of the University of recently near Eddy, six miles west of Missoula. An earth slide had displeced a rail and the train left the track. The engineer and fireman were injured seriously and Roy E. Dosley of Missoula fatally.

A ton of mail went into the river. Word has been received that a murder had been committed at the works of L. Tinkel who are building an electric plant at the Big Fork on Swan river at the head of Flathead lake. Later in the day Officer Nadreau, who lives In that part of the county, arrived in Kalispel with J. J.

Patton, who acknowledges his guilt. He stabbed his man just at tno ton of the heart and the victim died iltaost instantly. Patten says that the men employed at the works were throwing tin cans at his door and disturbing his sleep. He went out and told them to quit, when they advised him to get into his house or they would fix him. He returned to his house and reappeared with a large knife and began cutting.

A general row ensued and he killed Frank Carroll in the fight Will Hanks, formerly well known in Great Falls, and one of its early settlers, was in Helena last week, visiting old friends, and Incidentally working for the organization of a Montana Ranchmen's Association, whicl he says la designed for the protection of the small farmers against the large cattlemen and sheepmen and for the securing of their rights against the railway companies. An effort is to be made to induce Governor Smith to appoint a state board of health to act until the next legislature can enact laws necessary for the control and regulation of such a body. This step 's deemed advisable in view of the existence of smallpox in many localities and the prospects of the disease spreading during the coming winter. In the exercise of their duties the the boards of health in any of the counties or cities of Montana may lawfully direct compulsory vaccination when it is deemed advisable to prevent the spread of smallpox. This is the opinion of Assistant Attorney General Leob.

The petition of taxpayers of Cascade county to the board of commissioners asking that the proposition to issue bonds to provide means for building the proposed court house be submitted to the voters, has now assumed large proportions, says the Great Falls Leader. Fort Benton reports that J. Ward Huse has sold a bunch of 3.000 head of mixed lambs to S. Glover of North Dikota at $1.50 and $1.60 per head, delivery to be made immediately. IDAHO.

The mineral exhibit at the Intermountain fair may be preserved intact for some time. Fire totally destroyed the Coeur d' Wisconsin, professor in athletics, has taken charge of the athletic department of the Y. M. C. A.

at Tacoma. Prosser has a registration of 132. The registration at Everett shows a total of 1950. The inquiry for farming land has not been as active since 1890 as it is right now. Most of the inquiries come from strangers who contemplate locating in the valley.

There is a fine pear crop in Kittitas county. Of the 27 applicants for medical certificates who took the recent examination conducted by the state board of medical examiners 16 pessed the examination and received certificates. The result of the examination was announced recently by W. C. Riddell, secretary of the state board of medical examiners.

The first section of the Northern Pacific westbound train with a large contingent of homeseekers was wrecked Alene opera house at Couer d' Alene city last week. The farmers of lower Boise have gone into the cheese manufacturing business The association has put up a building, 22x40, with a drying room l'O feet square. They have about 4,000 pounds of cheese on hand that will be disposed of as soon as the market reaches a sat- Isfactory point. E. W.

Wilson, formerly a resident of Boise, is missing, and his wife, who is at San Diego, California, fears that he has met with foul play. He wa3 supplied with money, having about $400 on his person, besides considerable jewelry. An attempt was made to wreck the east bound train on the short line Wednesday night at a point near Orchard. Two heavy log chains were wrapped around the rails three times. The train was running slowly when it struck them and passed over safely.

It was badly jolted and a stop was made to investigate. The Golden Belt Power Company of Hailey, capital $600,000, has filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The University of Idaho football team won the first college game for several seasons. As a result the boys and Coach Herbold are much encouraged Notwithstanding the rain there was a good sized crowd present to see the Lewiston normal 11 defeated by a score of 17 to 0. The old soldiers rendered homeless by the destruction of the home building week, are to be sheltered temporarily in the unused quarters at the The collection of Indian curios at the ia attracted a very large share of the Public Interest.

Most of the exhibit came from the Nez Perce nation Thomas Hayes, who lost his life the Ore at the Soldiers 1 Home, was born in Washington, D. C. The live slock exhibit at the Intermountain fair was one of the in the entire fair. The number of students attending the university, business college ami public schools exceeds 1,000. The county commissioners have appropriated $300 for the building of a' road to the Hoodoo mines.

While Mrs. Charles House of Moscow was out riding with her mother and little child recently, the horses became unmanageable and ran away Mrs House's mother, in attempting to save the child, was thrown out a badly injured. After less than a week's work in the collieries of Vancouver Island the recently imported Scottish miners have gone on a strike. They want an increase of wages. OET HUNTINQ TON'S MILLIONS.

H. E. Huntlnjjton is the favorite nephew of Collis P. Huntington, the dead railway magnate, and will continue the latter's many projects. He is now vice president of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Archer Huntington and Princess Hatzfeldt are Huntington's adopted children. The husband of the Princess was at one time attached to the German embassy ut Washington. Archer Hunntington is one of the wealthiest authors in the world. C. leaves an estate valued at VICTIM CF A SHOO UNO.

