Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-08-19
Local and News Items.


We clip the following particulars relating
to the accident which befell several members
of DR.. Kellogg's family on WILDLY Island
some days since, from the Northern Star of
the 9th inst: On last Sunday, as the wife,
daughter and son Of DR.. Kellogg were re-
turning from the church on the Island, in
company with'a gentleman by the name OF
Hill, and Miss Agnes Winsor, of Seattle, and
reached the gate at the entrance to the lane
near the Doctors residence, and while at
tempting to pass by the partly opened gate
into the lane, the horses took fright. Mr.
Hill and Mr.. Albert Kellogg either got out OF
were thrown out, when the horses escaped
their control, ran into q field containing a
great many stumps. throwing the ladies out
of the wagon. All escaped with compare.
lively slight injuries except Miss Alice Kel-
logg, who besides receiving internal injuries
and having her collar bone broken, was rem.
dered unconscious for twenty>four hours
She now is lying very low from her injuries
her mind wanders, she is troubled with spit
ting of blood, and it is feared the result may
be dangerous to her health, if not fatal. For
tunately the Doctor arrived home II couple
of hours after the accident and everything
that could be done, of course was done fol
the relief of those injured. The DIR. has thu
sympathy of the whole community in this
severe calamity that has befallen his fami
| ly.
THE B. b. Mail, Of August ., says: "Tht
assessment roll of Whatcom county is now
completed and ready for revision by thu
Commissioners next week. The assessed
valuation of property is put at over $50, 600
an increase over last year of some $40,0 600
This increase should, for the most part, b.
attributed to additional assessments and moi
to an increase in valuation, as property i!
generally reported at last years figures; or
in other words, this $4,000 represents new
territory added to the list, to which title ha
been acquired from the Government sine,
last years assessment"
THE potato blight is described as affecting
hop vines and other plants not sparing even
the weeds in White River Valley. No varic
ties of the potatoes ere eutiely exempt, though
since the late refreshing rains, they appear
in general, to wear an improved appearance
This blight has been known in Germany ant
was there called mildew. 1t is somewha
analogous in its nature to what has bee,
called rust" in wheat and other diseases af
fecting various plants. 1t is said to hav,
been many years before the disease disap
peared in Ireland after it first made its ap
pearancc there in 1S47.
TIE general quality of wheat this year il
Eastern Oregon and the Walla Walla coun
try is probably better than the average O.
former years from those sections, and til,
yield is also greater per acre, while thu
acreage shows an important increase. Tht
harvest east of the mountains is we'll ad
vanced, while in the Willamette valley thu
farmers are not yet to the middle of thci,
work in it, large proportion of the grair
being late sown.
THE Senate last Tuesday passed Kelly's
bill authorizing the Vancouver Water Power
Co. to lay water pipes through the Vancou
yer military reservation. Bills of this char.
acter which do not involve any time, ar.
the only ones that have been possible to bring
up out of the regular order in the Senate fol
several months.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Judge Jacobs te
Seattle announces that he has just secured o
daily mail between that place and Tacoma
The people of the former place are highly
pleased with the news. 1t has been griev
Gus injustice to them that such service was
not accorded them long ago.
Six and .one-half tons of hay from one
acre of ground is large amount of fodder
to get from ono small patch of ground, bu
Mr.. Witmore, recently cut, weighed and
stored that amount on his farm miles south
east of Seattle. The land was reclaimed from
Il willow swamp ovehowed by beaver dams
PACIFIC Mail Steamship Company are con
sidering a project for the construction Of
two large iron steam GOLFERS, to ply between
Victoria, Nanaimo and San Francisco. 1t is
proposed to fit them with first class passen
ger accommodations and make them in every
respect, A 1 ships.
TIE Odd Fellows of Victoria had picnic
excursion, by the steamer Isabel to the main
land, last Tuesday.