Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-11-26
Down.Sound ITEMS.

OoWn.Sound ITEMS.
The following items are from the Seattle
IateN;gexeer:
| CONTRIBUTING BY A NArIvE.-Yes.
terday, Mr.. H. l.. Yssler discovered that
his check system wss ssbject 10 . success.
fol counterfeiting, even By the uututored
savage" To obviats The necessity Of q
time book, so far as relates to the employ.
ment Of Indians at the mill, he has hereto
fore rssorted to the use of checks, made
ont Of brass and stamped with his initials,
which were given to them upon the COM
pletion Of each days work. There were
square and also triangular shaped ones
the former emitting the holder to one dol
lar and the lattor 70 sesehty. Eve cents,
which il the usual amount allowed to ~
Indian for his services. Having his at.
tention called "a. one somewhat larger than
it should be, he noticed the stamping and
soon discovered that it was not gcnuine\
Then overhauling . lot on hand he ascer-
tanned that he had thirty.two of these
checks for which he had paid six bits
each. Wa Chung, who occasionally takes
these ;ndieia of Yesler's Indebtedness, also
found upon an examination that he had
thirty -four Of these spurious coins. The
ingenious fabricator Of this base coin is .
lame Siwash, who has been about here for
the past year. 1t is likely that he had
heard Of the discovery of his fraud at
once, for upon search being made for him
yesterday he could not be found. At his
shapty, however, there was found an old
dila pidated carpet sack with few rusty
tools, picked up here and there, box with
a complete sett Of implements for mechan.
ical operations and dies, Of his. own con.
struction, and block with . small anvil
fastened upon it, These were taken pos.
session Of by Mr.. Yesler, and they evidence
considerable knowledge Of mechanics, and
much ingenuity on the part Of this manned
son Of the forest.
MAxwELL's SURvEY.-The work of
running gradient from the Summit of
the Cascades through Snoqualmie Pass, is
still progressing slowly. The progress Of
the party is necessarily slow from the ma
turc of their operations, besides they have
been much retarded by the unfavorable
weather experienced during the past few
days. Up to the latter part of last week
they had surveyed grade line for about
fifteen miles this side Of the Summit; but
had not reached point this side Of there
distant more than twelve miles, for the
reason that they extend the survey around
the mountain sides as much as possible, in
order to increase the length Of the road
between the summit aud Rattlesnakc
Prairie, so that they can reach the latter
point with 65 or 70 foot grade. The
prairie is an objective point, which no
doubt they are instructed to reach anyhow.
The impression is that they will succeed
ifnot, undoubtedly they will turn back,
and determine whether the required gradi.
ent cannot be run down the Snoqualmic
river, before grading on their present line
to this city. The party will continue In
the field to ascertain whether Rattlesuake
Prairie can be reached, If it takes all win
ter, let the weather be as it may. They
expect, however, to get there in about q
month. IF they do, it will then depend
upon orders yet to be given, whether they
continue in the field, or suspend further
surveys on this route till more favorable
season Of the year.