Mrs. Natnlle Havemeyef Myers was Hie eldest dtyjgbter of the late Theo. A. Haverueyer Vlie sugar aud died from a pisfol wound, which, it is said, was accidentally Inflicted. Her death adds another to the list of tragedies In the Havemeyer family.

Fish Preserved in Tr-e. State Fish and Game Commissioner Johnson is one of the oldest cowboyi I in the State. He is an exceptionally entertaining talker a man who in past years lias been considered modest, truthful ami kind to those easily Induced to believe stories concerning the beasts of the field and the fishes. of the sea. Rut he has apparently changed.

This morning he claims to have seen a man i saw a fish frozen In the ice in the perpetual glacier on the north side of Long's F'eak. "The story Is a true one." said Mr. Johnson, "for the man who told it to I me is a scientist and 'one of the most prominent men In the Ills discovery will be announced to the department at Washington and a scientific investigation may follow. lie tells me the fish appears to be about eigh- teen feet in length, as nearly as one could estimate looking through a field i glass." "But there are no fresh-water ftsh of such proportions." was ventured. 'Tisn't a fresh-water fish.

It's a salt-water fish." "But how did It get there?" "Easily enough to a fish man. That' fish has been frozen in the ice glacier there ever since the time of the flood, when all this land was inundated. That is the reason the find is an importaut Denver Times. Rilctwinjj the Boaster. A certain man was very much given to bragging grand relations and connections, though he was not elways quite convincing.

On one occasion he was particularly tiresome, holding forth about "Lady Blank, whom I met yesterday, a connection of Bihie through Lord So-and- So and the Earl of Nobody," and so i A Scotsman present said, quietly: "That reminds me o' a man 1 knew, said he was a relation 1 the Duke o' Argyll, and explained It this way: The duke's piper's sister wee laddie i has a wee doggie that's ain brlther to my aunt's wee laddie's The boaster was silent about his trand relations for the rest of the Tit-Bita. TO CCRK A COLD IN ONI DAT Take Laxative firomo Quinine leti. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. E. W.

Grove'i i nature is on each box. 25c. WHAT ROILED THE ENGINEER. Man Wai on the Track and Did Not Heed the Whistle. The old engineer had finished groom- Ing his et gine for the night's run and was whlliug away the half hour before train time swapping yarns with his Brenian.

It was his turn at a story. After imfflng reflectively on his pipe tor a moment or two, he said, half auestioningly: "I don't believe we've ever run over uiybody, Bill, since Fou've been in the cab. "But It isn't running over that you," he continued, "though that is bad enough. It'a the coming so all Bred close to it and missing that takes the tuck out of a man. After you once hit anything the worst you can do in tc plow right along, but when you see a man on the track and blow your whistle and shut off steam ejid put on brakes and then the man turns out to be deaf or drunk or something of the kind, and you know you can't help striking him, then's the time you wish you were running a steamboat or flre engine.

"The closest shave I ever had was when I was pulling the President's special up to Albany. We were trying to make a record run. We had passed the Poughkeepsie bridge and were doing better than a mile a minute when I saw a man walking down the track toward us. The fireman blew the tie, but the man never budged from between the rails. As we got closer, I he was walking with his head down and paying no attention to what was going on.

I shut off steam, jammod on the brakes and reversed her, but we slid along at a pretty fair gait He never stirred until just as the engine was going to hit him. Then ht jumped out of the way, grinning up at me and put his fingers to his nose. 'Get after I yelled, but befort the fireman could climb down from the cab the man was runing down the track for all he was that wasn't more than- 30 cents. We didn't have any time to spare, so we hustled on again, and I've been trying ever since to decide whether our friend was drunk or crazy, or had a darned pecutiar idea of humor. Anyway, I wish I'd had a little more time.

I'd like to have taken a chance at him with a coal York Mail and Express, Suspicious Liberality. "It was a mean trick," said Jones, with a smile, "but I wanted my wife to come home, and it was the only way that I could think of to get her back. She went away about five weeks ago on a vacation and left me alone to get along as best I could. It wasn't long before I grew tired of the arrangement, tired of getting, my meals downtown, tired of sending checks in reply to her demands for more money. Three daya ngo I received a letter asking me to send her $25 at once.

It was then that my plan suggested itself. By return mail I sent her a check for double the amount that she had asked for, and inclosed it with a note that read: 'Don't hurry "It worked as I thought it would. My wife returned by the first train with a strange gleam of inquiry in her eyes and a set about her lips that bodes trouble for me if she confirms the horrible suspicions that she is laboring under. However, I have her at home, and I am not losing any sleep over what sue may Free Press. Stealing His Thunder.

"The man with a slight fresco of yellow mud on his shoes stopped the patent leathered friend and exclaimed: "Ha, ha!" "What's the trouble?" "No trouble whatever. This is joy. My turn has come at last. Aren't you one of the people who used to make fun jf me because I lived away out In tha luburbs?" "I believe so." "Didn't you say facetious things about and when you 3aw me performing feats of equilibrium with a tall bunch of bundles, flidn't you make comic references to the human express wagon?" "Yes; I believe so." "Well, I want to call your attention to the fact that I am living only a few hundred feet from where the cars start. one of the few people who are getting seats on a warm evening, and who brush proudly by while you stand In the corner, and implore the conductor humbly, but in vain, to take your 3 Star.

Hare ISirils' Eggs. To one not conversant with ornlthol. ogy the statement that the eggs and Qests of some well-known birds remain yet to be discovered must appear surprising. The eggs of the curlew-sandpiper, a bird familiar in Great Britain, were first discovered last July on aa Island at the mouth of the Siberian River Yenisei. There are a few other birds which make their nests In remote regions, although living part of their lives among civilized men, whoss tggs have not yet been found.

Military The advantages presented by auto mo biles hare a great fascination for all military men. Large sums have been offered for the best automobile. In war, as in everything, it pays to use the best weapons. The best shield with whitfh to protect the stomach is Hostetter's Bitters. It cures constipation, indigestion and dyspepsia, and prevents malaria.

SOUIHAMPfOi 10 FOR BIG Adopting an American Kept C. T. Verke. of Op. ponltlon Encountered.

London, Oct. latest and most important project on foot in England sV the Associated Preu learns, i 8 the co sliuction of a canal from Southampton London. The surmise as to the. far-reaching consequences such a step would tail is scarcely less interesting lan (act that if it is accomplished it is lu Ito bo through the instrumentality 'f I American capital. Coming on top don's adoption of the American transit system and utilization of American money and brains, the latest project may well be said to cap the climax.

Xo word of the new scheme has yet been mentioned in the papers and few people know of existence. Nevertheless the route from Southampton to London has been fully surveyed by competent engineen who declare the canal is not only feasible' 1 but that it could be built at a compan' tively small expenditure. The whole mat- I tei has just been put in the hands of the same firm of contractors which is handling Charles T. Yerkes' new London railroid although the Chicago himself is not known to be taking an active patii at present. Indeed, the legal and otto difficulties which it is necessary to come before the construction of the caul is assured are so great that some thw must elapse before the financial part of the matter comes up prominently.

The opposition encountered by the promoters of the Manchester and Liverpool in parliament and elsewhere would probably be as nothing to the jealous of other cities in the same direction in thw case, for since the American line of steamers made Southampton its port of call Southampton has so improved itself and has so affected the trade of other ports that it already regarded with i jealous eye. What commercial revolutions will ensue from a ship carjal enabling trans-Atlantic and other liners to land their passengers in the heart of London many hours earlier than any other route can be easily judged by the growing popularity of the smaller steamship lintnow sailing direct to and from London by the slow route of the Thames. The underground system has at last stimulated the owners of district railroad stock to buy those securities in the belief that an electrical installation must replace the present steam and smoke, which make traveling on the old underground railroad such an obnoxious experience for all foreigners. Murray Griffiths, probably the largtrf owner of district stock, had a conferefifl with Mr. Yerkes' representative in London Friday, but they both have denied that there is any expectation of a necessity that Mr.

Yerkes will interest himself in this new enterprise. firifriths, whose buying sent 10 points, informed a representative of the Associated Press thai he believed an etetric installation could bo satisfactorily ac coinplished if the directors could only be brought to realize the necessity of keeping 1 up with the times. in I olniiiUiH. Panama; Colombia, Oct. is known in any part of Colombia regarding the conditions existing in the other see tions of the country.

Such points as are connected by telegraph or cable are held by the government and at such places tie bulk of news conveys grandiloquent narratives of victories achieved over the erals. The fact remains, however, that the civil war goes merrily on. The being drained of all its resources the most pitiful poverty prevails in directions. The interior of this naturaJJ I fertile and rich land is devastated. Co- lombia will, at the end of the war, be country of paupers.

The city of Ciicuta, the while liberal stronghold, near JJ Venezuelan frontier, was captured by the government atter a siege of 20 days. of the acts of brutality and the scenes that met the eye at the of Cucuta have appeared in lof Marieaibo, Venezuela. This appears, was nearly razed to the --1 JUidies lay in the debris in the streets I i a state of putrefaction. A drunken iery was let loose amid the nearly inhabitants and every sort was committed. Just now the nate city is again besieged, but tMS by the liberals, 2000 strong, and the pernnient is unable to raise the siege.

The American Sheet Iron secured the mills at Toledo, irwj and Youngstown, Ohio, and tne at Alexandria, also the dkj mill at Canal Dover, Ohio. Thes will; all be closed and the nia caZM moved. The closing down of tee Dover mill alone deprives the of 500 families of employment This Is the season when alarmed oa account of (W quickly cured by One Minuw Cure, which children like to I Yount's Drug Store. -fern State Federations of Labor formed in Alabama and "i Una..